These are my favourite singles that entered the AMR/ARIA Top 100 this week five years ago, ten years ago, etc. etc. What are your favourites? Do any of them bring back memories?
'savagegran' made me laugh It would be hard to beat Dance In The Dark for me, but I love Black Cat and All You Zombies (Add Batman to that and I feel like I'm creating a Halloween playlist...)
Given that Kiss From A Rose first charted in 1994, would it also be eligible to be your favourite from that week?
(Also, you have both 29/7 and 5/8... that's an 8-day period!)
I'm approaching 50, so I may as well get to work on the baking and knitting skills now.
The 1994 chart entry of Kiss From a Rose is the Adamski Remixes single, not the Batman Forever soundtrack single that would top the charts a year later in 1995, which funnily enough is the Seal II album version and not the inferior edit featured on the actual Batman Forever soundtrack.
I actually checked and there were 3 versions released in 1994 - a CD single (CD2) for "The Adamski Remixes", a CD single (CD1) featuring the original, and a cassingle featuring both - and when it debuted on the ARIA chart, its listed catalogue number was for the CD single with the original (4509971162). Hmm, but on the AMR chart, they listed the catalogue number for the remixes CD single (as well as the cassingle). I guess you can make the case for both! (Or if the remix was what got whatever radio or TV play it had in 1994; you'd know better than me.) Oddly, the remixes CD single on Discogs has a picture of a sticker saying "featured on Batman Forever soundtrack album" even though the movie came out about 10 months later (maybe copies of it were still being produced then?).
How does that work, since neither 1985 nor 1990 were leap years?
I don't remember the original or remix getting any airplay in 1994 or the first half of 1995, for that matter. Its release as a single from that Batman soundtrack mid year is what made it a hit, and boy was it a hit!
You're right. I thought the leap year in 1988 would have something to do with it but all leap days do are to make a 53rd week occur a year or two early. It's actually the fact that the charts changed from being dated on Mondays up until the beginning of 1990, to Sundays. So if the change wasn't made, Sunday 7th of January, 1990's chart would have been the 8th and therefore the 29th of July, 1990 chart would have been the 30th.
The 8-day anomaly will, no doubt, pop up again as the Sundays went back to Mondays at the beginning of 1998, then back to Sundays at the beginning of August then FINALLY back to Mondays at the beginning of 1999.
The bottom 3 are all fantastic tracks, in particular Jive Talkin', which would be in my top 3 hits of theirs. Dance In The Dark and Kiss From A Rose are great ones too. Interesting project!
5 years ago: Taylor Swift ft. Bon Iver - Exile 10 years ago: Delta Goodrem - Wings 15 years ago: Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill 20 years ago: Feeder - Feeling a Moment 25 years ago: Chicane - No Ordinary Morning 30 years ago: Merril Bainbridge - Under The Water 35 years ago: Jimmy Barnes - Lay Down Your Guns 40 years ago: The Hooters - All You Zombies 45 years ago: Gerry Rafferty - The Royal Mile 50 years ago: Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy 55 years ago: Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You
Not to be too annoying, but are you sure about the dates? My understanding is as follows:
- The AMR charts were dated on Mondays, 7 days after the chart survey was conducted. I think the ARIA-branded printed charts from 1983-1988 were given a 'week ending' date a further 6 days after that. - When ARIA began producing their own chart in June 1988, they dated the charts on Sundays, 13 days after the survey date - essentially, they retained AMR's 1-week delay, and added a 'week ending' onto it. - Over the 1988 Christmas break, ARIA brought the dates 1 week forward, so from the start of 1989 onwards, the charts were dated 6 days after the survey date. - In October 1998, ARIA switched from 'week ending' to 'week commencing' dates, eliminating the 6-day difference; this is the point where the chart dates became Mondays (except on this site's archive, which is still partying like it's 1997). - The exception to the above is that in 1988, 1989 and 1990, the last chart compiled before Christmas was dated as the first chart of the following year.
