Iron Maiden’s 1982 metal classic ‘Number Of The Beast’ could be the number one song in the UK over this Christmas period.

Victoria’s music industry will be a major beneficiary after this weekend’s election win that was swept Dan Andrews to power as Premier of Victoria and will see Martin Foley installed as the Minister for Arts and Youth Affairs for the next four years.

Holding at No.1 for a second week is “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift, which also achieves a sales certification of Gold (●), whilst it also holds for a second week in the US charts too.

Taylor Swift’s “1989” returns to the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week after spending the past two weeks at No.2, plus she also maintains her singles No.1 spot with “Blank Space” too, giving Taylor her first dual No.1’s in Australia.

Stephen Cummings of The Sports and Guy Sebastian drop by iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com this week.

The new AC/DC album 'Rock Or Bust' along with Justice Crew, Pitbull, Wu-Tang Clan, Mary J. Blige, Take That and new So Fresh compilation lead the weeks new releases.

Australia simply was not interested in watching the ARIA Awards last night. The broadcast was a complete failure for Network 10 with the ARIA Red Carpet pre-show out-rating the awards show and the awards failing to make the Top 20.

Sebastien Izambard of Il Divo has gathered an incredible line-up of Australian stars to raise funds for the children of the Donnell family from Manly and others to fight the fatal and rare genetic condition Sanfilippo Syndrome.

The American Music Awards were held at Los Angeles on Sunday with Australia's 5 Seconds of Summer picking up the Best New Artist of the Year award and Iggy Azalea the awards for Best Hip Hop Artist and Best Hip Hop album.

Mistrusted Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has broken yet another promise following the official announcement that 10% of staff at the ABC will lose their job.

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam is suggesting Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is behind the Abbott government plans to kneecap the ABC.

Charli XCX has been added as a presenter to the ARIA Awards, to be held in Sydney this Wednesday.

Denis Handlin AM, Chairman & CEO, Australia & New Zealand and President, Asia, will receive the ARIA Industry Icon award at this ARIA’s on Wednesday.

One Direction debut at No.1 with their fourth album entitled “Four”, which also enters on Gold (●) sales, plus its becomes their fourth consecutive No.1 album in Australia, a first for an overseas act.

Taylor Swift climbs a place to No.1 with “Blank Space”, becoming her third chart-topping single in Australia and her second for this year after “Shake it off” spent three weeks at the top of the ARIA Singles chart back in September.

The Rolling Stones have won the Top Boxscore Award at the 11th annual Billboard Touring Awards.

Albums by Coldplay and Guy Sebastian lead the week's new music releases.

The Save The Palace protest turned ugly in Melbourne on Thursday when protesters were attacked while demonstrating the unauthorised destruction of Melbourne venue The Palace in Bourke Street.

Legendary producer T. Bone Burnett is this week's special guest on iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

Councillor Rohan Leppert of the City of Melbourne has called today's destruction of the iconic Palace Theatre "an act of vandalism".

Dan Sultan and Courtney Barnett are Victoria's hottest acts of 2014 after both scored multiple awards at 2014 Age Music Victoria Music Awards.

Pink Floyd are registering record streaming figures for Spotify but the surprise is the listeners are a lot younger than you would expect.

For the first time since 1991, Billboard is changing the methodology they use for calculating their Top 200 Album chart.

Singer Songwriter Tex Perkins has thrown his support behind Labor’s Martin Foley in the upcoming Victorian election, consolidating Foley’s chances of a win in the seat of Albert Park.

Melbourne's Grammy nominated band Hiatus Kaiyote will showcase at SXSW in 2015.

Neil Finn & Paul Kelly will perform together at the 2014 ARIA Awards.

Mia Dyson, Chet Faker, Sia and Meg Mac were the four winners for the J Awards 2014.

St Kilda’s iconic Palais Theatre will be restored under a Labor Government.

Syria Lamonte may have been Australia’s first-ever pop star. Syria was the first known Australian to make a commercial recording and her song ‘They Always Follow Me’ has been added to the Sounds of Australia archives.

Martin Foley, the Labor Shadow Minister for the Arts in Victoria, has placed rock star and wannabe politician Tex Perkins as his number two preference for the seat of Albert Park.