Poppy Reid

Spotify Australia’s Managing Director Kate Vale told media and marketing website Mumbrella the local streaming market is “absolutely not sustainable”. Given Australia is the sixth largest music…

Just days after her performance at the Eurovision Song Contest, it has been announced that Jessica Mauboy will perform at the Flag Handover Ceremony at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. On…

Triple M’s $10,000 mistake Last week, airing an Arctic Monkeys song cost Triple M Melbourne $10,000. Listener Brett called the station to say he’d heard the acoustic version of Why’d You Only Call Me…

This week we catch journalist Glenn A Baker with The Daily Edition gang, Andy Grammer with Michael Gudinski, triple j’s The Doctor with Hot Chip and Stan Lee and more. If you have a pic you’d like…

Apple has officially announced its acquisition of Beats Music and Beats Electronics for $3.25 billion. The move, widely expected this week, resulted in a purchase price of roughly USD$2.6 billion and…

Mullumbimby artist Iggy Azalea made history overnight as her single Fancy topped the Billboard Hot 100. The track with British singer-songwriter Charli XCX is the first by an Australian female artist…

Flume, Future Classic Founder Nathan McLay, US producer Eric J Dubowsky and artist manager David Champion gave advice to up-and-coming artists and those who work behind the scenes on the ARIA…

Market and consumer information source GFK, the new provider of Australia’s Radio Ratings Survey data, has issued its first quarterly radio behaviour survey. Named AudienScope, the Q1 results were…

AM FM radios are disappearing from cars In what has to be a world first, Kurt Hanson’s Radio Internet News has reported that a new GM car has just been released in the US which features a dash screen…

The Jonesy and Amanda show on WSFM has gained 1.8 points in the latest ratings survey, pushing them to the #1 breakfast position ahead of stablemates Kyle and Jackie O. Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’…

Australian rock legend Doc Neeson has passed away, aged 67. The death of The Angels’ frontman was confirmed in a statement posted on Facebook this morning. He passed away at 7:15am at a private…

Universal Music’s Michael Taylor and Darren Aboud have been announced as Joint Managing Directors for Universal Music Labels Australia. Announced by Universal Music Asia Pacific President George Ash,…