APRA Top 30 Australian songs

APRA Top 30 Australian songs

APRA's Top 30 Australian songs of all time was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) to celebrate its 75th anniversary.cite web |url=http://www.apra.com.au/awards/music/2001_topten.asp |title="The final list: APRA'S Ten best Australian Songs" |last=Culnane |first=Paul |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association |date=2001-05-28 |accessdate=2008-05-20 ] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the ten best Australian songs, the data was compiled and the Top Ten in numerical order, were announced on 28 May 2001 at the APRA Awards. The next twenty were not ordered and were released, nearly four weeks earlier, on 2 May 2001 in a media statement by APRA representative Debbie Kruger. [cite web |url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/pdfs/aprathirty.pdf |format=PDF |last=Kruger |first=Debbie |title="The songs that resonate through the years" |publisher=APRA |date=2001-05-02 |accessdate=2007-11-02 ]

At the 2001 APRA Awards ceremony You Am I performed the #1 listed song "Friday on My Mind" with Harry Vanda of The Easybeats guesting on guitar, Ross Wilson of Daddy Cool performed the #2 listed song "Eagle Rock", Midnight Oil's "Beds are Burning" at #3 was shown on video introduced by Australian Democrats Senator Aden Ridgeway as an indigenous spokesperson on .

The entire list follows, showing song title, performers, year of release, songwriters, music publishers and peak chart positions in both Australian and New Zealand (where known):

Top Ten songs

The remaining Top 30 songs

Listed in chronological order:

References

External links

* [http://www.milesago.com/Features/apra.htm Milesago website]


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