The ABC will close 50 ABC Shops before the end of the year just as music sales hit an all-time low.

American rapper Future has debuted at number one on the Billboard chart with 'DS2' while Perth's Tame Impala have debuted at number 4 in America with 'Currents'.

Melbourne Music Bank, the music initiative by the Bank of Melbourne, is back for 2015 with prizes aimed at nurturing talent, not rewarding celebrity.

You could feel the love in the room when Ross Hannaford attended the show in his name, Concert for Ross Hannaford, on both Saturday and Sunday.

Both ARIA Charts maintain their No.1’s this week, as John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John are at the top for a third straight week with their album “Two Strong Hearts”, the album picking up a Gold (●) in sales too.

Meghan Trainor and John Legend are at No.1 for a fourth week in Australia, as their ballad “Like I’m Gonna Love You” maintains its lead over yet another onslaught of songs vying for the top spot.

Splendour In The Grass will stream full sets from Blur, Royal Blood, Of Monsters and Men, Peking Duk and Jarryd James this year.

Dave Grohl could earn himself an Emmy Award after Foo Fighters 'Sonic Highways' was nominated this week.

Shock Records founder David Williams has launched his new music group David Roy Williams Music.

Spotify is going through a painful breakup with Apple Music coming along and offering something that it can’t … Taylor Swift.

David Bowie and AC/DC’s Angus Young speak this week for iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

Tame Impala, Chemical Brothers, Ms Mr, Pitbull (Latin), Art of Sleeping and the Ant-Man soundtrack lead the week's new releases.

Neil Young has joined Prince in pulling his music from all streaming services.

James Taylor stays in the Billboard top ten albums for a fourth week with Before This World.

Just a last minute reminder that Australia's SXSW rep Phil Tripp will be bringing the sunshine from Coffs Harbour to Melbourne Monday the 13th and Sydney Tuesday the 14th for the panels of SXSW experts at the Movie Meet 'n' Greets featuring never-released film "Outside Industry" on the manic history.

Holding for a second week at the top of the ARIA Albums chart are John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John with their collaboration album “Two Strong Hearts”, matching the two weeks that their previous No.1 together “The Main Event: Highlights” achieved back in December 1998.

Meghan Trainor and John Legend continue their lead on the ARIA Singles chart with their ballad “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”, which is now spending its third week at the top, plus the track picks up a ▲Platinum sales certification this week too.

Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt refers to the years she was out of the band as ‘Veruca Starship’ when she guests of iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

Years & Years, Liam Bailey, Veruca Salt, Beautiful Bodies, Owl City, High Tension and Day Ravies lead this week's new releases.

The Mercury Prize has revealed details of the 2015 award and announced exciting plans for its future development that will see the iconic Prize place greater emphasis on multi-platform content as part of an extensive new partnership with BBC Music for 2015.

The Victoria Labor government has announced the Music Works grants program, a $12.2 million funding project for contemporary music and related businesses.

The ABC’s Triple J network is continuing to dominate radio listening in Australia’s top markets and create havoc for advertising agencies who cannot advertise on the government owned network.

England's iconic music rag NME is going to a free street press model.

Richard O’Brien, the creator of the Rocky Horror Show and Riff-Raff from the movie, and Danny Saber, Michael Hutchence’s last producer and co-writer, are this week’s special guests on iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com.

Melbourne’s finest guitarists are lining up to participate at the Melbourne Guitar Show in August.

A twelve year old album tops the British Albums chart this week and it is all because of the Glastonbury Festival.

Returning to the top of the ARIA Albums chart for the second time together are John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John with their album “Two Strong Hearts”, which enters at the top of the chart this week, giving both acts new chart records in the process.

Holding for a second week atop the ARIA Singles Chart are Meghan Trainor and John Legend with the ballad “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”, which takes Meghan’s tally of weeks at No.1 to six now, as here first single “All About That Bass” spent four broken weeks at the top in August and September of 2014.

Mark Ronson ‘Uptown Funk’ is the biggest song of the year in the USA with 4,883,000 sales registered in the first half of the year.

Taylor Swift crossover Pop album ‘1989’ is the biggest selling album of 2015 so far in the USA and so far also the only album to sell more than one million copies.