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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".
In 2004, Australian singer Shannon Noll recorded a cover with updated lyrics. The track was released on 20 December 2004 to aid the children's charity Good Start, a joint charity set up by the Australian Red Cross and Sanitarium foods to raise money to ensure all Australian children start the day with a healthy breakfast.
The data are compiled from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores and Internet sales, in other words, both digital as well as CD sales. [ 1 ] In January 2010, the Australian Recording Industry Association released a chart with the highest selling singles of the previous decade, using data ...
Songs which peaked at number three were "Fantasy" by Black Box, "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory, "Wiggle It" by 2 in a Room, "How to Dance" by Bingoboys featuring Princessa, "3 a.m. Eternal" by The KLF, "You Could Be Mine" by Guns N' Roses, "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" by UB40, "Sexy (Is the Word)" by Melissa ...
1→54 Karise Eden – "Stay with Me Baby" (2012, coinciding with the end of The Voice Australia) 1→24 Celine Dion – "My Heart Will Go On" (1998, CD single pulled from the shelves to be replaced by the dance version two weeks later which then peaked at No. 3) 1→15 Jesse McCartney – "Beautiful Soul" (2005)
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.
"Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd was the top selling single of 2020 in Australia, spending eleven weeks at No. 1 and being certified six times platinum. " Dance Monkey " by Tones and I , which was the previous year's highest-selling Australian song, held that title for the second consecutive year, being certified thirteen times platinum and ...
The following lists the top 25 singles of 2016 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) end-of-year singles chart. [1] The Chainsmokers’ track "Closer", featuring Halsey, was the highest selling single in Australia in 2016 with a sales accreditation of seven times platinum. It spent nine weeks at number one.