Record Store Day has been declared a success after music sales for independent record stores across America were up 59% on the previous week and up 3% on the same day last year.
April 28, 2013
Russell Morris ‘Sharkmouth’ will return to no. 6 on the ARIA Chart on Sunday making it four weeks in a row the album was spent in the Australian Top 10.
April 27, 2013
Renee Geyer’s 25th album ‘Swing’ has debuted at no. 22 on this week’s ARIA chart.
April 27, 2013
The death of Divinyl’s singer Chrissy Amphlett on Monday has sent Divinyl’s ‘Essential’ album back into the iTunes Top 10 in Australia.
April 27, 2013
Tim Dalton, the Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) head of Creative Industries Management, will conduct the “How to Market and Promote Your Band or Music’ presentation of campus at Collarts on Wednesday evening.
April 23, 2013 Chrissy Amphlett of Divinyls fame has died at the age of 53 after a two year fight with breast cancer.
April 22, 2013
Michael Buble takes his eighth studio album straight into the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, entitled “To Be Loved” its his fifth chart-topping album in Australia, and helps him notch up his twenty-third accumulated week at No.1 here.
April 21, 2013
Passenger sits at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a fourth consecutive week, tying “Let Her Go” as the equal longest running No.1 for 2013 so far.
April 21, 2013
Some of Australia’s biggest artists including Russell Morris, Renee Geyer and Deborah Conway will be visiting music stores to celebrate Record Store Day Australia today.
April 20, 2013
The Gibson Ebony Les Paul guitar signed by Neil Young and the all of the members of Crazy Horse will close at 3:45pm today (EST).
April 18, 2013
Australian country star Beccy Cole has signed with Robert Rigby’s Ambition Records for her next album.
April 17, 2013
David Hasselhoff has covered The Angels ‘Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again’ to help raise money for Doc Neeson’s ongoing medical treatment.
April 16, 2013
Peter Garrett was back on stage with his Midnight Oil mates Jim Moginie and Rob Hirst to sing for Doc Neeson.
April 16, 2013
Nominations have opened for the NIMA’s, the National Indigenous Music Awards.
April 15, 2013
The 2013 Jazz Bell Awards will be handed out in Melbourne on May 2. Nominees for the 11th Jazz Bell Awards have been announced.
April 15, 2013
The BBC has confirmed that it will not play ‘Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead’ in its weekly countdown this week because it finds the motive behind the sales “distasteful”.
April 14, 2013 Aussie rock veteran Russell Morris has the number one Australian artist album on the ARIA chart for the second week in a row.
April 14, 2013
New York’s iconic music store Bleecker Bob’s Records will close in May.
April 14, 2013
Paramore land their second consecutive No.1 album in Australia, as their fourth, self-titled album debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart becoming the eighth consecutive No.1 debut at the top.
April 14, 2013 The top three singles in Australia this week hold steady from last week, with Passenger spending a third week at No.1 with “Let Her Go”.
April 14, 2013
Record company executive Tim Carr has been murdered in Thailand.
April 13, 2013 The 1939 Wizard Of Oz classic ‘Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead’ could end up being the biggest selling song in England this week.
April 13, 2013 ‘Sharkmouth’, the “labour of love” Aussie rock legend Russell Morris, will be the number 6 album when the ARIA chart is updated tomorrow.
April 13, 2013 Margaret Thatcher is proving good for music sales in the UK. The ‘Wizard of Oz’ classic ‘Ding Dong The Witch is Dead’ by Judy Garland has now leapt to number 2 on the iTunes chart. It also went to number 1 on Amazon.
April 10, 2013
Producer/engineer Andy Johns, who worked on classic albums like Led Zeppelin IV and the Rolling Stones ‘Exile On Main Street’, has died. He was 61.
April 8, 2013
The Logie Awards, what a complete waste of time that was.
April 7, 2013
Aussie bass player Neil Smith, a one-time member of AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, has lost his battle with cancer.
April 7, 2013
Research into 40 years of changes in the music industry by digitalmusicnews.com shows that the music industry has been in a constant state of change.
April 7, 2013
English metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon take their fourth album “Sempiternal” into the No.1 spot in Australia, their second such occurrence, as their October 2010 set “There is a Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen it…” debuted at the top, with Australia being the only country in the world so far to give the band ANY No.1 albums.
April 7, 2013 Passenger spends a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with his track “Let Her Go”.
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