New Releases for week commencing Friday 7th February, 2014 (unless otherwise noted below)

MKTO look like having a number one debut album in Australia over this weekend while Pharrell could be struggling to keep the top of the singles chart with Christina Aguilera giving him competition.

The Dead Daisies will gather in a Sydney studio next week to lay down more new music.

Ball Park Music, out of Brisbane, will return with their third album ‘Puddinghead’ in April.

Klaxons have announced details of a new single, 'There Is No Other Time', ahead of their forthcoming album.

Kylie Minogue has released ‘Into The Blue’, the official video for the first single of her upcoming album ‘Kiss Me Once’.

George Michael has released 'Let Her Down Easy', a cover of an old Sandana Maitreya aka Terence Trent D'Arby song.

Engelbert Humperdinck has covered a Temptations song with Sir Cliff Richard for the first single off his upcoming duets album ‘Engelbert Calling’.

The Dead Daisies have released their third single ‘It’s Gonna Take Time’ and will start talking up the band on Australian television this week.

Robert Cray will release 'In My Soul' in March on the Provogue label.

U2 have made their new song 'Invisible' available for free for 24 hours.

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull has once again revived his fictional character Gerard Bostock for ‘Homo Erraticus’ (or what appears to be Thick As A Brick III).

Avicii toured Australia from late last week, and that has helped his debut album “True” to take the top spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week, making us the first non-Scandinavian country to place it at No.1.

Pharrell Williams is at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a fifth consecutive week with his now 3x▲Platinum selling single “Happy”.

Engelbert Humperdinck's new duets album 'Engelbert Calling' is almost complete and will be released in March.

New Releases for week commencing Friday 24th January, 2014 (unless otherwise noted below)

Elton John’s classic ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ album will be reissued with a bonus disc featuring covers of songs by Ed Sheeran, Fall Out Boy and Zac Brown Band.

The latest single for Papa Vs Pretty, ‘To Do’, tackles the current Great Barrier Reef dredging issue.

Pharrell Williams looks set for a fifth week at No.1 with his “Happy” little song, but after a big week of music events occurring (Big Day Out, Grammys, Triple J Hottest 100) the rest of the Top 10 is shaken up majorly.

The art works of Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty from Dog Trumpet will be on display in Austin, Texas during the SXSW music conference in March.

Moby to release a new live DVD featuring a number of special guests.

Kylie Minogue’s 12th studio album ‘Kiss Me Once’ will include a song with Enrique Iglesias.

Bruce Springsteen ‘High Hopes’ went home to over 11,000 Australians last week but even with those lukewarm figures The Boss easily managed to take the top spot on the Australian album chart from Beyoncé.

The eighteenth studio album for Bruce Springsteen entitled “High Hopes” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, becoming only his third No.1 album in Australia and his first No.1 in almost nineteen years.

For a fourth week, Pharrell Williams is “Happy” at No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart, whilst local DJ Joel Fletcher and rapper Savage climb to a new peak of No.2 with “Swing”.

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band (at least the version with Tom Morello instead of Steven Van Zandt), has released a performance video for the track Just Like Fire Would from the new album High Hopes.

Kylie Minogue has revealed her new album will be titled ‘Kiss Me Once’.

Eels are set to release 'The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett' on April 21st.

The Birthday Party catalogue, the band that was the musical origin of Nick Cave, will be reissued via Michael Gudinski’s Liberation Music.

New Releases for week commencing Friday 24th January, 2014 (unless otherwise noted below)