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I've made a video featuring top 10 singles from the 1990s that do not appear in the end of year top 100 chart, plus #11-peaking singles from the 1990s that also missed the end of year chart:
I can definitely sense a decline in the quality of the music in this from around the mid 90s.
I may do a 1974 top 100 video in the future, but the 1975 one was a bit difficult in that I had to use TV performances for most of the 'videos', as a lot of songs don't have proper music videos (or, at least, they're not on YouTube) or a TV performance was used as the music video. Plus, 1974 is the first year that the Kent Music Report published these charts at the time. While David Kent later back-calculated annual (and weekly) charts for earlier years, I don't consider these official, as they were not published at the time. I'm not sure if the Go-Set charts (which preceded the Kent Music Report) published an annual chart.
Rage certainly aired a top 50 for 1988 as i remember staying up all night to watch it. As mentioned elsewhere there were several videos not played. I'm guessing they were running short of time.
JASE, I think it's more likely that rage discarded those videos they didn't air in the top 50 of 1988, though I guess it's possible that they also ran out of time. As it would have been the first annual chart they aired, they probably didn't know in advance that it was coming - so though they could chuck out videos they no longer 'needed' once they' fallen out of the top 50. Or so that's my theory.
I made a mistake in the top 10 (and #11) singles of the 1990s that missed the end of year chart video (I included a song that actually did make the end of year chart - Cliff Richard's 'The Millennium Prayer'), so here is the amended version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTvNcrd-jjs
A video I compiled containing singles that peaked within the ARIA top 20 singles chart (but not within the top 10 or at #11) from 1989-1990 that did not make the end of year top 100 charts:
A video I compiled containing singles that peaked within the ARIA top 20 singles chart (but not within the top 10 or at #11) from 1989-1990 that did not make the end of year top 100 charts:
I amended my 1987-1988 top 20 singles that did not make the end of year top 100 charts, as I omitted Jerry Harrison's 'Man With a Gun' on my earlier upload. Here's the corrected video:
I've had to re-edit some of these uploads to avoid issues with copyright ID. It seems now that WMG and UMG are identifying tracks where only 15 seconds have been used in a video - and, occasionally, the videos are blocked as a result ::)
New and improved Australian top 50 singles of 1986. Rage have aired 8 more videos from this since I uploaded the first version in June 2017!:
Top 20 (and #21) singles from 1991-1992 that missed the end of year top 100 chart:
rage top 50 of 1989, re-compiled from a new and better source. I also had to re-do this one, as my previous upload was blocked, due to 'Batdance' and 'Eternal Flame', which I had to edit down.