CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

A couple of months earlier, disco seemed to be on its last legs, but it's not over until the fat lady sings. Or a group of six men in fancy dress costumes. Nobody could stop Village People getting to number 1 in 1980 This week in 1980, two major disco records burst onto the Australian singles chart on their way to number 1. Genre resurgence or last hurrah? Rocky Burnette enjoyed a last hurrah at number 1 this week at number 1 as "Tired Of Toein' The Line" spent its second wee

We've already seen a number of cover versions from 1995 in our look back at the ARIA singles chart from that year, but this week featured...

Australia had plenty of successful rock bands in 1980, but with the rise of synthpop and new wave, a new breed of local groups started to hit the charts. Flowers had a big future ahead of them... mostly under another name This week in 1980, the band that became Australia's most consistently successful new wave band arrived on the top 50 with their debut single — the first of six top 10 hits they would score over the next few years. Australia's favourite imported new wave band

It's rare for a family to have one superstar performer, but for two music icons to emerge from the one household is even more unusual. So when two massively successful singers, who were also siblings, got together for a duet, it was a monumental occasion. They'd both had number 1s on their own — could they land one together? This week in 1995, a brother and sister who each had a huge catalogue of hits to their names added one more big single to their discography when they tea

From Dragon and Mi-Sex to Sharon O'Neill and Jenny Morris, many bands and singers from New Zealand have made their way across the Tasman...

Sometimes it seemed like if a '90s dance track wasn't a flop the first time around, then it hadn't earned its right to be a success. From...