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THROUGH POP

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This Week In 1995: March 12, 1995

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...

Mar 11, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: March 5, 1995

Who's ready for the latest round of How Did That Aussie Classic Flop So Badly? Following previous instalments featuring GANGgajang,...

Mar 4, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: February 26, 1995

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...

Feb 25, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: February 19, 1995

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...

Feb 18, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: February 12, 1995

There had been successful female artists in previous decades, but there was a whole army of female megastars in the 1990s, when singers...

Feb 11, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: February 5, 1995

Most weekends during the mid-'90s, you could be guaranteed to find me out clubbing. (Do people still call it going clubbing?) And there...

Feb 4, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: January 29, 1995

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...

Jan 28, 20205 min read

This Week In 1995: January 22, 1995

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,...

Jan 21, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: January 15, 1995

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

Jan 14, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: January 8, 1995

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...

Jan 7, 20204 min read

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A Journey Through Aussie Pop is shining a light on classic Australian pop artists and releases from the 1980s, '90s and 2000s.

A Journey Through Stock Aitken Waterman is working its way through every single produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman in chronological order.

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