The dates you describe sound familiar to me, because I think they match the dates in a spreadsheet I have, but I don't think they're correct. I don't know who compiled the spreadsheet, but I assume they either didn't have as much information, or tried to streamline the dates for convenience, or just auto-filled the dates without worrying about precision. I've certainly been confused by it in the past. I have some saved images of printed charts that can help verify most of the above, if you'd like to see for yourself. If you're not interested in any of this and would rather just keep the dates the way you have them, that's fine of course
Alright I had a look at the pages on your site. The first published ARIA-compiled chart was surveyed on 13 June 1988, and dated "week ending 26 June 1988" on the printed chart, but you have it dated 20 June 1988. Dating it that way does keep it consistent with the preceding AMR charts, but I wouldn't consider it accurate because, as far as I know, ARIA did not date it that way anywhere themselves; they used the 13-day-delayed dates on the printed charts, there was no ARIA Report at the time, and they use the survey dates in their present-day internal database.
The dates you have for the rest of 1988 are the same way (6 days before the printed chart date; 7 days after the survey date). Over the 1988 Christmas break, ARIA brought the dates 1 week forward. The dates you have for 1989 are still 6 days before the printed chart date, which means they now match the survey date.
This is the case through to the chart dated 11 December 1989 on your site, which was surveyed on 11 December 1989, and dated 17 December 1989 on the printed chart: https://i.imgur.com/ioXmg8C.jpeg (credit to GavinScott for publishing these scans). The following chart was surveyed on 18 December 1989 and is dated 18 December 1989 on your site, but was dated "3 weeks ending 7 January 1990" on the printed chart: https://i.imgur.com/eYCxO0C.jpeg . The next chart after that was surveyed on 8 January 1990; that's the first week of the ARIA Report, which was dated 14 January 1990, as was the printed chart, and the dates on your site match from this point onwards.
With one edge-case exception: the final chart compiled in 1990 was surveyed on 17 December 1990, but dated "3 weeks ending 6 January 1991" on the printed chart; there was no ARIA Report for this week. You have it dated 23 December 1990. Now, I'll be the first to admit that these "3 week ending" dates, where the break between charts is not in the same place as the break between dates, are easily misleading, and you could argue that if there had been an ARIA Report for this week, it more likely would've used a regular "week ending" date, so it would be reasonable enough to keep this chart as 23 December 1990, even if I personally wouldn't. If you do, I'd say you should make 1988, 1989 and 1990 match, though; these are the 3 charts in question:
Now, for 1998, the year that ARIA switched from "week ending" to "week commencing" dates. The first "week commencing" chart was 12 October 1998. The dates on your site make the shift at the start of 1998, meaning that they're 6 days early. At the start of August 1998, the dates you have become 7 days early. From 12 October 1998, ARIA's dates shifted 6 days up, so the dates you have become 1 day early. From the start of 1999, the dates you have are correct.
Unfortunately, I don't have the 1998 ARIA Reports (and I think I recall reading that the printed charts were not being produced in late 1998); admittedly, my only source for the exact week that ARIA's date change happened is Nugs (Nathan) mentioning it in several places, for example in this thread: https://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=45348 . I trust that he's right, but I don't have first-hand evidence. I do have a handful of saved images of charts from the ARIA Report, though (which I believe originate from Nugs uploading them for Wikipedia citations), which provide clear evidence for approximately when it happened:
You can see on page 7 of this PDF - https://messui.polygonal-moogle.com/top50/1998top50_2.pdf - the printed chart dated 24 May 1998, which is the same as the ARIA Report of that date. Also, there are some archived charts from ARIA's website that get very close to the dates in question:
In summary, for the second half of 1988 and all of 1989, the dates on your site are 6 days early, in comparison to the printed charts, and over the course of 1998, they're either 6, 7 or 1 day(s) early; the rest of what I've seen is correct, apart from a "3 weeks ending" edge case or two.
Hopefully that's not too much of a bother I believe I'm correct about all of this, but if you or anyone else reading thinks I'm wrong, or would like me to investigate or clarify something further, let me know.
