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Green Day will resume its tour in March following Billie Joe Armstrong’s stint in rehab.

It has only taken 25 years for The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s ‘Fairytale of New York’ to sell 1,000,000 in the UK.

Live Nation Entertainment Chairman Irving Azoff has resigned from the company, effective immediately.

Kanye West has announced that he and girlfriend Kim Kardashian have a baby on the way.

Adele ‘21’ has become the forth biggest selling album of all-time, moving ahead of Oasis ‘What’s The Story Morning Glory.

Tex Perkins will introduce his newest band Tex Perkins & The Ape in January.

YouTube has removed false video views with Sony and Universal Music losing more than 2 billion views as a result.

The final ARIA chart of 2012 saw another 66,119 Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ albums go to good homes across Australia.

Jon Anderson has been working on a sequel to his first solo album ‘Olias of Sunhillow’ for the past 6 years.

Stan Ridgway’s May, 2013 Australian tour will see Ridgway back in Australia for the first time in 15 years.

In February 2013, From The Jam featuring Bruce Foxton from The Jam will tour Australia.

On October 1, Emmylou Harris was driving a rental car on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles when she allegedly bumped another car on the road and kept driving without stopping to exchange information or report the accident.

Just in case you missed it before Christmas (because I sure did) here is the Rod Stewart and Kylie Minogue duet of ‘Let It Snow’.

Jamaican reggae star Lloyd Charmers has passed away in London after suffering a massive heart attack while driving.

Kate Bush is now a Commander of the British Empire and Stella McCartney and Ewan McGregor have become Officers of the British Empire after being named in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

Liam Gallagher has revealed that Beady Eye have been “experimenting” during sessions for their second album and are moving away from the Britpop sound.

Lita Ford did a lot of work over the summer to bring the original members of the Runaways back together, including a dinner with Joan Jett, the first time the two had talked in three decades.

Queen’s Brian May can add the title of PETA U.K.’s Person of the Year to his long list of accomplishments.

The information from this current chart is based on sales over the Christmas period, with sales data used from Friday 21st December up until midnight Thursday 27th of December, so Michael Buble’s “Christmas” album holding for a fourth week at No.1 was a pretty good chance of occurring.

The last ARIA Singles chart for 2012 sees Macklemore and Ryan Lewis remain at No.1 with their “Thrift Shop” escapades.

Cricket legend Tony Greig has died at age 66 from a suspected heart attack.

Director Robert Zemeckis will no longer be remaking The Beatles ‘Yellow Submarine’.

A scene with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong talking about a fictional solo album was deleted from the ‘Knocked Up’ sequel ‘This Is 40’.

Beck fans can expect two new albums in 2013, including the completion of his unfinished 2008 record.

Legendary veteran Western actor Harry Carey Jr has passed away ay the age of 91.

Just prior to his death on Christmas Eve, rapper Capital Steez filmed a freestyle for the Ethik Clothing Company in New York.

A campaign has begun to have Birmingham International Airport named Ozzy Osbourne Airport.

Randy Gane, keyboard player for Geoff Tate’s version of Queensryche, is recovering from a heart attack, which he suffered on December 26. His condition is currently unknown.

The official coroner’s report has been issued on the death of Mike Scaccia of the bands Ministry and Rigor Mortis.

Despite the ‘death of the CD’ stories that technology writers love to constantly regurgitate, the truth is that in Australia they are completely wrong.