According to the end of year ARIA Charts, Australians Are..

Boring as FUCK!

Yes that is right Ed Sheeran number one album and single, oh please wake me up after that horrid Galway Girl song is over. Even that horrid single made it as the 7th highest selling song of 2017, WTF? Thank god the real Hottest 100 is coming soon.

Or if you can't wait for the Hottest 100, I have posted two lists, the songs that were the top 100 and then the next 100.

Of course Kendrick Lamar was number one, he had a far superior and more groundbreaking year than Ed Sheeran. Even yesterday he dropped new music with fellow 2017 trailblazer SZA. 

It's called All the Stars and will be featured on the new Black Panther soundtrack. Finally Marvel are pairing their blockbusting movies up with equally blockbusting music.

HUMBLE. does manage to make the end of year top 10 singles on ARIA at number 8, but surely it's a better, more important song than that daggy Galway Girl song. Honestly I thought that song was reserved for drunk backpackers and bogans watching the recent Stan hit Romper Stomper thinking it is a documentary.

The top 5 albums is a total snore fest Ed Sheeran, Pink, Taylor "tickets not selling so" Swift, Adele and a Disney soundtrack. Fucking hell, anyone would think we are the most white nation around. Are we even multicultural with titles like Pink's Beautiful Trauma. Usually hearing Pink's music does leave me in a state of trauma, but Australia when will we tire of her same, same formula for songs.

I honestly preferred her urban edge on her debut record. I guess the vast majority of punters didn't so the record company intervened.

It's not all bleak on the album front, unless of course if you are an Australian artist. Paul Kelly's adult contemporary record is the highest entry at 14. With the following Australian "artists" following Jessica Mauboy (TV soundtrack to a now cancelled series), John Farnham and Livy's tired old Christmas record, Keith Suburban, INXS (Best of), Tina Macarena and the list goes all the way down to The Wiggles. Pretty sad for local's trying to make it in their own country.

Australia turned out loads of good music last year, but it seems to mostly be absent from these charts.

Oh well there is always 2018 to support a local artist. So maybe in 2018 Australia let's try and discover some new, boundary pushing music or even a new favourite local act? Sound good?

Ok, enough of the bleak review for now, I will be back maybe tomorrow or Monday with the years first feature album!

See you then, stay warm USA readers, stay cool Australian readers, and for those that don't believe in climate change, maybe time to go to a sandpit and burrow your head under the sand.