One Direction’s second album “Take Me Home” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums chart to give them two No.1 albums in the same year, plus the new set enters the chart with a Platinum accreditation.

The Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin and their track “Don’t You Worry Child” hold onto the ARIA No.1 Singles position for a second week, whilst PSY is still knocking at the door of the top spot with his “Gangnam Style”, which holds at No.2 for another week and picks up a sixth Platinum accreditation.

Jordie Lane, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Breabach and Yasmin Levy are just some of the acts scheduled to perform live tonight in Melbourne for the final night of Australasian Worldwide Music Expo showcases.

The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) has had its most successful year ever with organisers declaring this year's event a sell-out.

Little Hurricane were the buzz band of 2012 and the one to watch in 2013. At Grammy.com, Little Hurricane is The Word Up From Down Under feature from Noise11.

Brian Ritchie, Violent Femmes and The Break bass player, will address the Australasian Worldwide Music Expo in Melbourne today about "his other job"m the curator of MONA FOMA in Hobart.

Dave Grohl has been announced as the keynote speaker for the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas next March.

Soundwave boss and self-confessed Twitter addict, AJ Maddah, made a rare appearance on stage at Melbourne's Face The Music conference on Friday, offering his thoughts on his festivals, his love-hate relationship with social media and how he's driven by a need to create the perfect festival.

The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) starts in Melbourne this morning with an opening seminar on social networking, smart phones and digital music platforms.

So, the new Zeppelin cd/dvd arrived instore today. It’s called “Celebration Day” and is the recording made of Led Zeppelin’s last (at this time) gig at London’s O2 Arena from 2007. It’s a great show and one where they nailed it live. The few previous attempts went down like a..…well, you know what I mean.

Triple J has released the full list of nominees for next week's J Awards, with Parkway Drive and The Presets among seven additional nominees for Australian Album of the Year.

INXS have confirmed that after 35-years they are no more.

According to a report out of Perth, after a 35-year career, INXS have broken up.

When Grammy nominated Silversun Pickups released their latest album ‘Neck Of The Woods’, they visited LA radio station KYSR-FM and performed at the historic Hollywood Tower. The performance was captured by Grammy.com.

Hanson is the latest feature in the Grammy.com Word Up From Down Under series from Noise11.

Taylor Swift holds for a third week at No.1 with her “Red” album, and turning around and climbing back up to No.2 is P!nk and “The Truth About Love”, whilst last weeks No.2 debut of “Child of the Universe” for Delta Goodrem is down one place to No.3, giving us an all female Top 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

The fifth Swedish act to hit No.1 in Australia occurs this week, as the DJ trio Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin climbs to No.1 with the single “Don’t You Worry Child”. We join England, the US Dance Chart and their home country Sweden; where it has been No.1 for the past five weeks, as the fourth country to place it at the top of the charts.

Paul Simon and Rufus Wainwright are the two latest acts added to Bluesfest 2013 giving the Byron Bay music festival easily the greatest line-up ever seen on one festival in Australia.

Australian singer songwriter Clare Bowditch has been announced as a speaker at the Face The Music conference in Melbourne next week.

Music copyright organisation APRA|AMCOS this week announced that it has distributed 14% more in royalties to its members in the 2011/12 financial year, confirming a strengthening digital download market and revealing a growing interest in Australian songwriters internationally.

Spotify is about to test its ability to break an unknown act with the exclusive release of Sweden’s Cazzette.

SXSW has confirmed the first acts for 2013 with Australia’s Seth Sentry, Emma-Louise, The Chevelles, San Cisco and Vaudeville Smash heading to Austin for festival showcases.

The Rolling Stones have released ‘One More Shot’, the second of their two new songs from the ‘GRRR’ album.

I’m going to state an opinion that might shock you. I’ve honestly been thinking about it for a while now, and I figure that with the release of their new compilation, now’s a great time for us to talk about it.

Parkway Drive, from Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, will debut in the Top 30 in the USA this week.

Taylor Swift was an easy winning again this week on the US chart. ‘Red’ sold 331,000 units and despite a 73% drop in sales from last week still managed to sell double the sales for no. 2’s Meek Mill debut.

It's funny how the music industry works. One day I'm listening to Mac Cocker on JJJ playing this fabulous new record by Nona Hendryx, the next, I find I'm selling it because I'm working at RCA.

According to a statement on their website, Billy Hyde Stage Systems is now an independent company, with Soundwave/Harvest Backline Manager, Billy Hibben, announced as national manager.

Apple Inc now legally owns the Apple Corps logo. The Californian computer company now controls The Beatles iconic Granny Smith.

I've been in retail a while now, and it's not as easy as people think. In fact it's actually quite hard, in music retail I mean. On one hand you're facing the wholesalers, filtering through their messages and priorities, and turning 180 degrees, you're facing the people that make it all worthwhile-the public. Sometimes.