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Deezer Announces Plans For $130 Million Funding

A day after digital streaming company Deezer announced it had closed $130 million in funding, the company has today announced its plans for the use of the funds.

October 10, 2012
Gallins
Allans Billy Hyde Rejects Gallins Offer

The receiver for the Allans Music & Billy Hyde music stores has rejected an offer from retail group Australian Musical Imports and Gallin’s Musician’s Pro Shop to take over the company.

October 10, 2012
Mumford & Sons - image by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Mumford And Sons Hold Muse From Top Of US Chart

The Mumford & Sons ‘Babel’ album has kept Muse ‘The 2nd Law’ from the top spot on the US album chart this week despite dropping 74% on last weeks sales.

October 10, 2012
Alpine: Photo Ros O'Gorman
The Australian Music Prize Announces The “Longlist”

The rebranded AMP releases a list of 26 albums as part of the “Official Entrants” longlist.

October 9, 2012
360 at the Independent Music Awards - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Independent Music Awards Announce Their Best Label Nominees

The Jagermeister Independent Music Awards have announced the nominees for the new Best Label category.

October 9, 2012
Pink at the Forum Theatre 2012
Pink Outsells Muse By More Than Double

Pink managed to outsell everyone in her path this week with her ‘The Truth About Love’ album in its third week selling more than double Muse ‘The 2nd Law’ in its first week.

October 8, 2012
Pink at the Forum Theatre 2012
Pink Holds Off Muse From Top Of ARIA Chart

P!nk’s promo tour of Australia last week has helped her to maintain a third consecutive week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with her “The Truth About Love” album.

October 7, 2012
Psy
PSY Gangham Style Stays At No 1 On ARIA Chart

PSY fights off three high debuts this week to stay at No.1 for a second week on the ARIA Singles Chart with his now 2x Platinum single “Gangnam Style”, which could remain there for several more weeks as he is due in Australia from October 15th for a promo tour.

October 7, 2012
Taylor Swift Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Taylor Swift To Perform At ARIA Awards

Taylor Swift will return to Australia to perform at the ARIA Awards in Sydney next month.

October 7, 2012
Denis Handlin AM, Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Australasia
Sony Foundation Funds Salvos Sound Point Centre In Goodna

The Queensland town of Goodna has a brand new facility built with thanks to funding from the Sony Foundation.

October 5, 2012
Steve Kilbey: Photo Ros O'Gorman
Steve Kilbey Quits The Church Then Recants Statement

Earlier today Steve Kilbey said he is quitting The Church but later in the afternoon recanted his original Facebook bitch.

October 4, 2012
Weddings Parties Anything, EG Awards Launch: Photo Ros O'Gorman
Weddings Parties Anything Join The EG Hall Of Fame

Melbourne’s folk-rock stalwarts Weddings Parties Anything will be inducted into the EG Hall of Fame at the EG Awards in November.

October 3, 2012
Mumford and Sons Babel
2012 Music Sales Set To Break Record In USA

Music sales for the first nine months of 2012 are on track to break last year’s record figure in the USA.

October 3, 2012
360
Full ARIA Award Nominations List

360, Gotye, The Jezabels, Hilltop Hoods, Lanie Lane lead the ARIA Award nominations for 2012.

October 3, 2012
Brian Ritchie - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Brian Ritchie And Michael Chugg To Deliver AWME Keynotes

Former Violent Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie and promoter Michael Chugg have been announced as the keynote speakers for the Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) in Melbourne in November.

October 2, 2012
Elton John. image by Ros O'Gorman
Elton John To Replace George Michael At Perth Arena Opening

Sir Elton John has stepped in to perform an extra show in Perth to replace the cancelled George Michael concert that was to officially open Perth Arena.

September 30, 2012
George Michael, photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
George Michael Australian Tour Cancelled BREAKING NEWS

The forthcoming Australian tour for George Michael has been cancelled.

September 30, 2012
Pink. Photo by Ros O'Gorman Noise11.com
Pink Keeps Mumford & Sons From ARIA Chart Peak

It’s been six weeks since an album has held onto the No.1 spot for a second week (“The Sapphires Soundtrack for two weeks from 20-Aug), but P!nk’s “The Truth About Love” holds for a second week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart survey.

September 30, 2012
Psy
Guy Sebastian PSY Fi’d Off Top Of ARIA Chart

Park Jae-sang is better known as the South Korean K-Pop artist PSY, who moves up to No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with his first hit here “Gangham Style”, the song turning over to Platinum in sales within its third week on the charts, and we are now the tenth country around the planet to make it into a No.1 song (so far).

September 30, 2012
Neil Young. image by Ros O'Gorman
Neil Young To Launch Pono Streaming Service

Music legend Neil Young has thrown a new player into the streaming music revolution. He is about to launch Pono.

September 29, 2012
Ken Scott
Ziggy Stardust Producer Ken Scott To Speak At SXSW

British record producer Ken Scott, who work includes David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and Supertramp ‘Crisis What Crisis’ will speak at SXSW in 2013.

September 29, 2012
Clare Bowditch: Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Clare Bowditch And Archie Roach To Showcase At AWME

Clare Bowditch, Archie Roach Announced For Australasian Worldwide Music Expo in Melbourne in November.

September 28, 2012
Homebake
Chugg Entertainment Partners With Homebake

Chugg Entertainment has partnered with Homebake Music, Film, Comedy & Arts Festival producers IMC and Village Sounds to co-produce Homebake.

September 27, 2012
Grammy Awards
Latin Grammy Award Nominations Complete List Announced

Las Vegas will play host to The Latin Grammy Awards on November 15.

September 26, 2012
Kylie Minogue, Image, Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Kylie Minogue, Tim Minchin, Mona Foma Win Helpmann Awards

Kylie Minogue, Tim Minchin and the Mona Foma festival have each won awards at the 2012 Helpmann Awards, handed out in Sydney this week.

September 26, 2012
Pink. Photo by Ros O'Gorman Noise11.com
Pink On Track To Top 200k US Sales

Pink ‘The Truth About Love’ is a certain for number one later this week in the USA with early sales indicating that the title should sell more than 200,000 copies this week.

September 25, 2012
Pink. Photo by Ros O'Gorman Noise11.com
Pink The Truth About Love Is Fastest Seller Of 2012

The new Pink album ‘The Truth About Love’ is officially the fastest selling album of 2012 in Australia with 74,293 units being sold in the first week on sale.

September 24, 2012
EMI images photo noise11.com
Historic EMI To Universal Sale Approved In USA And Europe

The sale of EMI Records to Universal Music has been approved in the USA and Europe.

September 23, 2012
Pink. Photo by Ros O'Gorman Noise11.com
Pink The Truth About Love Debuts At Top Of ARIA Chart

The sixth studio album for P!nk entitled “The Truth About Love” lands at No.1 this week becoming her fourth No.1 album in Australia and her third consecutive No.1 debut.

September 23, 2012
Guy Sebastian - Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Guy Sebastian Now Equals 2nd Longest No 1 Of 2012

Six weeks now at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for Guy Sebastian and his “Battle Scars”, making it the equal second longest running chart-topper for 2012 alongside Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” featuring Sia (Jan/Feb 2012).

September 23, 2012