APRA_Top_30_Australian_songs

APRA Top 30 Australian songs

APRA Top 30 Australian songs

Song list created by the Australian Performing Right Association

APRA's Top 30 Australian songs was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001, to celebrate its 75th anniversary.[1] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years". The top ten songs, in numerical order, were announced on 28 May 2001 at the APRA Awards.[1] The next twenty were not ordered and had been released nearly four weeks earlier, on 2 May, in a media statement by APRA representative Debbie Kruger.[2]

At the 2001 APRA Awards ceremony You Am I performed the No. 1 listed song "Friday on My Mind" with Harry Vanda of The Easybeats guesting on guitar. Ross Wilson of Daddy Cool performed the No. 2 listed song "Eagle Rock", while Midnight Oil's "Beds are Burning" at No. 3 was shown on video introduced by Senator Aden Ridgeway as an Indigenous spokesperson on reconciliation.[1]

Top Ten songs

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The remaining 20 songs

Listed in chronological order:

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Culnane, Paul (28 May 2001). "The final list: APRA'S Ten best Australian Songs". Australasian Performing Right Association. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2008.
  2. [2]
    Kruger, Debbie (2 May 2001). "The songs that resonate through the years". APRA. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2007.
  3. [3]
    Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  4. [4]
    "Australian Charts portal". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
  5. [5]
    "New Zealand charts portal". charts.nz. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
  6. [6]
    Jenkins, Jeff; Ian Meldrum (2007). "The Easybeats". Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia. Melbourne, Vic.: Wilkinson Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-921332-11-1. Retrieved 27 October 2008.
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