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Liz Hobday

Streaming charts a course for ruinous music monoculture

American megastar Taylor Swift's dominance of Australia's music charts reached comical proportions. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

The streaming era has swamped Australian music with a monoculture of imported tunes, new research shows.

Former music executive and researcher Tim Kelly has studied the nationality of artists in the top 100 ARIA charts since 2000, and says his findings point to an unsurprising Americanisation of the Australian charts.

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