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Australians will pay an extra 10% for digital goods bought on any streaming platform, such as music, movies, games, software and ebooks. Announced yesterday afternoon, Treasurer Joe Hockey confirmed…

PRESS RELEASE: Sydney quartet The Snowdroppers have signed a management deal with full service company push.pull and a booking deal with Select Music. push.pull are a company with over 20 years…

PRESS RELEASE: Australian Radio Network (ARN) today announced the KIIS Network s #1 Drive Show team of Dave Hughesy Hughes and Kate Langbroek, known on-air as Hughesy Kate, will be driving listeners…

The live music market is readying a $13 million growth spurt in the next five years. That s according to PricewaterhouseCoopers 14th Australian Entertainment and Media Outlook, which offers a…

AC/DC, John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, the Palais Theatre, Archie Roach, The Seekers and the Sunbury Festival are among the ten inductees of the tenth The Age and Music Victoria Hall of Fame. Other…

Hot 100 The Hot 100 sees Taylor Swift s Bad Blood featuring Kendrick Lamar hold #1 for another week while Ed Sheeran sets a new record for himself with Photograph taking #2 up from #3, making it the…

An investigation into child sex abuse within the entertainment industry is currently underway. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse issued a press release this…

Apple has confirmed that within the US, Apple Music will pay rights-holders 71.5% of its subscription service, while countries outside the US will pay an average of 73%. In an interview with Re/code,…

Gold Coast-launched music streaming service Guvera has closed its UK office, following financial woes relating to its recently acquired UK rival, blinkbox Music. Despite being acquired for a reported…

PRESS RELEASE: Forty five songs that represent the incredible variety and quality of the Northern Territory music scene have been identified as the finalists in the 2015 NT Song of the Year Awards.…