Hits of Australia and NZ: Hits in Australia 00's I

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.

50 weeks

#1 for 2006

49 weeks

#1 for 2007

48 weeks

#2 for 2006

#2 for 2007

#1 for 2001

46 weeks

#3 for 2006

#3 for 2007

42 weeks

#1 for 2008

#3 for 1999

#1 for 2000

41 weeks

#4 for 2006

#2 for 2008

There weren't a lot of successful Australian shows geared towards children since the turn of the millennium, one of the lucky success stories was the Saddle club which ran from 2001-2009 which follows a group of country girls from down under and their adventures with their pet horses (look I didn't watch this back in the day, so I'm totally assuming this was what the show was about.) This was the theme song to the series which was a surprise sleeper success here likely due to the show’s popularity.

40 weeks

#4 for 2007

#5 for 2007

39 weeks

#3 for 2008

#1 for 2003

#4 for 1999

#2 for 2000

#6 for 2007

#4 for 2008

38 weeks

#7 for 2007

#5 for 2008

This is our final new entry on this list as well as the final new entry for my blog until I come up with new ideas for it in the future, it's the debut single from the Fray which was too much of a sleeper hit to qualify for my 2006 list and indeed only made the cut for this list due to lingering in the top twenty for the digital charts for quite some time due to the success of their top entry on this list.

#2 for 2001

#1 for 2002

#2 for 2003

I did mention on the NZ side of this site that this was a sleeper hit here in Australia, that was certainly the case as despite it barely cracking our top twenty back in the day, it managed to become one of the bigger hits at the turn of the millennium largely due to the surprise success this achieved in Lonestar's native America.

37 weeks

#6 for 2008

#5 for 2006

#8 for 2007

#6 for 2006

#7 for 2008

#8 for 2008

#9 for 2008

36 weeks

#7 for 2006

#9 for 2007

#3 for 2001

#8 for 2006

#10 for 2008

#2 for 2002

#10 for 2007

#11 for 2008

#12 for 2008

#11 for 2007

#12 for 2007

#13 for 2008

#13 for 2007

#9 for 2006

#14 for 2007

#10 for 2006

#15 for 2007

#1 for 2004

#14 for 2008

#15 for 2008

35 weeks

#16 for 2007

#16 for 2008

#11 for 2006

#12 for 2006

#17 for 2007

#1 for 2005

#13 for 2006

#18 for 2007

#17 for 2008

#18 for 2008

#14 for 2006

#19 for 2007

#20 for 2007

#3 for 2000

#15 for 2006

#4 for 2001

#21 for 2007

34 weeks

#10 for 1999

#4 for 2000

#22 for 2007

#19 for 2008

#16 for 2006

#2 for 2005

#17 for 2006

#23 for 2007

#5 for 2001

#3 for 2002

#5 for 2000

#18 for 2006

#24 for 2007

#3 for 2005

#6 for 2000

#25 for 2007

Well, this was the song which made Powderfinger the household name they would become throughout the 00's, like I said on the NZ side of my site, this debuted really high on our charts only to retreat to the lower half of our charts shortly after its release likely in favour of strong album sales from Odyssey no 5. To this day, this remains a staple not just on the radio but in every commercial you can conceive down under.

#7 for 2000

#19 for 2006

Much like Jet's new entry from earlier on this list, this is also a song I wasn't expecting to place on here given how it seemed to be allergic to the upper regions of our charts back in the day. Alas, this lead single to the breakthrough album of John Butler trio did appeal to our alternative scene back in the day, hence why it managed to stick around for quite some time on our charts.

This was one of those songs that was overplayed to death back in the day, so I'm a bit shocked that it wasn't a mainstream success here and was likely only as big as it was on the lower half of our charts due to the strong airplay and not so many people liking it. I guess if digital datal existed when it came out, I can definitively diagnose how this was a hit for Ben Lee.