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

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.

#5 for 2002

#4 for 2003

#27 for 2007

#5 for 2003

#9 for 2001

#6 for 2002

#7 for 2002

#6 for 2003

#26 for 2008

#9 for 2009

#27 for 2008

#10 for 2000

#10 for 2009

#11 for 2000

#12 for 2000

#28 for 2008

#11 for 2009

#6 for 2005

#29 for 2008

#20 for 2006

#21 for 2006

#30 for 2008

#28 for 2007

I did mention that this was a minor sleeper hit here in Australia on the NZ side of my site, indeed it was as it came very close to cracking our top twenty back in the day but was unable to due to the stiff competition it had not just with the indie scene of the day but also Australian idol's dominance on our charts.

This is another entry that I'm surprised didn't spend too long in the upper echelons of our charts, although at least the popularity of this single allowed the album it came from to be a massive success here which is more than I can say for the previous entry on this list. That and the fact that its success in NZ is a better representation of its popularity here in Australia as far as airplay is concerned.

31 weeks

#7 for 2003

#31 for 2008

#32 for 2008

#29 for 2007

#33 for 2008

#22 for 2006

#30 for 2007

#13 for 2000

#10 for 2001

#23 for 2006

#2 for 2004

#7 for 2005

#8 for 2005

#14 for 2000

This is the first entry on this list was a hit mainly due to its refusal to die on our digital charts, even then it was technically a hit twice as it was a sleeper hit upon its initial release and rebounded when it and the album it came from won a bunch of ARIA awards.

#12 for 2009

#3 for 2004

#34 for 2008

#8 for 2002

#35 for 2008

#36 for 2008

#37 for 2008

#11 for 2001

#24 for 2006

#31 for 2007

#15 for 2000

#32 for 2007

While this wasn't a mainstream success for Duffy here in Australia like it was in NZ and her native UK, this did last for quite some time on the lower half of our charts due to how big her album was during the last stretch of the decade.

#33 for 2007

#16 for 2000

While this was a modest success for everyone involved upon its initial release here in Australia, it manages to stick around for quite some time on the lower half of our charts due to the success of Timbaland’s earlier entries on this keeping his name alive in our music scene.

This was the song that broke Evermore through into the Australian market given how their fellow kiwis largely ignored them back in the day even though NZ idol wasn't anywhere near as intrusive with their mainstream as what Australian idol was for ours. Indeed, I feel this would've been as big as their two hits from their second album here were it not for the reality show clogging up our charts when it came out.

It looks like Stacie Orrico was able to score one more hit in her career here in Australia before she faded into irrelevancy, although interestingly this came from her final album which was released the same time as JoJo’s final album in the mid 00's.

#34 for 2007

30 weeks

#17 for 2000

#12 for 2001

#9 for 2002

#38 for 2008

#13 for 2009

#35 for 2007

#36 for 2007

#37 for 2007

#10 for 2002

#38 for 2007

#39 for 2008

#40 for 2008

#4 for 2004

#11 for 2002

#13 for 2001

#12 for 2002

#39 for 2007

#5 for 2004

#9 for 2005

It's easy to forget given how he's an Oscar winning actor, however Jared Leto managed to score a huge sleeper hit back in the day with his band 30 seconds to mars with this emo track. It's another example of an emo track making it big with the digital crowd as it was a huge bomb on our physical charts.

#41 for 2008

I'm not that familiar with Meet the Robinsons, mainly because I was in my mid-teens when it came out and thus, into my anti Disney phase brought upon by being an edgy teenager of the 00's (I'm anti Disney now for completely different reasons.) I'm not sure how good the film is; however, it appears its theme song was a modest sleeper hit for Rob Thomas here in Australia given how long it charted for.

Well, I didn't think I'd be including this divisive song on this list given how it struggled to crack the top twenty on ARIA upon its initial release, such is the advantage of the Oz music charts as they combined took into account how this nearly cracked the AMR top ten which allowed it a placement on this list of mine. The only other thing I have to say about this debut single from Jet is that contrary to popular belief, it wasn't created specifically to sell iPods as it existed a year prior to when Apple used this as its theme song.

I debated about including this entry as the original version of this track was a huge flop here in Australia and the remix is what I would consider to be a "fan single," I guess I allowed both versions to appear on here as one entry given how I've since combined both versions of "I'm real" for these lists and felt it was necessary to do the same here.

James Blunt did do far better on our digital charts than he did on the physical charts, so it only makes sense that this would be a bigger hit in NZ than it was here in Australia as the kiwis had prioritised the digital charts over their physical charts back in the day.

Of the eight albums I've featured from Michael Bublé on this site, three of them managed to spawn a hit for him here in Australia as this was the big hit he had from Call me irresponsible which likely would've been even bigger were it not for the competition from rock tracks upon its release.