Is Australian music at risk of extinction? Here’s what the data tells us

Forty years of Aria chart history shows big changes to our listening habits – and local artists have a huge fight ahead

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The music that charts in Australia has changed considerably over the past couple of decades – rock is out, country is in and old tracks are new again.

But some trends remain – like the slow decline in the Australian appetite for Australian music, from as much as 30% of the annual chart in the early 1990s to low single digits.