Hits of Australia and NZ: July 2024

Well time for me to round out these lists based on how long a song charted here in Australia, although I'll be using the physical charts from 2006 onwards given how entries from that year onward lasted indefinitely on the charts. That said ARIA reduced their physical charts to a top fifty in mid-2009, meaning entries from 2009 will be lower on here than they probably deserve to be (bearing in mind that David Kent only produced a top twenty chart for his books following the discontinuation of the AMR charts in 1999.) If I didn’t do this, then the top half of this list would be dominated with entries from 2006 onwards which I feel isn’t fair for the first half of the decade.

#93 for 2000

#63 for 2009

#96 for 2005

#64 for 2009

#91 for 2004

#92 for 2004

#94 for 2003

#86 for 2002

#95 for 2003

#93 for 2004

#87 for 2002

#96 for 2003

#65 for 2009

#97 for 2003

#88 for 2001

#89 for 2001

#98 for 2003

#99 for 2003

14 weeks

#92 for 2007

#75 for 2008

#94 for 2000

#94 for 2004

#97 for 2005

#98 for 2005

#88 for 2002

#99 for 2005

#89 for 2002

#90 for 2001

#91 for 2001

#95 for 2000

#66 for 2009

#90 for 2002

#92 for 2001

#91 for 2002

#95 for 2004

13 weeks

#93 for 2001

#96 for 2004

#100 for 2005

#96 for 2000

#92 for 2002

#97 for 2004

This briefly scrapped our top ten just as the decade was coming to an end, I guess this was our way of letting the Script know that they were in for massive success throughout the 2010's here in Australia which proved to be the case given how their next three albums did very well down under.

#94 for 2001

I'm sort of cheating with this entry as this is by all accounts what I would consider to be a "fan single," however it racked up quite impressive sales during the short amount of time it was available as a single here in Australia, hence why I'm including it on here despite having a pitiful chart run.

12 weeks

#98 for 2004

#67 for 2009

We have our first new entry on this list, yeah, I've decided to include songs that nearly made the cut on my official lists here but didn't due to all of the "fan singles" that pushed them aside on both ARIA and AMR back in the day. Anyways we have this single from the 2000 Olympics that the 12th man released which went over really well with his fellow Aussies upon its initial release.