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Pages in category "Songs about Australia" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. ... Reckless (Australian Crawl song) Roll On (The Living End ...
APRA's Top 30 Australian songs was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001, to celebrate its 75th anniversary. [1] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years".
Australian music's early western history, was a collection of British colonies, Australian folk music and bush ballads, with songs such as "Waltzing Matilda" and The Wild Colonial Boy heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, Indeed many bush ballads are based on the works of national poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson.
"I Am Australian" (or "We Are Australian") is a popular Australian song written in 1987 by Bruce Woodley of the Seekers and Dobe Newton of the Bushwackers. Its lyrics are filled with many historic and cultural references, such as to the " digger ", Albert Namatjira and Ned Kelly , among others.
Written by Scottish-born Australian composer Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed as a patriotic song in Australia in 1878. It replaced " God Save the Queen " as the official national anthem by the Whitlam government in 1974, following an indicative opinion survey.
In 2016 the song was one of ten new tracks added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia collection. [3] In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Sounds of Then" was ranked number 7. [9] Adam Brand and the Outlaws covered the song on the 2016 album Adam Brand and the ...
The following lists the top 25 singles of 2021 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) end-of-year singles chart. [1]"Heat Waves" by Glass Animals was the top selling single of 2021 in Australia, spending 6 weeks at No. 1 and 48 weeks in the Top 10, giving the band the record for most weeks in the Top 10 on the ARIA Singles Chart, and being certified seven times ...
This is a list of number-one singles in Australia from the Kent Music Report era to its current ARIA ... Charts sourced from David Kent's Australian Chart Book: ...