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Martin Foley, Minister for Creative Services
Music Industry In Victoria To Benefit From Music Works Grants

The Victoria Labor government has announced the Music Works grants program, a $12.2 million funding project for contemporary music and related businesses.

July 8, 2015
Triple J, music news, noise11.com
Triple J Continues To Lead Commercial Stations In Major Cities and Demographics

The ABC’s Triple J network is continuing to dominate radio listening in Australia’s top markets and create havoc for advertising agencies who cannot advertise on the government owned network.

July 7, 2015
NME
NME To Change To Free Street Press Model

England's iconic music rag NME is going to a free street press model.

July 7, 2015
iHeartRadio Noise11 channel music news
Rocky Horror Creator Richard O’Brien, Michael Hutchence Producer Danny Saber Join Noise11 iHeartRadio

Richard O’Brien, the creator of the Rocky Horror Show and Riff-Raff from the movie, and Danny Saber, Michael Hutchence’s last producer and co-writer, are this week’s special guests on iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com.

July 6, 2015
Melbourne Guitar Show, music news, noise11.com
Australia’s Finest Musicians Confirm For The Melbourne Guitar Show

Melbourne’s finest guitarists are lining up to participate at the Melbourne Guitar Show in August.

July 6, 2015
Lionel Richie SXSW 2012 - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Lionel Ritchie Tops UK Chart After Glastonbury

A twelve year old album tops the British Albums chart this week and it is all because of the Glastonbury Festival.

July 6, 2015
John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John
ARIA Albums: John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John Have The No 1 Album

Returning to the top of the ARIA Albums chart for the second time together are John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John with their album “Two Strong Hearts”, which enters at the top of the chart this week, giving both acts new chart records in the process.

July 4, 2015
Meghan Trainor, Noise11.com music news
ARIA Singles: Meghan Trainor and John Legend Stay At No 1

Holding for a second week atop the ARIA Singles Chart are Meghan Trainor and John Legend with the ballad “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”, which takes Meghan’s tally of weeks at No.1 to six now, as here first single “All About That Bass” spent four broken weeks at the top in August and September of 2014.

July 4, 2015
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars Uptown Funk, music news, Noise11.com
Mark Ronson Uptown Funk Is 2015’s Biggest Song (So Far)

Mark Ronson ‘Uptown Funk’ is the biggest song of the year in the USA with 4,883,000 sales registered in the first half of the year.

July 3, 2015
Taylor Swift 1989, music news, noise11.com
Taylor Swift Has Biggest Album Of 2015 (So Far)

Taylor Swift crossover Pop album ‘1989’ is the biggest selling album of 2015 so far in the USA and so far also the only album to sell more than one million copies.

July 3, 2015
Taylor Swift 1989, music news, noise11.com
Album Sales Stabilize In The USA

2015 album sales to June 30, 2015 have stabilized in the USA for the first time in years.

July 3, 2015
Taylor Swift 1989, music news, noise11.com
Vinyl Sales Are Now Almost 9% Of US Album Physical Sales

Vinyl sales are now almost 9% of all physical album sales in the USA.

July 3, 2015
Neil Young The Monsanto Years
New Music Releases For 3 July 2015

Neil Young, Lucy Rose, Joy Williams, Miguel, Celtic Woman, Being as a Ocean and The Getaway Plan lead the new music releases this week.

July 3, 2015
Breaking Benjamin, music news, noise11.com
Breaking Benjamin Debut On Top Of US Album Chart

Breaking Benjamin 'Dark Before Dawn' has debuted at no 1 in the USA with sales of 141,000.

July 3, 2015
Ross Hannaford Daddy Cool performs at the Age Music Victoria Awards 2014. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Ross Hannaford ‘Concert For Ross Hannaford’ Date Set For July 18

The music community will come together on July 18 for a show of support for Daddy Cool co-founder Ross Hannaford, who is battling a serious health issue.

July 1, 2015
Brian Johnson, AC/DC 2010 - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
AC/DC Head To Streaming Services

AC/DC are putting more than a toe into the waters of the internet.

June 30, 2015
iHeartRadio Noise11 channel music news
Way Of The Eagle, Mark Sholtez Join Noise11 iHeartRadio This Week

This week on iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com, Jan Skubiszewski discusses the all-star line-up he has put together for the Way of the Eagle album and singer songwriter Mark Sholtez gets inspired by the Hollywood Hills.

June 29, 2015
Ed Sheeran, Photo Image Ros O'Gorman, Noise11
ARIA Albums: Ed Sheeran X Returns To No 1

For the second time this year, Ed Sheeran’s second album and second No.1 “x” returns to the top, this week notching up its eighth accumulated week atop the ARIA Albums Chart.

June 27, 2015
Meghan Trainor, Noise11.com music news
ARIA Singles: Meghan Trainor And John Legend Debut At No 1

After jumping into the Top 10 last week at No.5, the ballad duet “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” for Meghan Trainor and John Legend jumps up to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week becoming both acts second No.1 single in Australia, plus the track achieves Gold (●) in sales.

June 27, 2015
Duran Duran Rio, music news, noise11.com
New Music Releases For 26 June 2015

Thy Art is Murder, John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John, Gin Wigmore, Citizen, Kacey Musgraves and Tori Kelly lead the week's new music releases.

June 25, 2015
Gudinski by Stuart Coupe, music news, noise11.com
Stuart Coupe To Tell The Gudinski Story In New Book

The story of Michael Gudinski will be told in the upcoming biography ‘Gudinski: The Godfather of Australian Rock’ by Stuart Coupe.

June 24, 2015
James Taylor: Photo Ros O'Gorman
James Taylor Outsells Everyone Else In The USA

Not only did James Taylor win the sales race this week, he also blew away all of the other competition.

June 23, 2015
Todd McKenney presenting the nominations for the Helpmann Awards 2015. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
The Helpmann Awards 2015 Nominees

The 2015 Helpmann Awards will be held in Sydney on July 27.

June 23, 2015
SXSW 2016
First SXSW 2016 Meet ‘N’ Greets Planned For Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane

Australian’s planning on heading to SXSW in Austin, Texas in March 2016 can attempt information Meet ‘N Greets in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane soon.

June 23, 2015
Taylor Swift, Etihad, Ros O'Gorman, Photo
Taylor Swift Elated At Apple U-Turn

Taylor Swift is "elated and relieved" that Apple has decided to pay artists for streaming their songs.

June 22, 2015
Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Debuts At 5 and 65 In USA

The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers is back on the charts in the U.S. in a big way.

June 22, 2015
Florence Welch, Florence and the Machine - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
ARIA Albums: Florence + The Machine Return To No 1

For only the third time this year, a previous No.1 album has gone back to the top of the ARIA Albums chart, as Florence + the Machine jump back up two places to No.1 with their second No.1 album (and now their longest running at two weeks) “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful”.

June 20, 2015
Conrad Sewell photo by Ros O'Gorman
ARIA Singles: Conrad Sewell Is No 1 With Start Again

Australian singer Conrad Sewell takes his third chart entry “Start Again” all the way to the top of the ARIA Singles chart this week after only four weeks on the charts and stopping any further ‘Bad Blood’ from Taylor Swift being spilt at the top.

June 20, 2015
Amy Winehouse and Tim Cashmere at SXSW
The Only Amy Winehouse Australian Interview Ever This Week On iHeartRadio

Amy Winehouse only ever did one Australian interview and it was Noise11 in 2007. This week, you can hear the Amy Winehouse interview on iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

June 19, 2015
James Taylor: Photo Ros O'Gorman
New Music Releases For June 19, 2015

Hilary Duff, Lindemann, James Taylor, Rickie Lee Jones, Oh Mercy and new So Fresh & 100% Hits compilations lead the week's new releases.

June 19, 2015