CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

It was one of those weeks again on the ARIA chart this week in 1994 — yep, it's time for another round of less successful singles by acts that had bigger hits. Dance acts Urban Cookie Collective and Twenty 4 Seven had seen better days The week's four new entries on the top 50 were by artists with higher-charting singles to their name, while many of the song that peaked between 51 and 100 were disappointments for acts that had or would achieve better. Things couldn't — and wou

Success in America has always been seen as the jackpot for music acts around the world, and sometimes all the stops have to be pulled out...

I've probably said this before — I do tend to repeat myself a bit — but when it comes to cover versions, if you're going to bother remaking a song, you may as well do something interesting with it rather than just record it in exactly the same way as the original. Elton John and RuPaul had a kiki... without Kiki. This week in 1994, three of the week's new entries on the ARIA singles chart were updates of old songs — two from the '70s and one from the '60s — and all of them di

If 1993 had been the year of reggae, 1994 was shaping up to be the year of the big ballad. In weeks past, we've seen hits by Celine Dion...

Each week, there's usually something really obvious for me to talk about before I dive into the new entries on the ARIA singles chart. It...

Before songs were constantly available in the digital age, tracks that hadn't been successful first time around had to be re-released if there was any hope of them charting. The practice was fairly common, with record companies often believing in a song enough (or wanting a chance to recoup some of their initial outlay) to give it a second shot. D:Ream subscribed to the theory that if you release a song enough times, it will become a hit Sometimes, a remix and/or new video we