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- Dec 17, 2020
- 5 min
This Week In 1995: December 17, 1995
And so our look back at the ARIA singles chart of 1995 draws to a close with the final top 50 for that year, which featured two new...
- Dec 10, 2020
- 5 min
This Week In 1995: December 10, 1995
Songs shooting straight into the top 10 had become more commonplace by the mid-'90s. This week in 1995, a song entered the chart within...
- Dec 3, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: December 3, 1995
I don't tend to get political on this blog. In fact, a decade ago I was fairly oblivious to politics and wouldn't have been able to tell...
- Nov 26, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: November 26, 1995
Remember when singers stuck to the melody? By 1995, that style of singing had become decidedly old-fashioned as vocal gymnastics came to...
- Nov 19, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1995: November 19, 1995
Pop music is a fickle thing. One minute you're topping charts around the globe, next minute you're not. This week in 1995, a Swedish pop...
- Nov 12, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: November 12, 1995
I have a love-hate relationship with YouTube. (Perhaps you could say that when it comes to YouTube, love and hate collide...) Obviously,...
- Nov 5, 2020
- 5 min
This Week In 1995: November 5, 1995
There's no such thing as a sure thing in music. But the female singer who charted with her debut solo single this week in 1995 was as...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: October 29, 1995
Who's ready for another game of Remixed, Remade & Remodelled? Yep, this week in 1995, a bunch of songs were given another chance at...
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: October 22, 1995
Over the years, I've developed a formula to my ARIA chart recaps. I start off with a little themed introduction to the week, mention what...
- Oct 15, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: October 15, 1995
When you're a fan of a singer or group, it can be a huge disappointment when they release something you don't like. Sometimes it's music...
- Oct 8, 2020
- 5 min
This Week In 1995: October 8, 1995
There was a proven formula to landng a long-running chart-topper in the early '90s: ballad + movie tie-in = multiple weeks at number 1....
- Oct 1, 2020
- 5 min
This Week In 1995: October 1, 1995
You've got to love a chart battle. Record company marketing teams certainly do. But I must say I've been swept up in the past when two...
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: September 24, 1995
As if to prove my point last week that pretty much any song was fair game for a dance cover in the mid-'90s, this week in 1995, two new...
- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: September 17, 1995
In the mid-'90s, pretty much any song or artist was fair game for a cheesy Eurodance cover. Often, faceless studio acts would take a big...
- Sep 10, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: September 10, 1995
The B-side used to be an important part of music. Even in 1995, when they were more likely to be bonus tracks on a CD single or...
- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1995: September 3, 1995
Australians can be stubbornly resistant to successful international artists when we want to be. Even if they notch up one smash hit after...
- Aug 26, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: August 27, 1995
If you're a regular reader, you'll know I had little time for grunge and "alternative rock" in the '90s. But there's an exception to...
- Aug 19, 2020
- 5 min
This Week In 1995: August 20, 1995
Of all the odd things to occur during the life of Michael Jackson, his short-lived marriage to Lisa Marie Presley must be among the top...
- Aug 12, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1995: August 13, 1995
In the mid-'90s, it seemed like dance acts were trying to outdo each other with the bizarre and unexpected things they could turn into...
- Aug 5, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1995: August 6, 1995
Sometimes it just takes one song to change everything. This week in 1995, a new entry on the ARIA singles chart threw out the rulebook...
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