1990 - the chart year in review

Below is a list of all of the singles debuting in 1990 that peaked within the 101 to 150 region of the ARIA singles chart, conveniently in one location.  Also embedded below is a video I have compiled featuring excerpts from a selection of songs that peaked outside the top 100 on the ARIA singles chart in 1990:

 

 

ARTIST	TITLE	PEAK	DEBUT DATE	WEEKS IN
21 GUNS	Save Me	129	5/03/1990	4
21 GUNS	Hard Luck Story	129	6/08/1990	2
49ERS	Girl To Girl	116	10/09/1990	6
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST	Bonita Applebum	144	22/10/1990	1
ABSOLUTE	Gotta Lambada	147	14/05/1990	1
ADAM ANT	Room At the Top	116	25/06/1990	5
ADAMSKI	Killer	112	21/05/1990	8
ADEVA	Beautiful Love	109	26/03/1990	7
ADRIAN BELEW featuring DAVID BOWIE	Pretty Pink Rose	127	2/07/1990	8
AFTER 7	Heat of the Moment	107	5/02/1990	15
AGRO	Living In a Child's Dream	150	5/11/1990	1
A-HA	Crying In the Rain	131	5/11/1990	6
ALSTON	Never Felt This Way Before	131	12/11/1990	1
ANDREW RIDGELEY	Red Dress	110	30/07/1990	7
ANGRY	Heaven	102	17/12/1990	8
ANITA BAKER	Talk To Me	139	3/09/1990	2
ANTHRAX	Got the Time	142	5/11/1990	1
ANTOINETTE	Never Get Enough	147	24/09/1990	1
AZTEC CAMERA	The Crying Scene	123	30/07/1990	11
BABYFACE	Tender Lover	144	26/03/1990	2
BAD ENGLISH	Heaven Is a 4 Letter Word	124	11/06/1990	6
BANG THE DRUM	Stay Forever	114	30/07/1990	11
BASS-O-MATIC	Fascinating Rhythm	145	17/12/1990	3
BELINDA CARLISLE	(We Want) The Same Thing	103	15/10/1990	8
BEN LIEBRAND	The Eve of the War	118	19/02/1990	8
BEN LIEBRAND	I Wish	145	17/09/1990	1
BIG FUN	Handful of Promises	110	21/05/1990	7
BILLY IDOL	Prodigal Blues	109	26/11/1990	8
BILLY JOEL	Leningrad	115	19/03/1990	7
BILLY JOEL	The Downeaster "Alexa"	126	28/05/1990	8
BILLY JOEL	And So It Goes	108	10/12/1990	7
BIZZ NIZZ	Don't Miss the Party Line	124	10/09/1990	5
BLOW	It's Gonna Change	145	5/02/1990	1
BOBBY BROWN	Don't Be Cruel (Rapacious Edit)	101	11/06/1990	6
BODEANS	Good Things	148	2/04/1990	1
BONNIE RAITT	Nick of Time	142	14/05/1990	1
BONNIE RAITT	Have a Heart	149	21/05/1990	2
BOO-YAA T.R.I.B.E.	Psyko Funk	136	17/09/1990	1
BOXCAR	Insect	143	5/02/1990	3
BRUCE DICKINSON	Tattooed Millionaire	149	2/07/1990	1
BRUCE HORNSBY & THE RANGE	Across the River	110	9/07/1990	10
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN	Pictures of Matchstick Men	122	12/02/1990	7
CARON WHEELER	Livin' In the Light	112	10/12/1990	10
CHARLIE SEXTON	Long Cool Woman In a Black Dress	141	29/10/1990	2
CHOSEN FEW	Love	122	19/02/1990	8
CHRIS REA	That's What They Always Say	123	22/01/1990	6
CHYP-NOTIC	Nothing Compares 2 U	140	3/09/1990	3
CLIFF RICHARD	Lean On You	107	29/01/1990	8
CLIFF RICHARD	Stronger Than That	140	9/04/1990	2
CLIFF RICHARD	From a Distance	101	3/12/1990	8
CLOUDS	Cloud Factory	118	17/12/1990	21
