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Smoothfm turns 2 This Wednesday it will be two years since smoothfm launched. The Sydney and Melbourne station has a combined audience that has grown 93% since launch, with a current audience of over…

Smoothfm is currently celebrating its second birthday. The station, launched by NOVA Entertainment, has been something of a rapid success story, commanding a combined audience that has grown by 93%…

Telstra has this afternoon exclusively told TMN that despite Apple’s acquisition of MOG-owner Beats, it will continue to operate the service in Australia. A Telstra spokesperson told TMN, “MOG will…

UPDATE: June 3 2014 - Kylie confirms in a Tweet that she is not leaving Parlophone and that the Sun’s story was false. Warner Music Australia has responded to rumours surrounding Kylie Minogue’s deal…

Courtesy of Radio Today, here is the most recent summary of today’s Radio Ratings Survey: SYDNEY WSFM has leapt into the #1 FM spot and is the station of the survey in Sydney. ARN • WSFM outright #1…

The Australian live performance industry is worth $2.5 billion, according to Live Performance Australia (LPA)’s second study of the economic size and scope of the sector. The study, issued this…

Such is the buoyancy of Australia’s live music sector that seven promoters and 16 venues are listed in live industry bible Pollstar’s mid-year report. Dainty Entertainment has been the most…

INXS manager CM Murphy’s new Murphy Rights Management (MRM) has entered into a worldwide administration agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). Murphy told TMN earlier this year that…

DMA’s were signed to I OH YOU and Mushroom Music worldwide last December. Since then, their single Delete and its accompanying EP, recorded and produced by the Newtown trio at home, has created…

Some years ago, when Joe Camilleri went on stage to pick up an award for The Black Sorrows, their then-record label Chief Denis Handlin quipped, “There’s no finish line for you, is there Camilleri?"…

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has reauthorized APRA for another five years to administer and license performing rights in musical works. ACCC Commissioner Dr. Jill Walker…

The South Australian Music Hall of Fame will induct Jim Keays of the Master’s Apprentices posthumously on July 11. Keays who was born in Glasgow, grew up in the Adelaide suburb of Burnside and moved…