The Popular Australian Music Charts

There is a very wide variety of music and songs in the Australian music charts from classical to folk music, jazz to pop, and of course the traditional aboriginal music of Australia. In fact, the traditional aboriginal music is thousands of years old and is mainly played on a musical instrument called a didgeridoo. The didgeridoo is traditionally made from several species of Eucalyptus saplings or branches.

The way to play the didgeridoo is done by blowing down the tube making sure that your lips are loose. This technique creates a vibration that echoes down the tube coming out amplified as a drone. It is vitally important that you stay relaxed when blowing into the didgeridoo; by trying too hard you will tighten your muscles too much which contradicts the need for you to create loose lips and face. The didgeridoo is usually accompanied by other musicians playing rhythm sticks and drums which add to the sound effects.

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History Of Billboard Music Charts

Almost everyone has heard of Billboard Music Charts. Billboard is best known for covering music, films and even the ringtones we use in our cell phones. It was back in 1884 that the now famous Billboard magazine was originally launched. By 1914 Billboard magazine built-in the first music chart. This music chart counted down all of the most popular songs that were heard in Vaudeville theaters during those days.

Then in 1930 when the jukebox was invented to play records, Billboard began by charting the country's most popular music. Next, in 1936 Billboard magazine came up with a new feature they called "Chart Line". Songs that the radio networks played the most on were listed in Billboard's new Chart Line. By the year 1940, Billboard also began including the Best Selling Record Charts in their magazine. This would be the beginning of Billboard's journey into charting music.

Billboard also began several Country Music charts, some of which includes:

Hot country songs - the popularity on this country music chart is calculated on the basis of how many weekly airplay and sales were made.

Top country recurrents - it plays the popular hit songs that have continuously remained for 20 weeks on the Hot Country songs chart and subsequently slipped down to No. 50.