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Image: Adele live at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium earlier this year Victoria s live music industry has begun to hold discussions within itself after the state Government announced plans to extend its…

Guns N Roses Australia and New Zealand leg of the Not In This Lifetime... Tour grossed $51.23 million (US$38.29 million), according to Billboard magazine s Hot Tours list. The eight shows in seven…

Splendour in the Grass has today announced a fundraising initiative to assist with disaster relief in the regions devastated by Cyclone Debbie earlier this month. Beginning next Tuesday until Friday,…

Both Twitter and Instagram have released figures that show continued user growth for both major social media platforms. Twitter announced active users were up 8% year-over-year to 328 million in the…

Universal Pictures has bought the script for the Madonna biopic Blonde Ambition, the Hollywood Reporter reveals. Penned by LA writer Elyse Hollander, it is based around the time when the Material…

The drought is definitely over. The global recorded music market is back on the rise but industry leaders caution against complacency, saying there’s still a fight to be won over piracy, the YouTube…

Google’s music streaming service Google Play Music is getting a boost in Australia and abroad through a new global deal with Samsung. The deal starting with the newly arrived Samsung Galaxy S8 and…

On the first anniversary of Prince s death (April 21), there was good news and bad news. First, the good. Figures released this week by sales monitoring Nielsen Music showed that Prince was the best…

NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL HITS 47,000 Early figures from the 51st National Folk Festival in Canberra (April 13-17) are that it reached an aggregated 47,000 this year. It levelled last year s 47,489,…

South Australia s peak music association Music SA and ticketing agency moshtix have combined to create a new scholarship to develop the career of a female South Australian music industry…