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The description under the original video says - "This is a list of the commercially most successful '80s songs by artists from Australia and New Zealand". You would have to ask the creator of the video if you want to know more.
@@nobbynobbynoob The only hits Jason had were the ones he did with Kylie. From this video, you would think he was a successful artist in Australia. He wasn't. All the other Artists were successful, and some were successful around the world. Oddly, they included all the Jason Donovan songs that were not hits. Very odd. He might have had four number ones in England but not in Australia. And this is supposed to be a video of the Top Australian Hit songs of the eighties.
Actually, Jason Donovan did have at least 5 Top 40 hits in the late 80's that I definitely remember hearing on the Australian Top 40 on the radio every Saturday night, with Barry Bissell. Too Many Broken Hearts, Nothing Can Divide Us, Sealed with a Kiss, Rythm of the Rain, and the duet he did with Kylie, Especially For You. And he had lots more hits in the UK, if anyone has ever watched the Netflix documentary on Stock, Aitken and Waterman and learnt something about what was actually going on out there. Not just from what people want to assume supposedly did or did not occur.
Just because the lead singer was born somewhere else, doesn't mean the band isn't Australian and wasn't started in Australia. Not to mention, AC/DC had 2 lead singers, not just one.
As an Aussie bloke who was in my 20s during the 80s , this doesnt make sense . This was when Pub Rock was at its peak . Most of this would have been played at kids discos . Ive said it before but my older sisters and my mum liked most of these .Edit- i know its not very PC but to bogan blokes back then Boy Bands , Pop singers like Jason Donovan, Rick Astley were seen as effeminate or even gay . It was the 80s fucking in the back seat and fighting in the carpark , standard after gig entertainment.
It was the stuff that charted biggest in the 80's. And as a kid growing up in the 80's, I'm grateful for ALL of the variety that our music (and overseas music) had to offer. Much more variety that what we hear in mainstream chart music nowadays. I loved it all, from AC/DC to Kenny and Dolly. From Culture Club to Dire Straits. From New Kids on the Block to Metallica. Not even ashamed to say I liked Jason Donovan, Rick Astley and most other cheesy, uncool to some bogans type of music, even though I was a bit of a bogan (still am, I suppose). Plus, people have to also remember, that the best of that era in the 70's and 80's pub rock scene in some parts of Australia's big cities, was starting to die out between the mid to late 80's. Music was starting to become a lot more commercial by the end of the 1980's. A bit more manufactured with the likes of Stock, Aitken and Waterman and such, churning out bubble gum music. Thankfully, I was getting into my later teens by the start of the 90's, and grunge came along at the perfect time for me as a typical angsty teenager 😂
Extremely popular in Taiwan and Asia in general - I guess it was because you could hear the words they were singing and it helped people learning English.
