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Australian Charts: Trolls Is The Number One Album Again

The animated film “Trolls” sees its soundtrack climb back to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart for a third accumulated week at the top.

Tagged as: Australia, Australian charts, music industry, Trolls

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Booker T. Jones Is Special Guest At Noise11 iHeartRadio This Week

by Noise11.com

The legendary Booker T. Jones joins Noise11 iHeartRadio this week to share stories about his half-century in music.

Tagged as: Booker T & The MGs, Booker T Jones, iHeartRadio, music industry, noise11.

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New Music Releases For 3 February 2017

by Gavin Ryan

Major new titles coming this week from: Elbow, Reba McEntire, Mumford & Sons Live, Big Sean, Yo Gotti, Less than Jake, Dune Rats and the Disney Beauty & the Beast soundtrack.

Tagged as: Big Sean, Dune Rats, Elbow, Less Than Jake, Mumford & Sons Live, music industry, new music, new music releases, Reba McEntire, Yo Gotti

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Warner To Release Volume 2 of Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock

by Paul Cashmere

Warner Music will release a second edition of The Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, music industry, rock, The Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock, Warner Music

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HMV Canada Goes Into Receivership

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Just as there seemed to be some hope for stabilization in the retail market for physical music, HMV in Canada has gone into receivership.

Tagged as: Canada, HMV, music industry

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Australian Charts: Ed Sheeran Maintains His ARIA Singles Dominance

by Gavin Ryan

Ed Sheeran’s two current singles occupy the top two spots on the ARIA Singles Chart for a third straight week, with “Shape of You” followed by “Castle on the Hill” at No.1 and No.2 respectively.

Tagged as: 10s, Australian charts, contemporary, Ed Sheeran, music industry, pop, songwriter, UK

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Australian Charts: Mura Masa and PNAU Slide Ahead On Ed Sheeran ‘Castle On The Hill’ On Shazam Chart

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Sheeran’s two new songs were separated by PNAU and Mura Masa in the past week.

Tagged as: Australian charts, contemporary, Ed Sheeran, music industry, pop, songwriter, UK

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New Music Releases for 27 January 2017

by Gavin Ryan

Major new titles coming this week from: Train, Krokus, Kehlani, Kreator, Brantley Gilbert and Aquilo.

Tagged as: Australia, Kasey Chambers, music industry, new music, new music releases

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Your Guide To Australian Artists At SXSW 2017

by Paul Cashmere

45 Australian acts have now been confirmed to showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas in March.

Tagged as: Australia, music industry, SXSW

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Beatles Sound Engineer Richard Lush Is At Noise11 iHeartRadio

by Noise11.com

Richard Lush, the Beatles sound engineer for albums, including the classic Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, tells the secrets behind the iconic record at iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com.

Tagged as: Australia, iHeartRadio, music industry, noise11.com, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles

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Australian Charts: Ed Sheeran Is All Over Shazam

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Sheeran fans are all over Shazam this week with his ‘Shape Of You’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’ songs taking up the top spots.

Tagged as: Australian charts, contemporary, Ed Sheeran, music industry, pop, songwriter, UK

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Australian Charts: Ed Sheeran Has Top Two Streamed Songs

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Sheeran has continued to dominate streaming in Australia with ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’ stable at numbers one and two.

Tagged as: Australia, Ed Sheeran Australian charts, music industry, pop

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Kasey Chambers Joins Noise11 At iHeartRadio

by Noise11.com

Australia’s country superstar Kasey Chambers is at Noise11 this week to tell you about her new album ‘Dragonfly’ on iHeartRadio.

Tagged as: Australia, iHeartRadio, Kasey Chambers, music industry, noise11., radio

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New Music Releases For 20 January 2017

by Paul Cashmere

Major new titles coming this week from: Kasey Chambers, AFI, Run the Jewels, Marillion, Firewind, As it is, Mike Oldfield and the latest Skitz Mix.

