CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

These days, some artists don't even bother with albums, opting to release a series of singles and EPs instead, but back in the 1970s, the...

There had been successful female artists in previous decades, but there was a whole army of female megastars in the 1990s, when singers...

In "Paninaro", Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe listed rockabilly as one of the genres he doesn't like — there's quite a list (but what he does...

Most weekends during the mid-'90s, you could be guaranteed to find me out clubbing. (Do people still call it going clubbing?) And there was one sound that was guaranteed to get me on the dance floor (or podium, if I'm being honest). In 1995, there was nothing in the world I liked more than a Motiv8 mix This week in 1995, the latest single to boast a galloping bassline courtesy of remix team (and sometimes artist in their own right) Motiv8 debuted on the ARIA top 50, but I'd a

Husband and wife musical duos don't tend to end well. Look at Sonny & Cher and Ike & Tina Turner. But when the chemistry is right, they...

In the mid-'90s, pretty much any song you could think of was turned into a dance track — from grunge hits to big ballads to current chart-topper "Zombie". "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" almost hit number 1 a second time This week in 1995, a song that had held down the number 1 spot for six weeks in 1983 returned to the chart in a hi-NRG remake produced by Mike Stock and Matt Aitken, who'd already been responsible for a number of chart-toppers in their time. As mentioned, the un