The Sony Walkman is back and ready to shake up Neil Young’s entry into the audio device with its Hi-Res Audio sound.

Californian singer songwriter Sean Kelly has started the year as an artist to watch in 2015.

“1989” by Taylor Swift retains its No.1 position for a sixth non-consecutive week on the ARIA Albums Chart, plus it’s the second two-week run the album has achieved since it initially debuted at the top the weeks of the 3rd and 10th of November, 2014.

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars are at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a fifth consecutive week with “Uptown Funk”.

Neil Young’s high-quality digital music player Pono has gone on sale but with a $399 price tag, lack of storage and high-cost digital files, it will struggle.

iHeaartRADIO Music News, powered by Noise11.com, returns for the first show of 2015 with original Little River Band singer Glenn Shorrock talking about the non-original band scheduled to perform for Jimmy Fallon.

Melbourne singer songwriter Chet Faker has performed his song ‘Gold’ for America via The Ellen Degeneres Show.

Original Little River Band singer Glenn Shorrock has sent a letter to The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and Fallon himself protesting the upcoming performance by the non-original Little River Band next week.

While recorded music sales fell in 2014, streaming plays increased substantially and people are now spending more on music than every before.

Jack White ‘Lazareeto’ was the biggest selling album on vinyl in 2014 in the USA.

MAJOR RELEASES THIS WEEK INCLUDE NEW ALBUMS FROM; Ghost Culture, Meghan Trainor and 2Cellos.

Disney has three albums on the American album chart this week.

Brisbane’s Sheppard have scored the top selling Australian hit of 2014 with their song ‘Geronimo’.

AC/DC and Tame Impala will headline day one of Coachella 2015.

Ed Sheeran X was the biggest selling album of 2014 in Australia. The top 10 ARIA albums of 2014 were:

Pharrell Williams 'Happy' was the biggest selling song of 2014 in Australia. Here are the Top 10:

Whoever books the talent for the Jimmy Fallon show didn’t do his or her research. The non-original Little River Band has been booked on the show to celebrate 40 years of a band that hasn’t had an original member in decades.

Returning for a fourth run at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week is Taylor Swift with “1989”, which notches up its fifth overall week at the top, helped by her current two Top 10 singles “Blank Space” (#3) and “Shake it off” (#6).

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars retain their No.1 spot on the ARIA Singles chart for a fourth consecutive week with “Uptown Funk”.

Families of the SXSW crash victims are now suing the organisers of the event.

Evidence that streaming is crippling music sales in the past year has been revealed in the end of year report by Nielsen Music.

Pink Floyd 'The Endless River' was the biggest selling album on vinyl in 2014.

Figures released this week by the BPI show British artists and surge in streaming help to deliver another £1 billion-plus year for the UK recorded music business.

January 1, 2014 gets us halfway through the decade.

Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ sold 6,455,000 downloads in the USA in 2014 making it the biggest selling song of the year.

Taylor Swift had the biggest selling album of 2014 in the USA with ‘1989’ clocking up sales of 3,661,000 units.

Digital music sales have stalled at an alarming rate in the USA with sales going backwards during 2014 for the first time ever.

Ed Sheeran 'X' was the UK's biggest selling album of 2014 and Pink Floyd better than Taylor Swift in England.

Pharrell Williams had the biggest selling song of 2014 in the UK.

2014 was the year the music industry lost over 100 of its stars both in front and behind the microphone.