• To be a RIAA-certified gold record, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain and 500,000 in the United States.
• Music was sent across a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.
• The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980.
• About 1/3 of recorded CDs are pirated.
• Ireland has won the most Eurovision song contests with seven wins.
• At eight Brit Awards, Annie Lennox holds the record.
• The first pop music video was “”Bohemian Rhapsody”” by Queen, released in 1975.
• The British are the highest per capita spenders on music, buy 7.2 percent of the world’s music.
• The harmonica is the world’s best-selling music instrument.
• The last note on a keyboard is C.
• DVD discs are the same diameter (120 mm) and thickness (1.2 mm) as a CD, but a DVD can store 13 times or more data.
