CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

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Chart Beats: A Journey Through Pop has been looking back at music from the '80s, '90s, 2000s and 2010s since 2012. Run by freelance journalist and content creator Gavin Scott in Sydney, Australia.

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May 3, 2020
3 min

This Week In 1980: May 4, 1980

It's hard to think of a genre in music as divisive as disco. How many other types of music have had calls for it to be killed off? By 198...

Apr 29, 2020
4 min

25 Years Ago This Week: April 30, 1995

What was it with covers albums in the mid-'90s? Hot on the heels of collections of remakes by Gloria Estefan and Annie Lennox, my favouri...

Apr 26, 2020
3 min

This Week In 1980: April 27, 1980

When is a one-hit wonder not a one-hit wonder? When they actually had a second huge hit that often gets forgetten about. This week in 198...

Apr 22, 2020
3 min

25 Years Ago This Week: April 23, 1995

The ARIA top 50 chart might have featured singles by Boyz II Men, CDB, TLC and 4PM this week in 1995, but there was always room for more ...

Apr 19, 2020
4 min

This Week In 1980: April 20, 1980

As much as I've always tried to keep on top of what's going on in music, it wasn't easy in the 1980s, especially when I was very young. A...

Apr 15, 2020
3 min

25 Years Ago This Week: April 16, 1995

So far, in the battle of the '90s British boy bands, East 17 had trounced their biggest rivals, Take That, in Australia (although the rev...

Apr 12, 2020
3 min

This Week In 1980: April 13, 1980

In my 1995 flashbacks, we recently saw that despite going on to become one of this country's defining musical moments, Christine Anu's co...

Apr 8, 2020
4 min

25 Years Ago This Week: April 9, 1995

Sometimes it's all just a matter of timing. One month's chart flop can be a massive hit at another time of year... as was the case with a...

Apr 5, 2020
3 min

This Week In 1980: April 6, 1980

Unless you happen to perform with your significant other (Sonny & Cher, Captain & Tennille) or record songs with them (Kylie Minogue and ...

Apr 1, 2020
3 min

25 Years Ago This Week: April 2, 1995

Variety is the spice of life, as the saying goes, and by the mid-'90s many releases had a range of remixes on offer. Didn't like one vers...

Mar 29, 2020
3 min

This Week In 1980: March 30, 1980

Every so often, a band comes along that is unlike any other. Like this week in 1980, when a new wave group from the US broke into the Aus...

Mar 25, 2020
3 min

25 Years Ago This Week: March 26, 1995

When people talk about female artists from the 1990s, it's usually about big ballad divas like Mariah and Celine, chart-topping rock chic...

Mar 22, 2020
3 min

This Week In 1980: March 23, 1980

It's always fun discovering that a song you like is a cover version and then going back to listen to the original. Especially when for ma...

Mar 18, 2020
4 min

25 Years Ago This Week: March 19, 1995

If there were two things that defined the first half of the '90s it was grunge bands and vocal harmony groups. This week in 1995, the mos...

Mar 15, 2020
2 min

This Week In 1980: March 16, 1980

One of the best parts of these weekly trips back to the Australian singles chart of 1980 is seeing artists have their first hits and reme...

Mar 11, 2020
3 min

25 Years Ago This Week: 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 8, 2020
4 min

This Week In 1980: March 9, 1980

So far in these flashbacks to the Australian top 50 from 1980, we've seen some of the first big hits of the decade. This week that year, ...

Mar 4, 2020
4 min

25 Years Ago This Week: March 5, 1995

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

Mar 1, 2020
4 min

This Week In 1980: March 2, 1980

This week in 1980, it was a big week for new entries on the Australian singles chart, with four future top 10 hits debuting. Two of those...

Feb 25, 2020
4 min

25 Years Ago This Week: 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 a...

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