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Australian-based music streaming service Guvera has launched in Indonesia as part of a partnership with B2B cloud-based digital music service provider Omnifone and IT company Skybee. The expansion…

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…

Ministry of Sound Australia’s 120 Publishing has signed a deal with Truelove Music for the UK and the entire continental Europe, including the Russian Federation. 120 represents 14 key MOS writers…

ARIA Charts Manager Ian Wallace chats to TMN about sales trends and anomalies in 2013. You’ve obviously studied the charts for many years, what trends did you notice in 2013? We had a record number…

Police have confirmed a number of drug-related arrests during the final day of a targeted drug dog operation at the Secret Garden Musical Festival, which was held at in Camden over the weekend.…

LA ROUX Uptight Downtown Almost six years ago, Londoner Elly Jackson rose to fame with her debut single Quicksand under the guise La Roux. Over the next two years La Roux (along with co-writer Ben…

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…

In a scathing attack¸ Charles Caldas, CEO of global independent-labels digital-rights agency Merlin, has accused the major labels of manipulating sales figures to boost a false impression of their…

This morning ARIA unveiled its 2013 wholesale figures. Amidst statistics that show digital sales have overtaken physical for the first time, and overall sales are down, sits the pleasing and not…