CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

Last week , we took a look at the Eurodance acts that had shone brightly (and more often than not, burned out as quickly as they'd emerged) up until 1996. And if thumping beats and techno, techno, techno had defined the first part of the decade, a new type of dance music would shape the latter years of the '90s. The Prodigy really started to fire up in Australia This week in 1996, a British group that had emerged from the rave scene at the start of the decade completed its me

Men wearing make-up was nothing new in popular music in 1981. In the '70s alone, artists as diverse as David Bowie, Skyhooks and KISS had...

Exactly 25 years ago, fledgling Australian boy band Human Nature were working their way up the ARIA chart with debut single “Got It Goin’...

In music, one minute you're up, the next you're down. And that was never truer than for dance acts in the '90s. The ARIA singles chart...

Earier this year, Maroon 5's Adam Levine announced, "There's no bands anymore." Whether or not you agree with his summation of the 2021...

One thing that has stood out for me doing these ARIA singles chart recaps is the changing nature of Australia's relationship with rap. After embracing early hits like "Rapper's Delight" and "Rapture" , there was a long period in the '80s where mostly novelty records ( Mel Brooks , Morris Minor & The Majors ) and only the odd non-comedy release ( "Walk This Way" , "Push It" ) did well. 2Pac had the world at his feet in 1996 Then, in the early '90s, it was the ultra-commercial