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Did you know...
- ...that Guy Sebastian's first single Angels Brought Me Here was named the highest selling song of the decade by ARIA Charts in 2010. Sebastian was one of only two Australian artists with more than one song in the top 100 of the decade.
- … that Faker's debut studio album Addicted Romantic includes a track written by lead singer Nathan Hudson eight years earlier?
- … that Daddy Cool’s 1971 single "Eagle Rock" was Australian National #1 for a record ten weeks? It was replaced by "Daddy Cool", for which they were named, in Chipmunks style by Drummond (became Little River Band)
- … that the 2008 Hillsong United album The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One was released as a USB flash drive containing the MP3 files of the songs, embedded into a rubber wristband?
- ...that in two decades Australian record producer, audio engineer and mixer Tim Whitten has worked with artists including Powderfinger, The Go-Betweens, Hoodoo Gurus, and Augie March?
- ...that Bassinthegrass became a Darwin-only music festival after the 2004 creation of Bassinthedust?
- ...that Hoodoo Gurus frontman Dave Faulkner has described "1000 Miles Away" as one of his "top ten" songs by the band?
- ...that the Playground Weekender Festival is Australia's newest major indie rock music festival?
- ...that Powderfinger's "My Happiness" was their first song to chart in the United States?
- … that Olivia Newton-John made at least 16 appearances on The Go!! Show, an Australian popular music television series which aired between 1964 to 1967, before she found international success?
- … that Powderfinger's "D.A.F." was named after its chord progression, rather than its hook as most songs are?
- … that DJ Pee Wee Ferris was fined $124 000 in damages for illegally using other artist's music on one of his albums?
- … that "Leilani" by the Hoodoo Gurus was first released when the band called themselves "Le Hoodoo Gurus"?
- … that "Here I Am" , the song which the winner of Australian Idol 2007 will release as a single, has been heavily criticised by both finalists?
- … that despite not being released as a single, Powderfinger's "These Days" topped the Triple J Hottest 100 in 1999?
- … that Paul Piticco is the manager for Australian musicians including Bernard Fanning, The Grates, Drag, Powderfinger, and The Predators?
- … that Australian rock band Small Mercies first encountered their producer, Matt Wallace, when he left a message on their MySpace?
- … that Powderfinger's "Living Type" was about Charles Manson's cult victims, not about love or menstruation as had been speculated by some lyrical analysts?
- … that "Pick You Up" was the first Powderfinger song to be nominated for an ARIA Music Awards; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"?
- … that Transfusion was the first EP by Powderfinger to receive significant commercial airplay, and was their first work to top the ARIA alternative music chart?
- … that Yothu Yindi's most well-known song "Treaty" is from the album Tribal Voice?
- … that the Australian National University's School of Music opened in 1976?
- … that Peter Garrett, former lead singer for rock band Midnight Oil is the current Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage and Arts?
- … that in the 2005 film War of the Worlds, a didgeridoo was used to create sound effects?
- … that Australian pop singer John Farnham has received a total of nineteen ARIA Music Awards?
