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.
50 weeks
#1 for 2006
#1 for 2009
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
#2 for 2009
#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
#3 for 2009
#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
#4 for 2009
#7 for 2008
#5 for 2009
#8 for 2008
I told you these two songs were equally as big as each other, although admittedly this also rebounded on our charts when the duo won a bunch of ARIA awards from the album much like their earlier entry on this list.
#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
#6 for 2009
#1 for 2004
#14 for 2008
This was somewhat overshadowed back in the day given how it was released around the time John Butler trio won a bunch of ARIAs for their album Grand national, this meant that this had to compete with a live performance of their earlier entry on this list which was released as a digital single.
#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
#7 for 2009
#3 for 2000
#15 for 2006
#4 for 2001
#21 for 2007
We have a second appearance from the Saddle club on this list of mine, this time it's their two for one deal of "Undercover movers and shakers" and "Boogie oogie oogie" (the latter a cover of the Taste of honey classic) which stuck around forever in a day on our charts. This was the last hit single the girls on the show had, however the show itself would remain on the air for many years.
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.
#20 for 2008
33 weeks
#8 for 2000
#6 for 2001
#7 for 2001
#4 for 2002
#3 for 2003
#4 for 2005
#9 for 2000
#26 for 2007
#21 for 2008
#8 for 2009
#5 for 2005
#22 for 2008
#23 for 2008
#8 for 2001
#24 for 2008
This is the other big hit that Dizzee rascal had here in Australia, although this time he teams up with Calvin Harris who managed to score his first hit not just as the producer but also as a featured artist who provide the chorus for the British rapper. Needless to say, that Calvin was the one who benefitted the most from this collaboration.
#25 for 2008
This was the only hit that T pain had here in Australia throughout the 00's, it would've been his only hit were it not for the fact he scored a surprise hit in 2012 with "Turn all the lights on." Both of these were sleeper hits for the rappers, suggesting we Aussies only paid attention to them due to their success in America.
32 weeks
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