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David Kent (historian)

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David Kent
BornDavid Cyril Kent
(1941-02-03) 3 February 1941 (age 81)
Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia
OccupationMusic historian, writer
GenreMusic culture
SubjectRock music, popular culture
Website
www.austchartbook.com.au

David Cyril Kent (born 3 February 1941)[1] is an Australian music historian and pop culture writer. Kent produced the Kent Music Report, compiling the national music chart from May 1974 to 1996; it was known as the Australian Music Report from 1987.[2] The music reports were a weekly listing of the National Top 100 chart positions of singles and albums.[2][3]

Kent's music reports were used by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) as its official ARIA Charts from mid-1983 until July 1988 when ARIA developed an in-house chart.[2][4]

Kent continued to publish his Australian Music Report on a weekly basis until 1996.[2] In 1993, Kent collated his charts into a book, Australian Chart Book, 1970–1992.[5] He followed with Australian Chart Book (1940–1969) in 2005,[6] Australian Chart Book (1993–2005) in 2006,[7] and The Australian top 20 book (1940–2006) in 2007.[8]

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Popular culture

Popular culture

Popular culture is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. The primary driving force behind popular culture is the mass appeal, and it is produced by what cultural analyst Theodor Adorno refers to as the "culture industry".

Kent Music Report

Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts.

Australian Recording Industry Association

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956. It oversees the collection, administration and distribution of music licences and royalties.

ARIA Charts

ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974.

Early life

David Kent was born in Mount Lawley (a suburb of Perth), Western Australia, Australia, to Cyril Kent (an industrial chemist) and Marjorie Goodwin (née Dalton).

He listened to local radio broadcasts of top hits such as "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley in 1955.[9][10]

Australia had no nationwide chart system for singles or albums when Kent was a youth.[9] Kent kept his own tally of the positions provided by Sydney radio stations.[10]

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Mount Lawley, Western Australia

Mount Lawley, Western Australia

Mount Lawley is an inner northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The suburb is bounded by the Swan River to the east, Vincent, Harold and Pakenham Streets to the south, Central Avenue and Alexander Drive to the north, and Norfolk Street to the west.

Perth

Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years.

Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia occupying the western 33 percent of the land area of Australia, excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi). It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. As of 2021, the state has 2.76 million inhabitants—11 percent of the national total. The vast majority live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, and mountain ranges in the south-east.

Rock Around the Clock

Rock Around the Clock

"Rock Around the Clock" is a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1954 for American Decca. It was a number one single for two months and did well on the United Kingdom charts; the recording also reentered the UK Singles Chart in the 1960s and 1970s.

Career

Kent initially worked for record companies, EMI and Polygram, and avidly collected record charts as hobby[10]

In 1958, radio station 2UE provided the first give-away charts in record stores,[9] with the first national chart, compiled for Go-Set magazine by rock journalist Ed Nimmervoll, appearing in October 1966.[9][11] For 18 months, Kent researched Australian music charts and developed a ranking system based on radio station charts from around the country, and from May 1974 he compiled the Kent Music Report].[9][12]

Kent's aims were to provide the Australian music industry with information on singles and albums, and to chronicle the history of music tastes.[9][12] The Kent Music Report was sold commercially after July 1974, and it became the sole nationwide chart following the demise of Go-Set in August.[11]

Kent expanded his business and, from 1976, incorporated actual sales figures to supplement information from radio stations.[12] By 1977, major record companies used his chart information in their advertising.[12] Kent's staff sent surveys to retail stores, collated sales figures together with radio charts by states and then used his ranking system to assemble the national Kent Music Report. By 1982, retail sales by survey was the main source of Kent's reports.[12]

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) was established by the six major record companies operating in Australia: EMI, Festival Records, CBS (now known as Sony Music), RCA (now known as BMG), WEA (now known as Warner Music) and Polygram (now known as Universal).[9][13] ARIA licensed the Kent Music Report from mid-1983 to publish the ARIA Charts under its banner until the week ending 26 June 1988.[9][13] ARIA had established its own research and chart publishing group and now competed with the Kent Music Report.[9][13]

At the beginning of 1987, the Kent Music Report was renamed the Australian Music Report. It was used by major record companies in preference to ARIA's own charts.[9][13] Kent continued production of his music reports until 1996, but sold off his interest in the Australian Music Report, which continued to the end of 1998, after which changes in technology, such as barcoding, enabled point-of-sale information to be sent directly to ARIA.[9][14] This meant that Kent could no longer compile reliable sales information.[9][14]

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EMI

EMI

EMI Group Limited was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth largest business group and record label conglomerate in the music industry, and was one of the "Big Four" record companies. Its labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records, and Capitol Records, which are now owned by other companies.

2UE

2UE

2UE is an all-music radio station in Sydney owned by Nine Entertainment Co and run under a lease agreement by Ace Radio. It currently broadcasts from its studios in Pyrmont, New South Wales.

