Who was the Australian who had three number one hits between Dec 88 and June 89
"Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88 Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88 is a remix album by Boney M. released in 1988. Boney M.'s new manager at the time, Simon Napier-Bell, succeeded in persuading the four original members to briefly reunite and promote this remix album. The man employed to re-arrange the original hits and create new interest in the band was PWL's Pete Hammond who previously had remixed many of the Stock Aitken Waterman stable's chart-topping hits with Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley and Bananarama. Five of the tracks also feature new lead vocals"
"Hits of '89 Volume 1 Hits of '89 Vol. 1 was a ""hits"" collection album featuring various artists released in Australia in 1989. The album spent 5 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1989. Although not reflected on the cover, the version of ""Let's Stick Together"" on this album is ""Westside '88 Remix"". This is stated on the CD label and the liner notes which accompany the cassette edition. Hits of '89 Volume 1 was released on LP, cassette and CD. A version was also released on VHS video featuring the music videos of almost all"
"the Allstars Stevie Wright Stephen Carlton Wright (20 December 1947 – 27 December 2015), formerly billed as Little Stevie, was an English-born musician and songwriter who has been called Australia's first international pop star. During 1964–69 he was lead singer of Sydney-based rock and roll band the Easybeats, widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s. Early hits for the Easybeats were co-written by Wright with bandmate George Young, including, ""She's So Fine"" (No. 3, 1965), ""Wedding Ring"" (No. 7, 1965), ""Women (Make You Feel Alright)"" (No. 4, 1966), ""Come and See Her"" (No. 3, 1966), ""I'll"
"Christie Allen Christie Allen (born June Allen; 12 September 1954 12 August 2008) was an English-born Australian pop singer who had a successful career in Australia. Her top four hits on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart were ""Goosebumps"" (October 1979) and ""He's My Number One"" (February 1980). Allen was voted the Most Popular Female Performer at the ""TV Week"" / ""Countdown"" for 1979 and 1980. At the 1979 awards, ""Goosebumps"" also won the Best Songwriter award for Terry Britten. Allen and her partner, Mark, had a daughter Christa Lea; the couple married in 1998. Allen died on 12"
"Billy Ray Cyrus William Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single ""Achy Breaky Heart"", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia. It was also the best-selling single in the same country in 1992. Due to the video of this song, the line dance gained in popularity. Cyrus, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the ""Billboard"" Country Songs chart. His most successful"
"Stevie Wright Stephen Carlton Wright (20 December 1947 – 27 December 2015), formerly billed as Little Stevie, was an English-born musician and songwriter who has been called Australia's first international pop star. During 1964–69 he was lead singer of Sydney-based rock and roll band the Easybeats, widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s. Early hits for the Easybeats were co-written by Wright with bandmate George Young, including, ""She's So Fine"" (No. 3, 1965), ""Wedding Ring"" (No. 7, 1965), ""Women (Make You Feel Alright)"" (No. 4, 1966), ""Come and See Her"" (No. 3, 1966), ""I'll Make You"
"Six Moons: The Best of 1988–1994 ""Six Moons: The Best of 1988-1994"" is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-song writer, Daryl Braithwaite. The album includes tracks taken from taken albums ""Edge"", ""Rise"" and ""Taste the Salt"" and three new tracks, ""How Can I Be Sure"", ""Blue Hills"" and ""Escape From Reality"" all recorded in July and August 1994. The album peaked at number 31 in Australia. Simon Hussey, Jeff Scott, David Hussey, John Farnham, Glenn Braithwaite, John Watson, Scott Griffiths Chuck Hargreaves, John Corniola, Andy Cichon, Brett Kingman, Laurence Maddy, Margaret Urlich, The Brasstards, Alex Pertout, Jeremy Alsop, Tommy"
"Emmanuel, Stuart Fraser, Lisa Edwards, Nikki Nicoles, Richard Pleasance, Willie Zygier, Nicky Karawana. Six Moons: The Best of 1988–1994 ""Six Moons: The Best of 1988-1994"" is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-song writer, Daryl Braithwaite. The album includes tracks taken from taken albums ""Edge"", ""Rise"" and ""Taste the Salt"" and three new tracks, ""How Can I Be Sure"", ""Blue Hills"" and ""Escape From Reality"" all recorded in July and August 1994. The album peaked at number 31 in Australia. Simon Hussey, Jeff Scott, David Hussey, John Farnham, Glenn Braithwaite, John Watson, Scott Griffiths Chuck Hargreaves, John Corniola, Andy Cichon,"
"list was posted on the Triple J website in their Hottest 100 History section until late 2004 under 1992. Despite this, an audio clip from the 1991 Hottest 100 features the announcer jokingly playing ""Black or White"" by Michael Jackson at the number one song before saying it was actually #113 (although the actual list shows it reached #112). 21 of the 100 tracks are by Australian artists. For the first time, the list for positions #101 to #200 were released. The list was featured on the Triple J website up until 2005, under the Hottest 100 for 1992. Triple"
