Author: Echofoxylover

This is often considered the worst year in music by historians, I’m inclined to agree due to the sheer amounts of cheesy ballads that made it big at the time as well as some poorly aged comedy tracks that I’m sure were funny at the time but simply aren’t these days. There was also a… Continue reading Australian hits of 1974

Oh boy do I find this year boring, so much cheap country and personality deprived ballads clogged up the charts this year likely due to these songs being pleasant enough to offset the hangover everyone was experiencing from the 60s coming to an end. This was the biggest hits in Australia during the first half… Continue reading Australian hits of 1973

Another boring year from the early 70s, there’s not much to add here that doesn’t apply to 1973 as there were a ton of country and pop ballads which really dominated the mainstream over the surprisingly few prog and heavy metal projects most people think of when thinking of early 70s music. We’ll be looking… Continue reading Australian hits of 1972

I have to say I never cared for the 60s music scene, so that means that the remnants of the decade that made it big this year and in 1970 do nothing for me which does drag down their rankings on this list. This also had those awful pop and country ballads that permeated the… Continue reading Australian hits of 1971

If I were a bigger fan of psychedelia or hippy culture in general, then rest assured this year, and most of the 60s in general would be higher on this list. I guess this is a personal preference as I honestly feel like I’m on a bad trip whenever I listen to this type of… Continue reading Australian hits of 1970

As this year was the last year of its decade, it felt more like a last hurrah of the big artists of the 00s more than anything else, pair that with the rise of the club boom this year and we have an overall annoying and rightfully forgotten year in music. Although her debut album… Continue reading Biggest albums of 2009 Australia

I feel this was the year where our music tastes were dictated to us, given how that was the trade-off for preventing those awful viral hits from YouTube from clogging up our charts. It was a temporary solution to that conundrum as it resulted in rather soulless music from artists who likely would’ve failed to… Continue reading Biggest albums of 2008 Australia

This was a really clunky year on our charts due to ARIA not including digital data on our main charts unless there was a physical release of a song in question. Although this year would still rank low even if that wasn’t an issue as this was when viral hits from YouTube started taking over… Continue reading Biggest albums of 2007 Australia

The year where digital downloads saved the ARIA charts, this meant that the awesome indie scene was finally recognised in our mainstream as well as the pop divas of the moment no longer having their success stalled due to their labels (usually Sony) pulling their songs from shelves to encourage sales from reality show contestants.… Continue reading Biggest albums of 2006 Australia

Again, this would be higher on the list, were it not for reality shows killing off physical media around this time. There was plenty of great rock and pop music this year that got pushed aside for the likes of those reality show contestants the media shoved down our throats in order to boost their… Continue reading Biggest albums of 2005 Australia