Adele and her mega third album “25” stay atop the ARIA Albums Chart for a sixth straight week, also becoming the first No.1 album for 2016.

The first ARIA Chart for 2016 has Justin Bieber holding for a fourth straight week with “Love Yourself”, which matches the four week’s his previous No.1 “What Do You Mean” (TW-9) achieved back in September of 2015.

The Stevie Wright farewell will take place at Sydney’s St Andrews Cathedral on January 8.

‘Red Dirt Red Heart’, the third part of the Russell Morris blues trilogy, has spent seven of the last nine weeks at the top of ARIA Blues and Jazz Chart and ends the year as Australia’s no 1 blues album of 2015.

The Falls Festival for Lorne has been relocated to the Mt Duneed Winery in Geelong as a result of the Victorian bush fires raging out of control along the Great Ocean Road.

Adele remains at the top of the ARIA Albums chart for a fifth straight week with “25”, but the first week without a new certification, although with it being Christmas week, not everything is back on track and I’m sure we will see a new certification in the new year.

Justin Bieber remains at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a third week with “Love Yourself”, but he also moves back up to No.2 with “Sorry” which has already notched up four weeks at that position, after which it spent four more weeks at No.3, and now this week it racks up a fifth week in the second position.

Ministry's Al Jourgensen has made a scathing appraisal of Soundwave boss AJ Maddah calling the failed Australian promoter a "douchebag" and a 'lying Scumbag" after Soundwave crashed and burned one week before Christmas.

2015 was by far the year of Adele but it was also a great year for Australian acts Cold Chisel, Parkway Drive, Tame Impala, 5 Seconds of Summer and Hermitude.

The Beatles catalogue is now streaming.

Soundwave ticketing agency Eventopia has backed down on their initial refusal to refund punters following the spectacular collapse of the Soundwave music festival.

Racking up her fourth week at the top of the ARIA Albums chart is Adele with her “25” set, which each week has seen a new sales certification, and this week is no different, as the album is now 7x▲Platinum in sales.

Justin Bieber continues to fulfil his chart comeback by remaining at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a second week, as his track “Love Yourself” racks up another week at No.1.

Trent Reznor announced on Twitter Friday he and his bandmates are planning on releasing a new Nine Inch Nails album.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced their inductees for 2016. Let the complaining begin.

Soundwave’s failed mogul AJ Maddah has blamed “the haters” for the downfall of his beloved festival. Well he is about to get 18000 more.

Jess & Matt (XF), Pnatera box-set, Baroness and the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight soundtrack lead the pre-Christmas new releases.

Coldplay ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’ sold 20,124 copies in its first week on sale in Australia making it the fourth fastest selling album of 2015.

Adele has clocked up around 250,000 sales in Australia for her ‘25’ album making it the fastest selling album of 2016 by far.

Adele holds for a third week atop the ARIA Albums Chart with her third album “25”, which initially debuted at the top three weeks ago on 3xPlatinum in sales, then last week rose to 4xP, and this week is newly certified 6x▲Platinum.

For the first time in 2015 an act has scored their second No.1 during the year, and that honour goes to Justin Bieber, as one of his current high flying singles “Love Yourself” climbs to the top of the ARIA Singles chart this week and also lands a ▲Platinum sales certification too.

Dion DiMucci, the legendary New York rock ’n’ roller, will appear at SXSW for the very first time in a program set for Thursday, March 17 at 3:30 PM titled "A Conversation With Dion: Rock’s Enduring Voice".

The film Straight Outta Compton boosted the sales of the original N.W.A. album to such an extent that it has reached new sales heights.

Todd Rundgren, Russell Morris and Alex Smith of Moving Pictures are Noise11's special guests this week at iHeartRadio.

R. Kelly, Louise Adams (XF 2015), Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 album remastered, Cass McCombs, Hardwell, Dan Sultan and the new Alvin & Hunger Games’ soundtrack’s lead this week's new music releases.

Adele’s ‘25’ is continue to sell at record figures guaranteeing Coldplay’s latest ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’ will not debut at number one.

Here is the latest list by Forbes detailing the World’s Highest-Paid Musicians of 2015.

The Russell Morris ‘Sharkmouth’ album has clocked up three years on the ARIA chart this week. That is 156 weeks in total.

Australia-based artists Courtney Barnett, Hiatus Kaiyote and Tame Impala have been nominated for Grammy Awards for 2016.

Soundwave still may or may not return for 2016. The business is struggling to survive.