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- ↑ "ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts - 1980". Australian Charts. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- 1 2 "National Top 100 Singles for 1980". Kent Music Report. 5 January 1981. Retrieved 17 January 2022– via Imgur.
- ↑ "Colleen Hewett – Dreaming My Dreams with You". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 19 January 2017.