Country star Amber Lawrence will host her own radio show on iHeartRadio.

The Black Sorrows 20th album The Faithful Satellite has been released and Joe Camilleri will be along to share some stories at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

Major new titles coming out this week include: Green Day, Barry Gibb, Olivia Newton-John, Daya, Sum 41, The Panics, OneRepublic, Norah Jones, Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen, Kaiser Chiefs, Melissa Etheridge, Seasick Steve and the 12th volume of Triple J's 'Like a Version'.

FinestVinyl Australia, a sister company to Germany’s finestvinyl.de, has started operating online.

The 2016 ARIA Music Awards nominations have been announced with three times ARIA winner Flume leading nominations with 11 nods.

Melbourne Music Week has announced its nine-day program for November and it is pretty bloody impressive.

James Arthur ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’ is the song most Australian’s are checking out via Shazam.

The seventh studio album for Passenger entitled "Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea" becomes his first No.1 album on the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey remain at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for an eighth straight week with their track "Closer", becoming the equal longest running No.1 single for 2016 along with "7 Years" for Lukas Graham (TW-64, from February & March).

The Chainsmokers and Halsey ‘Closer’ still have the most streamed song n Australia but expect completion next week from Niall Horan and James Arthur.

With one of the biggest selling albums of the week in 'Young as the Morning Old as the Sea' Mike Rosenberg aka Passenger is at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com this week.

Major new titles coming out this week include: Van Morrison, Craig David, Regina Spektor, Eric Clapton (live), Marianne Faithfull (live) Banks, Pixies, Opeth and Bon Iver.

Sectors of the music media took great delight in tearing into Anthony Callea this week for what they say was the lowest selling number one debut of all time. Well, they all missed the point.

Robert Rigby’s Ambition Entertainment has signed a distribution deal with Sony Music.

The 2016 APRA Screen Music Awards will be announced in Sydney in November.

Landing his second No.1 album during his career this week is Anthony Callea, with his stripped back covers album entitled "Backbone" entering at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

Australia is one of ten countries around the world where The Chainsmokers and Halsey occupy the top spot with their song "Closer", which here is holding for a seventh straight week on the ARIA Singles Chart, and is newly certified 3x▲Platinum in sales.

Anthony Callea has ‘pulled a Lazarus’ with his new album ‘Backbone’ debuting at no 1 on the Australian album chart this week.

Shawn Mendes ‘Illuminate’ is the fastest selling album of the week based on one-day sales.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey ‘Closer’ just keeps on staying on as the most popular song to stream in Australia.

Canadian blues guitarist Charlie A’Court and Grouplove founder Ryan Rabin are Noise11’s guests this week at iHeartRadio.

Major new titles coming out this week include: Bruce Springsteen, Passenger, Every Time I Die, Teenage Fanclub, Bowie box set, Insomnium, Kansas, Shawn Mendes, Jason Walker, Airbourne, Billy Bragg, the Trolls soundtrack and the Australian Cast Recording of the Bobby Darin Musical.

Southern Cross Austereo is about to go to battle with the national broadcaster Triple J with the rebranding of 30 regional stations to Triple M in 2017.

Former Britain’s Got Talent contestant Calum Scott has remained the most Shazam’d song in Australia this week.

The sixteenth studio album for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds entitled "Skeleton Tree" debuts in the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, making it back-to-back No.1 studio albums for the Australian group.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey are sitting at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for a sixth straight week with their current US and UK track "Closer".

The new Mac Miller album ‘The Divine Feminine’ is leading first day sales for album releases in Australia but Nick Cave’s ‘Skeleton Tree’ will capture the week.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey ‘Closer’ is the song most Australias streamed last week.

The momentum of The Chainsmokers and Halsey hit ‘Closer’ is blocking every potential new hit from reaching the number one spot in Australia.

Michael Shrimpton, the man who created Countdown, has died after a battle with cancer.