CLUB VEG	The Yuppie Rap	146	5/02/1990	1
COLIN HAY	Into My Life	117	9/04/1990	8
COLIN JAMES	Just Came Back	125	10/09/1990	7
CRAIG McLACHLAN AND CHECK 1-2	I Almost Felt Like Crying	103	29/10/1990	5
DAN FOGELBERG	Rhythm of the Rain	129	12/11/1990	7
DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES	So Close	106	17/12/1990	11
DAVID BYRNE	Make Believe Mambo	136	5/02/1990	3
DE MONT	So Easy	124	19/03/1990	10
DEEP PURPLE	King of Dreams	138	29/10/1990	2
DEF LEPPARD	Women	148	9/04/1990	1
DEPECHE MODE	Policy of Truth	143	2/07/1990	1
DEPECHE MODE	Personal Jesus	134	10/12/1990	1
DIETER KLEEMAN	Dr. Dan's Theme	126	22/10/1990	3
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND	Doowutchyalike	139	22/10/1990	1
DON HENLEY	The Heart of the Matter	127	9/04/1990	7
DONALD WASN'T	Abbatak (The House ABBA Built)	128	11/06/1990	1
DOUBLE TROUBLE	Love Don't Live Here Anymore	147	22/10/1990	2
DOUBLE TROUBLE AND THE REBEL M.C.	Just Keep Rockin'	149	12/03/1990	1
DOUG ANTHONY ALLSTARS	Bottle	141	17/12/1990	3
DURAN DURAN	Burning the Ground	145	5/03/1990	2
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD	In Private	136	30/04/1990	6
EARTH, WIND & FIRE featuring MC HAMMER	Wanna Be the Man	146	24/09/1990	1
ECCOHOMO	New York, New York	110	21/05/1990	9
EDDIE MONEY	Peace In Our Time	127	12/02/1990	6
EDDIE MURPHY	Put Your Mouth On Me	149	12/02/1990	1
ERIC CLAPTON	Bad Love	125	26/02/1990	7
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL	Driving	146	11/06/1990	1
FAN CLUB	I Feel Love	105	2/04/1990	9
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS	I'm Not the Man I Used To Be	109	5/02/1990	6
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS	I'm Not Satisfied	145	23/04/1990	1
FIVE STAR	Treat Me Like a Lady	130	21/05/1990	5
FPI PROJECT	Going Back To My Roots	143	14/05/1990	3
GENE PITNEY	You're the Reason	103	8/01/1990	8
GEORGE LAMOND	Bad of the Heart	148	27/08/1990	1
GEORGIA SATELLITES	Another Chance	126	15/01/1990	6
GIANT	I'll See You In My Dreams	115	5/11/1990	15
GIORGIO MORODER PROJECT featuring PAUL ENGEMANN	To Be Number One (Summer 1990)	118	18/06/1990	7
GIRL OVERBOARD	In the Evening	130	15/10/1990	6
GLENN MEDEIROS	All I'm Missing Is You	101	15/10/1990	7
GO 101	Message	131	21/05/1990	8
GRACE KNIGHT	Sophisticated Lady	141	28/05/1990	1
HEART	Stranded	120	22/10/1990	5
HITHOUSE featuring REGGIE	I've Been Waiting For Your Love	147	17/09/1990	1
IGGY POP	Livin' On the Edge of the Night	101	26/02/1990	9
INNER CITY	That Man (He's All Mine)	143	29/10/1990	1
INNOCENCE	Natural Thing	116	9/04/1990	6
INSPIRAL CARPETS	This Is How It Feels	149	9/07/1990	1
INSPIRAL CARPETS	Biggest Mountain	122	10/12/1990	11
J.J. CALE	Shanghaid	149	29/01/1990	1
JAMES BLUNDELL	The Blue Heeler	127	26/11/1990	7
JAMES REYNE	Harvest Moon	122	8/01/1990	6
JAMIE J. MORGAN	Rocksteady	147	23/07/1990	1
