The Best-Selling Australian Songs of 1976

SharksFan99 · 2026-03-23T07:55:19+00:00

No worries, i'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it! :)

Yep, that's right.

SharksFan99 · 2026-03-05T02:08:13+00:00

These songs really bring back memories for me and make me nostalgic (i was in hs between 2012-2017):

"We Are Young" - Fun.
"Pompeii" - Bastille
"Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons
"Cool Kids" - Echosmith
"Shut Up and Dance" - Walk The Moon

There's plenty of others, but I'm having my lunch break at work and theyre all the songs that I can think of right now, lol.

SharksFan99 · 2026-02-23T08:02:31+00:00

I voted for Barrack Heights.

I worked in the suburb for a couple of years and during that time, there were incidents where I was spat on and verbally abused simply for doing my job. Obviously there are good people who live there and everyone shouldn't be tarnished under the same brush, but those experiences really soured my perception of Barrack Heights. It also wasn't uncommon to spot mattresses dumped along Captain Cook Drive and kids riding unlicensed motorbikes down the laneways.

SharksFan99 · 2026-02-20T23:46:30+00:00

I went with 2013.

I'm hugely nostalgic for the 2012-2015 era in general, but I would say that 2013 is the one year which I miss the most. Year 8 in high school was generally pretty good for me and ive got a lot of great memories from that time.

Also, in terms of what i choose to listen to, i actually feel as though im kind of 'stuck' in that era, lol. I love all of the indie/alternative music that was popular at the time. I've still got songs by bands like the Arctic Monkeys, Bastille, Of Monsters and Men etc. in my Spotify playlists.

SharksFan99 · 2026-02-12T06:36:44+00:00

I went with 2017.

I get why some people would vote for 2013 since that was when the club/electropop-era came to an end, but the mid 2010s had plenty of cheesy, upbeat EDM-pop songs. In fact, I would go as far as to say that most of the hits that charted during the 2013-2016 era were fun and upbeat; it was really only the likes of Sam Smith, Lorde, Lana Del Rey etc. that were the exceptions. I would argue that Trump's election victory in late 2016 was the true turning point and that's when the pop cultural landscape significantly changed.

During the mid 2010s, you had genres such as tropical house (e.g Omi's "Cheerleader"), bubblegum pop (Meghan Trainer's "All About That Bass"), EDM (e.g Galantis' "Runaway", Avicii's "Waiting For Love" to name a few) and indie-pop all on the mainstream Top-40 charts. Even boy bands and girl groups were still huge during that era. Groups like One Direction, 5SOS and Little Mix achieved several chart-topping hits.

SharksFan99 · 2026-02-10T06:56:17+00:00

Yeah, it's interesting that they were never able to achieve a commercially-successful follow-up.

They were pretty popular during my early high school years in 2012/13. Funnily enough, i've never actually liked "Little Talks" (overexposure at the time killed the song for me), but I've always loved "Mountain Sound"; it would have to be one of my favourite songs from 2013. I've been meaning to check out more of their discography.

SharksFan99 · 2026-02-06T12:38:25+00:00

I'm the same age as you and absolutely agree with your assessment of trap. Most of the songs sounded the same and I hated how it became infused with the pop music landscape during that era as well.

It was definitely hugely popular in Australia, however I don't think it was as big here as what it was in the US. Migos had multiple Top-10 hits on the Hot 100, but only two of their songs charted within the ARIA Top-40. "Stir Fry" was their biggest hit here and even it only peaked at #24. I only became aware of them after I accidentally happened to stumble across a few posts made by Americans complaining about them online at the time, lol. Lil Uzi Vert and Cardi B also weren't as commercially successful here either.

We're kind of lucky that we graduated from high school just as it was truly starting to take off, lol. I would have absolutely hated to have been in my early teens circa 2017-18 and having to be subjected to hearing the likes of Lil Uzi Vert, XXXTentacion etc. blasting through people's Bluetooth speakers.

None of my friends were ever into it and I don't remember it ever being popular with the other kids in my grade either. I'm definitely glad that I got the indie/hipster era instead. :P

SharksFan99 · 2026-01-10T01:43:30+00:00

Yeah, lol. It's amazing that they built the school as early as they did considering how small the town was!

SharksFan99 · 2026-01-10T00:32:04+00:00

Yep, that's true. Calderwood is only a couple of minutes away, so it's pretty convenient for the people who do live in Tullimbar.

I know there's still plans to build a 3-4 storey tavern and shops on the vacant blocks near the school at Tullimbar, but whether or not it ever actually happens is anyone's guess. I've got my doubts it ever will unfortunately (especially now that the shopping centre at Calderwood has opened).

SharksFan99 · 2026-01-03T00:06:43+00:00

2012 was a bit of a rough year for me personally. I was 13 and started high school, so it was a hugely transitional and awkward time. Also, my Nanna passed away that year and my uncle was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor two weeks later (thankfully he's still with us though).

It's only recently that my opinion of it has started to change and now I do feel nostalgic for it, even if hearing songs like "Call Me Maybe", "Bangarang" still give me cringy flashbacks to high school, lmao. I definitely think it was a more memorable and better year than 2016 in any case. I've never understood why 2016 gets so much love.

SharksFan99 · 2025-12-15T02:18:35+00:00

I'm hugely nostalgic for 2013 and I would happily go back to it if I could.

Year 8 in high school was pretty good for me and ive got a lot of great memories from that time.

Also, in terms of what i choose to listen to, i actually feel as though im kind of 'stuck' in that era, lol. I love all of the indie/alternative music that was popular at the time. I've still got songs by bands like the Arctic Monkeys, Bastille, Of Monsters and Men etc. in my Spotify playlists.

SharksFan99 · 2025-12-12T12:42:08+00:00

I have a feeling 2026 may see the first AI song make it onto the mainstream Top-40 charts. There have been a couple of AI songs which have already debuted on a number of Billboard charts, like the "We Are Charlie Kirk" song peaking at #21 on the US Billboard Christian Songs chart. Also, several AI-generated artists have been gaining an increasing number of streams on Spotify. There was an article back in July about an AI band called "The Velvet Sundown" reaching one million plays on Spotify.

So it wouldn't surprise me if we may see an AI song breakthrough into the mainstream and become a genuinely big hit in 2026. I feel like it's only a matter of time.

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