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"It's No Secret" - Kylie Minogue from the album Kylie (1988) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #37 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 2 Today's song of the day comes from the Australian pearl Kylie Minogue , who had broken through in the U.S. with her infectious " I Should Be So Lucky ", then followed it with a top-3 cover of the Little Eva tune " Locomotion ". While overseas, she had a top-ten hit with her third Kylie single, " Je Ne Sais Pourqoui ", and massive success on her duet with Jason Donovan, " Especially For You ", in the U.S. and Canada her North American record company went with the mid-tempo SAW production "It's No Secret". "It's No Secret" became the third top-40 pop hit for Kylie in the States in February of 1989. It also did well in Canada, climbing to #22, but missed the top-40 in New Zealand (neighbours of her Australian homeland) at #47. (Click below to see the rest of the pos...

Let's head Down Under to check out the songs making their debut on the local artists chart in Australia this week, as Flume holds on at #1 with " Say It " (Calvin Harris and Rihanna remain on top of the main chart with " This Is What You Came For ")... The sole new entry at #7 is the return of electropop group the Avalanches with "Frankie Sinatra". It's the Melbourne band's first single in 16 years, and first top-40 hit in their homeland; in 2000 they had two top-20 singles in the UK with " Frontier Psychiatrist " and " Since I Left You " (The Since I Left You album is a classic, you need to get it)...

" I Beg Your Pardon " - Kon Kan from the album Move To Move (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #15 (two weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 9 Today's song of the day comes from the Canadian dance act Kon Kan , whose name is a riff off of that country's national radio rule Canadian Content. That rule required Canadian radio stations to play a certain percentage of local-grown acts. This local grown act came from Toronto, with keyboardist and producer Barry Harris teaming up with singer Kevin Wynne originally for the one-off "mash-up"-style sample-heavy "I Beg Your Pardon". The record was based on the 1970 country-pop smash "Rose Garden" from Lynn Anderson, which went to #3 on the pop chart and #1 country... Adding a frenetic club beat and stolen samples from other disco records like GQ's " Disco Nights " and Spagna's " Call Me ", it was Lynn's bridge-turned-chorus that made this gem stand out, but benea...

Here's the top ten hits in Germany this week, according to their official singles chart , as French DJ/producer KUNGS and Australian act Cookin' On 3 Burners take their international hit "This Girl" to the top... 1. " This Girl " - KUNGS vs. Cookin' on 3 Burners (2) 2. " Can't Stop The Feeling! " - Justin Timberlake (1) 3. " One Dance " - Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla (3) 4. " Cheap Thrills " - Sia featuring Sean Paul (4) 5. " This Is What You Came For " - Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna (5) 6. " Don't Let Me Down " - The Chainsmokers featuring Daya (7) 7. "Please Tell Rosie" - Alle Farben featuring YOUNOTUS (DEBUT) 8. "Ahnma" - Beginner featuring Gzuz & Gentleman (DEBUT) 9. " Cake By The Ocean " - DNCE (6) 10. " I Took A Pill In Ibiza " - Mike Posner (9) A song that I featured weeks ago, "Please Tell Rosie" from DJ/producer...

" Girl You Know It's True " - Milli Vanilli from the album Girl You Know It's True (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 15 Today's song of the day was the first single in America released by the R&B/pop act Milli Vanilli, which was put together by German producer Frank Farian, who had steered a bunch of records under various monikers on to the European charts, most notably with Boney M., which actually reached the top-40 in the U.S. with " Rivers Of Babylon ". Farian, coming from a culture that regularly were able to produce anonymously-performed music, recorded the single "Girl You Know It's True" with a group of studio singers. However, with MTV ruling the success of any music during that time, Frank set to hire "faces" to represent the band, if not actually being the band. French dancer and model Fab Morvan and German-American army-brat Rob Pilatus were recruited by Farian, and depend...

Here's the top ten hits in France this week, according to their official singles chart , as Justin Timberlake climbs back to #1 for a second non-consecutive week... 1. " Can't Stop The Feeling! " - Justin Timberlake (2) 2. " Cheap Thrills " - Sia (4) 3. " Don't Be So Shy " - Imany (3) 4. " Encore Un Soir " - Celine Dion (1) 5. " This Girl " - KUNGS vs. Cookin' On 3 Burners (5) 6. " One Dance " - Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla (6) 7. " Bailar " - Deorro featuring Elvis Crespo (8) 8. " Il Est Ou Le Bonheur " - Christophe Mae (7) 9. " J'ai Cherche '" - Amir (9) 10. " This Is What You Came For " - Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna (10) There are no new entries in the top ten again this week, but at one notch down at #11 is Congolese-French R&B/HipHop star Maitre Gims with "Ma Beaute'" (My Beauty). He's had nine songs reach the to...

" Don't Tell Me Lies " - Breathe from the album All That Jazz (1988) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 10 Today's song of the day is by the British "sophisti-pop" trio Breathe, whose debut album All That Jazz had scored them a pair of top-10 hits in the U.S. with " Hands To Heaven " and " How Can I Fall ". The third single released in the States was the one they actually put out first in their native UK, "Don't Tell Me Lies". Written by lead singer David Glasper and guitarist/keyboardist Marcus Lillington, and with a bouncier pace much like a Tory version of Mr. Mister, the song originally was only a minor hit in Britain at #77... "Don't Tell Me Lies" continued their American success, becoming their third straight top-10 pop hit in March of 1989. It would also be their last to reach that level. The single also climbed to #5 on Billboard 's Adult Contemporary (or ...