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

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.

#47 for 2007

#48 for 2007

#46 for 2008

#35 for 2006

#49 for 2007

#21 for 2001

#47 for 2008

I don't know why this was only relegated as a sleeper hit here in Australia given how well Lenny Kravitz did down under throughout the 90's, heck I'm willing to bet this only stuck around as long as it did on our charts due to the success of his greatest hits package this serves as a bonus track on.

27 weeks

#21 for 2000

#15 for 2005

#9 for 2004

#36 for 2006

#37 for 2006

#10 for 2004

#16 for 2005

#11 for 2004

#30 for 1999

#22 for 2000

#15 for 2003

#12 for 2004

#16 for 2002

#13 for 2004

#17 for 2005

#22 for 2001

#17 for 2002

#23 for 2001

#38 for 2006

#50 for 2007

#48 for 2008

#18 for 2005

#39 for 2006

#16 for 2003

#49 for 2008

#40 for 2006

#51 for 2007

#52 for 2007

#24 for 2001

#18 for 2002

#41 for 2006

#53 for 2007

#17 for 2003

#18 for 2003

#54 for 2007

#23 for 2000

#25 for 2001

These guys were pretty huge on the airwaves throughout the decade here in Australia, so much so that it's less of a surprise that this is on here and more that none of their other tracks from the 00's are as they were very likely flops due to having their success eaten up by illegal downloads which wasn't the case for this track.

#55 for 2007

#50 for 2008

It did feel weird that this failed to appear on one of my lists given how I remember this being everywhere back in the day, although I guess this was the introduction to one of the most successful emo bands of the 00's (at least here in Australia) with a song that's about taking the rich and famous down a peg or two. I guess in retrospect this song is hypocritical given what these guys would achieve in their career.

This was the first hit that Gym class heroes had in their career, mainly due to it sampling "Breakfast in America" from Supertramp likely to help them establish a fanbase through the nostalgia circuit that was becoming increasingly popular around the time the digital age began taking over the mainstream worldwide. Lyrically this makes sense given how both songs are about the narrator finding their girlfriend to be mediocre for them.

#56 for 2007

It's a bit weird that this was only a sleeper hit here in Australia given how vividly I remember hearing this getting overplayed on the radio back in the day, admittedly it was a bigger hit here than Sonique's international hit "It feels so good" (stay tuned for that in a bit) and is second only to her appearance on "Theme from S'express" from over a decade prior as the biggest hit of her career down under.

#42 for 2006

26 weeks

#19 for 2002

#20 for 2002

#26 for 2001

#43 for 2006

#21 for 2002

#19 for 2003

#20 for 2003

#14 for 2004

#15 for 2004

#19 for 2005

#51 for 2008

#43 for 1999

#24 for 2000

#20 for 2005

#44 for 2006

#27 for 2001

#22 for 2002

#57 for 2007

#52 for 2008

#16 for 2004

#21 for 2005

#25 for 2000

#28 for 2001

#45 for 2006

#46 for 2006

#58 for 2007

#21 for 2003

#26 for 2000

#47 for 2006

#59 for 2007

#53 for 2008

#22 for 2003

#27 for 2000

#23 for 2003

#28 for 2000

#17 for 2004

#29 for 2001

#18 for 2004

#54 for 2008

#30 for 2001

#31 for 2001

#24 for 2003

#25 for 2003

#26 for 2003

#60 for 2007

These guys are best known for their big hit in their native America "I believe," however five years later they scored a huge sleeper hit here in Australia with this gem making it one of the first hits going into the 00's here. I'm not sure why we gravitated towards this and not their big American hit given how they both sound similar to each other and have the same spiritual lyricism to boot.

#22 for 2005

#27 for 2003

#48 for 2006

#61 for 2007

#32 for 2001

You better believe this was a sleeper hit here in Australia back in the day, I guess we Aussies and kiwis were bigger fans of Growing pains than the rest of the world given how the son of Alan Thicke managed to score a massive success in the southern hemisphere despite this being a massive flop in the northern hemisphere back in the day.

#55 for 2008

#28 for 2003

We're finally getting some representation from Michelle Branch on this side of my site as both entries she had on the NZ side of my site managed to be huge sleeper hits here in Australia for her back in the day. I'm genuinely shocked this wasn't a mainstream success here like it was in NZ and her native America given how perfectly it fitted in with the music landscape we Aussies cultivated at the time of its release.

As far as we Aussies are concerned, this was the third single from Robbie's third album Sing when you're winning and not "Better man" from way earlier on this list. As such, we had a bit of a mixed reaction when this song came out as it succeeded "Kids" which meant that his attempts at being hip weren't as passe to us as I'm sure it was for the kiwis and his fellow Brits but was still jarring regardless.

25 weeks