John Taylor of Duran Duran will join Noise11 this week to officially launch the ‘Paper Gods’ album on iHeartRadio while Mick Hucknall of Simply Red recalls when he was in the audience for the very first Sex Pistols gig.

Like the singles chart this week, we have a first time Canadian artist debuting in the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, rapper and RnB singer The Weeknd sees his second studio album “Beauty Behind the Madness” come straight into the top spot in Australia.

A month after One Direction debuted at the top and gained their first No.1 single in Australia, Justin Bieber this week achieves the same feat, landing his very first number one on the ARIA Singles chart, and he also debuts atop the chart with “What Do You Mean?”

Duran Duran's John Taylor joins Noise11.com at iHeartRadio this week and the word is a Duran Duran Australian tour for 2016 is in the planning stages.

Five Finger Death Punch, Iron Maiden, The Arcs, James Blunt (GH), Oh Wonder, Against Me!, In Flames, Troye Sivan, The Beards, Thirsty Merc and Regurgitator (live) lead the weeks new releases.

Retired music exec, producer, songwriter Jack Ponti has sent an open letter to Dave Grohl asking if he has the Dave’s the right the wrongs of the current music business.

Live performances in Australia in 2014 have contributed $1.51 billion to the economy, a study by Live Performance Australia (LPA) has found.

The Melbourne Music Bank shortlist has been announced with 12 finalists moving on to compete for this year’s prize.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia includes a speech by Robert Menzies, the vegemite jingle and even the sound of a Lyrebird as well as songs by Men At Work, Kylie Minogue and Cold Chisel but it does not include the historic classic ‘I Was Only 19’ by Redgum.

KIIS broadcaster Kyle Sandilands did not breach broadcasting standards when he called Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce “a wanker” on air.

Greta Bradman is on track to have the biggest selling classical album of 2015 with ‘My Hero’ sitting tight at the top of the classical chart for three weeks in a row.

Disturbed have debuted on top of the US album chart again scoring their fifth number one album in a row with ‘Immortalized’.

The MTV Video Music Awards are over for another year.

Tom Elliott, the son of right-winged Liberal bulldog John Elliott, has made ridiculous comments about Triple J and the ABC on this conservative radio program for Melbourne station 3AW.

Calvin Harris lands his first No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart this week as his latest track “How Deep is Your Love” featuring Disciples is up one place to take over the chart summit.

The sixth studio album for US heavy metal act Disturbed entitled “Immortalized” becomes the acts second No.1 chart-topper on the ARIA Albums chart this week.

iHeartRadio powered by Noise11.com features interviews this week from Kenney Jones of The Faces, the legendary Engelbert Humperdinck and singer songwriter Jamie Lawson.

Paul Kelly and Kingswood have been announced as performers for The Age Music Victoria 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame concert in November.

Triple J has devastated commercial radios stranglehold on radio listening habits in Australia becoming for the first time ever the number one station for 25-39 year olds in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

Australia’s Delta Goodrem has had a chart resurgence in the past two weeks and it is in part to the some clever old school marketing by her record label Sony Music Australia. Delta has been selling thousands of CD singles.

Jon Bon Jovi has severed ties with his record label Mercury Records after 32 years.

‘My Hero’, the classical album from Sir Donald Bradman’s granddaughter Greta Bradman, is the number one classical album in Australia for a second week and has now been released in the USA.

Welsh heavy metal act Bullet for My Valentine see their fifth studio album “Venom” become their first No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart this week.

Delta Goodrem spreads her “Wings” and nests atop of the ARIA Singles chart for a second week, plus the track picks up a Gold (●) sales certification too.

Rob Thomas, Jordin Sparks, Disturbed, Short Stack, Carly Rae Jepsen, Bon Jovi, Buckcherry, Jimmy Barnes and P.O.D. lead this week's new music releases.

Dr. Dre had the chance to pull off a rarity, the number 1 album in the four major English speaking countries in the world, the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada. Unfortunately, country's Luke Bryan prevented it from happening.

The Bank of Melbourne’s Melbourne Music Bank is calling for applications for the 2015 event and you have two more weeks to apply.

Greta Bradman has scored the highest chart position for a classical album for 2015 with a number one debut on the classical chart and number 11 on the ARIA pop chart.

The Rubens ‘Hoops’ would have debuted at number one across Australia this week had it not been for Dr Dre’s ‘Compton’ selling as a digital only release but it is the number one album at retail.

Jazz Summers, the one time manager of Wham, The Verve, Snow Patrol and Scissor Sisters, has died at the age of 71 after a battle with lung cancer.