Australian music export group Sounds Australia has announced ARIA as a funding partner, enabling them to offer further support to Australian musicians trying to break overseas.

Cold Chisel’s ‘Blood Moon’ album is released today with a something collectible for 100 fans only. The album is being released as a numbered cassette with proceeds from those first 100 sales going to Foodbank.

Major new titles coming this week from: Camila Cabello, Kylie Minogue (live), Muse (boxset), Cold Chisel, The Who, Liam Payne, The Beautiful Girls (GH), Fat Freddy’s Drop, Polish Club, Blueface and French Montana.

Bluesfest has added 10 more acts including Gipsy Kings, Guy Sebastian and Dweezil Zappa for the 2020 music festival.

Mental As Anything co-founder Andrew ‘Greedy’ Smith has passed away after suffering a heart attack yesterday (2 December) aged 63.

The Australian music industry is mourning the passing of Noiseworks and John Farnham Band guitarist Stuart Fraser who died on Saturday (November 30, 2019) after a three-year battle with lung cancer.

Coldplay score their sixth No.1 album in Australia with their eighth studio album, a 2CD set of songs called "Everyday Life".

Four times ARIA Awards winner this past week was Tones and I, who again continues her reign at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week with her track "Dance Monkey", an unprecedented 18 weeks at No.1 now.

Red Hot Summer’s Swan Valley show at Sandalford Estate has sold out making it the 14th Red Hot Summer event to close the gates for 2020.

Major new titles coming this week from: Pink Floyd, Red Death, Rick Wakeman, Reg Lindsay (GH), Daniel O’Donnell, Blac Youngsta, Princes’ “1999”, Beat Happening, Jimmy Barnes (expanded), Motley Crue (30th Ann.), Jack Penate and the Factory Records compilation.

Australian guitarist and producer Martin Armiger has passed away suddenly in France. He was 70.

The Teskey Brothers, Dean Lewis and Tones and I were the big winners at the ARIA Awards for 2019.

Scott Whatley is 36 years old. He has been going to John Farnham shows for 33 1/3 years Last weekend he clocked 50th Farnham gig at One Electric Day in Werribee.

Triple R FM host Tim Thorpe celebrates thirty years at the helm of the community radio broadcaster's weekend breakfast show 'Vital Bits' this weekend.

Paul Kelly and the third instalment of his "Songs from the South" collections, now with 'Greatest Hits 1985-2019', has debuted at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, becoming his third successive No.1 album in as many years, PLUS this is also the 500th album to enter first week at the top since 1976.

Toni Watson under her moniker of Tones and I and her second single "Dance Monkey" continues to swing at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart tree for a continual record-breaking seventeenth week at #1.

How does that old song go … “I’m just wild about Harry, and Harry’s wild about me”? Well John Farnham is wild about Duane McDonald and Duane is wild about John. This weekend Duane’s One Electric Day music festival rolls into Werribee and John Farnham is looking forward to headlining it.

Australia’s Flume and Rufus Du Sol have both been nominated for a Grammy Award and in the same category.

Major new titles coming this week from: Human Nature, Robbie Williams, Leonard Cohen, Christy Moore, Labrinth, Coldplay, Rod Stewart, David Byrne, Jason Aldean, Harry Nilsson, Luke Evans, Akon, James Morrison, Lindemann, Friendly Fires, Trippie Redd, Beck, Animal Collective, Danny Brown, Ben Lee, Iggy Azalea (EP) and the final So Fresh compilation of the year.

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have pieced together footage filmed by Jack Hoffmann in the band’s UK, European and Japan tour in July and August this year for the video for the new song ‘Mundungus’.

Lizzo and Billie Eilish have come top in the nominations for the 2020 Grammy Awards.

Paul Kelly, Dan Luscombe and David Bridie are just some of the winners at the 2019 APRA Screen Music Awards.

The Teskey Brothers have walked away with the three big Music Victoria Awards for 2019 taking home awards ‘Best Album’, ‘Best Song’ and ‘Best Band’.

Triple J has a new line-up for 2020. Lucy Smith will take over morning, Dave Woodhead at lunch and Avani Dais is the new host of Hack.

Red Hot Summer’s 2020 season has another sell-out. The Seppeltsfield, Barossa gig in South Australia for 29 March is the latest Red Hot Summer show to reach capacity.

Icehouse will headline Duane McDonald’s new music festival Crowd Surf at Bribie Island in May 2020.

It's been over two years since a country artist has taken out the top spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, but this week Luke Combs sees his second album "What You See is What You Get" debut at the summit in Australia this week.

Setting new records in Oz and around the world this week is Tones and I with her "Dance Monkey" track, now claiming a record-breaking 16 weeks at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

Major new titles coming this week from: Celine Dion, Madeon, Lil’ Peep, Bruce Springsteen (live), David Bowie, Winston Surfshirt, Ronnie Wood, Milky Chance, Lady Antebellum, Fall Out Bog (GH2), Tory Lanez (mixtape), Paul Kelly (GH2), Westlife and the ‘Frozen 2’ soundtrack.

14 more Australian acts have been added to the SXSW showcase roster for 2020 with nine out of 14 coming from Melbourne and once again demonstrating up a complete fuck up the New South Wales music industry has become under Premier Gladys.