Arcade Fire secure their fourth UK Number 1 album with WE this week.

Harry Styles makes it to a mammoth six consecutive weeks at Number 1 in the UK with As It Was.

Apple has decided the discontinue its revolutionary iPod effective immediately.

Sounds Australia is presenting live Australian music in the UK this week for the first time since the pandemic began.

U.S. songwriters Templeton Thompson and Sam Gay have signed with Philip Mortlock’s ORiGiN Music Publishing in Sydney for their Connected at the Hit and BoatPony Music catalogues.

The ninth studio album for U.S. rapper Future called "I Never Liked You" becomes his first No.1 Album in Australia this week.

The APRA Music Awards were held in Melbourne Tuesday night (3 May 2022) honoring Australian songwriters across 15 categories.

Duane McDonald is giving Mark Seymour the weekend off this weekend and taking Iva Davies and Icehouse into Queensland.

The Australian Music Vault has added artefacts from The Wiggles as the group is set to receive the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Service to Australian Music.

Local metalcore act Northlane see their sixth and independently issued studio album "Obsidian", debut at the top of the Australian Album Charts.

When Hunters & Collectors reformed for Red Hot Summer in 2020 it was meant to be a few months on the road and then all back to the day jobs. With the pandemic and the lockdowns, we can thank Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer festival for giving us a much longer H&C incarnation.

The Aussie BBQ will return to Central Park in New York City on 18 June with You Am I, Baker Boy and Peking Duk.

Chugg Entertainment will present the One From The Heart fundraiser for Lismore on 15 May headlined by Lismore’s own Grinspoon and Paul Kelly, Dan Kelly, Jon Stevens, Lime Cordiale, Sheppard, Daryl Braithwaite, Darlinghurst and The Buckleys.

Brisbane’s BIGSOUND event will be live and in-person for the first time since 2019 this year with a new face, singer songwriter Thelma Plum.

Thanks to a quiet release week, and a limited edition Vinyl issued, the second Dua Lipa album "Future Nostalgia" rebounds back to No.1 for a third stay in three years.

The original Blue, Red, Yellow and Purple Wiggles, Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page and Jeff Fatt will receive the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at the APRA Music Awards on Tuesday 3 May at Melbourne Town Hall.

Harry Styles will tour stadiums in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 with Wet Leg as the opening act.

Red Hot Summer is back for the next two weekends with Gold Coast this Saturday and Bribie Island the following Saturday 30 April.

The Official Chart: First Look offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead of Friday’s Official Singles Chart Top 100. The chart is based on preliminary sales and early streaming reports.

Wet Leg fly in at Number 1 with their self-titled debut album, fronting a spectacular hat-trick of chart success for independent record labels who dominate all top three places on this week’s Official Albums Chart for the first time in more than a decade.

British duo Wet Leg see their self-titled debut album land at No.1 in Australia, Scotland and England this week.

Duane McDonald’s Mannum South Australia event Sounds By The River drew an incredible crowd over the weekend with perfect weather and another beautifully orchestrated production from Regional Touring.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' twelfth studio album "Unlimited Love" lands at No.1 on the Australian Albums Chart this week, becoming their seventh chart-topping album locally.

The biggest album of 2022 so far is Ed Sheeran’s = (Equals), the Official Charts Company can confirm today. 

Ken West, the co-founder of Big Day Out with Vivian Lees, has died at the age of 64.

The Red Hot Summer tour, due for Sydney’s Bella Vista Farm this weekend, has been postponed until October.

The nominees for the APRA Music Awards have been revealed with Midnight Oil. Amy & The Sniffers, Hiatus Kaiyote, Genesis Owusu and The Kid Laroi up for Song of the Year.

Ed Sheeran has received three nominations for this year's Ivor Novello Awards.

The Wanted’s Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits (9) could return to the Top 10 following the tragic death of member Tom Parker, who passed away aged 33 last week. Upon its original release in 2021, Most Wanted reached Number 8 to became the group’s fourth UK Top 10 album, succeeding 2010’s The Wanted (4), 2011 record Battleground (5) and 2013 release Word of Mouth (9).

Unlimited Love is on track become Red Hot Chili Peppers’ fifth UK Number 1 album this week as it outsells its closest competition by almost 8:1.