Red Hot Summer’s Launceston show on March 13 is a sell-out.

Barry Gibb scores his first ever solo No.1 Album in Australia this week with a collection of re-recorded Bee Gees tracks alongside multiple artists on "Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook 1'.

INXS manager C.M. Murphy has died at the age of 66. He was suffering from Mantle Cell Lymphoma.

Six Red Hot Summer shows have now sold-out as the tour gets set for kick-out in Tasmania in March.

Shakira has sold her music publishing catalogue to Hipgnosis Songs.

Country legend Marty Stuart has honored his late father-in-law and, Johnny Cash with a newly released music video for the song ‘I’ve Been Around’.

Taylor Swift secures a fourth straight week at No.1 with her ninth album "evermore", which equals the four weeks her eighth set "folklore" (TW-7) achieved in August of 2020.

Neil Young has sold 50 per cent of his music catalogue said to be worth an estimated $150 million (£UK110 million/$AU192 million).

Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese has voted early and voted often for the Triple J Hottest 100.

Red Hot Summer’s Swan Valley event at Sandalford Wines in April has sold-out.

The Grammy Awards have been postponed from 31 January to 14 March 2021 citing Covid-19 as the reason for the delay.

Secret Sounds, Five Four Entertainment and Groove today confirm that their forthcoming concert series, Summer Sounds Festival, will proceed with the first shows taking place this weekend.

Roskilde is going ahead for 2021. Kendrick Lamar has been announced as a new headliner for Roskilde Festival 2021.

George Michael's classic Wham! hit Last Christmas has become the U.K.'s first number one of 2021.

UK producer Steve Brown has died. At this stage a Cause of Death has not been revealed.

The artists we lost on 2020. Noise11.com In Memoriam

Continuing the Noise11 top news stories of 2020, Mick Fleetwood became a social media sensation, AC/DC coins debut and live music events for 2021 start happening again.

By the second half of 2020 Covid-19 had become the greatest threat to mankind since any war. Artists adjusted to iso, performing and recording remotely across the world while the fans watched from home.

As Covid increases and isolation locked us down the music world faces challenges with cancellations globally but new music kept on coming. Here are Noise11.com's top music news headlines from April to June 2020.

2020 began with Australia in a State of Disaster as bushfires continued to choke the East Coast. Australian climate denying Prime Minister Scott Morrison had to cut short a holiday in Hawaii to deal with it.

Meek Mill has teamed up with a number of rappers to build their own digital streaming service as a new platform that will support artists and hopes to maximise "black wealth".

Jessie J spent Christmas Eve in the hospital after a mysterious illness left her unable to hear or walk properly.

Taylor Swift holds for a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with her ninth album "evermore", with the set debuting at the top in both America and Canada this past week.

Red Hot Summer has registered another sell-out show, this time in Hobart.

Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks and Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission will join forces on Survival Day, January 26, for the Living In The Land of Oz concert at Melbourne’s Melbourne Pavilion on 26 January 2021.

Sir Paul McCartney is on course for his first UK Number 1 album as a soloist in over three decades with McCartney III.

Taylor Swift issued a surprise ninth studio album last week called "evermore", which debuts at No.1 on this week's ARIA Albums Chart, giving her a second chart-topping album for 2020.

One Marty Stuart fan has bid $4725 for a dinner with Marty with five friends.

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) in partnership with the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) and the Australia Council for the Arts today announced the grant recipients of the First Nations Sound Recording Partnership.

Melbourne venue will close after this weekend making it the second Melbourne venue in a week to shut, after The Dog’s Bar, also in St Kilda.