US Singer Robin Thicke moves up two places to No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart this week with his track “Blurred Lines”.

BIGSOUND has announced Billy Bragg and Amanda Palmer will head to Brisbane in September as speakers for the Australian Music Conference 12th year.

The Australian Prime Minister is coming to dinner. The Honourable Julia Gillard will attend Marieke Hardy’s Dream Dinner in Melbourne for SLAM.

AEG Ogden has appointed six senior executives to its venues around Australia.

With Mothers Day (in Australia) only a week away, it could be said that Michael Buble will be given as a gift to a lot of Mums next weekend, as his album “To Be Loved” holds for a third consecutive week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, becoming the equal longest run at the top this year (so far), the other three week run was for Bruno Mars in January.

Daft Punk climbs a place from their No.2 debut last week to claim the ARIA Singles Chart crown with the track “Get Lucky”, making them the first French Group to take the honor, plus the track is now Gold (●) in sales.

Robert Rigby is preparing to expand his Fanfare Records label after signing Australian Jazz Hall of Fame inductee James Morrison for his new Fanfare Jazz arm.

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman has passed away at the age of 49.

The 2013 Australian Jazz Bell Awards were handed out in Melbourne tonight with David Ades picking up two awards and Marc Hannaford winning Most Original Jazz album Award.

Australian jazz legend James Morrison was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame at the Australian Jazz Bell Awards held in Melbourne on Thursday night.

Dorothy Bell, the widow of Australian jazz great Graeme Bell honoured her late husband at the11th annual Australian Jazz Bell Awards held in Melbourne tonight (May 2, 2013).

Melbourne singer songwriter Clare Bowditch will host the 2013 APRA Music Awards with Jonathan Biggins in June.

Two Australian acts, Kloke and Julien Love, both from Melbourne, have been selected to attend the Red Bull Music Academy in New York City.

Australian singer/songwriter Vance Joy has signed with Atlantic Records in the USA.

Wendy Matthews is the latest addition to the Fanfare Records family, Robert Rigby’s record label.

Last week the latest Michael Buble album “To Be Loved” debuted at the top of the ARIA Albums chart with Gold sales. This week the album holds for a second week at No.1 and is now newly certified Platinum (▲) in sales.

Passenger 'Let Her Go' stays atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a fifth week, becoming the longest running No.1 single for 2013 (so far).

When Abby Dobson appeared on The Voice a few weeks back it proved that judges Delta Goodrem, Seal, Joel Madden and Ricky Martin couldn’t pick a hit voice when it was presented to them.

Applications to showcase at BIGSOUND 2013 have been extended for two more weeks.

Michael Buble ‘To Be Loved’ remains at number 1 on the ARIA chart and has been certified Platinum this week in Australia after two weeks.

Passenger stays at the top of the ARIA chart for a 5th week becoming the longest running single for 2013 so far with ‘Let Her Go’.

Record Store Day has been declared a success after music sales for independent record stores across America were up 59% on the previous week and up 3% on the same day last year.

Russell Morris ‘Sharkmouth’ will return to no. 6 on the ARIA Chart on Sunday making it four weeks in a row the album was spent in the Australian Top 10.

Renee Geyer’s 25th album ‘Swing’ has debuted at no. 22 on this week’s ARIA chart.

The death of Divinyl’s singer Chrissy Amphlett on Monday has sent Divinyl’s ‘Essential’ album back into the iTunes Top 10 in Australia.

Tim Dalton, the Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) head of Creative Industries Management, will conduct the “How to Market and Promote Your Band or Music’ presentation of campus at Collarts on Wednesday evening.

Chrissy Amphlett of Divinyls fame has died at the age of 53 after a two year fight with breast cancer.

Michael Buble takes his eighth studio album straight into the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, entitled “To Be Loved” its his fifth chart-topping album in Australia, and helps him notch up his twenty-third accumulated week at No.1 here.

Passenger sits at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a fourth consecutive week, tying “Let Her Go” as the equal longest running No.1 for 2013 so far.

Some of Australia’s biggest artists including Russell Morris, Renee Geyer and Deborah Conway will be visiting music stores to celebrate Record Store Day Australia today.