CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

It had taken Australia long enough to full embrace dance music, and then songs like the highest new entry on the singles chart this week...

Who's ready for the latest round of How Did That Aussie Classic Flop So Badly ? Following previous instalments featuring GANGgajang , Hunters & Collectors , The Triffids and You Am I , this week in 1995 saw the debut of another song that has gone on to become a modern classic, but which didn't chart very well at all when it was released. It's her best-known song, but "Island Home" wasn't actually a hit for Christine Anu A remake of a song that had also flopped for its origin

1995 was turning out to be a big year for cover versions. Already, we've seen hit remakes by Urge Overkill, Nicki French, Janet Jackson...

I've talked before about covers albums being an interesting choice for artists still in the prime of their careers to make, and this week...

There had been successful female artists in previous decades, but there was a whole army of female megastars in the 1990s, when singers like Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Toni Braxton regularly sold huge amounts of albums. Janet Jackson and Tina Arena added to their hit tally Two more female singers who were part of that group returned to the ARIA singles chart this week in 1995 with their latest hits, both taken from albums that did incredibly well

Most weekends during the mid-'90s, you could be guaranteed to find me out clubbing. (Do people still call it going clubbing?) And there was one sound that was guaranteed to get me on the dance floor (or podium, if I'm being honest). In 1995, there was nothing in the world I liked more than a Motiv8 mix This week in 1995, the latest single to boast a galloping bassline courtesy of remix team (and sometimes artist in their own right) Motiv8 debuted on the ARIA top 50, but I'd a

In the mid-'90s, pretty much any song you could think of was turned into a dance track — from grunge hits to big ballads to current chart-topper "Zombie". "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" almost hit number 1 a second time This week in 1995, a song that had held down the number 1 spot for six weeks in 1983 returned to the chart in a hi-NRG remake produced by Mike Stock and Matt Aitken, who'd already been responsible for a number of chart-toppers in their time. As mentioned, the un

Most of the new entries on the ARIA singles chart came from one of the major record companies, which in 1995 were Sony, BMG, EMI, Warner,...

Despite collecting and now blogging about the ARIA charts from decades past, I've long followed the UK charts from here in Australia....

Welcome back for another year of flashbacks to the ARIA singles chart of decades past, and we're up to 1995. At the time, I was in the...