As for the actual topic of this thread, I can't say any of this week's songs match last week's highlights for me, but I more-or-less like all of them I'd probably pick Teenage Dream as my favourite, but Nothing Left is an underrated Kygo song and I didn't remember that it charted here! Based on its iTunes chart run, it was probably promoted on the iTunes front page that week (the week it came out). It peaking at #69 and charting for 1 week is quite a contrast to Stay (his subsequent single) peaking at #67 and charting for 27 weeks.
Fun fact: the 25-years-ago week (7 August 2000) is a chart that ARIA got wrong and issued a correction for in the following week's report (saying "last week the singles chart contained some incorrect positions"). Black Legend's "You See The Trouble With Me" had debuted at #34 in the original publication and was then corrected to #26, for example, and Gomez's "Machismo" EP was originally #62 but corrected to #48, which is the only week Gomez ever spent in the singles top 50. There are no "lost top 100 hits" from that week, as the only songs removed from the chart were all former top 20 hits, but their replacements included a few debuts that were belatedly featured in the following week's chartifacts.
I don't remember any part of My Oasis, but I kind of like the idea that it's the most notable song that debuted that week, the same week as Heat Waves and WAP Your 2013 self that created the 'explicit' Danger Zone would be disappointed that WAP isn't your favourite!
I remember Don't Worry for being a European hit and didn't remember that it did chart here (for 1 week at #82); I'm not confident enough to say whether iTunes promotion was the cause, but it was unlucky to peak at #52 on the global Spotify chart at a time when the Global Top 50 playlist tended to have a significant impact. (Surprisingly, Don't Worry has spent months in the Spotify top 200 this year in... Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary.)
Take It Off is my favourite song in the list Nice to see Excalibur, Lucky and I'm Not In Love as well.
Yeah. I don't know why I didn't enjoy WAP when I like Khia's 2002 classic My Neck, My Back (Lick It) and this year's Fat Juicy & Wet by Sexyy Red & Bruno Mars. Perhaps if it was WABP, WAMP or WAAP instead?
Don't Worry is a jam! It's a shame we haven't heard much else from Ray Dalton than Can't Hold Us.
I was thinking those sound like US radio stations, and there is a WAMP in Jackson, Tennessee! Part of a Christian network called "American Family Radio", so I'm sure WAP would be right at home
For some associated chart statistics... inspired by Excalibur, here are the times since 1988 that a #2 hit has been a non-mover at #2, while the #1 spot changed hands above it:
Date
#2 Title
#2 Artist
Wks #2
Previous #1
TW
New #1
LW
13/11/88
A Groovy Kind Of Love
Phil Collins
7
Desire
3
Don't Worry, Be Happy
3
19/02/89
Teardrops
Womack & Womack
4
Kokomo
3
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
3
02/07/89
Bedroom Eyes
Kate Ceberano
6
Eternal Flame
4
The Look
4
07/01/90
We Didn't Start The Fire
Billy Joel
6
If I Could Turn Back Time
3
Love Shack
3
26/01/92
Cream
Prince & The New Power Generation
4
Black Or White
3
Let's Talk About Sex
3
30/10/94
Always
Bon Jovi
7
I'll Make Love To You
3
Tomorrow
3
27/08/95
Excalibur
F.C.B.
3
Insensitive
3
Kiss From A Rose
3
14/04/96
Missing
Everything But The Girl
6
One Of Us
3
How Bizarre
3
01/09/96
Return Of The Mack
Mark Morrison
2
Because You Loved Me
3
Macarena
5
03/11/96
I Love You Always Forever
Donna Lewis
3
Macarena
3
Wannabe
3
26/01/97
Break My Stride
Unique II
3
To The Moon And Back
3
Freak
NE
26/04/99
Why Don't You Get A Job?
