Last week the latest Michael Buble album “To Be Loved” debuted at the top of the ARIA Albums chart with Gold sales. This week the album holds for a second week at No.1 and is now newly certified Platinum (▲) in sales.
Record Store Day has been declared a success after music sales for independent record stores across America were up 59% on the previous week and up 3% on the same day last year.
Some of Australia’s biggest artists including Russell Morris, Renee Geyer and Deborah Conway will be visiting music stores to celebrate Record Store Day Australia today.
Margaret Thatcher is proving good for music sales in the UK. The ‘Wizard of Oz’ classic ‘Ding Dong The Witch is Dead’ by Judy Garland has now leapt to number 2 on the iTunes chart. It also went to number 1 on Amazon.
The Australian music industry is planning a Sydney-sized farewell for Aaron Chugg, who died on March 18 from complications from a stroke he had while tour managing The Stone Roses.
Aussie tour manager Aaron Chugg has passed away after suffering from a stroke while tour managing for The Stone Roses at the Future Music Festival last week.
Smashing Pumpkins played to an audience of 350 at the Red Bull Sound Select event with a secret show in 6th Street, Austin on Saturday night during SXSW.
Pink spends a fourth week at No.1 in Australia with “Just Give Me A Reason” equalling her previous best effort of four weeks at the top with “So What” in September 2008.
Day 4 and slight delirium sets in. The SXSW schedule that you adhered to on Day 1 has gone out the window and openness to suggestion has taken its place. Feet ache from walking from one venue to the next and egos are both bruised and massaged by the ballot system.
It’s day three at SXSW and the weariness has kicked in as a result from watching Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Alt-J the night before, then writing an article until 4am.
