Title card at the start makes me think this might have been made as part of the FIFA World Cup bid?
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That could very well be. But I saw no mention of FIFA in the video description.
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Either way, shows off just what a beautiful country we call home! (well, those of us who arenât over in sheep land 
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Supporting acts for the shows in Australia and New Zealand will be Evanescence and Suicidal Tendencies.
UPDATE: Vodafone, Commonwealth Bank, Mastercard and Westfield have signed on as tour sponsors for the Australian leg.
Vodafone customers in Perth and Melbourne will have access to a 48-hour presale from 11am on Wednesday 30 October, while Adelaide and Brisbane fans can access the sale from 1pm; CommBank Yello customers will be able to grab presale tickets from 11am on 30 October through to 1 November; Westfield members will score access to reserved tickets from Monday 4 November in all Australian cities.
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Plenty of artists seem to be making second or third trips to Australia since COVID put a hold on the live music industry in 2020.
To finish off the year weâll be having Coldplay, Tate McRae and The Killers each make a second visit since the start of 2022, while Becky Hill, Benson Boone, You Me at Six, The Script and Luke Combs will all visit in January - each for a second time in the same time period.
This year, British singer Griff visited the country twice - first for a few appearances at some festivals in January followed by kicking off her ongoing Vertigo World Tour at small arenas in August.
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Kylie Minogueâs 17th studio album, Tension II, has debuted at No.1 on this weekâs ARIA albums chart. This is her fifth consecutive chart topping album.
On the singles chart, it is APT, a collaboration of Blackpink member RosĂ© and Bruno Mars, which claimed the top spot. It is also the lead single from RosĂ©âs forthcoming debut solo project.
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Meantime, two singles and five albums by One Direction have re-entered the top 50, following the news of Liam Payneâs passing last week.
On the singles chart, âNight Changesâ and âStory of My Lifeâ have charted at 19 and 28 respectively.
Elsewhere, âMoon Musicâ by Coldplay has plummeted from 10 to 39 on the albums chart.
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âNight Changesâ also re-entered the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, at 17, while both âStory of My Lifeâ and âWhat Makes You Beautifulâ joined the Catalogue Singles, at 2 and 22 respectively.
Four of their five studio albums also charted on the Top 40 Albums, with the highest being their third release âMidnight Memoriesâ at 9. Their debut album âUp All Nightâ missed the Top 40 entirely but managed to barely chart on the Catalogue Albums at 38.
Surprisingly, his big solo hit âStrip That Downâ, which managed to peak at 4 on its initial release here in 2017, is nowhere to be seen.
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Surprised that âNight Changesâ is one of the singles that has re-entered the chart. I wouldnât consider that to be one of their biggest hits.
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The 13th and final annual halloween mix from RL Grime has dropped, such a defining series and these mixes arguably made bass genres more mainstream and artists more easily accessible for audiences.
Each year waiting, anticipating around october to see what he would bring - how it would top the last and he always would.
Itâs been a fun 12 years listening!
Watching Keith Urban do a guitar solo during his new song âMeesed Up As Meâ on âThe Voiceâ finale tonight made me think what a lost art that is.
I rarely hear guitar solos during any of todayâs songs. A far cry from the days when youâd hear them during even a Michael Jacksin or Madonna song.
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Been hearing âSomedaysâ by Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D. a lot on radio recently, especially on the Nova Network. Itâs a pretty good song if you ask me.
Fodera, while based in the UK these days, was born in Adelaide, while Jazzy recently toured Melbourne and Sydney as part of the Listen Out festival (the same one which South African-born singer Tyla pulled out of).
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Been listening to the audiobook of the John Farnham Biography that has been read by him.
took a little time to get used to his voice (thereâs some slurring thanks to the jaw surgeries) itâs been a good listen.
theres been no Hyperbole or anything that the media makes out - the incident where he found out his manager was drugging him was a few sentaces at best.
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On this weekâs ARIA Singles Chart, Coldplayâs âViva La Vidaâ has reentered the top 50, at #45.
The band is of course in the country performing four shows each in Melbourne and Sydney.
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I saw Cold Chisel live on Saturday Night.
They had always been a band Iâve wanted to see live but a combo of not touring that much, money, location and life meant it didnât happen. With this being the 50th anniversary and barnseys health issues i was not sure there would be another tour after this so using artist presale and a fast internet connection at work i got a ticket.
can i say them (and the crowd) were phenomenal. they obviously did the hits - Khe Sahn, Flame Trees, Shipping Steel, Breakfast at sweethearts and the crowd loved it. there were parts of the show where the crowd was singing so loud it drowned out Barnseyâs voice⊠and if you know barnsey you know thats a big deal.
basically, i loved it and would pay to see again
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The tricks record companies use to manipulate the charts.
Similar to recent first-week strategies by Aussie chart-toppers Lime Cordiale and Missy Higgins, Amylâs tactic was to bundle the album with live ticket sales. Pay just $2 more for a ticket to their show at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl next January, and Cartoon Darkness was yours.
That was until Sony Australia, Tylerâs local label, decided to rush import a batch of Chromakopia CDs last Tuesday, just days before ARIAâs weekly sales accreditation window closed at midnight on Thursday. Australian fans who had ordered the bundled hoodie/T-shirt/cap/poster/tote bag â oh, and CD â from Tylerâs US site had their orders filled with superhuman haste. Numbers were duly (and fairly) crunched at ARIA HQ, and on Friday afternoon the weekly chart newletter was issued.
Indeed, for some Tyler fans, the chart-topping disc is next to worthless. For some reason I canât get my CD to work,â one fan told me on Reddit this week. He managed to ârip itâ later, only to report that it was definitely an âearlier versionâ of the final album that is now enjoying hundreds of millions of streams worldwide.
So, was this chart-topping album even the one that most people are now listening to, or was it a not-quite-finished test pressing? The absence of song titles, credits or lyrics on the plain cardboard sleeve points to the latter. âFairly positive these were rushed out to be shipped first week so they would count towards first week sales,â one fan speculated online.
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