Simon Cowell's American X Factor has been terminated.

MKTO has topped the ARIA Australian album chart.

A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera has replaced Pharrell Williams 'Happy' at the top of the ARIA singles chart.

The Dead Daisies played their first Australian shows in Adelaide on Thursday and shared new music for the first time with the audience.

Big Day Out promoter AJ Maddah has confirmed that the Australian music festival will face massive losses from the 2014 event but the show isn’t over yet.

Yarra City Council has launched a fund for local artists and arts organisations to help meet the cost of operating within the city.

Jarvis Cocker will deliver an address at the SXSW music conference in Austin, Texas in March.

MKTO look like having a number one debut album in Australia over this weekend while Pharrell could be struggling to keep the top of the singles chart with Christina Aguilera giving him competition.

Michael Spiby of The Badloves will host a songwriting seminar his Melbourne on Sunday.

The Dead Daisies have released their third single ‘It’s Gonna Take Time’ and will start talking up the band on Australian television this week.

Super Bowl commercials for 2014 have had an unprecedented run online prior to airing at the XLVIII match on Sunday night in the USA.

Avicii toured Australia from late last week, and that has helped his debut album “True” to take the top spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week, making us the first non-Scandinavian country to place it at No.1.

Pharrell Williams is at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a fifth consecutive week with his now 3x▲Platinum selling single “Happy”.

Spotify plays in the 24 hours following the Grammy Awards have registered huge increases for the performers.

Canadian Music Week has moved from March to May distancing Canada’s top music conference from SXSW in Austin.

Pharrell Williams looks set for a fifth week at No.1 with his “Happy” little song, but after a big week of music events occurring (Big Day Out, Grammys, Triple J Hottest 100) the rest of the Top 10 is shaken up majorly.

Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich has apologized to Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor for running credits and an ad over his performance during the awards telecast on Sunday night.

The art works of Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty from Dog Trumpet will be on display in Austin, Texas during the SXSW music conference in March.

RÜFÜS have changed their name for the North American market to avoid confusion with Chaka Khan’s old band Rufus from the 70s.

Colin Hay, former Men At Work singer, will venture into SXSW in Austin, Texas in March.

The Greencards were nominated for Best Folk Album at the Grammy Awards this week. Few realised they were an Australian band.

Australian Chamber Orchestra won three Grammy Awards this week, not that anyone noticed because they were all looking over at Lorde.

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has fired off his disgust at the Grammy Awards broadcast of the final song featuring Reznor, Queens Of The Stone Age and Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsay Buckingham.

Stacey Piggott’s Two Fish Out Of Water and Paul Piticco’s Secret Service Public Relations has merged with Piggott heading up the operation out of Sydney and Melbourne.

56th Grammy Award complete winners list.

Macklemore & Ryan have won three Grammy Awards before filming of the televised broadcast goes to air.

The Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles today will include a tribute to the music industry people who passed away in the last 12 months including a number of noted Australians.

Bruce Springsteen ‘High Hopes’ went home to over 11,000 Australians last week but even with those lukewarm figures The Boss easily managed to take the top spot on the Australian album chart from Beyoncé.

The 9th Coopers AMP has trimmed its list down to the nine albums eligible for the 2014 Australian Music Prize.

The Triple J Hottest 100 is over for another year and Vance Joy 'Riptide' is number one.