JANE CHILD	Welcome To the Real World	123	12/03/1990	6
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE	Calypso	149	17/09/1990	1
JEFF LYNNE	Lift Me Up	125	29/10/1990	2
JESUS LOVES YOU	Generations of Love	145	3/09/1990	3
JIMI HENDRIX	Hey Joe	150	3/12/1990	1
JIMI THE HUMAN & SPECTRE 7	Quicksand	137	5/02/1990	9
JOAN ARMATRADING	More Than One Kind of Love	125	9/07/1990	8
JODY WATLEY	Everything	143	30/04/1990	2
JOE COCKER	Fever	112	22/01/1990	8
JOE COCKER	I Will Live For You	134	21/05/1990	4
JOE COCKER	What Are You Doing With a Fool Like Me	115	16/07/1990	9
JOHN HIATT	Child of the Wild Blue Yonder	133	17/09/1990	7
JOHN LEE HOOKER	The Healer	102	23/07/1990	8
JOHN LENNON	Imagine	132	17/12/1990	3
JOHN WILLIAMSON	Chrismas Photo	113	19/11/1990	8
JOHNNY GILL	Fairweather Friend	142	3/12/1990	1
JON ANDERSON	Far Far Cry	148	28/05/1990	1
JUDE COLE	Baby, It's Tonight	106	14/05/1990	13
JUDE COLE	Time For Letting Go	118	24/09/1990	11
JULEE CRUISE	Rockin' Back Inside My Heart	107	24/09/1990	9
JULIO IGLESIAS	Can't Help Falling In Love	106	26/11/1990	9
JUNGLE BROTHERS	What "U" Waitin' "4"?	146	7/05/1990	1
KAOMA	Dançando Lambada	143	21/05/1990	1
KATE BUSH	Love and Anger	145	28/05/1990	1
KATE CEBERANO	Nature Boy	121	12/11/1990	10
KATRINA AND THE WAVES	Rock 'n' Roll Girl	146	8/01/1990	2
KENNY ROGERS DUET WITH DOLLY PARTON	Love Is Strange	145	5/11/1990	1
KEVIN PAIGE	Anything I Want	102	16/07/1990	7
KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS	The Sex of It	139	7/05/1990	4
KIM WILDE	It's Here	104	11/06/1990	8
KISS	Rise To It	144	10/09/1990	2
LES NEGRESSES VERTES	Zobi La Mouche	120	30/04/1990	7
LINDA EDER	Someone Like You	147	1/10/1990	1
LISA STANSFIELD	This Is the Right Time	138	29/01/1990	4
LITA FORD	Hungry	137	25/06/1990	4
LITTLE RIVER BAND	Every Time I Turn Around	134	16/07/1990	7
LIVING COLOUR	Type	121	10/12/1990	5
LONNIE GORDON	Beyond Your Wildest Dreams	104	24/09/1990	7
LOU GRAMM	True Blue Love	147	30/04/1990	2
LOWEN & NAVARRO	Walking On a Wire	131	19/11/1990	20
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI	Nessun Dorma	108	22/10/1990	6
MALCOLM McLAREN	House of the Blue Danube	150	15/01/1990	1
MALCOLM McLAREN	Deep In Vogue	107	2/07/1990	5
MANTRONIX featuring WONDRESS	Got To Have Your Love	119	12/02/1990	1
MAURIE FIELDS	Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer	149	3/12/1990	1
MAX Q	Monday Night By Satellite	107	19/03/1990	8
MEGADETH	Holy Wars... The Punishment Due	138	5/11/1990	1
MELISSA ETHERIDGE	You Can Sleep While I Drive	105	2/07/1990	6
MENTAL AS ANYTHING	Overwhelmed	108	12/03/1990	8
MICHAEL BOLTON	Soul Provider	119	1/10/1990	6
MIGHTY BIG CRIME	Dr. Dynamite	121	15/10/1990	6
MONEY TALKS	Brave Young Boy	143	25/06/1990	1
MR. LEE	Pump That Body	139	3/09/1990	2
NGAIRE	To Sir With Love	150	15/10/1990	1
