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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 aren’t over in sheep land :wink: )

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Kylie on the US Today show

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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.

https://mumbrella.com.au/commbank-westfield-vodafone-and-more-sign-up-for-mammoth-metallica-australian-tour-853552

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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 we’ll 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 Minogue’s 17th studio album, Tension II, has debuted at No.1 on this week’s 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 Rosé’s 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 Payne’s passing last week.

On the singles chart, “Night Changes” and “Story of My Life” have charted at 19 and 28 respectively.

Elsewhere, “Moon Music” by Coldplay has plummeted from 10 to 39 on the albums chart.

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“Night Changes” also re-entered the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, at 17, while both “Story of My Life” and “What Makes You Beautiful” 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 “Midnight Memories” at 9. Their debut album “Up All Night” missed the Top 40 entirely but managed to barely chart on the Catalogue Albums at 38.

Surprisingly, his big solo hit “Strip That Down”, which managed to peak at 4 on its initial release here in 2017, is nowhere to be seen.

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Surprised that “Night Changes” is one of the singles that has re-entered the chart. I wouldn’t 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.

It’s been a fun 12 years listening!

Watching Keith Urban do a guitar solo during his new song “Meesed Up As Me” on “The Voice” finale tonight made me think what a lost art that is.

I rarely hear guitar solos during any of today’s songs. A far cry from the days when you’d hear them during even a Michael Jacksin or Madonna song.

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Been hearing “Somedays” by Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D. a lot on radio recently, especially on the Nova Network. It’s 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 (there’s some slurring thanks to the jaw surgeries) it’s 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.

On this week’s ARIA Singles Chart, Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” 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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