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.
#52 for 2009
#85 for 2000
#79 for 2004
#70 for 2002
#78 for 2001
#53 for 2009
#54 for 2009
#79 for 2003
#86 for 2005
#86 for 2006
#80 for 2003
#71 for 2002
#87 for 2006
Here we have a less controversial James from the UK scoring a massive worldwide hit with a folk ballad, in this case it's James Morrison who made it big with this ballad that would've appeared on the list proper had I allowed the stats from our digital charts to factor in the rankings for this list. It was one of the first songs to make it big down under thanks to the help of legal digital downloads.
This is the final hit that George Michael had in his lifetime, it was the lead single to his final album Patience as well as another victim of the high amount of Australian idol contestants of 2004 which pushed aside everything in the mainstream in favour of the show’s monopoly on our charts.
#79 for 2001
#87 for 2005
#88 for 2005
#80 for 2004
#72 for 2002
#80 for 2001
#88 for 2006
#73 for 2002
#89 for 2005
#90 for 2005
This feels more in line with Jewel's 90's material following the bizarre turn she made with "Intuition" from earlier on this list, although we Aussies were on board with her venture towards pop music at least with the album's singles as this too managed to linger around for quite some time on our charts due to strong radio play. Sadly, this would be the final hit she had anywhere in the world due to alienating her fanbase.
#81 for 2003
#81 for 2004
Oh look, another song that debuted high on our charts but only became a success due to lingering on the lower half of our charts for quite some time. This time it's the first of two songs Kylie released from her greatest hits package from 2004 which remains the final project she's released to date to find any sort of success, although this does feel like a missing track from her (then) most recent album Body language.
#86 for 2000
From what I can gather, Riva is an alias for the Dutch duo Chocolate puma who only scored success under this pseudonym with this collaboration with Dannii Minogue. This was sort of a comeback for Dannii given how she hadn't troubled the charts since "All I wanna do" from four years prior and would go on to have a string of minor hits off her next album worldwide.
#82 for 2004
Before he became a throwback artist in the swing jazz revival, David Campbell fancied himself as a teen heartthrob and began his music career with this track that did decently well here in Australia. Even though he's quite a good-looking man (certainly more so than his father Jimmy Barnes) he didn't win over a teenage audience and wouldn't win over their mothers until he rebranded himself in 2006.
#91 for 2005
17 weeks
#90 for 2007
#81 for 2001
#82 for 2003
#92 for 2005
#74 for 2002
#93 for 2005
#87 for 2000
#83 for 2004
#83 for 2003
#75 for 2002
#55 for 2009
#82 for 2001
#84 for 2003
#88 for 2000
#83 for 2001
#84 for 2004
This was the final hit that U2 had here in Australia, at least one I wouldn't consider a "fan hit" as "The saints are coming" with Green day quickly dropped off our charts here that I consider that to be as such. In any case, this was the lead single to their grammy winning album How to dismantle an atomic bomb which proved how well loved they were both critically and commercially in the mid 00's.
#76 for 2002
#77 for 2002
#89 for 2006
#85 for 2003
#78 for 2002
#79 for 2002
#86 for 2003
#87 for 2003
#85 for 2004
#89 for 2000
#90 for 2006
#86 for 2004
#88 for 2003
#56 for 2009
Oh, Britney you naughty girl, titling your track about how much you want to be the sexual desire of your target audience. It appears the world were a bit turned off by this track as it was only a minor sleeper hit here in Australia and flopped in most other parts internationally, however it did fairly well in her homeland.
This came off of RHCP's greatest hits package from 2003, meaning that it was bound to have some level of success here in Australia given how inescapable that album was back in the day. Normally a band or artist would struggle to retain their popularity after such a release, not so for these guys as their next album was a massive worldwide success for them.
#94 for 2005
#90 for 2000
16 weeks
#80 for 2002
#84 for 2001
#81 for 2002
#85 for 2001
#57 for 2009
This was initially released to deafening silence here in Australia due to Triple J failing to make these guys the next new thing (it even failed to appear on their 2008-year end list.) Somehow it managed to become a surprise hit throughout Europe and even in the UK which allowed it to get a second chance here following the success of their debut album.
#58 for 2009
#86 for 2001
#59 for 2009
#87 for 2004
#60 for 2009
#61 for 2009
#91 for 2000
#88 for 2004
#82 for 2002
#89 for 2004
#83 for 2002
#62 for 2009
#91 for 2006
#87 for 2001
#89 for 2003
#95 for 2005
#90 for 2003
#92 for 2000
You better believe Soulja boy wasn't a one hit wonder here in Australia, although he nearly was as this struggled to find an audience amongst us Aussies given how much of a novelty his earlier entry was back in the day. Naturally this was a far bigger hit for the rapper in NZ and his native America.
#91 for 2003
#92 for 2003
#84 for 2002
And we're still seeing new entries from Hilary Duff on this list of mine, this is the second single from her second album which got lost in the shuffle back in the day due to her acting career taking off when it saw the light of day. Admittedly it was becoming uncool to like Hilary Duff here in Australia due to her Disney connections as well as her take on a Belinda Carlisle classic rubbing people the wrong way.
#85 for 2002
#91 for 2007
We finally have an entry from Busta rhymes on this side of my site that isn't an RNB ballad, although I don't know how we Aussies came across this number from the rapper given how it was a massive flop for him in NZ and his native America at the time of its release. Still at least we can truthfully say that we're aware of the true talents he has to display with this entry.
15 weeks
#93 for 2003
#90 for 2004