"Donovan would be taking his second break from his radio shows. He has confirmed he will be returning to Heart at some point in the future. Jason Donovan Jason Sean Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap ""Neighbours"", before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records. His debut album ""Ten Good Reasons"" was the highest-selling album in the UK in 1989, with sales of over 1.5 million. He has had four UK No. 1 singles, one of which"
"Australia until Triple J Radio became a nationwide, prominent broadcaster. Audiences who went to The Angels' gig were famous for their good humoured response ""No way, get fucked, fuck off!"" to the lead singer's lyric ""Am I ever going to see your face again?"". Mainstream acts such as singer John Farnham, Daryl Braithwaite and Jimmy Barnes were very successful for many years within Australia, but remain largely unknown outside the country. Farnham's commercial comeback was one of the biggest success stories in Australian music in that decade, the former """" spent years out of favour with the public and the"
"influence on the song's extended structure. The single reached Australia's Number 1 spot in June 1969, and number one in Chicago, Houston and New York, despite international distribution difficulties. It was the biggest selling Australian single of 1969. The song was followed by ""Part Three into Paper Walls"" was released in July 1969. The track was co-written by Johnny Young and Morris and arranged by John Farrar. The single received extensive airplay making it a double number one recording, the first time an Australian artist had scored consecutive number ones with their first two singles. Many radio stations also began"
"1987. Their best-selling album is 1987's ""Man of Colours"", which contained the Australian hit singles ""Crazy"" which peaked at No. 4 in July, ""Electric Blue"", co-written by Davies and John Oates of U.S. band Hall & Oates, peaked at No. 1 in October, ""My Obsession"" No. 12 in December, ""Man of Colours"" No. 28 in February 1988 and ""Nothing Too Serious"" No. 29 in May 1988. It was the first Australian album to have five singles charting in the top 30, it remained at No. 1 on the Australian album charts for eleven weeks and has sold over 700,000 copies."
"Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 1998 The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time was a music poll conducted in August 1998 amongst listeners of Australian youth radio network Triple J. Nirvana's ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"" collected the highest number of votes to claim the top position. Voters could submit a list of up to ten different songs as well as nominating one of these as their ""all-time"" favourite song. It was the fourth such poll organised by Triple J, following similar polls in 1989, 1990 and 1991. Initially, all songs were eligible for the annual Triple J"
"Triple J Hottest 100, 2001 The 2001 Triple J Hottest 100, announced in January 2002, was the ninth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 34 (not necessarily the top 34) songs was released. When the announcers for the final stretch of the countdown, Adam Spencer and Wil Anderson got to the number one track, they first played their own parody track Matt Hayden, named after the Australian cricketer and set to the tune of ""Ms Jackson"" by OutKast. ""Ms"
"transport the listener back to a time when every single in the UK charts was either written by Stock, Aitken and Waterman or sung by an Aussie soap star, or both."" ""OK!"" called the song a ""classic"". The song won the Highest Selling Single award at the 3rd annual ARIA Awards. ""I Should Be So Lucky"" was released in the UK on 29 December 1987, and in Australia on 1 February 1988. It was a commercial success, reaching atop the Australian Kent Music Report chart for six consecutives weeks, and became her second number-one single, following Locomotion. The single was"
"number one single in Australia, overtaking the previous effort of three number-ones from Kylie Minogue's debut album, ""Kylie"" (1988). It was certified Platinum for sales over 70,000 copies. In early August, Goodrem announced she would not renew her contract with Glenn Wheatley. Her mother, Lea Goodrem, replaced him as her manager. Later that month, Goodrem won seven ARIA Awards, including ""Best Female Artist"", surpassing Natalie Imbruglia's previous record of six awards in 1999. As Delta was too unwell to perform at the ceremony herself, singer Darren Hayes performed a rendition of ""Lost Without You"" as a tribute, bringing an overwhelmed"
"The Wrights (Australian band) The Wrights were a one-off Australian rock music ""supergroup"". They consisted of Nic Cester (of Jet), Bernard Fanning (of Powderfinger), Phil Jamieson (of Grinspoon), Kram (of Spiderbait), Chris Cheney (of The Living End), Davey Lane (of You Am I and The Pictures) and Pat Bourke (of Dallas Crane). They are named after Australian music legend and former Easybeats frontman Stevie Wright, the original performer of the song-trilogy ""Evie"" which was the group's feature song. Their first and only single was a cover version of Stevie Wright's song ""Evie"", an 11 minute song consisting of three parts."
