CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

I have a love-hate relationship with YouTube. (Perhaps you could say that when it comes to YouTube, love and hate collide...) Obviously,...

To paraphrase the number 18 song on the Australian singles chart from this week in 1980: everybody's got to start somewhere. And in the...

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 close as you'd get to one. If anyone's solo career was guaranteed to be a success it was Deni Hines' As well as being a second-generation performer, she'd also already graced the ARIA chart as featured vocalist on the biggest hits by a local group. Solo success was all but a given... and so it came to be. Something else that was a given: the fa

Australia was living in a time warp this week in 1980, with two of the three new entries on the top 50 at least a year old. In one case, the recording dated back to 1975. It's astounding... how a five-year-old song became such a huge hit in 1980 Proving yet again that sometimes the difference between a flop and a hit is only a matter of timing, both singles would go all the way to the top 10. All the way up at number 1, Leo Sayer, who'd been waiting patiently at number 2, fin

Who's ready for another game of Remixed, Remade & Remodelled ? Yep, this week in 1995, a bunch of songs were given another chance at...

Some artists stick to their sound through thick and thin, pumping out album after album of the same type of material. Other acts mix...