The charts are only three weeks into 2017 and we have two new records set this week, the first of which is Ed Sheeran becoming the first act to debut in the top two spots on the singles chart, the ultimate winner being "Shape of You" which also stepped into the No.1 spot in New Zealand, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden this week.

Technology keeps marching on, leaving many of us behind and confused. Standard televisions are now HD TVs and they'll soon be replaced by 4K models. Vinyl went to CDs which went to digital (and, to some extent back to vinyl). Movies went Beta/VHS to VHS only to DVD to Blu-Ray to digital. Each new iteration of technology seems to be obsoleted faster that the last.

Los Angeles based, Australian singer-songwriter Tim Wheatley leads an impressive list of Australian acts added to the SXSW Music Festival for Austin in March.

Hollywood has taken over the music industry for the album first chart of 2017 with four movie soundtracks in the Top 10 albums.

Now that Christmas is over, the chart sweeps aside the festive albums, and with School Holidays in full swing, it's over to the animated soundtracks to rush into the vacated seasonal void. The musical treat that is the 'Trolls' sees its soundtrack leap up five places to land at No.1, becoming the first new chart-topping album for 2017.

Australia has kept on buying "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit with Sean Paul and Anne-Marie into the new year, giving it a sixth straight week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart.

The two new Ed Sheeran songs ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’ were released on Friday and are already Australia’s top two downloads.

iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com returns with new music for 2017 from The xx, The Avalanches and Ryan Adams and a look at upcoming tours for the year.

New releases for the week of the 6th of January, 2017.

twenty one pilots ‘Blurryface’ was the biggest selling vinyl album in the USA for 2016 but that old Beatles favourite ‘Abbey Road’ is still in the Top 10.

Only four albums sold over one million units in the USA during 2016 with Adele ‘25’ the biggest seller.

For the fifth time at No.1 the Michael Buble "Christmas" album reclaims the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, racking up a fourteenth overall week at the top in Australia.

As the new year clicks into 2017, the last week's sales for 2016 have Clean Bandit with Anne-Marie and Sean Paul and their song "Rockabye" at No.1 for a fifth straight week atop the ARIA Singles Chart.

Organisers of the Falls Festival in Lorne wish to contact patrons injured at the festival this weekend.

Clean Bandit’s ‘Rockabye’ featuring Sean Paul & Anne-Marie, is once again the most downloaded song in Australia this week.

Rick Parfitt of Status Quo, Carrie Fisher, her mother Debbie Reynolds and jazz drummer Alphonse Mouzon were just some of the artists we have lost this Christmas.

In 2016 the music world lost more greats that in any other single year.

Michael Buble’s ‘Christmas’ was the biggest selling Christmas album for 2016 as well as the previous five Christmas periods.

The John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John (aka FONJie) seasonal collaboration "Friends for Christmas" stays for a second week at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week.

iTunes is proving that the music trend this Christmas is Christmas music.

The Weeknd ‘Starboy’ maintains the top spot as the most streamed song in Australia again this week.

Clean Bandit has the most downloaded song in Australia this week and Mariah Carey has dropped off a little Christmas cracker.

On Monday morning, The Recording Academy announced their Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipients along with a number of other honors.

2016 will be on record as the year where we lost so many music icons. Noise11 iHeartRadio pays tribute to the artists who left us in 2016 in a special end of year edition of iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

It really is a very tough time for the publishers of magazines. It seems, at times, that there are more titles on the shelves that are competing for fewer and fewer eyes.

It wasn’t coincidence or luck that put the John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John Christmas album at the top ARIA chart this week. It was a carefully planned marketing strategy and the plan was game-changing.

Justin Timberlake’s ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling’ was the most played song on Australian radio in 2016.

One trend in music over the last 12 months has been live music fans waiting for the cheap concert tickets instead of buying when they go on sale. That never used to happen. So what changed? A company called Lasttix popped up.

It has finally happened, Australia has landed its second ever Christmas album, as the John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John seasonal collaboration "Friends for Christmas" jumps up three places to land its first week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

For a third week in Australia (and sixth in the UK) "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit with singers Anne-Marie and Sean Paul is the biggest overall selling single.