David Kent (historian)

David Kent is an Australian music history and pop-culture writer, he produced the Kent Music Report from May 1974 to 1996, it was known as the Australian Music Report from 1987. The music reports were a weekly listing of the National Top 100 chart positions of singles and albums. 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.