Russell Morris received his gold record award for ‘Sharkmouth’ at The Today Show on Friday.

Pink reclaims her No.1 crown in Australia as her current album “The Truth About Love” jumps up three places to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, helped no doubt by her current massive Australian tour.

Avicii and Aloe Blacc stay atop the ARIA Singles chart for a third consecutive week with “Wake Me Up”.

Australia’s Tame Impala have the 5th biggest selling album on vinyl in the USA so far this year.

Justin Timberlake’s ‘The 20/20 Experience’ is the biggest selling album of the year so far in the USA.

Radiohead/Atoms For Peace singer Thom Yorke has partnered with the new live music platform soundhalo.

The Queencliff Music Festival is offering a grant of up to $10,000 for emerging artists.

Former Magic Dirt singer Adalita will perform with Power Monkeys at the Hemensley Cup this Sunday in Melbourne.

The album chart could be a battle between Pink and Jay-Z this week.

APRA will hold the 3rd Art Music Awards in Sydney in August.

Amar Gopel Bose, the engineer, inventor and founder of the Bose Corporation, has died at his home in Massachusetts at the age of 83.

A song by Australian supergroup The Dead Daisies has been picked up by a radio station in Arizona before being noticed by Australian radio stations.

Not since the first chart of the year (7-Jan-13) has an album climbed back to the top of the charts, as this week Harrison Craig reclaims the ARIA Albums crown for a second week with his collection of ‘The Voice’ performances (and a few new songs) on “More Than a Dream”.

Avicii cements his place at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a second week with his track “Wake Me Up”.

Dates for Big Day Out were revealed today after a giant billboard was put up on Punt Rd, Melbourne under Richmond railway station today.

Pink will film her Melbourne shows on Wednesday and Thursday (July 10 and 11) for her next live DVD.

After taking only three weeks to bullet to the top of the Australian charts last week, Avicii and Aloe Blacc seem set to maintain the No.1 position in the country with “Wake Me Up” this coming week, whilst former chart-toppers OneRepublic could sneak up to No.2 with “Counting Stars”, and Robin Thicke is still hanging around the top three with “Blurred Lines”.

Miley Cyrus is the youngest album ARIA chart-topper of the last 30 years, Bob Dylan is the oldest.

Artists wishing to attend the SXSW Music Conference and Festival in 2014 may now apply.

Local hip-hop act Bliss N’ Eso debut at No.1 with their fifth album entitled “Circus in the Sky”, also becoming their second consecutive chart-topping album, as their fourth set “Running on Air” debuted at the top back on 9-Aug-2010.

Avicii moves up to No.1 in Australia this week with his first chart-topping single here “Wake Me Up” featuring Aloe Blacc as guest vocalist, the track also achieves Gold (●) sales status this week too.

Wale ‘The Gifted’ will easily top the US chart this week.

Robin Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell are set to battle Avicii and Aloe Blacc for the top of the Australian charts this week.

EMI’s Parlophone Records has been officially folded into Warner Music making way for new release announcements for albums from Moby and David Guetta this week.

Celine Dion has covered the Daniel Merriweather song ‘Water and a Flame’. It will be the title track of her next album and is furious that Celine doesn’t even know he wrote it. She thinks it is an Adele song.

Xavier Rudd, Megan Washington and The Audreys are three names to showcase at BIGSOUND 2013.

Sydney hip-hop artist Chance Waters has signed with Island Records for distribution from Universal Music.

M-Phazes will be one of the speakers at the Make Some Noise hip-hop conference in Melbourne this Saturday.

The Voice winner Harrison Craig’s ‘More Than A Dream’ album became the 4th fastest selling album of 2013 this week but was that good enough?

The Voice Season 2 winner Harrison Craig sees his debut album “More Than a Dream” debut at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week, the album selling enough to achieve Gold (●) in its first week of sales.