Universal Music Group (UMG) has signed an agreement to buy EMI’s recorded music division for £1.2 billion. ($AUD1.8 billion, $US1.9 billion).
November 12, 2011
As long as they have existed, Van Halen has recorded for Warner Brothers records, but that is about to change. There are strong rumors that sometime next week, the band will become part of the Interscope family which is part of the Universal Music Group.
November 12, 2011
Forget Nashville as the Country Music Capital of America. New York has taken the honor. According to Nielsen SoundScan most country albums sold in the United States are sold in New York.
November 10, 2011
Florence + The Machine’s second album debuts at number one on this week’s ARIA chart wrap.
November 7, 2011
The Lennon & McCartney of Australian music festivals Vivian Lees and Ken West have split.
November 1, 2011
Joy of joys, Coldplay’s new album knocks Adele off the top in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.
October 31, 2011
Legendary DJ Jim Ladd, the subject of Tom Petty’s ‘The Last DJ’, has been dumped by Los Angeles radio station KLOS.
October 27, 2011 Coldplay will easily have the number one album in America next week with ‘Xylo Myloto’.
October 27, 2011
Casting Crown, a band of Baptist Ministers, have knocked Adele from the number one spot on the US album chart this week.
October 26, 2011
The Face The Music conference in Melbourne next month will feature musicians offering first hand advice for industry newbies.
October 26, 2011
Adele’s reign goes on, but the top twenty got a shake up on this week’s ARIA chart.
October 24, 2011
Michael Gudinski, Mushroom Records founder and now Chairman of the Mushroom Group of Companies, has joined the board of MCM Entertainment Group Limited (MEG).
October 19, 2011
From October 31, The 7PM Project will be known as The Project and move to 6.30pm on Network Ten. Oh, and yeah, George Negus’s ‘6.30’ has been axed.
October 19, 2011
Adele holds off strong showings from Chris Isaak and Evanescence on this week’s chart wrap.
October 17, 2011
Sydney quartet The Jezabels scored two awards at the Jagermeister Independent Music Awards last night.
October 13, 2011
Icehouse will perform in a small, intimate environment for the Entertainment Assist gala variety dinner fund-raiser ‘Gotta Have Heart’ on October 28.
October 12, 2011
Gotye, Boy & Bear and Drapht have picked up seven nominations each for the 2011 ARIA Awards.
October 12, 2011
Village Sounds and The Atlas Agency, two of Australia’s biggest music agencies, have merged. The combined company will be known as Village Sounds.
October 12, 2011 Neither rapper 360, country superstar Lee Kernaghan, nor John Farnham can knock Adele off the top of this week’s chart.
October 10, 2011
Sony has shut down three of its biggest labels Arista, Jive and J Records and moved the artists to the RCA Records label.
October 8, 2011
Samsung will launch Music Hub, the latest subscription music service to hit Australia, on October 17 on the Samsung Galaxy S II.
October 8, 2011
Apple founder Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. Jobs death was reported moments ago by Associated Press.
October 5, 2011
Powderfinger guitarist and producer Darren Middleton has joined the fold at Chris Cheney’s Red Door Sounds studio.
October 5, 2011 Adele still reigns supreme on the charts but twelve new entries break into the top 25 in this week’s chart.
October 3, 2011
After hanging up his headphones at Nova, Sydney Merrick Watts has jumped ship to opposition station Triple M replacing Roy and HG.
September 28, 2011 At this year’s Face The Music conference in Melbourne, I will be hosting the keynote address with international guest Brent Grulke, the creative director of SXSW.
September 26, 2011 Sydney quartet The Jezabels run right up to Adele in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.
September 26, 2011
Congrats to indie band The Jezabels who have debuted at no. 2 on the ARIA chart with their debut album ‘Prisoner’.
September 26, 2011
After 60 years and more than 70 albums, Tony Bennett is poised to have his first number 1 album. According to Hits Daily Double, Duets II will sell between 160 and 170,000 copies outdistancing Lady Antebellum who will move 140 to 150,000 copies of their album which is in its second week of release.
September 26, 2011
The Universal Music Group is planning on increasing music sales the good old-fashioned way … by advertising.
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