Garth Brooks remains the biggest selling artist of the SoundScan era despite not having released an album in more than a decade.
January 4, 2013Metallica’s ‘Metallica’ album remains the biggest selling album of the SoundScan era and clocked up a further 110,000 sales in 2012.
January 4, 2013Universal Music dominated music sales in 2012 with 32.41% of all music sold in 2012 coming from the company.
January 4, 2013Jack White’s ‘Blunderbuss’ was the biggest selling vinyl album of 2012 bumping The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ from the top of the chart.
January 4, 2013Melbourne’s Gotye had the biggest selling song of 2012 in the USA.
January 4, 2013Adele was the biggest selling artist of 2012 and ‘21’ was the biggest selling album in the USA, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
January 4, 2013Music sales have registered at 3.1% increase in the USA for 2012, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.
January 4, 2013In reviewing the RIAA Gold and Platinum certifications for December, it's obvious that Taylor Swift is having a great end of 2012, but that statement would also apply to Metallica.
January 3, 2013When Bruce Springsteen receives the 23rd MusiCares Person of the Year Award on February 8, he will be saluted by a long list of prominent artists.
January 3, 2013Emeli Sande ‘Our Version Of Events’ was the biggest selling album of the year in the UK.
January 2, 2013Gotye featuring Kimbra ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ was the biggest selling song in the UK for 2012.
January 2, 2013The 1981 Ultravox classic ‘Vienna’ has been voted the favourite number two single of all-time in the UK.
January 2, 2013It has only taken 25 years for The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s ‘Fairytale of New York’ to sell 1,000,000 in the UK.
January 1, 2013Live Nation Entertainment Chairman Irving Azoff has resigned from the company, effective immediately.
January 1, 2013Adele ‘21’ has become the forth biggest selling album of all-time, moving ahead of Oasis ‘What's The Story Morning Glory.
December 31, 2012YouTube has removed false video views with Sony and Universal Music losing more than 2 billion views as a result.
December 31, 2012The final ARIA chart of 2012 saw another 66,119 Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ albums go to good homes across Australia.
December 31, 2012The information from this current chart is based on sales over the Christmas period, with sales data used from Friday 21st December up until midnight Thursday 27th of December, so Michael Buble’s “Christmas” album holding for a fourth week at No.1 was a pretty good chance of occurring.
December 30, 2012The last ARIA Singles chart for 2012 sees Macklemore and Ryan Lewis remain at No.1 with their “Thrift Shop” escapades.
December 30, 2012Despite the ‘death of the CD’ stories that technology writers love to constantly regurgitate, the truth is that in Australia they are completely wrong.
December 28, 2012Music has been criminally devalued to the point where our own government doesn't see the truth, and that truth is mass theft.
December 27, 2012It is possible Adele ‘21’ has become the first album since Delta Goodrem ‘Innocent Eyes’ to sell over 1,000,000 copies in Australia. ‘21’ is currently certified 14x Platinum by ARIA for sales of 980,000.
December 26, 2012Michael Buble ‘Christmas; has been the biggest selling album of the Christmas season with 123,384 taking home ‘Christmas’ this Christmas. And that is just the December figures so far.
December 24, 2012Michael Buble holds at No.1 for a third straight week on the ARIA Albums chart, becoming the eighth non-consecutive week that his “Christmas” album has spent at the top (five weeks last Xmas, three {so far} this year).
December 23, 2012Thrift Shop for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis holds for a fourth week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the fourth longest running number one song for the year, but if it stays atop for a fifth week it will tie for third longest of the year.
December 23, 2012PSY ‘Gangnam Style’ has been viewed more than 1 billion times on YouTube.
December 22, 2012John Mayer wants you to make the music video for his new song ‘Something Like Olivia’.
December 20, 2012Federation Square Melbourne will once again become a live music venue with free music acts throughout January.
December 20, 2012Australia's radio industry has once again showed its lack of support for Australian music in 2012 with figures released today showing that just one Australian song made the Top 10 airplay figures this year.
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