Ed Sheeran has dominated the download chart again this week with his two new songs ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’.

Major new titles coming this week from: Train, Krokus, Kehlani, Kreator, Brantley Gilbert and Aquilo.

45 Australian acts have now been confirmed to showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas in March.

OfficialCharts.com has confirmed that in the month since his passing, over half a million records by George Michael have been sold and streamed across his Wham! and solo work, as fans reflect on the icon's impressive catalogue.

Another Sydney music venue is to close when the Newtown Social Club shuts in April.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer festival has grown to become one of Australia’s most appreciated music festivals.

The third album for the English trio The xx becomes the band's first No.1 album on the ARIA Albums chart, as "I See You" debuts in the pole position this week.

Ed Sheeran again holds the top two spots in the country with his tracks "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" retaining their entry positions from last week at No.1 and No.2.

Ed Sheeran fans are all over Shazam this week with his ‘Shape Of You’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’ songs taking up the top spots.

Australia’s country superstar Kasey Chambers is at Noise11 this week to tell you about her new album ‘Dragonfly’ on iHeartRadio.

Major new titles coming this week from: Kasey Chambers, AFI, Run the Jewels, Marillion, Firewind, As it is, Mike Oldfield and the latest Skitz Mix.

Metallica will perform at the Grammy Awards is Los Angeles next month.

Celtic punk is not a genre that you see often toward the top of the charts, but it is this week as the Dropkick Murphys put their new 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory at number 8.

Tim Michin has been selected in an eclectic list of songs for APRA Song of the Year with his scathing response to the George Pell paedophile hearing 'Come Home Cardinal Pell'.

here is something you don't see everyday. Music fans actually paying for their music. Ed Sheeran has shown true star pulling power with fans actually choosing to buy his two new songs rather than stream them.

Like the singles chart this week, we also have a new record set on the albums chart this week, as the "Trolls" soundtrack holds for a second week atop the ARIA Albums Chart.

The charts are only three weeks into 2017 and we have two new records set this week, the first of which is Ed Sheeran becoming the first act to debut in the top two spots on the singles chart, the ultimate winner being "Shape of You" which also stepped into the No.1 spot in New Zealand, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden this week.

Technology keeps marching on, leaving many of us behind and confused. Standard televisions are now HD TVs and they'll soon be replaced by 4K models. Vinyl went to CDs which went to digital (and, to some extent back to vinyl). Movies went Beta/VHS to VHS only to DVD to Blu-Ray to digital. Each new iteration of technology seems to be obsoleted faster that the last.

Los Angeles based, Australian singer-songwriter Tim Wheatley leads an impressive list of Australian acts added to the SXSW Music Festival for Austin in March.

Hollywood has taken over the music industry for the album first chart of 2017 with four movie soundtracks in the Top 10 albums.

Now that Christmas is over, the chart sweeps aside the festive albums, and with School Holidays in full swing, it's over to the animated soundtracks to rush into the vacated seasonal void. The musical treat that is the 'Trolls' sees its soundtrack leap up five places to land at No.1, becoming the first new chart-topping album for 2017.

Australia has kept on buying "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit with Sean Paul and Anne-Marie into the new year, giving it a sixth straight week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart.

The two new Ed Sheeran songs ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’ were released on Friday and are already Australia’s top two downloads.

iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com returns with new music for 2017 from The xx, The Avalanches and Ryan Adams and a look at upcoming tours for the year.

New releases for the week of the 6th of January, 2017.

twenty one pilots ‘Blurryface’ was the biggest selling vinyl album in the USA for 2016 but that old Beatles favourite ‘Abbey Road’ is still in the Top 10.

Only four albums sold over one million units in the USA during 2016 with Adele ‘25’ the biggest seller.

For the fifth time at No.1 the Michael Buble "Christmas" album reclaims the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, racking up a fourteenth overall week at the top in Australia.

As the new year clicks into 2017, the last week's sales for 2016 have Clean Bandit with Anne-Marie and Sean Paul and their song "Rockabye" at No.1 for a fifth straight week atop the ARIA Singles Chart.

Organisers of the Falls Festival in Lorne wish to contact patrons injured at the festival this weekend.