Matchbox Twenty debut at No.1 with their fourth studio album “North” becoming their fourth of five charting albums to reach the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, plus it also achieves Gold sales status in its first week of release.

Guy Sebastian’s “Battle Scars” becomes his longest running No.1 single of his six chart-topping songs here by staying atop the ARIA Singles chart for a fourth week, plus it also picks up a double platinum certification in the process.

Music fans all over the world will be able to watch Grulkefest streamed live when SXSW pay tribute to the late Brent Grulke on Saturday night (September 8, 2012) from 6pm.

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will head to Tasmania to headline the Mona Foma Festival in Hobart in January.

Australia’s Alpine has scored an American deal with Votiv Records for the release of their debut album ‘A Is For Alpine’.

The Sapphires is by far the most successful Australian movie of the year with news it has now grossed over $10 million at the Australian box-office in four weeks.

Paul and Dan Kelly, The Bamboos with Tim Rogers, Lanie Lane, and more will perform at the 2012 Jagermeister Independent Music Awards.

Live Nation Australasia has announced it is setting up a full-time comedy division with Bec Sutherland heading the new comedy division team.

The Australian music industry is in shock following the sudden passing of David Humphreys in Perth this morning (September 4, 2012).

Back in May 2011, The Wombats debuted and peaked at No.2 in Australia with their second album “This Modern Glitch”, which is on the 14th Floor Records label (through Atlantic/Warner here).

Guy Sebastian keeps his “Battle Scars” at No.1 in Australia for a third week, matching the three week run at the top of his first No.1 “Angels Brought Me Here” (Dec 2003).

The late, great Billy Thorpe may appear as a hologram on the upcoming Long Way To The Top shows.

MCM Entertainment Group (MEG), the production company behind Take 40 Australia, has announced that it plans to delist from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

The BIGSOUND music conference for Brisbane from September 12 has completely sold out.

The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) has announced the 2012 national scholarship program for artists, artist managers and arts workers to attend the 5th music expo in Melbourne in November.

Chris Lighty, manager of Diddy, Mariah Carey, Ja Rule and 50 Cent, shot himself dead in the street outside his Bronx apartment on Thursday (August 30, 2012).

SXSW will present Grulkefest, an event to honor SXSW director Brent Grulke who passed away in Austin two weeks ago.

Members of AC/DC, The Angels, The Choirboys and Rose Tattoo formed a supergroup on the back of a flatbed truck in Sydney yesterday to send a message to the Commonwealth Bank. “Am I ever going to bank with the Commonwealth again/no way, get fucked, fuck off”.

The Soundtrack to the film “The Sapphires” stays at No.1 for a second week, whilst it was also again at No.2 for a second week on the Australian Box Office report, only dropping 17% from the previous weeks box office receipts (most second week films drop dramatically, so 17% is a good thing).

Guy Sebastian stays at No.1 for a second week with his sixth chart-topping single “Battle Scars”, picking up a Gold sales certification and it becomes his third consecutive two-week-running No.1 track, as “Like it Like That” (Sept 2009) and “Who’s That Girl” (Dec 2011) both spent two weeks at the top.

Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $1 billion after a landmark trial has found that Samsung infringed on Apple’s copyright in making smartphone.

Network Ten has announced the departure of Chief Programming Officer David Mott.

Mia Dyson is a last minute addition to the BigSound music conference and festival.

Iconic Australian music retailer Billy Hyde and Allans has been placed into receivership.

Jason Derulo and Kelly Rowland are suddenly out of work today after Channel Ten axed its big budget reality show dance contest Everybody Dance Now.

Guy Sebastian scores his sixth No.1 single in Australia by debuting at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with his new track “Battle Scars”. He now sits in third position on the list of ‘Aussie’s with the Most No.1’s’ behind Delta Goodrem with eight and Kylie Minogue with ten.

The new Australian feature film “The Sapphires” debuted at No.2 on the box-office report last week (with $2.475 million behind Dark Knight Rises’ $2.9 million), and this week on the ARIA Albums Chart, the soundtrack jumps up to No.1 becoming the first film soundtrack to make it to No.1 this decade, and the first locally produced soundtrack in over eleven years to claim a No.1 spot.

It’s a bumper week, with everyone from Bloc Party to Ricki-Lee to Yeasayer to The Wiggles releasing new albums.

Songs performed and played at the Olympic Closing Ceremony yesterday are dominating the UK iTunes chart today (August 14).

There is sad news for the music industry to report this morning. Brent Grulke, the creative director of SXSW, has died at the age of 52.