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.
#36 for 2003
#23 for 2004
#29 for 2005
#37 for 2003
#61 for 2008
#31 for 2009
#30 for 2005
#37 for 2000
#40 for 2001
#68 for 2007
#62 for 2008
#24 for 2004
#25 for 2004
#63 for 2008
#32 for 2009
#31 for 2002
#41 for 2001
#32 for 2002
#38 for 2000
#56 for 2006
#57 for 2006
#64 for 2008
#42 for 2001
#26 for 2004
#39 for 2000
#58 for 2006
#40 for 2000
#33 for 2002
#69 for 2007
#38 for 2003
#27 for 2004
#31 for 2005
#70 for 2007
#71 for 2007
#32 for 2005
Following the success of their earlier entry on this list, MGMT decided to release this track from their debut E.P from earlier in the decade as a single which helped it become a sleeper hit for them here in Australia. This was sadly the full extent of their success worldwide as their second album from 2010 bombed.
#59 for 2006
#65 for 2008
#33 for 2005
#60 for 2006
#61 for 2006
#41 for 2000
Before they were Disco Montego, this family duo went by Kaylan who scored a massive sleeper hit at the start of the 00's with this EDM track proving that the genre still had plenty of appeal left even if it was largely pushed aside in favour of all the teen pop of the moment. Naturally they would find further success once they rebranded themselves with their earlier entry on this list.
Although this didn't last very long in our top twenty like their earlier entry did, this was the big hit that Shakaya had during their brief time together likely due to it being one of many songs to subvert the Cinderella cliche of waiting around for something positive to happen in your life (something that hasn't happened in ANY version of the fairytale, but I digress.) It also showcases the girls at their best both as singers and rappers.
Here's the other big hit that Michelle Branch had here in Australia so soon after her first big hit, yeah it turns out that we Aussies were a bit iffy towards making her a household name even with the endorsement that Santana gave her with this collaboration back in the day. Again, I'm not sure why as Avril Lavigne and P!nk were able to find success around this time with little issue.
This is the final new entry from Fall out boy on this list, it was the third single from their breakthrough album Infinity on high which was only a success thanks to digital sales given how the album was already a massive success here by the time this had hit our store shelves.
This is the best proof I have that Pete Murray was a victim of illegal downloads during the first half of the decade as this second single from his sophomore album managed to stick around the lower half of our charts for quite some time thanks to its refusal to leave our digital charts back in the day.
This was barely a hit for Flo Rida and Will I am here in Australia, it makes the cut due to its refusal to die on our charts like every other entry on this list. It of course did much better in their homeland where the former was on a roll following his top entry on this list.
This was a minor hit for Jordin Sparks here in Australia as opposed to it being her second biggest hit over in NZ, it also means we've featured every song of hers to chart here in Australia on this side of my site given how she hasn't charted since her collaboration with Guy Sebastian.
#28 for 2004
#62 for 2006
Like many RNB songs from back in the day, this was very late to the party here in Australia as it didn't see the light of day here until it had dropped off the charts in NZ and the trio's native America. I guess we checked it out to see what all the fuss was about, however we clearly weren’t impressed with its gimmick of repeating words at the end of each sentence like the rest of the world was.
It looks like Christine Anu was able to score a second hit here in Australia, this time it's with her cover of a track from Zoe from 1991 which makes this a rare example of an Australian taking an international hit that bombed here and finding success with it. This is also another example of a song I couldn't sworn was one of the biggest hits of its time and yet it appears so low on this list.
23 weeks
#34 for 2002
#39 for 2003
#33 for 2009
#63 for 2006
#66 for 2008
#34 for 2005
#64 for 2006
#29 for 2004
#42 for 2000
#35 for 2002
#43 for 2000
#43 for 2001
#30 for 2004
#35 for 2005
#44 for 2000
#44 for 2001
#40 for 2003
#31 for 2004
#41 for 2003
#67 for 2008
#36 for 2002
#36 for 2005
#32 for 2004
#34 for 2009
#42 for 2003
#37 for 2002
#37 for 2005
#35 for 2009
#45 for 2000
#38 for 2005
#65 for 2006
#72 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
#36 for 2009
#39 for 2002
#37 for 2009
#34 for 2004
#49 for 2000
#50 for 2000
#73 for 2007
#68 for 2008
#69 for 2008
#74 for 2007
#47 for 2001
#48 for 2001
#67 for 2006
#35 for 2004
#43 for 2003
Well, this is awkward, mainly because I'm featuring a song from a trans woman years prior to her transition but also due to her involvement with Shawn Mendes a decade after her initial breakthrough. Nowadays Teddy is more famous for her work with Shawn than her own material.
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.
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