"Triple J Hottest 100, 2000 The 2000 Triple J Hottest 100, announced in January 2001, was the eighth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 37 (not necessarily the top 37) songs was released. The CD featured Queens of the Stone Age's song ""Feel Good Hit of the Summer"" despite it not making the top 100, hinting that it may have placed at No. 101. 40 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists (marked with a green background). Scoring"
"chart success. The 1990s also saw a rise in popular Australian music and videos for young children, particularly The Wiggles and Hi-5. Triple J's influence in possible success for a band was clearer than ever, with the station breaking Grinspoon, Missy Higgins and largely responsible for promoting the Whitlams, who after winning Triple J's Hottest 100 poll in 1997 with their ""No Aphrodisiac"", went on to win Song of the Year at the 1998 ARIA music awards. Timeline of trends in Australian music The trend of Australian music have often mirrored those of the United States and Britain. Australian Aboriginal"
"song was not included. A music video was released, a high energy, comic action/adventure romp through a Chinese laundry. The song reached No. 54 on the US charts, but fared better in Australia, reaching No. 8. ""Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)"" became the opening song on her 2008 Australian tour. ""A Night to Remember"" – Lauper's third album – was released in the spring of 1989. The album had one hit, the No. 6 single ""I Drove All Night"", originally recorded by Roy Orbison, three years before his death on December 6, 1988. Lauper received a"
"Hottest 100 countdown-also rising to number three on the ARIA charts. The most prominent Australian song during 2011 and early 2012 was Gotye's ""Somebody That I Used To Know"" which reached number 1 in 11 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. The song also reached number 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 countdown and featured New Zealander pop singer, Kimbra, who also placed three times on the Triple J Hottest 100 as a solo artist. Electropop in Australia has been dominated by the use of synthesizers and"
"at number 55 on 24 June 1989. It peaked at number one three weeks later, becoming Sonia's only number-one single there. The single was on the chart for thirteen weeks. In Ireland the song peaked at number one and charted for eight weeks. In Australia, the single entered the charts at number 160 in August 1989, reaching a peak position of 29 in October 1989, and charting for 17 weeks. In other countries where the single charted, it reached peak positions mainly in the top thirty. Japan CD single 7"" single 12"" single 12"" remix The following people contributed to"
"certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and ranked at number five on the Year-end chart for 1988. In New Zealand, the song entered at No. 15 on New Zealand Top 40 and peaked at No. 3 on 27 March 1988, spending twelve weeks on the chart. In United Kingdom, ""I Should Be So Lucky"" was released on 29 December 1987. The song entered at No. 90 on the UK Singles Chart, climbing to No. 54 the following week and three weeks later, it was No. 1 and remained at the top position for five weeks. It spent"
"Jason Donovan Jason Sean Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap ""Neighbours"", before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records. His debut album ""Ten Good Reasons"" was the highest-selling album in the UK in 1989, with sales of over 1.5 million. He has had four UK No. 1 singles, one of which was ""Especially for You"", his 1988 duet with fellow ""Neighbours"" co-star Kylie Minogue. He has also appeared in several stage musicals, most prominently in the lead"
"which the popular characters Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell married. Mitchell's character was portrayed by pop singer, Kylie Minogue, who had issued her debut single in July as a cover version of ""Locomotion."" ""Locomotion"" was at number one on the Australian charts preventing ""Suddenly"" from reaching the top spot. ""Beats from a Single Drum"" had been planned as Anderson's debut solo release, but had initially been billed as a Rose Tattoo album due to contractual obligations; however, after the success of ""Suddenly"", it was re-released in 1988 as an Angry Anderson solo album. In November 1988, the single reached number"
