2019 has been the busiest year yet for I Like Your Old Stuff. We published more news and content than any previous year, and grew our social media pages by a tonne. We ran our biggest competitions, gave away some insanely great prizes, and got to interview some of our heroes.
As we love to do at the end of every year, here is a wrap up of the most clicked articles on the site, so you can all see what makes each other tick. It's mostly as we expected, but this also gives you a chance to catch up on anything great that you may have missed when it was originally published.
Top 14 Most Popular Articles Of 2019 in order...
1. Our biggest competition ever, in a quest to find Australia's biggest Led Zeppelin fan, we sent the winner Dan Mansfield to the UK to visit some historic Led Zep sites as well as a stack of merch and cool Led Zep stuff for our two runners up and 10 spot prize winners. Please note - this comp is now closed but it absolutely ranks at #1 as the most clicked article of 2019.
READ: WIN A LED ZEPPELIN TRIP OF A LIFETIME
2. This one was only published a week ago which goes to show that great content can spread like wildfire. Kenny was a genius and it's clear that our readers were big fans of his show! We'll defo do a Part 2 in 2020!
READ: REMEMBERING THE KENNY EVERETT VIDEO SHOW
3. This one was actually first published almost two years ago but it keeps getting clicks. Lots of people searching for this topic!
READ: SIX TIMES LED ZEPPELIN SONGS HAVE GLORIOUSLY APPEARED IN MOVIES
4. One of the true icons of music, Tina Turner, who just turned 80. In this case, we got a tonne of clicks because this was shared on her official social media accounts - what an honour for us!
READ: 12 TINA TURNER FACTS THAT MAY SURPRISE YOU
5. Hugely predictable that this feature ranks in the Top 5. We know our fans love their Aussie Rock and were frequenters of the pubs that got this stuff off the ground in the 80s. Another older article that just keeps surfacing!
READ: GREAT AUSSIE PUB ROCK BANDS OF THE 80S
6. Our home page! This fills us with immense pride that readers land on our website front page and are able to browse through featured news, playlists, videos and more. If you haven't done the same yet, please have a gander - you can search for any artist or use the 'Decades' tab to choose your fave era.
READ: I LIKE YOUR OLD STUFF HOME PAGE
7. Again, no surprises here. Tour announcements are always popular on our site and this one took the cake. Fleetwood Mac fans were divided over Lindsey Buckingham's replacements but anyone who saw that show will attest that Neil Finn and Mike Campbell were a raging success story.
READ: FLEETWOOD MAC ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR
8. Big year for Bowie fans around the 50th Anniversary of "Space Oddity" and we wanted to do something a little different, so our resident David Bowie aficionado wrote up this whopping list of interesting facts to celebrate the late artists 72nd birthday in January.
READ: 72 DAVID BOWIE FACTS TO BREAK THE ICE
9. This data video blew up the internet when it was first published on the Data Is Beautiful YouTube account in October. It is utterly mesmerising and we think we've watched it at least 1,000 times.
READ: MOST POPULAR MUSIC STYLES FROM 1910-2019
10. 90s nostalgia was huge this year with Double J diving right in and producing one of the best podcast series' of the year with their Big Day Out recaps. We jumped on the bandwagon and reminded you of one of the crazier line-ups, and it turned out that you guys loved it!
READ: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 1999 BIG DAY OUT FESTIVAL
11. When Under The Southern Stars festival was announced with the line up of Stone Temple Pilots, Live and Bush, we couldn't help but put together a list of some of the most memorable rock ballads from the decade those bands ruled.
READ: 90'S ROCK BALLADS YOU'LL NEVER FORGET
12. More Led Zeppelin fun! This time fans were able to create their own name in the iconic font used by the band.
READ: CREATE YOUR OWN NAME IN LED ZEPPELIN FONT
13. Another great competition that gave you the opportunity to win tickets to see the Chili's and some RHCP vinyl. Again, this comp is now closed.
READ: WIN TICKETS TO RHCP + VINYL
14. Love a great album cover and getting lost in the design? Us too. This one tackles great album artwork form the 90s.
READ: BEST ALBUM COVERS OF THE 90'S
In 2019 we also welcomed new contributors, and so I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of our writers whose knowledge of music is the best in the biz across all decades. We tried our best to cover the 70s, 80s and 90s as evenly as possible to appease all agee groups that follow us.
Of course, without you lot (fans of the site) visiting our website, sharing our posts, commenting on our Facebook and Instagram, watching our YouTube videos, following our Spotify and Apple Music playlists - we'd not be here - so THANK YOU and cheers to another year!
