Sales for the Adele ‘21’ in the USA last year are stagging. The ‘21’ album accounted for 5.1% of all new release album sales during 2011.

Legendary music manager Doc McGhee is now directing the career of new Hollywood band Vintage Trouble.

The Music Managers Forum Australia is returning for the 15th year running with a great selection of panels for managers and artists alike.

The Van Halen tour will begin in Louisville, Kentucky on February 8, 2012.

Nickelback respond to the Black Keys, Ice-T vomits too early, Converge get the “idiot shivers”, The Strokes get an award for selling out, and heaps more.

The new Van Halen album will be called …

The Hall & Oates return to Australia will be a reunion of sorts for John Oates with Iva Davies of Icehouse.

Your guide to the definitely, probably, and possibly of artists releasing new albums this year.

The Big Day Out have launched their free iPhone app for 2012 with some nifty new features.

Aqua will return to Australia in March.

Metallica’s ‘Metallica’ is still the biggest selling album of the past 20 years but The Beatles ‘1’ is moving up the ranks.

Luke Pritchard from Britpoppers The Kooks tells Noise11 their ersatz feud with Arctic Monkeys is all sorted.

Dee Snider of Twisted Sister will appear on the 5th season of The Celebrity Apprentice along with Debbie Gibson and Clay Aiken.

Patti Smith has written a song about the late Amy Winehouse which will appear as a tribute on Smith’s next album.

Universal Music maintained its position as the biggest music label of 2011 but it was close.

Katy Perry was the most played artist on radio of 2011, according to Nielsen BDS.

Rock was the biggest music genre of 2011 earning 105,685,000 album sales for the music industry.

Despite the doom and gloom written about music retail 69% of all albums sold in America in 2011 were through retail outlets.

Rihanna has sold more digital tracks than any other artist.

We knew Adele was going to be the biggest selling artist of 2011 halfway through the year but just how big she was is staggering.

The biggest selling album on vinyl in the USA in 2011 was The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’.

Dynamo/Chrome Nips/Bowers/Jacky Winter/millions of other bands guitarist Phil Gionfriddo is the latest victim of a guitar-jacking after his 1966 Fender Electric XII was stolen.

Album sales in the USA for 2011 increased for the first time since 2004.

Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson have been announced as speakers at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin in March.

R&B wunderkind Jason Derulo has fractured his neck while rehearsing moves for his tour.

Kanye is back on twitter, Chili Pepper Chad Smith meets Rammstein, KISS actually make music, The Sword unveil epic t-shirt and heaps more.

77-years after the Mary Poppins book was written by Queenslander P.L. Travers the world famous nanny is coming home.

Jim Ward has had to cancel his show in Sydney on Friday because a close friend of his Esme Barrera has been murdered.

Pat Carney of the Black Keys has said that the popularity of Nickelback proves that rock n’ roll is dying.

Velvet Revolver have patched up issues with singer Scott Weiland and will reunite for one show only on January 12, 2012.