Lewis Capaldi and Stormzy led the acts competing for honours at the 2020 BRIT Awards after the nominations were announced on Saturday.

Glastonbury Festival must reduce its noise levels, according to a council report.

Ballarat has become the 17th Red Hot Summer show for 2020 to sell-out. Ballarat has just clocked up the latest best seller for Duane McDonald.

Harry Styles' second album "Fine Line" benefits from a week of NO new releases or new entries by logging a third overall week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

Michael Gudinski has revealed more details of the upcoming bushfire benefit Sound Relief.

US music consumers have followed the global trend of Quantity over Quality in 2019 choosing low quality streaming over hi-fi physical CD and vinyl purchases.

Australian artists continued to be disadvantaged by the current ARIA chart formula with the 2019 End of Year chart once again having no Australian albums in the Top 10.

Here is a list of Bushfire Benefits in Victoria, courtesy of Music Victoria.

Former Facebook exec Jeremy Sirota has been appointed CEO of Merlin.

Billie Eilish, Lizzo, and Lil Nas X look set to dominate the iHeartRadio Music Awards after each received a host of nominations on Wednesday.

Audio giant Sonos has taken Google to court, alleging Google stole Sonos technology for a range of their products.

Metallica has pledged $750,000 for Australia’s fire efforts.

Red Hot Summer fans in Mount Gambier chipped in an extra $20000 for the Country Fire Service Foundation last Sunday.

Former 3XY jock John Peters will switch Memo Music Hall to 1422 on the AM band for the 3XY Top 40 show on 18 January.

Daryl Braithwaite, Leo Sayer, Megan Washington, John Paul Young, Jack Jones, Margaret Urlich and Justine Clarke will join John Waters for FireAid2020 in Bowral on 24 January.

Melbourne will host ‘ Down To Earth - A Fire and Climate Relief Concert’ on 26 February.

Melbourne's Tones and I will perform a benefit concert in aid Australia's firefighters in Melbourne on 28 January.

The Cold Chisel A Day On The Green show planned for the All Saints Winery in Rutherglen has been cancelled due to Australia's extreme weather conditions.

TEG Dainty and TEG Live will host the benefit concert Fire Fight Australia in Sydney on February 16.

James Reyne presented an all-new powerhouse of a setlist for his first Red Hot Summer show for 2020.

Miley Cyrus has settled a lawsuit that claimed she stole her 2013 hit song We Can’t Stop.

Harry Styles reclaims the No.1 ARIA Albums spot with his second album "Fine Line" thanks to the exodus of seasonal titles from the chart, thus ringing up a second week at the top.

With the Christmas sales period over the chart bounces back to how it was at the start of December 2019, with a vast majority of the singles chart rising back up with the mass evacuation of seasonal songs, thus the longest running No.1 of all time for an Australia artist and ARIA No.1 in "Dance Monkey" for Tones and I is back up one place for an overall 22nd week at the top here.

Melbourne venue The Spotted Mallard has announced a Bushfire Benefit on 25 January.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour will kick off its 10th season with shows in Ballarat, Victoria and Mt Gambier, South Australia this weekend.

The reactivation of Hunters & Collectors for the Red Hot Summer tour will begin this weekend with shows in Bendigo and Mt Gambier.

Over 600 musicians passed away in 2019 with We Heart Music listing 623 musicians from around the world.

Barack Obama’s favourite songs of 2019 include hip-hop, country and Springsteen.

More than 100bn tracks were played on audio streaming services for the first time in a single year in 2019, but fans still also love the enduring appeal of analogue and physical formats.

Cold Chisel’s warm-up gig in Sydney 28 December featured the live premiere of four new tracks from the no 1 album ‘Blood Moon’.