Pink Floyd 'The Endless River' was the biggest selling album on vinyl in 2014.

Figures released this week by the BPI show British artists and surge in streaming help to deliver another £1 billion-plus year for the UK recorded music business.

January 1, 2014 gets us halfway through the decade.

Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ sold 6,455,000 downloads in the USA in 2014 making it the biggest selling song of the year.

Taylor Swift had the biggest selling album of 2014 in the USA with ‘1989’ clocking up sales of 3,661,000 units.

Digital music sales have stalled at an alarming rate in the USA with sales going backwards during 2014 for the first time ever.

Ed Sheeran 'X' was the UK's biggest selling album of 2014 and Pink Floyd better than Taylor Swift in England.

Pharrell Williams had the biggest selling song of 2014 in the UK.

Lindsay Buckingham has gone on record stating that 2015 will be the final year for Fleetwood Mac.

2014 was the year the music industry lost over 100 of its stars both in front and behind the microphone.

Melbourne singer songwriter Courtney Barnett and Sydney's Seekae have been named Amazon’s Artists to Watch in 2015.

Peter Asher, half of UK 60s pop group Peter & Gordon, has been awarded the Commander of the British Empire honor (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.

A 26-year old man has been found dead at the Falls Festival at Byron Bay.

DJ Sneak has been a last minute drop-out from the Lost Paradise and Let Them Eat Cake festival in Sydney and Melbourne. Jamie xx will replace him.

Apple has introduced a 14-day return policy for iTunes sales in Europe to come into line with new laws governing online sales in the territory and the changes have the music industry worried.

Kirin J. Callinan and Billion featuring Maxine Ashley both have featured videos on Rage this week.

Olivia Newton-John has announced that she will release music from her acclaimed Las Vegas stage show, Summer Nights.

Foreigner's Mick Jones has revealed he took a year off because of a nervous breakdown.

Slash has reportedly separated from his wife Perla after 13 years of marriage.

Kid Rock will release his tenth studio album, First Kiss, in February.

Michael Stipe of R.E.M. was the surprise opening act for Patti Smith in New York on Monday night.

Music was the gift to give in Australia this year with Christmas boosting music sales by over 250%.

Justin Bieber went flying arse over tit when he fell of a skateboard outside Madison Square Garden in Sunday.

Charlie Daniels has invited a long list of classic country and country-rock artists to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his Volunteer Jam.

Country and Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens was admitted to a Nashville area hospital on Christmas day and is currently listed in critical condition. There is no word on the nature of his illness.

Michael Spiby will perform some rare live shows in early 2015 featuring his entire Badloves classic album ‘Get On Board’ from start to finish.

AC/DC are one of the acts being talked about to perform at the Grammy Awards in February.

Sir Paul McCartney thinks university courses on The Beatles are 'ridiculous'.

The Pretenders albums catalogue will be expanded and reissued under the Warner label banner in February.

Alicia Keys has given birth to her second child, a boy named Genesis.