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- Dec 24, 2019
- 4 min
This Week In 1994: December 25, 1994
What better way to celebrate Christmas than to look back at the ARIA singles chart from this week in 1994? (OK, you can probably think of...
- Dec 17, 2019
- 3 min
This Week In 1994: December 18, 1994
1994 will always be remembered for giving us modern Christmas classic "All I Want For Christmas", which shot into the top 10 this week...
- Dec 10, 2019
- 4 min
This Week In 1994: December 11, 1994
If you are going to try and go head to head with the year's biggest music releases at the busiest release time of the year, you'd better...
- Dec 3, 2019
- 3 min
This Week In 1994: December 4, 1994
Some songs are ahead of their time, failing to connect with the public when they are initially released. Songs like one of the new...
- Nov 26, 2019
- 4 min
This Week In 1994: November 27, 1994
A few weeks ago, I talked about how a covers album is often the kind of thing an artist does when their career has hit a rough patch and...
- Nov 19, 2019
- 4 min
This Week In 1994: November 20, 1994
Some songs are immediately successful, blasting into the upper reaches of the chart; others are more of a slow burning, taking their time...
- Nov 12, 2019
- 4 min
This Week In 1994: November 13, 1994
Although Australia had been a little late to the boy band party, things really started picking up in 1994. Following the success of...
- Nov 5, 2019
- 4 min
This Week In 1994: November 6, 1994
The decision for an artist to record a covers album is an interesting one, because it suggests they have run out of their own ideas...
- Oct 29, 2019
- 5 min
This Week In 1994: October 30, 1994
There comes a time in every pop group's life when one member wants to leave for a solo career. And those left behind have to decide...
- Oct 22, 2019
- 5 min
This Week In 1994: October 23, 1994
Pop music and controversy have always gone hand in hand. From Elvis Presley's swivelling hips right up to Madonna's steamy fllm clips,...
- Oct 15, 2019
- 3 min
This Week In 1994: October 16, 1994
In the UK, their chart competition was much more hotly contested, but in Australia, the battle of British boys bands East 17 and Take...
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
This Week In 1994: October 9, 1994
In the last few weeks, we've seen six of 1994's top 30 biggest singles debut on the ARIA top 50. So we're about due for a week where not...
- Oct 1, 2019
- 5 min
This Week In 1994: October 2, 1994
Sometimes the changing of the guard in the Australian music industry happens subtly. And sometimes there are weeks like this one in 1994...
- Sep 24, 2019
- 5 min
This Week In 1994: September 25, 1994
As half of one of America's top songwriting and production teams, he'd been responsible for some of the biggest US hits of the late '80s...
- Sep 17, 2019
- 5 min
This Week In 1994: September 18, 1994
As we approached the final quarter of the year, 1994 was really shaping up to be the year of the power ballad. This week, two big ballads...
