The R. Kelly Australian tour announcement just got weirder with the disgraced R&B star calling out the announcement with a “Fake Tour Alert”.

The year of 2018 has been topped and tailed by long running soundtracks, "A Star is Born" now racks up its eighth week at the top, matching the eight-week-stay achieved by "The Greatest Showman" in January and February.

It's a fifth week at the summit of the ARIA Singles Chart for the Ariana Grande track "thank u, next", which also lands a fifth week at the top in New Zealand and Canada, a sixth week in both Ireland and England and it returns for a fourth week at No.1 in America.

Accused sexual predator R. Kelly is scheduled to tour Australia in 2019 but it is unclear if he has been granted a Visa.

Melbourne’s The Production Company will stage the first Australian production of David Bowie’s musical ‘Lazarus’ in 2019.

The next round of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers has been revealed with The Cure, Radiohead and Def Leppard to be inducted alongside Stevie Nicks and Janet Jackson, Roxy Music and The Zombies.

Major new titles coming this week from: Bruce Springsteen, Evanescence (live), Mitchell Tenpenny, Kodak Black, Zayn, Alan Walker, XXXTentacion, Wild Summer 2019 compilation and the soundtrack for Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.

Ariana Grande and her brother Frankie Grande have recorded a version of ‘Seasons of Love’ for the Rent Live TV special.

Tommy Lee and his son Brandon have repaired their relationship following a very public bust-up earlier this year (18).

Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson have invited Sean Lennon to join them on U.S. TV for a performance of his dad's holiday peace anthem Happy Xmas (War Is Over).

Kanye West has fired up his feud with rap rival Drake after learning the Canadian star had asked to use a sample of his 2009 song Say What's Real.

Toto legend Steve Lukather has a list with dozens of credits including Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Paul McCartney, Steely Dan but he says he has only walked out of a session once and it was for Richard Simmons.

The Blackeyed Susans will reunite this weekend for three Christmas shows.

PNAU have made a 15 minute short film called ‘Luminous’.

Paul Kelly has debuted his video for ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’.

David Byrne has anointed his new live EP ‘The Best Live Show of All Time’ after a quote he got from a NME review.

Malcolm Young will be honored with the second annual ‘Malcolm Young Tribute’ in Melbourne in February.

Star Australian soprano Mirusia will mark the 50th anniversary of The Seekers with a magnificent tribute ‘A Salute to the Seekers’ coming via Robert Rigby’s Ambition Entertainment in 2019.

Liam Payne's fans around the world will be able to watch his London concert live via virtual reality headsets on 19 December (18).

Nick Barker continues to focus on tracks from 2017’s The Heartache State ‘Last of the Buffalo’ album. The latest is the video for ‘Airstrike’.

Melbourne’s own Vika & Linda Bull will give Melbourne a very Melbourne new year when they perform at MEMO Music Hall on New Years Eve.

Angus Young can finally be toyed with when his Funko figure is released in January.

UK metal band Haken will tour Australia in 2019 for David Roy Williams.

A new tribute to Marc Bolan with an all-star cast will be released in 2019. The project is titled ‘Angel Headed Hipster’.

Former Guns N’ Roses manager Alan Niven has referred to AC/DC legend Angus Young as ‘a dumbass Australian little hobgoblin’.

Prince’s ‘Musicology’, ‘3121’ and ‘Planet Earth’ will be released on vinyl for the first time ever as the next installment of the Prince reissues.

Suzie Mathers will return to Australia to take up the role of Jenny Lind in the Australian production of ‘Barnum the Circus Musical’.

Lastlings and Cassian will open for Rüfüs du Sol across Australia for the Solace tour of 2019.

Punk Prince Iggy Pop will perform shows in Melbourne and Sydney in April including two shows at the iconic Sydney Opera House.

The story of Eva Peron, as told by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, capsulizes the life of the Argentine first lady of the 40s and 50s, into two hours.