George Ezra hits the No.1 target for a second week with his song "Shotgun", with Australia now the fifth country to make it a chart-topping hit, previously it hit No.1 in England (4 wks), Ireland (9 wks), The Netherlands (2 wks) and currently sits at the top in Belgium (3rd wk).

Live Nation, the world’s leading live entertainment company released findings today from The Power of Live, a global study that captured trends and behaviours of 22,500 live music fans, from 11 countries, ranging ages 13 to 65. Conducted in partnership with research agency Culture Co-op, the findings revealed that in today’s digital age, live music is more necessary than ever and creates the ultimate human connection.

Major new titles coming this week from: John Butler Trio, Kodaline, Loretta Lynn, Sigala, Cher, Against the Current, Tom Petty (GH), Phil Collins (GH), The Living End, Mudhoney, Cypress Hill, Seasick Steve, Rod Stewart, Logic, alt-J, Anti-Flag, Chic, Lupe Fiasco, Ben Browning and Eddi Reader.

The second NSW Parliamentary Friends of Australian Music (PFOAM) event rocked Macquarie Street last night, with a delegation of New South Wales songwriters, musicians, recording artists and key industry leaders highlighting the contribution the contemporary music industry makes to our economy, our community and our culture.

Keith Urban will serve as host of the 2018 ARIA Awards in Australia in November (18).

A. Swayze and the Ghosts have joined the Ivy League roster.

Australia has been announced as the focus country at Reeperbahn Festival 2019 (Hamburg, 18th – 21st September 2019). With Germany overtaking the UK as the largest music market in Europe, and the third largest globally (behind the USA and Japan), the opportunity for Australian artists and industry to make inroads in the territory is ripe.

ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie has been fired.

Secret Sounds have announced enough Falls Festival sideshows to keep you gigging all across New Years.

The former UK and Irish No.1 song for George Ezra entitled "Shotgun" blasts its way into the top spot in Australia for its first week at the summit of the ARIA Singles Chart.

In a brand new iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub explains why co-founder Gerard Love is leaving the band.

Jimmy Barnes called into Triple J’s breakfast show with Ben Harvey and Liam Stapleton and took Liam by surprise.

Mona Foma has revealed first dates for its new location of Launceston with a money-back guarantee for Southern Tasmanians.

Renee Geyer will celebrate the disco era with Kylie Auldist and Chelsea Wilson while You Am I will wrap themselves around The Grand Organ during Melbourne Music Week in November.

Peter Noone of legendary UK pop group Herman’s Hermits, will perform in New York for the charity event for SAVE presented by MD25 Entertainment.

iHeartRadio is 5 years old in Australia.

Melbourne radio legend Billy Pinnell has a Podcast you can download or stream.

Roger Knox, an inductee of the National Indigenous Music Awards Hall of Fame, will perform and speak about his life at MPavilion for the Australian Music Vault.

To Download Festival 2019 … in the words of that great philosopher ‘AY CARUMBA’.

The Australian supergroup known as Drought Breakers came to fruition via indigenous musician Scott Darlow and an impressive line-up of mates.

Eminem's "Kamikaze" holds for a second week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart helped by the physical release a week after it's initial digital drop.

Dean Lewis lands a fifth straight week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with his track "Be Alright", becoming now the equal third longest run at the top during 2018.

A man and a woman are dead and two others remain in a critical condition following a suspected overdose at the Defqon.1 Festival at Penrith near Sydney on Saturday.

Powderfinger ‘Internationalist’ has been named the top Australian album of the 90s for Double J.

Major new titles coming this week from: David Guetta, Paul Weller, Good Charlotte, Mitch James, Jean-Michel Jarre (GH), Willie Nelson, Uriah Heep, Bob Moses, Emma Louise, Carrie Underwood, Dreams (Daniel Johns & Luke Steele), Tony Bennett & Diana Krall, Aphex Twin.

Sir Paul McCartney is taking on Eminem for the Number 1 spot on this week's Official Albums Chart.

The first annual Women in Music Awards will be held in Brisbane on 10 October 2018.

The tenth studio album for Eminem titled "Kamikaze" was a surprise release last week and it now enters the top of the ARIA Albums Chart to become his tenth No.1 album here (8 studios, one soundtrack and one best of).

It's a fourth consecutive week at No.1 for local singer and songwriter Dean Lewis with his track "Be Alright", which is now 2x▲Platinum in sales.

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