ARIA

For some years, music professionals have quietly grumbled about commercial radio’s failure to hit their content quotas. Those gripes got some serious volume at Bigsound last year. Behind closed…

It’s official: the trade associations representing songwriters, composers and music publishers, record labels and commercial radio have joined forces to enforce compliance of music quotas. APRA…

Just over a year ago, Ed Sheeran released his Divide album which crashed into pole position on the ARIA Albums chart, completely ruining the Singles Chart in the process, and encouraging a generation…

The Australian music industry is in for a good charting week, as both Vance Joy and Sarah Blasko's new records look very likely to debut in the higher reaches of the ARIA chart. Vance's sophomore…

When Seventh Street Media's staff first discussed The Industry Observer Awards, it was decided that transparency of the judging process was key. To keep in line with our goal, please find a brief…

ARIA and Virgin Australia have announced a new scholarship aimed at supporting and fostering Australia's brightest up and coming talent, easing the financial pressures of travel. The initiative…

Global exports like Courtney Barnett, All Our Exes Live In Texas, Mia Dyson and KUCKA have all benefitted from the perfect marriage that is the PPCA and Australia Council partnership. For the fifth…

We've cracked it. It seems the easiest road to ARIA chart success in 2018 is to either amass decades of hit singles, and then package these into a convenient collection, or to spend hundreds of…

The recording industry has welcomed the government’s decision not to extend so-called "safe harbour" protection to the likes of Google and Facebook. But the battle for a fairer copyright environment…

After months of huffing and puffing, and the odd false start, Amazon Australia is finally open for business. The online retail monolith quietly launched its platform Down Under on Tuesday and began…