The Illusionists tour has made the Top 100 tours of 2018 worldwide.

Berlin-based Irish artist Wallis Bird has released a video for ‘The Ocean’ from an album she is still working on for 2019.

Australia’s Meg Mac will perform dates in North America in early 2019.

Taylor Swift tour pocketed $277.3 million in ticket sales in 2018 and that was just for North America.

While its hardly ‘Kiss Unmasked’ Boy George is seen without make-up and hat in the new Culture Club video ‘Life’.

Penny Marshall, who starred as Laverne in the 70s sitcom Laverne & Shirley, has died at age 75 following a battle with diabetes.

Noel Gallagher has taunted Liam Gallagher by flaunting the financial boost he's had from his estranged brother playing Oasis songs at gigs.

Miley Cyrus has joined the star-studded line-up to pay tribute to her godmother Dolly Parton at the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year gala.

Jimmy Barnes fans can now wear him to bed with their own Jimmy Barnes pyjamas.

Vika and Linda Bull will be spending New Years Eve at MEMO Music Hall after they wrap up their current tour with Paul Kelly. Kelly has one more show in Brisbane 21 December.

Alex Smith of Moving Pictures is finishing off his very first solo album, due in 2019, and the first taste of the album is ‘Slow Train’.

Billy Elliot The Musical will return to Australia in 2019.

The Beasts, Tex Perkins new incarnation of The Beasts of Bourbon, will have Dallas Crane, The Johnnys and The Painkillers opening their 2019 shows.

Warner Music Australia’s new signing is Melbourne act JXN (pronounced Jackson). JXN is Jackson Brazier.

Techno event PURE will head to Adelaide in 2019.

With the Teenage Fanclub Australian and New Zealand tour about to kick off in February the special guest openers have been announced.

Boom Crash Opera and Taxiride, two of Australia’s most successful bands of the 80s and 90s, have announced their Crazy Ride 2019 tour.

Eric Clapton has released the must-hear Christmas album of 2018 he calls ‘Happy Xmas’.

Gil Matthews’ Aztec Records has released a piece of Australian rock history with ‘Lobby’s Last… Summer Jam’ from Australian guitar legend, the late Lobby Loyde.

James Reyne may have never cracked America but he certainly cracked Boston and Miami once.

Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney had somewhat of a Beatles reunion on Sunday night when Sir Ringo joined Sir Paul at Paul’s O2 Arena show.

Juan De Marcos, the founder of the Buena Vista Social Club and now fronting Afro Cuban All Stars, says that the US-Cuba relationship fixed by Obama has been undone by Trump but doesn’t see Trump surviving the next election.

Bohemian Rhapsody has set a new box office record as the highest-grossing music biopic in global history after rocking past the $600 million (£477 million) mark.

Rapper Pitbull is making the expansion of his educational endeavours his New Year's resolution, pledging to teach 20,000 students in his schools by the close of 2019.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to control Rap music in Russia because he is worried about “the degradation of a nation”.

Prosecutors in Spain have filed tax evasion charges against pop superstar Shakira.

Paul McCartney's London home was raided by thieves days before his recent homecoming gig in Liverpool, England.

The R. Kelly Australian tour announcement just got weirder with the disgraced R&B star calling out the announcement with a “Fake Tour Alert”.

The year of 2018 has been topped and tailed by long running soundtracks, "A Star is Born" now racks up its eighth week at the top, matching the eight-week-stay achieved by "The Greatest Showman" in January and February.

It's a fifth week at the summit of the ARIA Singles Chart for the Ariana Grande track "thank u, next", which also lands a fifth week at the top in New Zealand and Canada, a sixth week in both Ireland and England and it returns for a fourth week at No.1 in America.