• Tickets for the much-anticipated Elton John concert at Hilton Coliseum on Oct. 24 did not last long.

The Iowa State Center reported last week that the tickets sold out within two hours of going on sale.

“We expected strong ticket sales and are pleased with the outcome,” said Sara Huber, advertising coordinator at the Center.

• Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong told the popular music Web site Addicted To Noise that if you don’t like Green Day’s new album, “Nimrod” (Due in stores on Oct. 14), three years from its release date, he will personally refund your money.

Armstrong said he is extremely confident the album will be one of the best punk albums ever recorded.

• The Los Angeles Times reported last month that Trauma Records and Interscope Records have broken their distribution deal with each other.

Interscope will pay Trauma a sum of $3 million but keep Trauma’s most popular act, No Doubt, on their roster.

Trauma is currently looking for a new distribution deal. Bush is still on Trauma’s roster, the newspaper reported.

• Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher battled the King of Pop last month without even knowing it. What is most surprising, he won.

Oasis’ “Be Here Now” became the fastest selling release ever in the U.K., with 356,000 albums sold since the album’s release date, Aug. 21st.

Michael Jackson’s “Bad” was the former fastest selling release seller, selling 350,000 copies in its first week.

• Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers (H.E.A.R.) announced last month it would launch an independent record label in honor of its 10 year anniversary.

The release date of the first disc is scheduled for May 1998 and will include an international roster of talent, the label reported.