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.

It’s a very Merry Christmas for The Greatest Showman – the film’s hugely successful cast recording takes this year’s Christmas Number 1 album with its strongest week of sales yet.

Australian radio paid greater attention to Australian music in 2018 with almost 50,000 most spins this year.

Anthony O’Grady, the founder of Australian music newspaper RAM and before that contributor to predecessor pop paper Go-Set has passed away in Sydney.

Taylor Swift tour pocketed $277.3 million in ticket sales in 2018 and that was just for North America.

The year of 2018 has been topped and tailed by long running soundtracks, "A Star is Born" now racks up its eighth week at the top, matching the eight-week-stay achieved by "The Greatest Showman" in January and February.

It's a fifth week at the summit of the ARIA Singles Chart for the Ariana Grande track "thank u, next", which also lands a fifth week at the top in New Zealand and Canada, a sixth week in both Ireland and England and it returns for a fourth week at No.1 in America.

The next round of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers has been revealed with The Cure, Radiohead and Def Leppard to be inducted alongside Stevie Nicks and Janet Jackson, Roxy Music and The Zombies.

Major new titles coming this week from: Bruce Springsteen, Evanescence (live), Mitchell Tenpenny, Kodak Black, Zayn, Alan Walker, XXXTentacion, Wild Summer 2019 compilation and the soundtrack for Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.

Melbourne singer, songwriter, producer and drummer G Flip has received the 2019 ARIA Emerging Artist Scholarship.

Kendrick Lamar looks set to dominate the 2019 Grammy Awards after receiving seven nominations on Friday.

Russell Morris, Daryl Braithwaite and John Farnham … collective age 208. Man are their voices in mighty fine form still!

Congratulations to The 1975, who land straight in at Number 1 on this week's Official Albums Chart with A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.

It's now a seventh week at the top in Australia for the soundtrack to "A Star is Born" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, plus the set also holds for the same period in New Zealand too.