APRA Top 30 Australian Songs
APRA's Top 30 Australian songs between 1926 and 2001 was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) to celebrate its 75th anniversary. A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years", 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.
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 Reconciliation.
The entire list follows, showing song title, performers, year of release, songwriters, music publishers and peak chart positions in both Australia and New Zealand (where known):
Read more about APRA Top 30 Australian Songs: Top Ten Songs, The Remaining Top 30 Songs
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