Adele returns to number one in 2012, in this week’s uninspiring (apart from Foster The People) ARIA chart.
January 9, 2012
Triple J’s stalwart music programmer Richard Kingsmill is taking 6 months off.
January 9, 2012 Sales for the Adele ‘21’ in the USA last year are stagging. The ‘21’ album accounted for 5.1% of all new release album sales during 2011.
January 6, 2012
Legendary music manager Doc McGhee is now directing the career of new Hollywood band Vintage Trouble.
January 6, 2012
The Music Managers Forum Australia is returning for the 15th year running with a great selection of panels for managers and artists alike.
January 6, 2012
Metallica’s ‘Metallica’ is still the biggest selling album of the past 20 years but The Beatles ‘1’ is moving up the ranks.
January 5, 2012
Universal Music maintained its position as the biggest music label of 2011 but it was close.
January 5, 2012
Katy Perry was the most played artist on radio of 2011, according to Nielsen BDS.
January 5, 2012
Rock was the biggest music genre of 2011 earning 105,685,000 album sales for the music industry.
January 5, 2012 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.
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