The Offspring
2
...Baby One More Time
4
No Scrubs
4
30/07/01
Strawberry Kisses
Nikki Webster
7
Angel
3
Follow Me
3
06/08/01
Strawberry Kisses
Nikki Webster
7
Follow Me
3
Hanging By A Moment
5
19/03/07
The Sweet Escape
Gwen Stefani feat. Akon
6
Lips Of An Angel
3
Straight Lines
NE
16/04/07
Grace Kelly
Mika
3
Straight Lines
3
Girlfriend
3
19/07/10
I Like It
Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull
4
California Gurls
3
Love The Way You Lie
5
15/08/11
Moves Like Jagger
Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera
10
Someone Like You
3
Somebody That I Used To Know
3
28/11/11
The A Team
Ed Sheeran
2
Sexy And I Know It
3
Good Night
NE
02/04/12
Starships
Nicki Minaj
5
We Are Young
3
Call Me Maybe
3
25/06/12
Hallelujah
Karise Eden
2
Whistle
6
Stay With Me Baby
NE
21/01/13
Scream & Shout
will.i.am feat. Britney Spears
6
Thrift Shop
3
Same Love
9
06/04/15
Do You Remember
Jarryd James
2
Bills
3
Lean On
4
27/07/15
Can't Feel My Face
The Weeknd
3
Like I'm Gonna Lose You
3
Are You With Me
3
17/08/15
Ghost Town
Adam Lambert
2
Drag Me Down
8
Wings
26
18/04/16
Faded
Alan Walker
5
7 Years
5
i hate u, i love u
5
02/10/17
New Rules
Dua Lipa
2
Too Good At Goodbyes
4
rockstar
8
21/05/18
Better Now
Post Malone
6
Nice For What
4
This Is America
7
28/05/18
Better Now
Post Malone
6
This Is America
3
Youngblood
3
17/05/21
Kiss Me More
Doja Cat feat. SZA
6
WITHOUT YOU
3
Body
3
11/03/24
TEXAS HOLD 'EM
Beyoncé
3
Cruel Summer
3
Beautiful Things
3
03/03/25
luther
Kendrick Lamar & SZA
3
Not Like Us
4
APT.
3
(The 'weeks at #2' figure for We Didn't Start The Fire includes 2 Christmas-break weeks.)
Ghost Town is kind of a funny chart case: it had been sitting around #20 for a while, then shot to #2 when he performed it on The Voice, only blocked from #1 by One Direction's debuting new single; the following week, One Direction fell to #8, but Ghost Town was beaten by Delta Goodrem performing her new single on The Voice! Ghost Town spent exactly 1 week at #1 on iTunes; if only The Voice had aired on Fridays rather than Sundays, you could say.
What about #3? Has it ever happened that a #3-peaking song has been a non-mover at #3, while the 2 songs above it were replaced by 2 different ones? It has! 9 June 1991 and 26 January 2009.
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Title
Artist
-
-
36
22
13
6
1
1
1
1
1
2
The Grease Megamix
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
45
32
15
10
6
4
2
2
3
3
6
9
Rhythm Of My Heart
Rod Stewart
27
15
9
7
4
3
3
4
4
9
14
15
3 A.M. Eternal
The KLF feat. The Children Of The Revolution
3
3
2
1
1
2
4
5
9
18
18
29
The Horses
Daryl Braithwaite
8
6
4
2
2
1
5
6
11
19
21
28
Don't Go Now
Ratcat
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Title
Artist
65
52
70
56
15
6
1
1
1
1
3
4
You Found Me
The Fray
11
7
5
4
4
4
2
2
3
4
6
8
Get Shaky
The Ian Carey Project
16
13
15
14
10
3
3
3
4
6
10
19
Let It Rock
Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne
2
1
1
1
1
2
4
5
8
11
9
12
Poker Face
Lady Gaga
18
16
13
10
2
1
5
4
6
9
20
23
Burn
Jessica Mauboy
I don't think it's ever happened with a #4 (at least since 1988), but it has happened with a #5, on 2 July 2012. Karise Eden's "You Won't Let Me", her The Voice winner's single, had debuted at #5 behind 4 The Voice performances (3 by her and 1 by Sarah De Bono), and then remained at #5 behind 4 normal songs.
