| Year | Entertainment |
| 1977 | Barry Crocker |
| 1978 | Keith Michell |
| 1979 | Mike Brady and John Farnham |
| 1980 | Peter Allen |
| 1981 | Jon English - Waltzing Matilda |
| 1982 | Rolf Harris |
| 1983 | Glenn Shorrock - Waltzing Matilda |
| 1984 | Slim Dusty - Waltzing Matilda, Advance Australia Fair |
| 1985 | Diana Trask - Waltzing Matilda |
| 1986 | Olivia Newton-John - Advance Australia Fair |
| 1987 | Daryl Somers - Waltzing Matilda, Advance Australia Fair |
| 1988 | Noel Watson - Waltzing Matilda |
| 1989 | John Farnham - Waltzing Matilda, Advance Australia Fair |
| 1990 | Normie Rowe (( Lucy Gale )) |
| 1991 | Daryl Braithwaite and Angry Anderson - Bound For Glory |
| 1992 | Joan Carden |
| 1993 | Maroochy Barambah, Archie Roach and Yothu Yindi |
| 1994 | The Seekers and Debra Byrne |
| 1995 | Tina Arena |
| 1996 | A collection of past singers |
| 1997 | Marina Prior |
| 1998 | Muhammad Ali made an appearance. Mark Seymour sang Holy Grail. Rob Guest sang This Is The Moment and Advance Australia Fair. Jane Scali and Michael Cormick sang Waltzing Matilda, Donna Fisk and Michael Cristiano sang "Rock 'N Footy (Rock The G)". |
| 1999 | Human Nature - Waltzing Matilda |
| 2000 | The Idea of North, Trish Delaney-Brown, Megan Corson, Andrew Piper and Nick Begie, Mike Brady, Russell Morris and Rick Price |
| 2001 | Vanessa Amorosi, Men at work, Julie Anthony - Advance Australia Fair |
| 2002 | Killing Heidi, The Whitlams, Kate Ceberano, The Human Tide. Mark Seymour sang Holy Grail. |
| 2003 | Christine Anu, Gorgi Coghlan, the finalists from the first season of Australian Idol |
| 2004 | Guy Sebastian sang both Waltzing Matilda and Advance Australia Fair, The Ten Tenors, David Hobson |
| 2005 | Silvie Paladino sang Advance Australia Fair. Delta Goodrem sang I Am Australian. Michael Bublé and Dame Edna Everage performed I Still Call Australia Home. The Whitlams performed No Aphrodisiac. Kath & Kim The Australian Girls Choir |
| 2006 | Brian Mannix, John Paul Young, Sean Kelly, Daryl Braithwaite and Shane Howard sang Advance Australia Fair. Irene Cara sang Flashdance (What A Feeling) plus appearances from Brian Mannix, John Paul Young, Sean Kelly, Daryl Braithwaite and Shane Howard performing a medley including Up There Cazaly, One Day in September, Solid Rock, Yesterday's Hero, The Horses, Everybody Wants to Work and I Hear Motion. Young Divas sang You're the Inspiration |
| 2007 | Natalie Bassingthwaighte sang Advance Australia Fair. Jet performed Are You Gonna Be My Girl & Rollover DJ |
| 2008 | Powderfinger performed (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind and AC/DC's It's a Long Way to the Top accompanied by the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band, Ian Moss performed electric guitar versions of Up There Cazaly and the competing club theme songs. Lucy Durack and Amanda Harrison (both then starring in an Australian production of Wicked) sang the national anthem.[1] |
| 2009 | Mark Seymour performed "Holy Grail" on stage, followed by Jimmy Barnes singing "No Second Prize". John Farnham then sang "You're the Voice", joined later by Seymour and Barnes. The Qantas choir performed "I Still Call Australia Home", and the national anthem was performed a cappella by the cast of Jersey Boys. |
| 2010 | Pre-match entertainment was provided by INXS who performed "Suicide Blonde", "New Sensation" and "Kick". Followed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra who performed orchestral arrangements of the Collingwood and St Kilda theme songs. Lyrics for the two songs were performed by Matt Hetherington (for Collingwood) and Paris Wells (for St Kilda). Lionel Richie was the grand final replay and post-match entertainment.[2] |
| 2011 | Meat Loaf performed a twelve-and-a-half minute medley of his best-known songs. Vanessa Amorosi performed the Australian National Anthem. |
| 2012 | Pre-match entertainment was Tim Rogers and Paul Kelly, with Marina Prior performing the Australian National Anthem. Half-time entertainment was provided by The Temper Trap.[3][4] |
| 2013 | Birds of Tokyo performed "Lanterns". Mike Brady performed Up There Cazaly. Hunters & Collectors performed Do You See What I See and Holy Grail. |
| 2014 | Ed Sheeran performed "Sing" and "The A Team" and was then joined by Sir Tom Jones where they sang "Kiss", followed performing Mama Told Me Not to Come, Delilah and If I Only Knew.[5] Mike Brady performed Up There Cazaly. Olivia Newton-John performed the Australian National Anthem Advance Australia Fair.[6] |
| 2015 | Chris Isaak performed "Great Balls of Fire", "Wicked Game" and "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing". He was then followed by Ellie Goulding who sang "Love Me Like You Do" and "Burn". Bryan Adams then sang "Run to You", "Summer of '69" and "Can't Stop This Thing We Started". Mike Brady performed Up There Cazaly. Kate Ceberano performed the Australian National Anthem Advance Australia Fair. |