Talk:List of artists who reached number one on the Australian singles chart

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work in progress[edit]

this page is a work in progress. I have included all artists who have hit number one from the present to 1991. Underneath-it-All 03:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

added more up until 1979 Underneath-it-All 07:15, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
done up until 1972 Underneath-it-All 18:39, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

done up to June 1962 Underneath-it-All 03:17, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

all done!! Underneath-it-All 23:51, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Australian acts with number one singles. - Lonnie Lee[edit]

I have removed the information stating Lonnie Lee achieved eight number one singles in Australia, and supplied two references to show this is NOT correct. He has not even had three. Perhaps he had number one radio play hits or something like that. But he certainly did not achieve eight number one singles on the Australian music charts. Gavin Ryan, one of Australia's most knowledgable chart experts states that Australian acts with the most number one singles in Australian chart history (1940 to the present day) are as follows -

  • Kylie Minogue - 10
  • Delta Goodrem - 8
  • Guy Sebastian - 6
  • Olivia Newton-John - 5
  • Johnny O’Keefe - 4
  • John Farnham - 4
  • The Easybeats - 3
  • Silverchair - 3
  • The Seekers - 3
  • Shannon Noll - 3

Ryan is a member of the Australian Charts website which archives the ARIA Chart records, and prepares the ARIA Chart reports for the media, writes books on Australian chart history, and also writes the ARIA chart reports for Australian music site Noise 11. Lee is not even credited with having achieved three, let alone eight. The only references supplied on Lee's Wikipedia page are the artist's own website, which was likely created by him or perhaps his manager, and bios with information which appears to be taken directly from that website.[1][2]

182.239.206.176 (talk) 17:22, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]


Further to this matter I emailed Gavin Ryan and he sent me a spreadsheet with information on Lee's discography. I am unable to post the link as it is in my hotmail account, but here is part of the email.

I have attached an Excel spreadsheet of Lonnie’s national and six capital cities discography for you, so that way you can see that he had a couple of individual city No.1’s, but no National chart-toppers. He also did only have EIGHT charting singles.
Regards,
Gavin Ryan.

In the spreadsheet it shows that Lee had eight top 100 singles on the national charts. Seven of them peaked in the top 40, including three top 20's and two top tens. His highest peaking song on the national charts was a #2. So definitely not even one #1 single on the National Chart, let alone eight. He did achieve three individual city #1's. One in Melbourne and two in Hobart. But they were not National #1 charting singles, which is what this page is all about.

182.239.135.242 (talk) 09:38, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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