Percentages of records by Australian Artists in the Melbourne Charts 1960-89
My count of hits by Australian artists in the Melbourne Charts 1960-89, based on the material in Guest, Thomas J. (1991). Thirty Years of Hits. Collingwood, Melbourne: M. J. Maloney. ISBN 0-646-04633-0. Done for my Masters thesis in 1992 (later published as Groenewegen, D., (1997) ‘The Real Thing’? The Rock Music…
My count of hits by Australian artists in the Melbourne Charts 1960-89, based on the material in Guest, Thomas J. (1991). Thirty Years of Hits. Collingwood, Melbourne: M. J. Maloney. ISBN 0-646-04633-0. Done for my Masters thesis in 1992 (later published as Groenewegen, D., (1997) ‘The Real Thing’? The Rock Music Industry and the Creation of Australian Images 1958-87, Moonlight Press, Melbourne - I'll stick it all on the web one day).
I had quite strong views on what an "Australian" artist was at the time, so artists such as the Bee Gees and Olivia Newton-John are not included. This might make it difficult to replicate the data if you use the same very manual process.
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