Christie Eliezer

Spotify gives music fans their grab for bragging rights and amateur A R skills. Its latest web app Found Them First crunches the data to allow its 75 million active users and 20 million subscribers…

Touted as an Australian first, Seven Network is giving Facebook users a first look at The X Factor ahead of its 7pm season premiere on Sunday. The first episode will become available on Thursday as a…

Ed Sheeran s film Jumpers For Goalposts has its world premiere on Thursday October 22. The 90-minute feature is screened at London s Odeon Leicester Square (along with a live set from the…

The Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards will, for the first time, be broadcast live on TV3, giving them its biggest audience ever. It is not known at this stage if an Australian channel will run…

Ahead of today s ministerial shuffle, the Australia creative sector moved quickly to lobby for George Brandis removal as Arts Minister and to abandon his National Program for Excellence in the Arts…

Apple Music has hit 10 million subscribers within its first four weeks on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and iTunes, according to a report. HITS Daily Double claimed that anonymous sources from major…

Some of New Zealand s best known names are announced in the APRA Silver Scroll Award top 20 list. The prestigious and only peer-voted song crafting award is now in its 50th year. Past winner Lorde…

Keith Urban was ranked at #11 in Forbes magazine s Country Cash Kings list, after estimated to earn US$28 million since last June. The New Zealand-born Australian-raised multi-instrumentalist and…

South Australia s peak music association has taken over the running of the state s annual music awards, which will now be known as SA Music Awards. They are held on Wednesday November 11 with judges…

The combined independent sector now has 34.5% of the US market, according to mid-year figures by Nielsen Music and Billboard. This was in contrast to its 35.1% share for the 2014 calendar year.…

Pandora s 3 million+ Australian and New Zealand users will soon be offered a new deal from Pandora an hour of uninterrupted listening if they engage with one 15 second ad. It s an extension of the…

Stripped of millions of dollars in the 2015-16 Federal Budget, the Australia Council for the Arts has announced changes to its grants program. There are reductions in the number of rounds, and some…