This would have been amazing to see live, held only yesterday for the victims of the Los Angeles fires.
Available on YouTube
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Yeah thanks, I was going to have a look for it.
At the Grammys:
- Chappell Roan won Best New Artist
- Sabrina Carpenter won Best Pop Release for “Espresso”
- Beyonce won Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter (for which she has just announced a world tour - here’s hoping Australia is in the itinerary. She has not been Down Under since 2013)
Amazingly (or surprisingly, or however way you look at it) Taylor Swift didn’t pick up an award from six nominations.
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Didn’t she not release any new music in 2024? edit: oh it was just that Tortured Poets was an average album
Only Taylor Swift can make an average album sound good, as we saw when she flooded the singles chart in April/May last year with 29 songs (of which only one, “Cruel Summer”, was not from TTPD).
Needless to say, TTPD debuted at number one on the Albums Chart of the same week.
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29 songs making the singles chart - the vast, vast majority of which weren’t actually singles - is a reflection of the artist’s popularity alone.
It’s telling that within two weeks, all bar two of those songs had fallen outside the top 10.
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Tame Impala also won a Grammy Award.
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ARIA Charts Update for 10/2/2025
Singles
- No change to the top five, and for the first time in ages there’s not one single Taylor Swift song in the top 50. “Mr Brightside” by The Killers is also nowhere to be seen.
- “Abracadabra” by Lady GaGa has debuted at #50.
Albums
- The Weeknd’s new album “Hurry Up Tomorrow” has debuted at number one. Last week’s chart-topper, “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2)” by Teddy Swims has plummeted to #45.
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This was the way Top 40 charts were distributed in record shops in the past. This one from 1973 was posted by Geoff Field on his Facebook page. Radio stations in each city had their own charts. This one is from 2SM in Sydney.
Aussies on the chart include Helen Reddy, Johnny Farnham, Rick Springfield, Jamie Redfern, Russell Morris, Brian Cadd, Smacka Fitzgibbon and the Australian cast of Jesus Christ Superstar.
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The concert was cancelled after a fatberg blockage at nearby Wellington Street.
Since the whole Hottest 100 thing I’ve been paying special attention to the number of Australian artists whenever I see a chart.
Only six in the National radio airplay chart for the week Feb 6-14. But I guess that’s not too bad when compared it to your 1973 Smacka Fitzgibbon chart.
Except CYRIL just reworks overseas artists and Troye Sivan is South African. But apart from that…
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Sonny Fodera, while born in Adelaide, is based in the UK these days.
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Yeah, and I guess the Kid Laroi isn’t your typical Aussie, with his American accent. He’s lived in LA for the past five years so we can probably strike him off the list.
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It’s not about where you were born or live at the moment. Someone like Olivia Newton John was born in the UK, raised in Australia and lived most of her life in America. She was an Australian artist through and through. Troye Sivan, The Kid Laroi and Sonny Fodera are Aussies.
As for Cyril reworking other artists. That’s pretty much what most producers (and many artists) with hit records do these days. There’s videos on Tik Tok that show how many of Dua Lipa’s songs are ripped from the 80s songs and even one from the 1920s and a Spanish language pop song.
Have been watching Now That’s What I Call The 80s and a lot of artists say the same thing about 80s music. It was reworked 60s music or from other eras. 
“I will concede that if he says the ‘YMCA’ is not a homosexual song. I have to take him on his word for it,” Jefferies said. “But ‘In the Navy’ and ‘Macho Man’, are as gay as all balls.
Willis pointed out that the dual meaning was his intention. “That was something that I credited myself on is writing my songs with what is called a double entendre,” he said. “I would write a song to where you can take it any kind of way you wanted it. If you’re straight, you can take the lyrics for somebody straight or if you were gay, you could take it for somebody gay.”
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Canadian singer Alessia Cara’s fourth studio album “Love & Hyperbole” has dropped.
She’ll also be embarking on a worldwide tour in support of the album, which also includes three shows on the Australian east coast - one each in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
https://x.com/alessiacara/status/1890023279991419148?s=46&t=pH8Nbt9ccJOMPCwK9J4Wtg