Well time for me to round out these lists based on how long a song charted here in Australia, although this time I’m only going as far as early 2009 and will be using the physical charts from 2006 onwards given how entries from that year onward lasted indefinitely on the charts and that ARIA reduced their physical charts to a top fifty in mid-2009 (that and 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.
There was this weird trend in 2000 where a song would debut high and then retreat to the lower half of our charts soon after, this is one of those songs which is weird as it's the third single from Killing Heidi's debut album (technically fourth as "Leave me alone" was bundled with "Mascara.") Although this was the band's final hit here, they did achieve minor success with their next two albums.
#58 for 2002
#64 for 2004
#75 for 2000
#72 for 2005
#73 for 2005
#66 for 2001
I did mention this was a modest hit here in Australia back in the day when I featured it on the NZ side of my site, I should elaborate in that it was a big sleeper hit here even though both JoJo and Bow wow managed to achieve success prior to this song's release here. Heck it was even released on time over here, further proving that tardiness is a good way of finding success in the southern hemisphere.
#74 for 2005
#75 for 2005
#82 for 2006
#59 for 2002
#65 for 2004
I'm guessing we Aussies didn't quite appreciate this cover of the Samantha Sang classic as much as the kiwis did given how it was among the trio's least successful songs in their catalogue here, although there did seem to be enough nostalgia for the original for this to be a sleeper hit for them here regardless of what the fanboys of the original had to say back in the day.
These guys were on a roll when they released their third single as Disco Montego as this managed to stick around for quite some time back in the day even if the absence of vocalist Katie Underwood is felt on here, unfortunately it appears that's what it took for their audience to abandon them after the fact as they failed to score any further success once this fell off the charts.
We have another sleeper hit for this list that I feel was as such due to it coming off as a guilty pleasure for us Aussies rather than out of genuine enjoyment for the song in question, although it appears the kiwis were more in love with this track unironically given its placement on that side of my site. With this entry, I've officially evened out Chingy's representation on both sides of my site.
I guess we Aussies weren't as kind towards Shania Twain's third international album as the kiwis were given how this was only a sleeper hit here despite being another entry on this list that debuted high on our charts. At least this was an eventual success here which is more than I can say for any of the other tracks from the album, I guess that explains her fifteen-year hiatus she took after making the album.
Well, I did mention this was a sleeper hit here in Australia, naturally it would make this list even though I'm still shocked that it didn't make my 2004 list proper on this side of my site. I guess we didn't have that much room for emo rock for it to compete with all the Australian idol contestants when it first came out otherwise it would've seen some level of mainstream success with us Aussies.
#76 for 2005
This was the only hit that Danish duo Junior senior was able to achieve here in Australia given how incessantly catchy the song remains to this day, indeed it was due to its catchiness that it found itself in just about every commercial you can think of which only lengthened its presence on our charts long after its initial release here.
Yet another song I'm dumbstruck wasn't more of a mainstream success here in Australia given how vividly I remember this being flogged on our radio; I've avoided bringing up digital piracy with the new entries on this list as the fact they stuck around for quite some time suggests that they were victims of the format change here back in the day. Still, it's hard to come up with another explanation as to why they underperformed.
#77 for 2005
19 weeks
#67 for 2001
#68 for 2001
#66 for 2004
#78 for 2005
#69 for 2001
#67 for 2003
#67 for 2004
#76 for 2000
#60 for 2002
#68 for 2003
#69 for 2003
#68 for 2004
#61 for 2002
#79 for 2005
#62 for 2002
#77 for 2000
#78 for 2000
#79 for 2000
#80 for 2000
#63 for 2002
#64 for 2002
#70 for 2001
#70 for 2003
#69 for 2004
#80 for 2005
#81 for 2005
#71 for 2003
#72 for 2003
#65 for 2002
#73 for 2003
#74 for 2003
#71 for 2001
#70 for 2004
#75 for 2003
#71 for 2004
#66 for 2002
#72 for 2001
#83 for 2006
#67 for 2002
#82 for 2005
I debated on whether this was a fan single given how quickly it fell off our charts upon its initial release, however I granted it mercy as it's the final taste of success that MJ had in his lifetime even if many like to pretend that his final hit was with "Blood on the dance floor" from four years prior.
#81 for 2000
#73 for 2001
#72 for 2004
#83 for 2005
#73 for 2004
#76 for 2003
#68 for 2002
#74 for 2001
#69 for 2002
#77 for 2003
#84 for 2006
To think this parody of the Angels classic from 1976 was as successful as the live recording of that song from 1988, then again, we Aussies in the mid 00's didn't seem particularly interested in finding the new timeless classic given how this doesn't feel too much out of the ordinary when going through the charts back then. In case you're wondering, Reg Reagan was the alter ego of a football star Matty Johns.
#87 for 2007
#74 for 2004
Although it did come close to making this list, I consider "I begin to wonder" to be too much of a fan single for it to be worth featuring on this list. The same isn't the case for Dannii Minogue's final hit as it lasted for quite some time on our charts due to how much catchier it was then that other single.
#75 for 2004
This top twenty hit in Australia happens to come from a group of literal plastic dolls given how the creators of the Bratz brand decided to make their equivalent of "Barbie girl" for the dolls (side note whatever happened to these dolls?) Naturally we Aussies made this a success, although it appears there were fewer teenage girls with disposable income than usual as this was a mere sleeper hit down under.
18 weeks
#78 for 2003
#75 for 2001
#76 for 2001
#76 for 2004
#82 for 2000
#84 for 2005
#77 for 2004
#83 for 2000
#77 for 2001
#84 for 2000
#78 for 2004
#70 for 2002
#78 for 2001
#79 for 2003
#85 for 2005
#85 for 2006
#80 for 2003
#71 for 2002
#86 for 2006
Here we have a less controversial James from the UK scoring a massive worldwide hit with a folk ballad, in this case it's James Morrison who made it big with this ballad that would've appeared on the list proper had I allowed the stats from our digital charts to factor in the rankings for this list. It was one of the first songs to make it big down under thanks to the help of legal digital downloads.
This is the final hit that George Michael had in his lifetime, it was the lead single to his final album Patience as well as another victim of the high amount of Australian idol contestants of 2004 which pushed aside everything in the mainstream in favour of the show’s monopoly on our charts.
#79 for 2001
#86 for 2005
#87 for 2005
#79 for 2004
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