Go-Set

Go-Set

Go-Set was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble. Widely described as a pop music "bible",

Ed Nimmervoll

Ed Nimmervoll

Edward Charles Nimmervoll was an Australian music journalist, author and historian. He worked on rock and pop magazines Go-Set (1966–1974) and Juke Magazine (1975–92) both as a journalist and as an editor. From 2000, Nimmervoll was editor of HowlSpace, a website detailing Australian rock/pop music history, providing artist profiles, news and video interviews. He was an author of books on the same subject and co-authored books with musicians including Brian Cadd and Renée Geyer.

Sony Music

Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), simply known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony. It is the recording division half of the Sony Music Group, with the other half being the publishing division, Sony Music Publishing (formerly Sony/ATV).

Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Although it was established in 1987, the music company was formed as RCA/Ariola International in 1985 as a joint venture to combine the music label activities of RCA's RCA Records division and Bertelsmann's Ariola Records and its associated labels which include Arista Records. It consisted of the BMG Music Publishing company, the world's third largest music publisher and the world's largest independent music publisher and the 50% share of the joint venture with Sony Music, which established the German American Sony BMG from 2004 to 2008.

Barcode

Barcode

A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines. These barcodes, now commonly referred to as linear or one-dimensional (1D), can be scanned by special optical scanners, called barcode readers, of which there are several types. Later, two-dimensional (2D) variants were developed, using rectangles, dots, hexagons and other patterns, called matrix codes or 2D barcodes, although they do not use bars as such. 2D barcodes can be read using purpose-built 2D optical scanners, which exist in a few different forms. 2D barcodes can also be read by a digital camera connected to a microcomputer running software that takes a photographic image of the barcode and analyzes the image to deconstruct and decode the 2D barcode. A mobile device with an inbuilt camera, such as smartphone, can function as the latter type of 2D barcode reader using specialized application software.

Publication's

In 1993, Kent used his resources to compile charts dating back to 1970. He added information from the weekly Kent Music Report and the Australian Music Report to publish the charts in book form as Australian Chart Book, 1970–1992.[5] He followed that with Australian Chart Book (1940–1969) in 2005,[6] Australian Chart Book (1993–2005) in 2006,[7] The Australian top 20 book (1940–2006) in 2007,[8] and Australian Chart Chronicles (1940–2009).[15]

Source: "David Kent (historian)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 31st), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kent_(historian).

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Bibliography
  • Kent, David (29 June 1987). "Kent music report 1974–1987". Australian Music Report. St Ives, N.S.W.: David Kent, 1987 (1–675). ISSN 0156-2223.
  • Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  • Kent, David (4 January 1999). "Australian music report : Kent music report 1987–1999". Australian Music Report. Pymble, N.S.W.: Australian Music Report, 1987–1999 (675–1270). ISSN 0156-2223.
  • Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book (1940–1969). Turramurra, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book, 2005. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  • Kent, David (2006). Australian Chart Book (1993–2005). Turramurra, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book, 2006. ISBN 0-646-45889-2.
  • Kent, David (2007). The Australian top 20 book (1940–2006). Turramurra, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book, 2007. ISBN 978-0-646-47665-0.
  • Kent, David (2009). Australian Chart Chronicles (1940–2008). Turramurra, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book, 2009. ISBN 978-0-646-51203-7.
  • Kent, David, ed. (2010). Australian Chart Book (1993–2009). ISBN 978-0-646-52995-0.
References
  1. ^ Mathews, Wallace H. Certified Copy of Register of Birth (Report). Perth: Western Australia District Registrar. 3rd February 1941, Ellesmere Rd., Mt.Lawley (sic)
  2. ^ a b c d Lowe, Daniel (2003). "Australian Chart History". Archived from the original on 21 November 2005. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  3. ^ "David Kent". nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
  4. ^ "ARIA Charts FAQs". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  5. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ^ a b Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book (1940–1969). Turramurra, NSW. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  7. ^ a b Kent, David (2006). Australian Chart Book (1993–2005). Turramurra, NSW. ISBN 0-646-45889-2.
  8. ^ a b Kent, David (2007). The Australian top 20 book (1940–2006). Turramurra, NSW: Australian Chart Book, 2007. ISBN 978-0-646-47665-0.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Top 40 Radio and the Pop Charts". Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  10. ^ a b c Kent, David. "Australian Chart Book history". Australian Chart Book. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  11. ^ a b "Go-Set Magazine Charts 1966–1974". Poparchives.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  12. ^ a b c d e Lowe, Daniel (2003). "Australian Chart History, Part 1". Archived from the original on 2 February 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  13. ^ a b c d Lowe, Daniel (2003). "Australian Chart History, Part 2". Archived from the original on 2 February 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  14. ^ a b Lowe, Daniel (2003). "Australian Chart History, Part 3". Archived from the original on 15 February 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  15. ^ Kent, David (2009). Australian Chart Chronicles (1940–2008). Turramurra, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book, 2009. ISBN 978-0-646-51203-7.
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