
Fun become the second act this year and the second group this decade to score two No.1 singles, as their new track “Some Nights” moves up a spot to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week. Earlier in the year they hit No.1 with “We Are Young”, which held the top spot for three weeks from mid-March, and it holds at No.41 for another week.
July 22, 2012
R&B newcomer Frank Ocean's debut album ‘Channel Orange’ scores a surprise second spot on the US chart with 97% digital sales.
July 19, 2012

For a third week, The Voice winner Karise Eden holds onto the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart with her “My Journey” album, but this coming week her three former grand finalists are all releasing their solo albums, so could Karise be in for some No.1 competition again from her former competitors, we will have to wait and see next week.
July 15, 2012
P!nk lands her sixth No.1 single in Australia by debuting at the top this week with “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”, the first single from her sixth studio album ‘The Truth About Love’ which is due in mid September.
July 15, 2012
Leo Sayer and Ross Wilson will feature in an all-star line-up for the Gala Charity Concerts Gotta Have Heart in Melbourne in August.
July 13, 2012
Chris Brown’s new album ‘Fortune’ is the number one album in the USA this week.
July 12, 2012
Karise Eden easily won the battle for number one this week blocking Hillsong Live from the top of the chart.
July 9, 2012
Big Day Out will reveal their red hot line-up next Monday (July 16, 2012).
July 9, 2012

Sydney band Go Mason Go have won the first Red Bull Backyard Jam in Australia.
July 8, 2012
The Voice winner Karise Eden holds at No.1 for a second week with her collection of songs on “My Journey”, giving us two different reality show winners at No.1 in Australia this week, with Reece Mastin at No.1 on the ARIA singles chart.
July 8, 2012
Reece Mastin debuts at No.1 with his third single entitled “Shout it Out”, which becomes the 97th No.1 debut in Australia and our 993rd No.1 single (1940 to 2012) plus it’s the 427th No.1 for ARIA (1983 to 2012).
July 8, 2012
We are all getting older and Icehouse knows their audience. You’ve worn the t-shirt; now do the dishes with the Icehouse Tea Towel.
July 7, 2012
Rarely does an album ever drop on my desk from a complete unknown and knock me out. This week in the mail I received a package from Andy Jans-Brown containing his double album ‘Letting Go’. You must hear it.
July 6, 2012
Jack White ‘Blunderbuss’ is the biggest selling vinyl album of the year so far.
July 6, 2012
Gotye ‘Making Mirrors’ is the third biggest selling digital album of 2012 so far, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
July 6, 2012
Melbourne’s Gotye featuring Kimbra ‘Something That I Used To Know’ is the biggest selling song in the USA for 2012 so far, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
July 6, 2012
According to Billboard, Adele and Gotye are the highest-selling artists for the first half of 2012.
July 5, 2012
US music label Razor & Tie has signed a distribution deal with Shock Records in Australia for its rock releases.
July 4, 2012
ABC Music, the ABC’s contemporary and classical music labels, has re-signed its distribution agreement with Universal Music and has expanded the deal to bring its ABC Kids Music label into the partnership.
July 3, 2012
The Voice gave this week’s Australian chart a number of firsts and they were all bad. Never before have so many songs debuted one week and disappeared the next.
July 1, 2012
17-year old Melbourne singer/songwriter Natasha Duarté has signed a management deal with Australian uber-manager Glenn Wheatley.
July 1, 2012
Sony has paid $2.2 billion for a 50% share of EMI Publishing.
July 1, 2012
The Adele album ‘21’ has departed the Australian Top 10 for the first time in 15 months.
July 1, 2012
For all of the huge debuts that The Voice racked up last week, their presence in the Top 10 has been reduced to one song within the entire ten.
July 1, 2012
Karise Eden drops from the No.1 spot on the singles chart, but claims the new No.1 album in the country with instantly platinum certified “My Journey”, which is also the sixth consecutive No.1 debut in the past seven weeks.
July 1, 2012
Carly Rae Jepsen ‘Call Me Maybe’ and Adele ‘21’ are the biggest single and album of 2012 so far, according to ARIA.
June 30, 2012
Justin Bieber ‘Believe’ sold 374,000 units in its first week in America last week giving it the highest selling first week sales of the year.
June 28, 2012
A major music label insider has claimed that their top two sources of income are now iTunes and Spotify.
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