Tagged as: Australia, Kasey Chambers, music industry, new music, new music releases

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Jukebox Saturday Night Tops Australia’s DVD Chart

by Paul Cashmere

Jukebox Saturday Night, the DVD based around the late Ken Sparkes Saturday night music cable show, is the number one DVD in Australia.

Tagged as: 60s, Fanfare, Jukebox Saturday Night, Ken Sparkes, music industry, Robert Rigby, rock

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Metallica To Perform At The 2017 Grammy Awards

by Paul Cashmere

Metallica will perform at the Grammy Awards is Los Angeles next month.

Tagged as: 80s, Grammy Awards, heavy, Metallica, music industry, rock, USA

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Tim Minchin’s Anti-Pell Song Nominated For APRA Song of the Year

by Paul Cashmere

Tim Michin has been selected in an eclectic list of songs for APRA Song of the Year with his scathing response to the George Pell paedophile hearing ‘Come Home Cardinal Pell’.

Tagged as: APRA, Australia, music industry, Tim Minchin

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The 12th AMP Shortlist Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

The 12th Australian Music Prize has gathered up some of 2016’s most creative releases in anticipation of the prize to be announced in March.

Tagged as: AMP, Australia, Australian Music Prize, music industry

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BRIT Awards Noms Announced

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The nominations for the BRIT Awards were announced on Saturday.

Tagged as: Brit Awards, music industry, UK

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Ed Sheeran Fans Actually Purchased His New Songs

by Paul Cashmere

here is something you don’t see everyday. Music fans actually paying for their music. Ed Sheeran has shown true star pulling power with fans actually choosing to buy his two new songs rather than stream them.

Tagged as: Australian charts, contemporary, Ed Sheeran, music industry, pop, songwriter, UK

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Australian Charts: Trolls Soundtrack Is Australia’s No 1 ARIA Album

by Gavin Ryan

Like the singles chart this week, we also have a new record set on the albums chart this week, as the “Trolls” soundtrack holds for a second week atop the ARIA Albums Chart.

Tagged as: ARIA Albums, Australian albums, music industry, pop, Trolls

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Australian Charts: Ed Sheeran Takes Top Two Spots On ARIA Singles

by Gavin Ryan

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

Tagged as: ARIA Charts, Australia, Australian charts, Ed Sheeran, music industry, pop

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Europe Begins Phase-Out Of FM Radio

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

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

Tagged as: DAB+, Europe, music industry, radio, technology

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Noise11 iHeartRadio Playlist 13-19 January 2017

by Noise11.com

Ed Sheeran was an easy win for biggest selling song in the world this week. ‘Shape of You’ has topped the charts worldwide including Australia and his other new song ‘Castle On The Hill’ is number two.

Tagged as: Australia, Ed Sheeran, iHeartRadio, music industry

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New Music Releases For 13 January 17

by Gavin Ryan

New releases for the week of the 13th of January, 2017.

Tagged as: Australia, Flaming Lips, music industry, new music releases

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Irving Azoff Acquires Prince Released And Unreleased Recording Rights

by Paul Cashmere

Global Music Rights, a company founded by Irving Azoff in 2014, has acquired the rights for all released and unreleased Prince songs.

Tagged as: 80s, dance, funk, Irving Azoff, music industry, pop, Prince, USA

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Tim Wheatley Leads Australia’s Next List Of SXSW Artists

by Paul Cashmere

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.

Tagged as: Australia, music conference, music festival, music industry, SXSW, Texas, Tim Wheatley

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La La Land Wins Best Score and Song At Golden Globes

by Paul Cashmere

Justin Hurwitz has picked up two Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song and Best Original Score for ‘La La Land’ at the Golden Globe Awards.

Tagged as: Golden Globe Awards, Justin Hurwitz, movies, music industry

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The Movie Industry Is Driving The Music Industry At Start Of 2017

by Paul Cashmere

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

Tagged as: Australian charts, music industry, pop, soundtrack, Trolls

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