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This Week In 1993: January 10, 1993
A new year, and with the dawn of 1993 came a new musical trend: world music goes electronic. The biggest of the five new entries on the first ARIA chart for the year did for pan pipes and foreign language lyrics what Enigma did for Gregorian chant a couple of years earlier. 1993's first musical trend: world music goes mainstream The song was a worldwide sensation, but I always associate it with another '90s phenomenon: chart rigging. I'll explain why when we get to it... Spe
Jan 10, 20184 min read
This Week In 1984: December 23, 1984
It's fitting that I write this week's 1984 recap in the UK, the home of the Christmas number 1. Nowhere else in the world is the race to be crowned the festive chart champ such a phenomenon — it's certainly never been a thing in Australia, where the charts used to close down for weeks over the holiday season. Wham! had Christmas 1984 all wrapped up... or so they thought And although the UK Christmas number 1 has lost some of its excitement after years of domination by The X
Dec 23, 20178 min read
This Week In 1992: December 20, 1992
Kylie, Dannii, Tina, Collette, Melissa, Toni... Australia had had its fair share of young female pop stars in the previous few years, but...
Dec 20, 20175 min read
This Week In 1984: December 16, 1984
Landing a number 1 song can do amazing things for a music act's career. Take the two female singers who debuted on the ARIA top 50 this...
Dec 16, 20173 min read
This Week In 1992: December 13, 1992
It's the part of the year record shops used to live for: the pre-Christmas period, during which all the biggest albums would hit stores....
Dec 13, 20175 min read
This Week In 1984: December 9, 1984
After the deluge of debuts over the previous few weeks, things quietened down on the ARIA singles chart this week in 1984 as those new...
Dec 9, 20173 min read
