Australia has kicked off the 2019 live music season with a vibrant series of acts with the Red Hot Summer series bringing local and international acts across Australia and a number of bands back together including Do Re Mi, Divinyls and The Beasts.

Australia’s music community is gathering to support Kate Stewart in Sydney.

It's a fourth week at the top for the Queen biopic soundtrack "Bohemian Rhapsody", strengthened this week by the five Oscar nominations that the film received this past week.

Disgraced Sydney post-punk performer Kirin J Callinan will use the resources of SXSW to claw back some credibility after his dick flashing expose at the ARIA Awards in 2017.

Major new titles coming this week from: Backstreet Boys, Bring Me the Horizon, Steve Hackett, Mirusia, The Dandy Warhols, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Rudimental, Rival Sons, Skunk Anansie (live), Julia Michaels, Jack & Jack, Vangelis, Mental as Anything (live), Swervedriver, The Wiggles (on the 31st), Trixie Mattell and the 2019 Grammy Nominees album.

Queen retain their lead on the ARIA Albums Chart for a third straight week with the biopic soundtrack 'Bohemian Rhapsody', the set also newly certified ▲Platinum in sales too.

The Post Malone and Swae Lee track from 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse' titled 'Sunflower" blooms at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a third consecutive week, the song also scores its first certification this week too, newly crowned ▲Platinum in sales.

Major new titles coming this week from: Papa Roach, Arch Enemy, Joe Jackson, Daniel O'Donnell, Alice Merton, For King & Country, Future, Christina Perri, Thunder, Ashley McBride, Mike Posner, James Blake, Maggie Rogers, Steve Mason, Alfie Boe, Switchfoot, and Cub Sport.

Queen hold onto the top of the ARIA Albums Chart for a second week with the soundtrack to their biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody", matching the two weeks their first No.1 set "A Night at the Opera" achieved back in 1976.

Post Malone has his "Sunflower" planted in the No.1 spot in Australia for a second week, while the song also starts its run at the top in New Zealand, making us the only two countries to make it a chart-topper (so far, as it's at #2 in Canada).

Major new titles coming this week from: Tommy Emmanuel, Christina Perri, Swizz Beatz, Randy Houser, Katherine Jenkins, Taking Back Sunday (GH) and a bunch Australian Country Music compilations.

Drug dealer Tina Phan, who was caught smuggling 394 ecstasy capsules in the Knockout Games of Destiny Festival in Sydney in December, has been sentenced to a ridiculous 80 hours community service.

More Australian acts including the one we were all watching in 2018, Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, will showcase at SXSW 2019.

The Australian Festivals Association has started a dialogue with state governments to work together to make music events safer.

‘The Greatest Showman’ was the only album to sell over one million copies in the USA during 2018. ‘A Star Is Born’, at number two, didn’t even come close.

The Greatest Showman brings in the New Year as 2019’s first Number 1 album, extending its record as the album with the most chart-topping weeks this century.

In a brand new Noise11 iHeartRadio show for 2018 you’ll hear songs from the series one line-up of Red Hot Summer.

After 43 years of waiting Queen now have their second No.1 album in Australia as the soundtrack to their biopic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' climbs into the top spot after spending the past eight weeks sitting at No.2.

A new year and a new No.1 song occurs in "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee which climbs up one place to make Australia's its first top spot berth.

Streaming is not the friend of New Music in 2018, according to data from BuzzAngle.

Whoever is still saying the physical disc is dead is full of shit. Albums thrived as well. Data released by BuzzAngle Music shows that Pop and Rock album releases are still dominated by physical sales.

All three albums from the Russell Morris Blues trilogy made the Top 40 ARIA Jazz and Blues Album chart for sales throughout 2018.

A 20-year old man from Mansfield, Victoria has died after a suspected drug overdose at the Beyond the Valley music festival outside Melbourne.

The final No.1 of the year is the same as its been for the past ten weeks, the soundtrack to the Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper version of "A Star is Born". The album also hold at No.1 in New Zealand (10th week) and goes back to the top in Canada (6th overall week).

Rarely does a Christmas song make it to the No.1 spot in Australia, in fact the last one was 51 years ago, and ever rarer is an older song climbing to a new peak, but this week Mariah Carey's 1994 released song "All I Want for Christmas is You" jumps up nine spots to land at No.1 in Australia.

Congratulations to Ava Max, who scores her first Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with Sweet But Psycho.

The Murdoch owned Nova Network has owned up to a data breach exposing hundreds of thousands of Australian’s personal information over the Christmas break.

The soundtrack for 'A Star is Born' is now the longest running No.1 album for 2018 as it logs a ninth week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

Ariana Grande holds for a sixth week to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with her track "thank u, next", and in doing so it is now the third longest running No.1 for 2018.

Congratulations to LadBaby, who claims this year’s Official Christmas Number 1 with We Built This City.