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.
#36 for 2005
#32 for 2004
#42 for 2003
#37 for 2002
#37 for 2005
#45 for 2000
#38 for 2005
#65 for 2006
#70 for 2007
#39 for 2005
#45 for 2001
#38 for 2002
#46 for 2000
#66 for 2006
#47 for 2000
#46 for 2001
#33 for 2004
#48 for 2000
#40 for 2005
#39 for 2002
#34 for 2004
#49 for 2000
#50 for 2000
#71 for 2007
#67 for 2008
#68 for 2008
#72 for 2007
#47 for 2001
#48 for 2001
#67 for 2006
#35 for 2004
#43 for 2003
I'm a bit surprised this wasn't a mainstream success here given how much the radio loved to flog this track back in the day, although the fact that it stuck around as long as it did is an indication it was somewhat a victim of digital piracy back in the day. Paul Mac is best known as being one half of the Dissociatives which was a project he had with Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns.
#44 for 2003
I'm willing to be that many of you are surprised to see this on my site rather than "Sandstorm" which is the song most people affiliate with Finish DJ Darude even to this day, that song was unfortunately a flop for him down under even though it seemed like a shoe in for success during the final months of the 90's when it was released. I guess this being a sleeper hit here was our way of making up for our initial blunder with that song.
Nelly was on such a roll around the turn of the millennium that he managed to score a major sleeper hit here in Australia with his posse group St lunatics much like how Eminem propelled the popularity of his posse D12. I guess in order to let people know this was his group, he was given a featured credit on the track which did wonders for him down under and virtually nowhere else in the world.
There weren't many popular British girl groups who managed to find international success outside of their homeland throughout the 00's, one of the lucky few was Girl thing who was able to translate the success of their one and only UK hit over here to Australia albeit as a sleeper hit at the start of the 00's. Naturally they went their separate ways when they failed to score a second hit in either country.
Robbie was on a roll when he released the second single from his album Intensive care given how this is another single that only barely failed to appear on one of my lists due to it being more of a sleeper hit for the British singer/songwriter here in Australia than a mainstream success. It would be all downhill from here for him as his next album would see him embarking with hip hop.
#51 for 2000
One more song to feature on this list that I vividly remember from back in the day, although considering this was the song that finally got Thirsty Merc's album off the ground here, I guess it makes sense it was only a sleeper hit given how we Aussies likely would've passed up this radio favourite in favour of making the album a huge success for the band.
Well, this is definitely a song whose absence on this site has been felt up until now, it gives me great pleasure that I can finally feature the debut single from the Killers on this list given how I remember this being completely inescapable back in the day despite its failure to compete with the Australian idol phenomenon here in Australia. This also barely failed to appear on the NZ side of my site, proving it was in fact overlooked back in the day.
22 weeks
#45 for 2003
#36 for 2004
#41 for 2005
#37 for 2004
#42 for 2005
#38 for 2004
#43 for 2005
#52 for 2000
#73 for 2007
#44 for 2005
#53 for 2000
#64 for 1999
#54 for 2000
#55 for 2000
#46 for 2003
#45 for 2005
#39 for 2004
#40 for 2002
#46 for 2005
#68 for 2006
#74 for 2007
#75 for 2007
#47 for 2005
#56 for 2000
#48 for 2005
#47 for 2003
#40 for 2004
#57 for 2000
#49 for 2005
#41 for 2004
#66 for 1999
#58 for 2000
#49 for 2001
#59 for 2000
#76 for 2007
#69 for 2008
#50 for 2001
#42 for 2004
#60 for 2000
#50 for 2005
#51 for 2005
#77 for 2007
#43 for 2004
#44 for 2004
#51 for 2001
#69 for 2006
#70 for 2006
#71 for 2006
#52 for 2005
#53 for 2005
#45 for 2004
#72 for 2006
Even though he didn't win in his season of Popstars Australia, that didn't prevent Selwyn from finding success with his debut single back in the day albeit as a sleeper hit given how this really struggled to crack our top twenty upon its initial release. In all honesty, I'm surprised that "Way loves supposed to be" wasn't his magnum opus here as that felt like his signature track back in the day.
#54 for 2005
This is the only other hit that Mis teeq had here in Australia and indeed outside of their native UK as for whatever reason, they couldn't compete with the likes of Atomic kitten or the Sugababes when it came to British girl groups of the 00's internationally. At least they managed to rack up the hits in their native UK before they went their separate ways in the midpoint of the 00's.
#78 for 2007
#79 for 2007
I debated on if I could include both of these songs on this list as technically, they were separate chart entries even if the former was deleted from the chart the week the latter was released, in the end I've decided to allow them on here since ARIA insists on counting this as a two for one deal even if that wasn't the case originally. In any case, the former is the song which helped Michael's self-titled album finally take off here in Australia given how catchy it is even outside of the swing revival genre whilst the latter is a swing cover of the Spider man theme which was included in the Spiderman 2 soundtrack and was only a success here in Australia.
#80 for 2007
#81 for 2007
#48 for 2003
#73 for 2006
#55 for 2005
#41 for 2002
This is the final new entry on this list (at least on this side of my site) it was the first hit that Pharrell had as a lead vocalist here in Australia given how he had already made his mark on the chorus to Snoop Dogg's "Beautiful" the year prior to when this came out. It's another song that was pushed aside here in Australia for all the reality show contestant’s Australian idol launched into our music industry.
21 weeks
#42 for 2002
#52 for 2001
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