The big winner of The Voice was without a doubt Robin Thicke. Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ outsold Voice victor Harrison Craig’s ‘Unconditional’ by almost 4 to 1 in the past week but also sold more than the Ricky Martin and Delta Goodrem sales added together.

It was either going to be Kanye West or Empire of the Sun to take out the No.1 spot in Australia this week, but they land at No.2 and No.3 respectively, as local country artists Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey have teamed up and their collection “The Great Country Songbook” takes the new No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week.

With Robin Thicke in the country last week doing press and performing his song “Blurred Lines” on The Voice grand finale Monday night (20-June), it has kept his song at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a seventh week.

With an election looming singer songwriter Missy Higgins is urging the 600,000 Australians not registered to vote to do something about it.

A combination of major releases and returning favorites by veteran artists lead to the third best week for vets in the last year as measured by our Veteran Artist Index.

The Billy Thorpe Scholarship has been announced by QMusic in Queensland for 2013.

Australian artists wishing to showcase at the South By Southwest Music & Media Festival and Conference in Austin in 2014 will be able to apply earlier this year.

Gurrumul and Archie Roach lead the first announcement for the inaugural Boomerang Festival, to be held in Byron Bay in October.

The Voice Grand Finale screened across Australia on Monday night, and with the multiple performances from guest acts and judges, it seems like the winner Harrison Craig might not be able to secure himself the No.1 spot in the country this week with his newly released winners single “Unconditional”.

Singer songwriter Michael Paynter sang in the official launch of Dry July this week to help raises funds to make the lives of people suffering from cancer a little better.

The Jimmy Little Managers Fund is being lanched in Darwin on Friday, which aims to to invest in and empower Indigenous operators in the music industry.

Sia, Tame Impala and Gotye were winners when the 2013 APRA Awards were handed out in Melbourne last night.

Black Sabbath ‘13’ will deliver record first week sales for the legendary metal band with midweek sales suggesting the album could sell around 180,000 in America this week.

Bernard Fanning’s second solo album ‘Departures’ has become the 6th fastest selling album of 2013 with 11,339 sales.

Gotye has been announced as a guest presenter at the 2013 APRA Awards to be held in Melbourne on Monday night.

The second solo album for former Powderfinger front-man Bernard Fanning becomes his second solo No.1 album, as “Departures” sails into the top spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week.

Robin Thicke with T.I and Pharrell spend a sixth week at No.1 in Australia, becoming the longest running No.1 single for 2013 (so far).

6PR shock jock Howard Sattler has been sacked from his radio station 6PR after asking the Australian Prime Minister in a live to air interview with her partner was “gay”.

It could be a one-two hit at the top of the charts this week for Voice top-four finalist Harrison Craig as his original song “More Than a Dream” and his rendition of the classic “Unchained Melody” currently occupy the top spots on several download providers.

Queens of the Stone Age ‘Like Clockwork’ had a convincing win to take the top spot on the US chart this week with over 84,000 copies sold.

Queens of the Stone Age ‘Like Clockwork’ looks set to be the number one album in the USA by the end of this week pushing Daft Punk ‘Random Access Memories’ from the top of its perch.

Queens of the Stone Age ‘Like Clockwork’ pushed right over the top of Daft Punk ‘Random Access Memories’ to outsell Daft Punk 12k to 8k.

Oasis 'Wonderwall' was the number one song when Triple J counted down the most popular songs of the past 20 years.

Triple J is continuing the countdown on the Hottest 100 of the past 20 years after counting down 100-51 yesterday.

Queens of the Stone Age take their sixth set and first album in six years straight to the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week, as “…Like Clockwork” debuts at No.1, becoming their first chart topping album here, and their fourth Top 10 entry overall.

Robin Thicke and his “Blurred Lines” spend a fifth week at No.1 in Australia.

A week after the reconciliation week, and week in which we lost his former band mate from Yothu Yindi; Geoffrey Gurrumul and Delta Goodrem’s rendition of his song “Bayini” could be headed for a No.1 debut this week in Australia.

Daft Punk will have a second big week in America this week holding back albums from Alice In Chains, Little Mix and John Fogerty from reaching the top of the chart.

Daft Punk ‘Random Access Memories’ was the biggest selling album in Australia last week by far. It almost outsold the second biggest seller ‘The Great Gatsby’ soundtrack by three to one.

Daft Punk holds for a second week at No.1 with their fifth album “Random Access Memories”.