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Nashville-based guitar manufacturers Gibson Brands Inc. has acquired Philips’ WOOX Innovations: the audio, video, multimedia and accessories arm of Philips. Gibson will pay US$135m plus an…

Australian duo The Falls have signed a worldwide deal with legendary US label Verve Records. Universal Music Group’s Verve Records is traditionally a jazz label, although recent signings, such as…

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 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’…

Sony Music has this morning announced a number of further appointments, following this week’s news that the company has hired Tim Kelly as General Manager Marketing Asia Pacific and promoted John…

The tough new laws governing Sydney licensed venues will come into effect earlier than expected. Premier Barry O’Farrell initially announced the start-day would be sometime in April. Now these laws…

The two-part INXS biopic Never Tear Us Apart has been a ratings boost for Seven Network. The first part, which aired last night stormed to the top, with 1.974 million viewers tuning in. It even…

Spotify has released a set of new local and global figures, coinciding with its second birthday in Australia. They reveal that Flume is the most-streamed act on home soil. Flume takes the title of…

More good news for the Australian music industry: this morning, rights organisation PCCA announced they distributed $33.6 million to artists and record labels for the 2012-2013 financial year, an…

Songwriting/production duo MoreMega hit #4 in the UK with Braveheart by new UK girl group Neon Jungle. Sean Ray Mullins and Cassie Davis previously wrote Havana Brown’s multi-million selling global…