Category: Did you know?

Here is a list of the top biggest selling debut hit to make the UK singles chart. All of them have sold over a million copies, only the number one has sold over two million copies.

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Leo Fender is one of the most famous inventors of electric guitars including the Stratocaster and Telecaster models yet he could not play the guitar himself.

The tension of the 230-odd strings in a grand piano exert a combined force of 20 tonnes on the cast iron frame.

Four weeks ago a track called The Shores of Normandy by Jim Radford entered the chart at number 72 and in doing so he became the oldest living artist to chart. He was 90.

I Write the Songs is a well-known song recorded by most Barry Manilow and David Cassidy yet neither of them wrote it, Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys did.

Gioachino Rossini wrote his aria Di tanti palpiti while waiting for some risotto in a restaurant in Venice.

In 1992, Bruno Mars had a cameo in the film Honeymoon In Vegas as an Elvis Presley impersonator called Little Elvis. He was just four years old.

Up until the end of 2018, the most ‘shazamed’ song was Wake Me Up by Avicii.

Before he was famous, Olly once appeared on Deal or No Deal where he walked away with just £10.

The only band to play on all seven continents is Metallica.

In 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than Beyoncé.

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The Official Charts Company have recently released a list of the 22 albums to spend 52 or more week in the top 10 on the UK album chart. Here is the list.

Albums With most Weeks In The Top 10.xlsx

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Remember when charts were compiled by actual sales of records and CDs? Well, the majority of pop charts these days are compiled on what people consume rather than own. In the latest figures, up to the end of May 2019, here is the top 10 most viewed pop videos and the numbers are in billions.

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Last year Time Out magazine printed a list of their top 50 ‘best pop songs’. Apparently compiled by ‘Time Out’s music obsessives who have filtered through pop’s finest floor-fillers and chart-toppers and selected the absolute cream of the crop.’ An interesting list to say the least with some odd choices by well known acts. It should have started at number 48!

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Here is a list of the most streamed female artists in YouTube history, data only includes official videos.

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