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Sales of "old albums" have overtaken sales of "new albums" for the first time over the last six months in the US. Sales of "old albums", which are classified as LPs that have been on sale for longer than 18 months, numbered at 76.6 million over the last six months, with sales of "new albums" numbering at 73.9 million, reports OC Weekly. According to chart analysts Nielsen, the biggest "old album" sellers have been Whitney Houston and Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits, while Adele's 21 remains by far the biggest seller in the "new albums" category.

Beck has announced that he will be debuting three brand new songs on the soundtrack to new computer game Sound Shapes. The tracks, which are titled "Cities", "Touch The People" and "Spiral Staircase", will each feature on a different level of the game, which is due for release next month. According to Sony, the new PS3 adventure Sound Shapes is "a classic side-scrolling platformer where your actions make the music". As well as Beck, Deadmau5, I Am Robot And Proud and Jim Guthrie will also contribute music. The game itself will be released on August 7.

Bob Dylan has announced a North American arena tour in support of his forthcoming album, The Tempest. The arena dates begins in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 5 and runs through November 21 in Brooklyn, New York. Rolling Stone reports that this is Dylan's first time headlining arenas in America since 2006. Special guest on the tour will be Mark Knopfler, with whom Dylan toured Europe last year. The Tempest, which is the 35th studio album of Dylan's career, will come out on September 10 in the UK and September 11 in the US.

A rare Beatles album has sold for just under $15,000 (£9,581) at auction. The album, which is a rare edition of the Fab Four's first US release Introducing…The Beatles, sold last Thursday (July 12) for $14,999 (£9,580) on eBay to a private collector. The record, which contains "Love Me Do" and "PS, I Love You", is the first Beatles album to have been released in the United States.

The Who will be performing their 1973 album Quadrophenia in its entirety on their newly announced US tour, which begins on November 1 in Sunrise, Florida, visiting Boston, New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and more, finishing up in Providence, Rhode Island on February 26, 2013. Tickets will go on sale through the Who's official fan club at 10 a.m. July 20th and to the public on Friday, July 27th. Here are the upcoming tour dates: 1/11 Sunrise, FL – BankAtlantic Center 3/11 Orlando, FL – Amway Center 5/11 Duluth, GA – The Arena at Gwinnett Center

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has revealed that Patti Smith will appear on his new solo EP. In a series of tweets, he wrote that the proceeds to the self-recorded Helen Burns EP will go towards Silverlake Conservatory for Music, the music school he set up in 2001. "I am putting out an EP I made by myself in a couple of days. It is obscure arty mostly instrumental music, except when Patti Smith sings," he wrote. "All proceeds from my Helen Burns EP will go towards the Silverlake Conservatory of Music".

Keith Richards has admitted he sometimes forgets how to play The Rolling Stones songs. The guitarist said that sometimes during the first few bars of a song he forgets how to play the entire track, but that he has become so accustomed to playing the songs, he remembers it automatically. 'When you kick off a song you say, 'I can't remember how the middle bit goes', but the fingers remember even if you don't," he told Absolute Radio.

Roger Daltrey has been given an honorary degree by Middlesex University. The Who frontman has been recognised for his contribution to the music and acting industry over his six-decade career. He joined hundreds of students who were graduating, some of whom contributed visuals to his rock-opera Tommy.

Bryan Ferry has said that the current run of Hyde Park concerts are an "embarrassment" to music. The singer spoke out after Bruce Springsteen’s Hyde Park Calling set on Saturday (July 14) was cut short during the final song, a duet with Paul McCartney, after he broke the sound curfew. The Roxy Music singer told the Evening Standard: "They shouldn't have these events in Hyde Park any more if it’s going to cause embarrassing problems."

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