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Madonna. photo by Kevin Mazur from madonna.com
Madonna Tops UK Best-Selling Female Artists List

As part of their celebration of sixty years of British charts, the Official Chart Company has been surveying the biggest selling artists of the era.

October 29, 2012
Justin Timberlake - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Justin Timberlake Apologises For Insensitive Wedding Video

Justin Timberlake has issued a public apology for the 'distasteful' wedding video in which homeless people congratulate him on his nuptials.

October 29, 2012
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Lil Wayne Resting At Mum’s After Seizure

Lil Wayne may be a bad boy rapper but he still just wants to be with his mother when he's ill.

October 29, 2012
The Rolling Stones
Ronnie Wood Sells Off Stones Memorablilia At Auction

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has auctioned off memorabilia and personal artwork from his decades with the band.

October 29, 2012
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Will Smith Gives Impromptu Performance At 40th Birthday Party

Will Smith treated Gabrielle Union to an impromptu concert at her 40th birthday bash.

October 29, 2012
The Trews
Trews Cover Paul Kelly And Sing With Shannon Noll

Canadian band Trews have a real Australian flavour on their new record ‘Thank You And I’m Sorry’. They have covered Paul Kelly’s ‘Leaps and Bounds’ and sing with Shannon Noll.

October 29, 2012
Robbie Williams. photo by Ros O'Gorman
Robbie Williams To Switch On Famed London Christmas Lights

Oxford Street retailers today announced that on Monday 5 November Robbie Williams is to switch on the UK's most spectacular and iconic Christmas Lights on London's Oxford Street.

October 29, 2012
Usher, Noise11.com, photo
Usher Buys $12000 Goldendoodle At Charity Auction

Usher spent $12,000 on a goldendoodle puppy at auction.

October 29, 2012
Tracklisting For New Bruno Mars Album
Tracklisting For New Bruno Mars Album

The biggest selling artist of 2011 (more than 5 million albums and 45 million singles sold worldwide) is back with the first single from his forthcoming second album.

October 29, 2012
Maroon 5, Adam Levine: Photo Ros O'Gorman
Adam Levine Is Not A Fan Of Celebrity Bullying

Adam Levine doesn't like hearing 'nasty things' about himself or his colleagues.

October 29, 2012
Kylie Minogue. image by Ros O'Gorman
Kylie ‘Loves Her Voice’

Kylie Minogue is happy to admit she will "never sound" like Christina Aguilera.

October 29, 2012
Madonna image noise11.com
Madonna’s Body Is Down To Hard Work

Madonna may be 54-years-old but the singer continues to impress fans with how she stays so lean.

October 29, 2012
Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter Arrested In Jimmy Savile Investigation

70s pop star Gary Glitter (aka Paul Gadd) has been arrested for child sex offences after police uncovered new information in their investigation about the late Jimmy Savile.

October 29, 2012
Ford John Farnham ad
The John Farnham Ford Ad, Tell Us What You Think

Ford has chosen John Farnham to sell its new SYNC technology but the advertising industry is torn between “brilliant” and “horrid”.

October 28, 2012
Ke$ha Suffers Death By Twitter
Ke$ha Suffers Death By Twitter

Ke$ha is dead … or so says Twitter. Ke$ha is the latest star to be killed off by a Twitter rumour.

October 28, 2012
Pacha at the ivy, Sydney
Justin Hemmes Promises Pacha For ivy

Sydney is promised “a mad burlesque of circus” when Pacha opens at the ivy nightclub soon.

October 28, 2012
Delta Spirit tweet pic of Tsunami warning
Delta Spirit Hawaii Show Cancelled As Tsunami Heads To The Island

Hawaii is in lock-down, gigs have been cancelled and San Diego’s Delta Spirit are one of the bands that have been told to head to higher ground.

October 28, 2012
Hungry Kids of Hungry unveil plaque in Brunswick St Mall
Hungry Kids Of Hungary And Emma Louise Star in Brisbane Walk Of Fame

Hungry Kids Of Hungary and Emma Louise have joined the Bee Gees, Powderfinger and Savage Garden with their own stars in the Walk Of Fame in Brisbane’s Brunswick St Mall in Fortitude Valley,

October 28, 2012
Kylie Minogue The Abbey Road Sessions
Kylie Minogue Updates Nick Cave Duet

Kylie Minogue has once again teamed up for an updated version of their 90s duet ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’.

October 28, 2012
Suzie Howie at a Mary Poppins rehearsal: Photo Ros O'Gorman
Suzie Howie Farewelled With Standing Ovation At Her Curtain Call

The last show star publicist Suzie Howie worked on was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. At the opening night performance last night in Melbourne, she was farewelled with a standing ovation.

October 28, 2012
Robert Plant. image by Haylee Cashmere, Noise11, photo
Robert Plant To Play Bluesfest

Bluesfest’s Peter Noble has caught his “great white whale”. After years of persevering Robert Plant will play at Bluesfest in 2013.

October 28, 2012
Taylor Swift - Red
ARIA Goes From Pink To Red With Taylor Swift Number One

Take the white out of pink and you get “Red”! So this week Taylor Swift’s fourth album “Red” debuts at No.1 to become her second No.1 album and her second No.1 debut, as her last album “Speak Now” debuted at the top on 8th of November in 2010.

October 28, 2012
Psy
PSY Gangnam Style Still Goes Gangbusters On ARIA

A fifth week atop the ARIA Singles Chart for PSY’s “Gangnam Style”, and another new sales certification in the process, making it five weeks at the top and now five x Platinum. Plus “Gangnam Style” is now the third equal longest running No.1 of the year, below is a list of the longest running chart-toppers of 2012 (so far).

October 28, 2012
Bryan Adams at The Palais
Bryan Adams 2013 Australian Dates Announced

Bryan Adams will return to Australia in April to play the arenas.

October 28, 2012
Carlos Santana. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Carlos Santana Corrects Justin Bieber And Lady Gaga Quote

Carlos Santana has taken to Facebook to correct a quote that suggests he has claims he would never work Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.

October 28, 2012
Yothu Yindi, Noise11, Photo
Yothu Yindi Announced as 2012 ARIA Hall of Fame Inductee

The ARIA board have something special planned for next month's ARIA Awards in Sydney, when eight time ARIA Award winners, Yothu Yindi, will be inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame, with some very special guests expected to join them on stage.

October 27, 2012
Something For Kate, PaulDempsey: Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Something For Kate, 360 and Seth Sentry Invited To Play SXSW

South by Southwest, the world’s biggest music conference held in Austin, Texas has invited 16 artists from Australia and 3 from New Zealand to showcase at the music festival in 2013.

October 27, 2012
The Impossibe Orchestra
Mission: Impossible Orchestra – 24hr Performance Marathon With Spotlight On Carers

The Impossible Orchestra is performing for 24hrs straight at Hamer Hall from 5pm this evening for Care Aware, a national communications initiative aimed at raising awareness of Australia's unpaid carers.

October 27, 2012
Jon English Rock Revolution
Jon English Takes Rock Revolution Across Victoria

Aussie rock icon Jon English has updated his ‘Rock Show’ to ‘Rock Revolution’ and has launched the show across Victoria.

October 27, 2012
Justin Bieber, Noise11, Photo
Justin Bieber Fans Tricked By Nasty Cancer Prank

Many Justin Bieber fans are learning the hard way this week that just because you read it on Twitter, doesn't mean it's true. For a teenage fan of the "Baby" singer, it's hard to know what would be worse - reading reports (later proven to be false) that your idol has cancer, or else discovering that you just shaved your head for nothing.

October 27, 2012