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- Dec 19, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: December 20, 1992
Kylie, Dannii, Tina, Collette, Melissa, Toni... Australia had had its fair share of young female pop stars in the previous few years, but...
- Dec 12, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: December 13, 1992
It's the part of the year record shops used to live for: the pre-Christmas period, during which all the biggest albums would hit stores....
- Dec 5, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1992: December 6, 1992
If you're going to release a cover version, it's always a good idea to choose a song not many people are familiar with. That way, it...
- Nov 28, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: November 29, 1992
By 1992, it was nothing new for a soap star to try their hand at a music career. We'd had Kylie, Jason, Craig, Melissa... and this week...
- Nov 21, 2017
- 3 min
This Week In 1992: November 22, 1992
So far in the 1990s, there hadn't been that many rap hits by white artists. And what successful singles there had been came from acts...
- Nov 14, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: November 15, 1992
Some charts weeks are pretty predictable — the songs you expect to be hits go on to do just that, while you can see the flops coming a...
- Nov 7, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1992: November 8, 1992
It can be a fine line between catchy and annoying sometimes. And this week in 1992, the highest new entry on the ARIA singles chart...
- Oct 31, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1992: November 1, 1992
As you scan down the list of songs making their presence felt on the ARIA chart this week in 1992, let me assure you that I am talking...
- Oct 24, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: October 25, 1992
Ever since the days of Elvis Presley, pop music and sex have been inextricably linked. But by 1992, we'd come a long way from gyrating...
- Oct 17, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1992: October 18, 1992
Welcome to another instalment of Once Were Hitmakers. That's right, our flashback to the ARIA chart from this week in 1992 features a...
- Oct 10, 2017
- 3 min
This Week In 1992: October 11, 1992
1992 really was a year for big ballads — and they didn't come much bigger than the song making its debut on the ARIA chart this week that...
- Oct 3, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1992: October 4, 1992
Seven years is a long time between chart hits. Eight years is even longer. But for the pair of singers behind the most successful new...
- Sep 26, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: September 27, 1992
Last week, we saw one-hit wonders Riff arrive on the ARIA top 50 and this week in 1992, another one-time hit-maker debuted with a song...
- Sep 19, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: September 20, 1992
It was a pretty eclectic week on the ARIA top 50 this week in 1992, with a diverse range of songs making their debut - truly something...
- Sep 12, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: September 13, 1992
Sometimes there's nothing better than a good ballad. Other music trends may come and go, but a heartfelt slow song can connect with...
- Sep 5, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: September 6, 1992
It was theoretically a superstar collaboration in an era before such things happened all the time. But in Australia, the two main singers...
- Aug 29, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1992: August 30, 1992
Like reggae music, country isn't a genre you find on the ARIA top 50 singles chart that often - but when a country (or reggae) song does...
- Aug 22, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: August 23, 1992
In 1988 and most of 1989, Bobby Brown struggled to convince Australian audiences to join the new jack swing party that was sweeping the...
- Aug 15, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1992: August 16, 1992
As we've seen over the past few years, Australia was slow to embrace hip-hop - and when we did so, it was often only the highly...
- Aug 8, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1992: August 9, 1992
In the five-plus years I've looked back at the ARIA charts of the 1980s and '90s, I've written about all sorts of songs. Often in the...
