US Chart Watch: Beatles In At 24, Kylie Number One On Dance Club Chart

Three decades after its release, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads remains one of the most confronting and commercially successful albums of Nick Cave's career, a record that fused literary brutality with unexpected mainstream impact.

Amanda Pelman returns to Melbourne to celebrate the release of Four Weddings And An Encore, a candid memoir tracing Amanda Pelman's journey through the Australian and international music industries

Kylie Minogue has revived her much-loved festive release ten years after Kylie Christmas first brightened the holiday season. The new edition, Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped), marks the second major expansion of the album and delivers a refreshed collection built around the original 2015 release. Kylie has added four new tracks, Hot In December, This Time Of Year, XMAS, and Office Party, offering fans new material after a massive year dominated by her Tension World Tour.

When Melbourne's new Australian Museum of Performing Arts (AMPA) opens its doors this December, it will do so in true superstar style. The museum's inaugural exhibition, DIVA, celebrates the world's most magnetic performers, from Maria Callas to Rihanna, Cher to Kylie Minogue, and Elton John to Lady Gaga, with more than 250 items spanning a century of glamour, rebellion and reinvention.

Kylie Minogue is giving fans the chance to relive the biggest tour of her career with the release of Tension Tour//Live 2025, a definitive live album celebrating her 2025 global run. The set is available now digitally via Mushroom Music, with special edition vinyl and CD formats due 13 February 2026.

Kylie Minogue will release her new live album Tension Tour // Live 2025 on September 26, documenting the biggest world tour of her career since 2011. A vinyl edition will follow in 2026, with Kylie already giving fans a taste by releasing the live version of the title track Tension recorded on the tour’s closing night in Monterrey, Mexico.

Here are the major music events, births, deaths and album releases on this day in music for 21 August: