Congratulations to Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, who land straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with their new album Who Built The Moon?.

Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons is stepping down from his companies amid fresh allegations of sexual misconduct.

Major new titles coming this week from: U2, Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Miguel, Pitbull (GH), Chris Stapleton, Pete Tong, Andy Grammer, Neil Young + Promise of the Real and Roy Woods.

Melbourne’s The Flying Saucer Club will close as a venue after New Year’s Eve.

Jay Z is leading the nominations for the 2018 Grammy Awards with eight nominations. Kendrick Lamar has seven.

With Christmas fast approaching, hmv continues to stand out as the UK's favourite place to buy vinyl. With a predicted 10 records being sold at hmv every minute, in-store and online between now and Christmas, the store is on track to sell 1.5 million records in 2017 - something that has not been achieved seen since the late 1980's.

Sydney's Gang of Youths have dominated the 2017 ARIA Awards taking home Album of the Year, Best Group and Best Rock Album as well as Producer of the year for the album Go Farther Into Lightness.

Triple J has moved the Hottest 100 countdown away from Australia Day to avoid being “part of a debate” about the day.

Taylor Swift holds onto the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart for a second week with her latest album "Reputation", plus it scores a ▲Platinum certification too.

Camila Cabello with Young Thug holds onto the No.1 spot on the ARIA Singles Top 100 chart this week with "Havana", the song returning to the top of the digital sales chart this week (and is at #2 on the streaming chart).

Cookin’ On 3 Burners will serve Melbourne a night of music from The Big Chill when they perform the soundtrack from start to finish at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the Soundtrack Sessions.

Isaac Hanson of Hanson have released ‘Finally It’s Christmas’, the band’s second Christmas album. Hanson have covered some Christmas classics such as Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime’. Isaac will tell you what the Hanson family get up to at Christmas this week at iHeartRadio.

After picking up awards on Thursday night at The Age Music Victoria awards Victorian acts have taken out three quarters of the J Awards announced in Sydney today.

Brigg’s side-project A.B. Original and the forever working, forever recording King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have picked up three awards each at The Age Music Victoria Awards held in Melbourne Wednesday night (22 Nov 17).

Australian music TV show ‘Rage’ will right a night of Malcolm Young this coming Saturday morning (Friday night).

Australia’s music education facility JMC Academy will introduce a short course on Pop Songwriting and Production.

The sixth studio album for US singer/songwriter Taylor Swift titled "Reputation" debuts at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, becoming her fourth chart-topping album here.

After waiting for five weeks at No.2, the Camila Cabello and Young Thug slow-salsa track "Havana" climbs to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart, matching its current peak in England, Ireland and Canada.

As long as Margaret Court Arena is stained with the name of an outspoken homophobe it is going to cop flack every time its namesake mouths off … and she is at it again.

Steve Kilbey from The Church has made a lot of music. He estimates around 60 albums, counting The Church, solo and side-projects. Steve talks ‘Man Woman Life Death Infinity’ this week at iHeartRadio music news powered by Noise11.com.

Major new titles coming this week from: Paloma Faith, Eros Ramazzotti, Jeff Lynne (live), Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Iron Maiden (live), Green Day (GH), Sia (Xmas), Mavis Staples, Morrissey, Madness (GH), Black Sabbath (live), Sol3 Mio (Xmas), Nathaniel Rateliff (live), Bob Seger, Jaden Smith, Tove Lo and Sharon Jones.

The Libertines will perform shows for Sydney and Melbourne in Australia in 2018. It will be the first time the UK band has played in Australia.

Australian country legend Lee Kernaghan will headline Sydney’s Country Rocks Festival in March.

The German music industry will be displayed in Melbourne for the Australia Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) new program Music Passport.

Missy Higgins has won her first APRA Screen Music Award for Best Original Song Composed For Screen for the Australian film ‘Torchlight’.

Pink and her "Beautiful Trauma" stay at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart for a fourth straight week, plus the albums scores a new certification, now 3x▲Platinum in sales.

The Post Malone and 21 Savage rap-hip-hop track "Rockstar" retains its lead on the ARIA Singles Chart for a seventh straight week.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer is to become an international event. Red Hot Summer will be held for the first time outside Australia in Bali in April.

Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ album has sold over 700,000 copies in the first day in the USA and is on track to sell 1.2 million in the first week.

Milk Records founders Courtney Barnett and Jen Cloher have gathered together their label’s artist roster for two nights of Christmas cheer in hometown Melbourne in December.