CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

There's always one — the pop group member who breaks from the band to explore new musical opportunities. From Siobhan Fahey to Geri...

Welcome to 1994, with our look at the ARIA singles charts from years gone by firmly in the mid-'90s — a post-grunge explosion, pre-girl power era where anything went on the top 50. Although compared to 1993, there was a lot less reggae. Music's three musketeers swashbuckled their way to number 1 And what better way to start off the year than with the arrival of one of 1994's top 10 highest-selling singles — a three-way sing-off by a trio of superstars who'd all visited numb

I know I've been a bit rough on 1993 from time to time over the past 12 months as I've recapped each week's ARIA singles chart from that year (links to all previous posts at the bottom of this one). But there was also a lot of great pop music that came out that year. These two new entries would end up as the top 2 by late February 1994 In fact, the new entries on the final chart for 1993 were a pretty good batch of tunes as far as I was concerned, with one of the three new po

I recently held a poll on the Chart Beats Facebook page about whether I should continue my journey through the ARIA singles charts of...

Music history is littered with singles that never saw the light of day in Australia for one reason or another. From Madonna alone, the...

Back in 1993, it was still possible to wring every last possible single out of a smash album, whereas these days the best way to have a...