11 interesting facts about music

  1. To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
  2. John Lennon wrote “Good morning, good morning” after hearing a Corn Flakes commercial.
  3. The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980. The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
  4. Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.
  5. He has sold 75 million albums to date and is one of the best-selling music artists in the world.
  6. Prince played 27 different instruments on his debut album For You.
  7. When Elvis Presley was inducted into the US Army on March 24th, 1958, Uncle Sam started losing an estimated $500,000 in lost taxes for each year that Private Presley served.
  8. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain all died at age 27.
  9. The Beastie Boys is an acronym for Boys Entering Anarchistic Stages Towards Internal Excellence.
  10. Termites will eat wood two times faster when listening to heavy metal.
  11. The largest drum ever made was 12 feet in diameter. It weighed 600 pounds.