Kendrick Lamar Crowned on Apple Music’s 2024 Year-End Chart
Apple Music’s year-end chart is dominated by U.S. artists – specifically, Kendrick Lamar. The hip-hop superstar leads the streaming giant’s 2024 Year-End Chart with “Not…
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Untitled Group, Amplify Music Education Recognised on AFR ‘Fast’ Lists
Untitled Group and Amplify Music Education are the music enterprises motoring on the Australian Financial Review’s Fast Lists. Melbourne-based Untitled Group, the independent concert, festival…
Rosé Bounces Back to No. 1 on ARIA Chart
Rosé is the Number One Girl again on the ARIA Chart. The New Zealand-born, Australia-raised Blackpink star rebounds on the singles survey with “APT.”, her…
NSW Gov’t Unveils ‘Transformative’ 10-Year Music Strategy
After the drab years of the lockdowns, the festival licensing regime, and the pandemic, the state of New South Wales has a masterplan — one…
Rolling Stone AU/NZ Launches Inaugural Musicians on Musicians Series with Tones and I and Luke Steele
The first-ever Rolling Stone AU/NZ Musicians on Musicians series is here. Each year, Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians series invites artists to interview each other about life, music,…
Music Victoria Uncovers ‘Voting Fraud’ at 2024 Awards
The integrity of the 2024 Music Victoria Awards was undermined by hackers who committed “voting fraud” in the publicly-voted categories, its organisers have confirmed. In…
Australia’s Music Industry Welcomes Senate Report on AI
Like the genie that won’t go back in the bottle, Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. And it poses a planet-size problem for creators, if…
Destroy All Lines Recruits Veteran Promoter Scott Mesiti
Scott Mesiti joins Destroy All Lines, just days out from the independent concert promoter’s latest edition of Good Things Festival. Mesiti boasts more than 20…
Warner Music President Dan Rosen Promoted, Adds Publishing Duties
Warner Music Australasia president Dan Rosen will now take on additional duties for Warner Chappell Music. Announced Tuesday, November 26th, Rosen is promoted to president,…
APRA AMCOS Urges Gov’t to ‘Urgently Implement’ Live Music Tax Offset, Announces Boards
Australia’s live venues network is under serious threat and remains one of the most critical trouble spots for the music industry. The Australian government can…
Linkin Park Lands at No. 1 on ARIA Chart With ‘From Zero’
Linkin Park goes straight to the top of the ARIA Chart with From Zero, the nu-metal favourites’ eighth studio album. From Zero gives Mike Shinoda…
Pill Testing Comes to Beyond The Valley
Beyond The Valley will be the first festival in Victoria to enable punters to test drugs on site. When the four-day camping fest returns from…
Marshall Monitor III Brings (and Feels) the Noise
The name Marshall brings with it decades of well-earned history, amplifiers that have sent forth sonic booms that have soundtracked millions of lives. From the…
HYBE Hurt: 2024 Has Been a Rough Year for the K-pop Powerhouse
The year has been a rough one for HYBE Corporation, the powerhouse agency behind ENHYPEN, BoyNextDoor, TOMORROW X TOGETHER and other superstars from K-pop. The…
ARIA Awards: Troye Sivan Dominates for Second Consecutive Year
Troye Sivan was the big winner at the ARIA Awards for the second consecutive year. Sivan won three awards at the ARIA Awards 2024, which…
All the Winners From the 2024 ARIA Awards 2024
The biggest night in Australian music is over for another year. The ARIA Awards 2024 were held at Sydney’s iconic Hordern Pavilion tonight (November 20th),…
2024 UNIFIED Grant Recipients Announced
A new platform and revenue stream for artists, an initiative that hopes to reduce the environmental impact of physical soundcarriers, and an event series engaging…
Island Records Shines Spotlight on ANZ Talent With Inaugural ‘NOW & NEXT’ Showcase
Peach PRC, Baker Boy and Vera Blue were among the homegrown stars on hand for the inaugural NOW & NEXT showcase, presented ahead by Island…
Ticketek Back Online After Major Outage, Presales Scrapped
Ticketek is back online after a major outage on the ticketing giant’s platform Monday (November 18) that left its Australian and New Zealand websites down,…
Miss Kaninna Creates History at 2024 ARIA Awards
Whatever the outcome of the 2024 ARIA Awards, Miss Kaninna enters the history books. The proud Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Kalkadoon and Yirendali sovereign…