"from the original. Australian 7"" vinyl Australian 12"" vinyl US 7"" vinyl Choirboys Production details Run to Paradise ""Run to Paradise"" is a single by Australian hard rock group The Choirboys which reached No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in October 1987. It was Australia's 11th highest selling single of the eighties. The related ""Big Bad Noise"" album peaked at No. 5, it went double platinum and ranked No. 21 for 1988 in Australia. In New Zealand, ""Run to Paradise"" attained No. 13 on the RIANZ Singles Chart. Released in the United States in 1989, it"
"Triple J Hottest 100, 2008 The 2008 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2009. It was the sixteenth countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station, Triple J. Voting commenced on Boxing Day, 26 December 2008, and closed on 18 January 2009. The second half of the countdown was broadcast live from Parramatta Park in New South Wales, with live crosses to the Big Day Out, held at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria. Over 800,000 votes were received, a record number. Note: Australian artists Four"
"Dannielle Gaha Dannielle Gaha DeAndrea, sometimes styled as Danni'elle, is an Australian singer-songwriter. She has toured and recorded with fellow Australian John Farnham; their 1989 duet, ""Communication"", peaked at number 13 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Singles Chart. When based in London from 1992 to 1993, she released three solo singles, ""Stuck in the Middle"", ""Do It for Love"", and ""Secret Love"" which appeared in the UK Singles Chart, and she is the first Australian artist to appear on the UK soul chart. As Sheets Afyre, she was part of singing duo The Nissan Cedrics, with Louise Anton,"
"Powderfinger Powderfinger were an Australian rock band formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their break-up in 2010 the line-up consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill. The group's third studio album ""Internationalist"" peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in September 1998. They followed with four more number-one studio albums in a row: ""Odyssey Number Five"" (September 2000), ""Vulture Street"" (July 2003), ""Dream Days at the Hotel Existence"" (June 2007), and ""Golden Rule"" (November 2009). Their Top Ten hit singles are ""My Happiness"" (2000),"
"Jeff St John Jeff St John (born Jeffrey Leo Newton; 22 April 1946 – 6 March 2018), was an Australian musician best known for several Australian hits, such as ""Teach Me How to Fly"" (1970), ""Big Time Operator"" (1967) and ""A Fool in Love"" (1977). St John was born Jeffrey Leo Newton on 22 April 1946, in Newtown, Sydney and attended Cleveland Street Boys High School in Surry Hills, New South Wales. He was born with spina bifida and spent much of his life in a wheelchair. St John appeared with a number of bands during the late 1960s and"
"1988) was met with enthusiasm in the Australian rock music media and the band's following single 'Rise' (April, 1989) was critically praised and reached # 35 on the ARIA charts. However, the band's commercial prospects didn't appear promising when the band's third single 'Love' (November, 1989) failed to chart. The band's debut album ""Friends, Foes and Firewood"" was released in 1990 and went triple platinum in sales, and reached No.1 on the Rolling Stone Album Chart. After six years and 261 shows, The Chosen Few did their final four concerts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre as the opening act on"
"Australiana (song) ""Australiana"" is a spoken-word comedy single by Austen Tayshus, written by Billy Birmingham and recorded live at The Comedy Store, Sydney, in 1983. It was only available on 12″. It is Australia's best-selling single ever and was the No. 1 single in Australia in 1983 for eight weeks, seven of them consecutive. The single was banned in Victoria for a week, due to the B-side ""The Comedy Commando"". This led to a gap between the record's first number one placing (15 August) and its seven-week run at the number one spot (5 September – 17 October). The single"