CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

Sometimes there's nothing better than a good ballad. Other music trends may come and go, but a heartfelt slow song can connect with...

Some big singles were released in 1984 — songs that would sell millions of copies around the world and come to define the decade as a...

It was theoretically a superstar collaboration in an era before such things happened all the time. But in Australia, the two main singers on the most successful new entry from this week in 1992 weren't quite at superstar level. Four different artists landed their biggest hit to date with one song One performer had two top 10 hits to her credit — nothing like the string of 12 in the US — while the other had never troubled the top 100 before. As for the two featured acts on th

There were some big names behind the new entries on the ARIA singles top 50 this week in 1984. You had a male artist who'd topped the...

Like reggae music, country isn't a genre you find on the ARIA top 50 singles chart that often — but when a country (or reggae) song does...

I used to get quite disappointed when songs I really liked didn't go higher on the chart. And then I reached a certain point where I kind...