CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

I recently posted a video of my favourite Australian bands of the 1980s on the Chart Beats Facebook page, and someone noted the absence of AC/DC and The Angels. With some odd exceptions, my musical taste has always veered away from the harder end of the rock spectrum — thus, the subtitle of this blog: A Journey Through Pop. Give me US soul groups over pub rock any day Nothing illustrates that better than the three top 50 new entries (and some of the songs that missed the char

I'm currently counting down my favourite songs from 1995 on the Chart Beats Facebook page, and I'll tell you what: I listened to a lot of dance music that year. Probably because I spent a lot of time in clubs that year. These sounds certainly fell into my mind This week in 1995, three of the best dance tracks for the year all arrived on the ARIA singles chart. Interestingly, all of them just missed the top 10. A dance track that had made itself well and truly at home at numbe

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...

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...

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...

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...