4ever is my favourite this week What are the TBD ranks? Are they songs that weren't in your EOY lists when you made them but would be now? Or songs whose EOY ranks are too out-of-date?
I've never heard of this Aqua song! I'm surprised Ocean Drive isn't your pick for that 2015 week... ah, I see it was your #13 of 2015; not far off (I love to see Puppet Theatre in your top 10 - if only it had charted 9 spots higher, it would probably appear in this thread a few weeks from now.) I enjoy listening to 2012 (It Ain't The End) on New Year's Day. Nice to see One Of These Nights and Blaze Of Glory as well.
The former, yeah - songs I overlooked when compiled most of my EOY lists 15 years ago. Would love to update them but it's a very low priority - got so much other work on my site that needs to be done. I'd also like to update my Top Singles of All Time list too and expand it from a Top 500 to a Top 1000 but the EOY lists would need to be updated first.
Just in time to comment on last week's? I think I'd pick Ooops Up as my favourite song of the lot - and the spider saying "what's in the bowl, bitch?" as my favourite lyric Nice to see The Fix (a surprising choice over Run Away With Me!), I Turn To You and Sky High (though I definitely prefer the Newton version).
Nice to see Hula Hoop, Most Girls and Ashes To Ashes! For the sake of picking one favourite, I'll go with Most Girls. I've never heard the Silosonic song, but judging from it having the same Zip Music artwork design as Something About You (Live Element) and Midas Touch, it must be good. I thought of Can I Touch You... There? just the other day (via an unrelated song that says "if you touch me there, in the elevator")
Lemme know if you like that Silosonic song. I didn't know at the time that it is a cover of a mid-'80s disco song. Not surprising that the original song flopped given the artist is American and disco died in the US in 1979.
I had been meaning to catch up on this thread, and I'm still going to do so even if you may not see it.
Week 37: Graduation (Friends Forever) is definitely my favourite here Also nice to see Just A Dream, Summer Of '69 and You Shook Me All Night Long. Looking at the 2015 week's debuts, I'm not sure I've ever encountered the existence of the Wiz Khalifa feat. Fall Out Boy song before! I would thoroughly rearrange the peaks of Sigala's singles if I could; his 2016 single Say You Do is probably my favourite song to have peaked at #101 (not that I have a list of #101 hits, but it feels unlikely to be beaten!). (My favourite #102 that I know of is Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes in 2003.)
Week 38: Not the strongest of weeks, I'd say; I'd pick Get Outta My Way as my favourite. I'd actually forgotten that Tick Tock was a hit here. I never heard anything from that 2015 Kylie EP - lucky for you that it snuck in at #100. Unlucky for Armand Van Helden with that song peaking at #52. Big week for Kylie with On A Night Like This also having been an option for 2000!
Week 39: I'd pick Teenage Dirtbag as my favourite here, but I'd happily go for Jump In My Car too! Also nice to see Only Girl, St. Elmo's Fire, On My Mind and Diamonds. I just noticed that Madonna's "Gambler" (which debuted on this 1985 week) is listed as "The Gambler" in the spreadsheet I have and I am intrigued by the idea of her covering Kenny Rogers.
Week 40: I have to pick As I Lay Me Down as my favourite Also great to see Planets, Tilt My Hat and Lady (Hear Me Tonight). I really like Into The Night as well. OK, but you missed an opportunity... you could've had both Barbra Streisand (song) and Woman In Love! Also, I like that on that 2005 week, the top 3 debuts were Shine, Sunshine and Sunshine Eyes... maybe Andy J would've been 4th if he'd titled it "Tilt My Hat (At The Sun)".
Week 41: Black Coffee is so good. Pure Shores, it and their 2018 William Orbit-produced song After All make an amazing trio. That's my favourite, but it's impressive how many classics are in this table! Nice to see Another One Bites The Dust and Get Down Tonight in particular. I really like Magnets and Tripping too. I am probably the world's #1 fan of New Boyz's 2011 single Backseat (which I didn't realise had made #89 here!) but I'm not especially familiar with Break My Bank.
