CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

Australian and New Zealand music acts have often taken genres that originated overseas and made them their own — think of all those '80s...

Three years ago, in one of my 1991 recaps , I wrote about UK quiz show Pointless and how some long-forgotten chart entries would make...

Girl groups had been coming thick and fast out of America since the late '80, and Australia had got in on the action with a couple of...

I never noticed it at the time, but the release schedules of Prince and Madonna started to sync up in 1992, with the music megastars debuting simultaneously on the ARIA chart a number of times that year with "Sexy MF" and "This Used To Be My Playground", "My Name Is Prince" and "Erotica", and "7" and "Deeper And Deeper". TAFKAP just didn't have the same ring to it This week in 1994, it happened once again, with brand new songs by both singers arriving on the top 50, except on

They once had three separate singles simultaneously in the top 40. And they managed three number 1 hits in less than two years. Yep, Roxette were massive... until they weren't. Per and Marie enjoyed one last hit in 1994 This week in 1994, the Swedish hit-makers debuted on the ARIA top 50 with their last big single. It wasn't another chart-topper, but those days were behind them. Celine Dion, meanwhile, was just beginning her chart-topping career, with "The Power Of Love" movi

As big a fan of dance music as I was in 1994, not every club classic appealed to me — not even the ones that everybody else seemed to...