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Kacey Musgraves stole the spotlight at the 2019 Academy of Country Music Awards as she broke Miranda Lambert's nine-year winning streak for Female Vocalist of the Year.

BIGSOUND is back from September 3-6 in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Live Music Precinct, with this year’s theme revealed as ‘The Artist As CEO’.

The debut album and second entry for US teenager Billie Eilish called "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" debuts at the top of ARIA Albums Chart this week, plus it also tops the U.K. and New Zealand charts too.

The debut album for Billie Eilish lands at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, while she also debuts at No.1 on the singles chart with "Bad Guy", landing six Top 10 berths this week and she has sixteen songs within the Top 100, how's that for a 17-year-old!!

Congratulations to Billie Eilish, who scores a record-breaking Number 1 on this week's Official Albums Chart with WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?.

This 13 April, Record Stores across the country will celebrate the 12th Record Store Day with lots of special in-store activity, special releases, in-store appearances, parties, DJs spinning vinyl, treasure hunts, parties, barbecues, coffee carts, face painting and some stores partying into the night.

This week at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com, a special edition, Russell Morris 'Black and Blue Heart'.

Major new titles coming this week from: Russell Morris, Khalid, Sara Bareilles, Brooks & Dunn, Pup, L.A. Guns, Periphery, The Drums, David Bowie (early 7" Box Set), Stephen Cummings (GH), Reba McEntire, Alessia Cara, Paul Kelly (Live), Tamara Stewart, UB40 and the soundtracks for Dumbo, Hellboy (2019), Us and the new Nextflix Attenborough series 'Our Planet'.

Streaming has taken over Australian music sales with ARIA now reporting 70% of all music sales coming from streaming in the past year.

Local singer/songwriter Dean Lewis sees his debut studio album called "A Place We Knew" enter at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

It's now the third week atop the ARIA Singles Chart for the siblings The Jonas Brothers with their track "Sucker".

Laura Imbruglia will be hanging out on the Rage couch this week and she is bringing along some Carpenters, Pointer Sisters and Paula Abdul.

Major new titles coming this week from: Keith Richards, Devin Townsend, Son Volt, Bruce Springsteen (Live), Stevie Nicks (GH), Jamie Lawson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Billie Eilish, George Strait, Logic, Michael Ball, The Black Sorrows, I Prevail, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Brian McFadden, Suzi Quatro and Steve Earle & The Dukes.

Briggs has been named as curator of SongHubs First Nations, a project to bring together First Nations writers and creatives from around the world to collaborate with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Māori, and Pasifika songwriters and musicians.

Melbourne based Ruth Picker has a dual life. By day she is a mild-mannered auditor for a great metropolitan accounting firm, by night songwriter for her labour of love The Song Tailors.

The 2019 APRA Awards nominations have been announced with Song of the Year showcasing the diversity of Australian music over the past year.

Michael Gudinski and Michael Chugg have reunited to form one of Australia’s biggest touring companies. Chugg Entertainment and Frontier Touring have entered into an exclusive Joint Venture to will see all Chugg tours co-promoted with Frontier from April 1.

The Estate of Michael Jackson has questioned the sudden jump in Eagles ‘Their Greatest Hits’ sales which has pushed the Eagles title up “overnight” by 9 million sales.

R. Kelly's bid to travel to the United Arab Emirates to perform has suffered a setback after local government officials insisted he has not been booked for any shows.

Ariana Grande's "thank u, next" album logs a fifth week atop the ARIA Albums Chart to now become this years longest running No.1 album (so far).

The Jonas Brothers comeback single "Sucker" holds for a second week atop the ARIA Singles Chart this week.

Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved holds on for a fourth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart after his biggest week of streams so far.

Major new titles coming this week from: Van Morrison, Motley Crue, Bonnie Tyler, Robin Trower, Dean Lewis, Rich the Kid, Yungblud, Dan Sultan, Avey Tare, The Angels, Megadeth, Ladytron, The Green, Daggy Man, Lambchop and the new So Fresh for Autumn.

After nearly two decades in Sydney, Live Performance Australia, the producers of The Helpmanns, have announced the event will take place at Arts Centre Melbourne for the first time.

Melbourne singer-songwriter Angie McMahon has been awarded the Grulke Prize for Developing Non-U.S. Act at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Ariana Grande logs a fourth broken week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week with her fifth studio album "thank u, next".

Major new titles coming this week from: il Volo, Sontalk, Karen O & Danger Mouse, Jack Savoretti, The Soul Movers, Ocean Party, Dan Sultan and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Red Hot Summer series two is coming to its finale this weekend with a sold-out show for Port Macquarie on Saturday and then the final farewell at Bribie Island on Sunday.

For the second time in 2019 an album has reclaimed the top spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, as this week "thank u, next" for Ariana Grande climbs back up one spot to reign again in the No.1 spot here.