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS	The Ship Song	138	1/10/1990	2
NICK LOWE	All Men Are Liars	108	18/06/1990	12
NORMA O'HARA MURPHY	The Banks of the Bogan	147	11/06/1990	1
NWA	Gangsta Gangsta	141	3/12/1990	4
PARTNERS RIME SYNDICATE	54-46 (That's My Number)	142	21/05/1990	1
PAUL CARRACK	Battlefield	141	30/04/1990	2
PAUL KELLY AND THE MESSENGERS	Pouring Petrol On a Burning Man	109	20/08/1990	8
PAUL McCARTNEY	Birthday	102	12/11/1990	11
PAUL NORTON	Billy Billy	114	12/11/1990	9
PAUL YOUNG	Softly Whispering I Love You	105	28/05/1990	11
PAUL YOUNG	Oh Girl	111	17/09/1990	9
PAULA ABDUL	Knocked Out (Remix)	115	30/07/1990	5
PERFECT GENTLEMEN	Ooh La La (I Can't Get Over You)	148	4/06/1990	1
PiL	Don't Ask Me	139	19/11/1990	2
POCO	Call It Love	150	22/01/1990	2
PREFAB SPROUT	Looking For Atlantis	145	1/10/1990	3
PRETENDERS	Never Do That	107	18/06/1990	5
PRETENDERS	Sense of Purpose	129	12/11/1990	5
PROPAGANDA	Heaven Give Me Words	105	6/08/1990	9
QUEENSRYCHE	Empire	150	22/10/1990	1
QUINCY JONES	I'll Be Good For You	148	15/01/1990	2
RAY LYELL & THE STORM	Carry Me	117	12/11/1990	7
REBEL MC	Better World	131	2/07/1990	3
REPLAY	Michael Medley	143	19/03/1990	1
RICHARD MARX	Children of the Night	120	16/07/1990	8
RITA MacNEIL	Flying On Your Own	142	17/09/1990	2
ROCK AID ARMENIA	Smoke On the Water	108	10/09/1990	8
RUSSELL MORRIS	The Real Thing	124	17/12/1990	4
SALT 'N' PEPA	Expression	141	18/06/1990	3
SAM BROWN	Once In Your Life	125	22/10/1990	11
SCRAP METAL	Make It Work	126	17/09/1990	6
SEVEN STORIES	Kicking Against the Bricks	122	8/10/1990	9
SHARON O'NEILL	Satin Sheets	106	2/07/1990	7
SINÉAD O'CONNOR	Three Babies	108	26/11/1990	7
SINITTA	Hitchin' a Ride	131	23/07/1990	7
SOLANGE	Fine Time	147	3/12/1990	1
SONIA	Listen To Your Heart	119	19/02/1990	8
SONIA	Counting Every Minute	118	21/05/1990	8
SPLASH	I Need Rhythm	105	17/09/1990	9
STATUS QUO	The Anniversary Waltz	104	10/12/1990	10
STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES	The Other Kind (Back Out On the Road Again)	111	6/08/1990	6
STEVE HOY	Break Up Fall Out	136	19/03/1990	8
SUZANNE VEGA	Book of Dreams	102	2/07/1990	8
SUZANNE VEGA	Tired of Sleeping	145	8/10/1990	1
SWANEE	Blood Is Thicker Than Water	145	9/07/1990	1
SYBIL	Don't Make Me Over	144	5/02/1990	2
SYBIL	Crazy 4 U	147	29/10/1990	1
TACKHEAD	Dangerous Sex	149	24/09/1990	1
TANITA TIKARAM	We Almost Got It Together	116	5/02/1990	7
TEARS FOR FEARS	Advice For the Young At Heart	116	7/05/1990	7
TEN WEDGE	Too Tough	118	6/08/1990	6
TEXAS	Prayer For You	101	5/02/1990	5
THE 4 OF US	Drag My Bad Name Down	121	14/05/1990	8
THE BATS	Smoking Her Wings	145	1/10/1990	1
THE BEACH BOYS	Somewhere Near Japan	132	12/02/1990	5
THE BEATMASTERS featuring CLAUDIA FONTAINE	Warm Love	117	12/02/1990	8
THE BELOVED	Your Love Takes Me Higher	148	15/10/1990	1
THE BOOZIN' BANG'N DANCE CREW	Kiss My Ass	144	2/07/1990	3
