‘Red Dirt Red Heart’, the third part of the Russell Morris blues trilogy, has spent seven of the last nine weeks at the top of ARIA Blues and Jazz Chart and ends the year as Australia’s no 1 blues album of 2015.

Carson Van Osten, a one-time member of US rock band Nazz, has died at age 70.

Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun feared the pop star would die if he continued to let him work.

Singer Richard Marx and TV host Daisy Fuentes are married.

William Guest, one of the founding members of Gladys Knight and the Pips, died on Thursday in Detroit from congestive heart failure. He was 74.

The Beatles allowed fans to hear their music via streaming services for the first time on Christmas Eve 2015 and already the first Beatles Streaming Top 10 has been compiled.

Radiohead were asked to write and record a theme for the new James Bond movie Spectre but the producer’s of the movie rejected it, instead going with Sam Smith.

The Falls Festival for Lorne has been relocated to the Mt Duneed Winery in Geelong as a result of the Victorian bush fires raging out of control along the Great Ocean Road.

Adele remains at the top of the ARIA Albums chart for a fifth straight week with “25”, but the first week without a new certification, although with it being Christmas week, not everything is back on track and I’m sure we will see a new certification in the new year.

Justin Bieber remains at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a third week with “Love Yourself”, but he also moves back up to No.2 with “Sorry” which has already notched up four weeks at that position, after which it spent four more weeks at No.3, and now this week it racks up a fifth week in the second position.

Lauryn Hill has joined Green Day in quietly slipping out a Christmas song.

Kylie Minogue’s Christmas wish is to get on stage with Coldplay in 2016.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly has been named critics' best album of the year in a new BBC poll.

Swedish musician Tove Lo has scored a late nomination for the Golden Globes' Best Original Song category after she was recognised as a co-writer on Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are expecting a little girl.

Ministry's Al Jourgensen has made a scathing appraisal of Soundwave boss AJ Maddah calling the failed Australian promoter a "douchebag" and a 'lying Scumbag" after Soundwave crashed and burned one week before Christmas.

Singer Kylie Minogue reportedly believes she’s found ‘The One’ in boyfriend Joshua Sasse.

Janet Jackson has issued a statement saying that she must post the upcoming Unbreakable World Tour dates while she has surgery.

David Coverdale almost called it quits earlier this year.

First Chicago's Robert Lamm said that Peter Cetera would be joining the band for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Then, a day later, Robert says he has received a message saying that Peter would definitely not be in attendance.

The Beatles not only moved into the world of streaming as of midnight Christmas Eve, but their albums are now available from all download services.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West reportedly plan to reject an offer of $2.5 million for the first photographs of their son Saint.

Happy Holidays from Green Day. The band has released a brand new song for Christmas called 'Xmas Time of the Year'.

There are no major releases until the second week of January 2016 for now, but a few digital compilations and a few tracks for this and next weeks releases.

2015 was by far the year of Adele but it was also a great year for Australian acts Cold Chisel, Parkway Drive, Tame Impala, 5 Seconds of Summer and Hermitude.

Motley Crue has a brand new script for their biopic The Dirt and it looks like filming is a go.

The Beatles catalogue is now streaming.

Take That, one of the biggest groups in British music history, is currently touring and recording as a trio minus original members Robbie Williams and Jason Orange.

A New York judge has ordered Madonna's teenage son with Guy Ritchie to return home to New York to spend Christmas with the pop superstar.

Chris Martin has been served with a lawsuit by a paparazzo who accuses the rocker of purposefully hitting him with his car.