Despite the doom and gloom written about music retail 69% of all albums sold in America in 2011 were through retail outlets.
January 5, 2012
Rihanna has sold more digital tracks than any other artist.
January 5, 2012 We knew Adele was going to be the biggest selling artist of 2011 halfway through the year but just how big she was is staggering.
January 5, 2012
The biggest selling album on vinyl in the USA in 2011 was The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’.
January 5, 2012 Album sales in the USA for 2011 increased for the first time since 2004.
January 5, 2012
Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson have been announced as speakers at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin in March.
January 5, 2012
Jim Ward has had to cancel his show in Sydney on Friday because a close friend of his Esme Barrera has been murdered.
January 5, 2012
Australia’s biggest touring festival, The Big Day Out has announced a new partnership with C3 Presents, the company behind American juggernaut festivals Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Music Festival.
January 4, 2012
The Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) has added three new degree programs specialising in the music industry.
January 3, 2012
Ian Molly Meldrum has made a further step to recovery after doctors operated on his vertebra.
January 3, 2012
Australia has 46 artists preparing for SXSW 2012.
January 3, 2012
Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ is the first number one album of 2012 and LMFAO ‘Sexy And I Know It’ the first number one single of 2012 in Australia.
January 2, 2012
Gotye ‘Making Mirrors’ was the biggest selling Australian album of 2011 and the only Australian album to make the year’s Top 10.
January 2, 2012 Adele's '21' topped the ARIA Top 100 chart and was the biggest selling album of 2011 in Australia.
January 1, 2012
LMFAO 'Party Rock Anthem' was the biggest selling song in Australia for 2011.
January 1, 2012 Not surprisingly Adele ‘21’ was the biggest selling album in Australia this year and LMFAO had the number one single with ‘Party Rock Anthem’.
January 1, 2012
Ian Molly Meldrum is gradually improving day by day but it will be a long time before he is back on his feet.
December 31, 2011
Peter Frampton is the latest artist heading to court. This time its with Universal Music over unpaid royalties.
December 29, 2011
Gotye. Congrats. You have the number one song in Germany.
December 29, 2011
The Melbourne photographic studio of Kane Hibberd was broken into over Christmas and a lot of Kane’s equipment was stolen.
December 28, 2011
The Christmas ARIA chart has stayed put with Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ remaining the number one album and Reece Mastin ‘Good Night’ the number one single.
December 26, 2011
11 days after his horrific ladder accident Ian Molly Meldrum has been taken off life support and is now breathing for himself.
December 26, 2011
The Age journalist Karl Quinn has published an explosive article on Australian promoter Andrew McManus.
December 23, 2011
The Richard Wilkins book ‘Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms’ was the biggest selling book of the year for New Holland Publishers.
December 23, 2011
Doctors who operated on Ian Molly Meldrum today at The Alfred Hospital report the operation was a complete success.
December 22, 2011
Billboard has revealed the top-grossing touring acts of the year, and U2 come out on top by a long way.
December 22, 2011
Apple founder Steve Jobs will be awarded a posthumous Grammy Award.
December 22, 2011
New statistics out of the USA put a reality check back into the music industry. For starters, for a solo artist in the USA to earn the minimum wage ($1,160 per month) they need to sell 12,399 tracks on iTunes. For a group, you can divide that figure by the number of members in the band.
December 22, 2011 Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum will undergo surgery today (December 22, 2012) to repair his broken collarbone and ribs following the fall one week ago at his Richmond home.
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