17 Australian acts and three New Zealand have been announced in the first round of SXSW acts for 2020.

It's a fifth week at No.1 for the Post Malone third studio album "Hollywood's Bleeding", becoming the equal second longest running chart-topper for 2019.

NEW CHART FEAT - "Dance Monkey" for Tones and I is atop the ARIA Singles Chart for an eleventh straight week, becoming now the longest running No.1 song for an Aussie Act EVER since streaming was taken into account.

Major new titles coming this week from: Elbow, Lacuna Coil, Insomnium, The Devil Wears Prada, Dave Graney & Clare Moore, Underground Lovers, Blanco Brown, Grinspoon (GH), Adam Brand, Mike Posner, Richard Dawson, Youth Group, Yungblud (EP) and soundtrack for the film ‘Judy’.

Music Victoria has announced the nominees for the Music Victoria Awards for 2019 and Vika and Linda Bull and PBS 106.7FM have been announced to join the Hall of Fame.

10 shows on the 2020 Red Hot Summer tour have completely sold out with Bendigo putting the Full House sign up this week.

Tones and I leads the list for 2019 ARIA Award nominations with eight categories covered. Also the Artisan and Fine Arts Awards winners have been announced.

Post Malone has placed his hands in the No.1 cement at the top of the ARIA Albums Charts for a fourth week with his third album "Hollywood's Bleeding".

NEW CHART FEAT - Tones and I becomes the first ever Australian Female Solo singer to spend ten weeks at No.1 on the Aussie Singles Chart, as her track "Dance Monkey" is cemented in the top spot after her AFL Grand Final half-time performance last weekend.

Major new titles coming this week from: The Darkness, Mirusia, City & Colour, Lost Frequencies, Wilco, Regurgitator (GH), Simple Minds (live), Mika, Summer Walker, Blood Orange, The Church, Angel Olson, John Schumann and Toby Keith (GH).

Dylan Lewis and Jane Gazzo once hosted Recovery. Now they are back with Recovered.

In 2011 Reece Mastin won The X Factor. The 15 minutes of fame would quickly turn into years of shame.

In today’s music world a band like Hunters & Collectors would not have survived. After debuting with their self-titled album in 1982 and peaking at number 21 Hunter & Collectors started to go backwards fast. Album two ‘The Fireman’s Curse’ peaked at number 77 and the third ‘The Jaws of Life’ went unnoticed at number 89.

It's a third week at No.1 for the third Post Malone studio album "Hollywood's Bleeding", becoming now his longest running chart-topping album in Australia.

Tones and I remains at No.1 in Australia with "Dance Monkey" for a ninth consecutive week, the equal longest running song at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for an Australian Artist (1983 to 2019).

Major new titles coming this week from: Boy & Bear, Steel Panther, Hellyeah, Scouting for Girls, Pitbull, Beth Hart, Busby Marou, Tegan & Sara, Of Mice & Men, Drax Project, Lucky Oceans, DaBaby, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (EP), The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’50th Anniversary, Opeth, Marc E. Bassy and Hermitude.

For the first time since Ed Sheeran in mid-July has an album held on for a second (or more) week at No.1, as last weeks entry at the summit in "Hollywood's Bleeding" for Post Malone holds for a second week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

After 32 years of waiting for a local solo female singer to surpass the seven weeks at No.1 previously set by Kylie Mingoue with her debut single "Locomotion" in 1987, current Aussie female singer Tones and I has now logged her eighth week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with her track "Dance Monkey".

Major new titles coming this week from: Blink-182, Brittany Howard, Liam Gallagher, Fitz & the Tantrums, Herb Alpert, Zac Brown Band, Tove Lo, Sunny Cowgirls, Cashmere Cat, Keane, One True Pairing, As I Lay Dying, Samantha Fish, Bruce Cockburn, Ronnie Burns (GH) and the new So Fresh Spring 2019 compilation.

Red Hot Summer has just gotten one louder as the tour taps into Noosa for 2020.

American music industry analyst, broadcaster, podcaster and blogger Bob Lefsetz will deliver the keynote address at the 2019 Australian Music Week conference in Sydney in November.

Post Malone scores his second No.1 album in Australia this week as his third studio set "Hollywood's Bleeding" debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

"Dance Monkey" for local singer Tones and I sits atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a seventh straight week, while it's also on top of the charts in Norway (6th wk), Ireland (3rd wk), Finland and Denmark (2nd week each).

There's no shifting Ed Sheeran and Stormzy from the top of the Official Singles Chart – Take Me Back to London is Number 1 for a third week aided by a remix by producer Sir Spyro, featuring rappers Jaykae and Aitch.

Major new titles coming this week from: Ruel, Baest, The HU, Alice Cooper, Charli XCX, Korn, The Pixies, Goo Goo Dolls, The Lumineers, Sam Fender, Metronomy, Emeli Sande, The Wiggles, Sampa the Great, Belle & Sebastian and Puddle of Mudd.

Red Hot Summer already has nine sell-out shows for the 2020 season with headliners Hunters & Collectors.

Gibson Guitars have a new Slash 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck they have just unveiled to the world.

The Production Company, the treasured Melbourne theatre company founded by Jeanne Pratt in 1999, will present its final performance in May 2020.

Ed Sheeran and Stormzy land a second week at Number 1 with Take Me Back To London as the track continues to enjoy a boost from a remix by producer Sir Spyro, featuring rappers Jaykae and Aitch. It leads its closest competition, Higher Love by Kygo and Whitney Houston (2), by 22,500 combined sales.

Huge congratulations to Lana Del Rey, who goes straight in at the top of the Official Albums Chart this week with Norman F**king Rockwell.