Week 42: Great to see Reality! It was one of my favourite songs of 2015 and it still feels quite impressive that it became a hit here. Looking at its chart run, 86-57-51-57-70-90-139-134-35-53-44-58-41-37-39-44-51-54-62-76-90, that re-entry to a new peak is curious and I couldn't remember the cause. It seems like the main reason was just iTunes front-page promotion (which feels unusual to have had such a large impact at this point, as opposed to in 2012-2014), but that led to it getting a new life on radio, and a resurgence on Spotify that I'd guess may have been due to a Hot Hits Australia placement (I don't have records of the playlist from this time). Its Spotify run is somewhat unlucky - it had been in the global top 50 earlier on, which at the time tended to push songs into most countries' top 200s and indeed brought Reality into the Australian top 100, but by the time of its peak Australian radio and probably-playlist support, it was no longer in the global top 50, and it ended up peaking at #53 on Australian Spotify, an unlucky zone of getting stuck just short of the boost that being in the top 50 would provide. A somewhat-crammed table, for reference:
Week
17 08
24 08
31 08
07 09
14 09
21 09
28 09
05 10
12 10
19 10
26 10
02 11
09 11
16 11
23 11
30 11
07 12
14 12
21 12
28 12
04 01
11 01
18 01
25 01
01 02
08 02
15 02
22 02
29 02
07 03
ARIA
86
57
51
57
70
90
139
134
35
53
44
58
41
37
39
44
51
54
62
76
90
Digital
43
46
31
41
38
38
30
31
36
44
44
Radio
53
36
38
85
36
35
33
34
33
29
27
27
31
Spot_AU
136
136
122
104
80
93
86
79
71
66
66
71
102
132
133
95
68
72
59
53
55
53
58
57
57
70
96
118
Spot_Glob
51
46
37
34
32
32
33
34
33
31
36
40
41
45
71
58
61
71
84
89
80
81
84
79
82
86
89
100
95
96
Its ARIA chart run, peaking just outside the top 50 and then re-entering within the top 50, reminds me of Sam Sparro's "21st Century Life" (86-52-55-52-68-62-64-52-64-75-x(12)-42-43-55-66-98), though in that case the first leg was the longer one (I believe usage on So You Think You Can Dance was the reason for the re-entry). Britney Spears' "Radar" is another one (78-86-59-83-70-59-73-85-88-91-x(37)-46-62-56-77-94), though with a much longer gap (owing to being effectively re-released, after 3 other singles). Gossip's "Love Long Distance" is almost one, having just made #50 the first time (73-50-64-78-69-76-76-x(8)-57-49-77; I believe SYTYCD was also the reason for this one, by them performing on it).
However, although I love Reality, I think I love Way To Go! more! (Coincidentally, one of the remixes of Reality is by someone called Rough Traders.) Also great to see Feels Like I'm In Love, Double Vision and Where The Wild Roses Grow. Wow, that's a strong week of debuts in 2010 though - Double Vision is only my 9th-favourite! I want to draw some sort of connection with Double Vision debuting the same week as P!nk having a #1 debut, based on "your clothes just fall off", the song Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off, and P!nk's "tequila for my friend, it makes her flirty". I'm surprised I Kiss Your Lips wasn't your 1995 pick, given the relatively-low bar implied by Where The Wild Roses Grow's #115 rank. I'm also surprised at that Jimmy Barnes song beating Tom's Diner for you!
Week 43: Push The Button has to be my favourite here, though there are an above-average amount of songs I don't know. Nice to see The Trouble With Us as well. That makes me think of your thread about little moments you love in songs, because I've always loved the specific part with the 'woo!' then the beat coming in (0:35 and 2:14).
Week 44: That Ain't Bad definitely wins this table for me! Also nice to see Born To Run and "positions". I kind of like how that 2015 week was the week of one of the biggest pairs of simultaneous #1 and #2 debuts ever (Hello and Sorry), but you're off there with a 1-week #70 charter (My pick from that week would be Renegades.)
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It would be hard to beat Dance In The Dark for me, but I love Black Cat and All You Zombies 
