Bruce Springsteen 'High Hopes' and the Frozen soundtrack are the favourites for number one album this week.

Slumberjack from Western Australia have been added to the New World Artists roster.

SXSW will showcase 55 Australian acts at the music conference in Austin, Texas in March.

Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, Dave Grohl and Lindsay Buckingham will combine as one force to perform for the finale of the 56th Annual Grammy Awards this Sunday.

Neil Diamond is expected to announce he is leaving Sony for Capitol Records are 41 years.

Vance Joy has a Top 20 hit in the UK with 'Riptide'

Sydney Entertainment Centre will live on as Qantas Credit Union Arena. The iconic Sydney venue has dodged a bullet, at least for two more years.

For the third consecutive week, the self-titled fifth album for Beyonce holds onto the top spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, whilst Katy Perry’s “Prism” is on hold at No.2 for a fourth straight week, and seventh appearance at No.2 overall (it did spend one week at the top upon debut in November 2013).

“Happy” to be at No.1 in Australia on ARIA for a third week is Pharrell Williams, but he should be elated now as last week the track hit Platinum, this week it’s 2x▲ Platinum in sales.

Bruce Springsteen will make recordings of all of his upcoming shows, including the Australian shows, available for downloads.

Music fans purchased more Rock Music than any other genre in 2013.

Big Day Out Perth has done a last minute venue switch, moving the 2014 event to Arena Joondalup.

It’s looks as though the Top 5 might stay stable this week on the Australian Singles chart, with Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” likely to remain for a third week at No.1, whilst Jason DeRulo, Magic, John Legend and Rudimental with Emeli Sande and Nas could all be holding onto last week positions.

Justin Bieber’s greatest disaster ‘Journals’ has sold a measly 412 copies in its third week on sale in Australia.

Blondie will perform at the SXSW music conference in Austin in March to mark their 40th anniversary.

Dog Trumpet are heading to SXSW and they could very well be the Aussie act to watch out for.

John Cale and Thurston Moore will be two of the keynote speakers for Liverpool Sound City in the UK this year.

Swedish House Mafia will hold the world premiere to their movie 'Leave The World Behind' at SXSW in Austin in March.

Beyonce holds for a second week with her self-titled fifth studio album on the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, plus the album picks up a ▲ Platinum sales certification too.

Pharrell Williams is “Happy” at retaining the No.1 for a second week in Australia, plus he’ll also be extremely joyous about achieving a ▲ Platinum sales certification too.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Ken Stringfellow and a list album from Sarah Blasko are just some of the new music releases this week.

Nielsen Entertainment and Billboard have released their annual review of the music business for the period of December 31, 2012 through December 29, 2013.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival people tweeted out the poster for this year's show on Wednesday night, with a real host of great names scheduled to play this year's show.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will be a keynote speaker at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin in March.

Streaming has taken over from radio listening as the way people casually consume music in the USA. American’s streamed 118.1 billion songs in 2013.

“Vinyl sales are the saving the music business. Hallelujah!” How many times have we heard that in the past year?

Justin Timberlake ‘The 20/20 Experience’ was the biggest selling album in the USA for 2013.

Beyonce looks set to hold onto top ARIA album spot in Australia while Pharrell looks equally comfortable to maintain the top of the ARIA singles chart, reports Gavin Ryan.

Melbourne’s Billboard The Venue has a new name. After being known as Billboard for about 40 years the venue has been renamed 170 Russell (after its address).

Music Victoria and the Victorian Government have been making positive progress to reform regulations and licensing for live music venues in the state of Victoria.