THE CELIBATE RIFLES	Wonderful Life	138	14/05/1990	6
THE CHARLATANS	Then	104	19/11/1990	13
THE CHILLS	Heavenly Pop Hit	118	18/06/1990	12
THE CHIMES	True Love	106	3/09/1990	9
THE CHIMES	Heaven (re-issue)	103	26/11/1990	7
THE CHRISTIANS	I Found Out	140	5/11/1990	1
THE COCKROACHES	Hope	126	6/08/1990	6
THE CULT	Sweet Soul Sister	109	16/04/1990	9
THE FLARES	Abbacadabra	102	25/06/1990	6
THE GRID	Floatation	102	20/08/1990	11
THE HAVALINAS	High Hopes	102	25/06/1990	6
THE JEFF HEALEY BAND	While My Guitar Gently Weeps	127	29/10/1990	4
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN	Rollercoaster E.P.	110	15/10/1990	9
THE MAKERS	New Kind of Blue	131	13/08/1990	6
THE MISSION	Deliverance	112	16/04/1990	9
THE MISSION	Butterfly On a Wheel	141	17/09/1990	2
THE NOTTING HILLBILLIES	Feel Like Going Home	107	11/06/1990	6
THE POGUES	Summer In Siam	139	29/10/1990	2
THE ROLLING STONES	Almost Hear You Sigh	118	2/04/1990	8
THE SHIVERS	Washaway	104	8/01/1990	9
THE SHIVERS	Baby Says	150	30/07/1990	1
THE SMITHEREENS	A Girl Like You	111	12/02/1990	8
THE SOMELOVES	Melt	119	5/03/1990	9
THE SOMELOVES	Sunshine's Glove/Girl Soul	150	23/07/1990	1
THE STONE ROSES	She Bangs the Drums	128	19/03/1990	4
THE SUNDAYS	Here's Where the Story Ends	123	9/07/1990	8
THE TRIFFIDS	Falling Over You	150	5/03/1990	1
THE TRILOBITES	New Head	132	19/03/1990	7
THE VAUGHAN BROTHERS	Tick Tock	117	12/11/1990	11
THE WEST COAST RAP ALL-STARS	We're All In the Same Gang	106	30/07/1990	8
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS	Birdhouse In Your Soul	125	9/04/1990	7
TIM FINN	Not Even Close	124	2/04/1990	5
TINA TURNER	Look Me In the Heart	111	14/05/1990	8
TISM	The History of Western Civilisation	117	24/09/1990	10
TOMMY EMMANUEL	Guitar Boogie	111	8/10/1990	5
TOMMY PAGE	I'll Be Your Everything	103	23/04/1990	7
TRACEY ARBON	Only Love Will Set You Free	105	19/03/1990	14
TRACY CHAPMAN	All That You Have Is Your Soul	119	29/01/1990	6
TRANSVISION VAMP	Born To Be Sold	108	5/02/1990	7
TYLER COLLINS	Girls Nite Out	133	10/09/1990	4
UB40	Kingston Town	128	4/06/1990	7
UB40	Wear You To the Ball	132	27/08/1990	6
UNDERWORLD	Thrash	147	15/01/1990	1
V.SPY V.SPY	Clear Skies	103	12/02/1990	9
V.SPY V.SPY	Our House	119	28/05/1990	7
VAN MORRISON	Real Real Gone	117	22/10/1990	12
W.A.S.P.	Forever Free	150	12/02/1990	1
WARRANT	Big Talk	111	22/01/1990	10
WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING	Darlin' Please	136	9/04/1990	5
WENDY & LISA	Strung Out	133	1/10/1990	6
WHITESNAKE	The Deeper the Love	149	19/03/1990	1
WILDLAND	Hold Me	141	29/01/1990	1
WILDLAND	The Sun	107	19/03/1990	12
WILDLAND	Wildland	149	9/07/1990	2
WILSON PHILLIPS	Impulsive	103	10/12/1990	10
WORLD PARTY	Way Down Now	114	8/10/1990	9
ZZ TOP	Give It Up	106	26/11/1990	9

 

 

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