Music Facts!

Here are a few music facts:

• To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States


• Music was sent down 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


• 40 billion songs are downloaded illegally every year, that’s some 90% of all music downloads


• The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music but loose about $40 billion to illegal downloads


• Before they were known as Journey, Steve Perry called his band Golden Gate Rhythm Section


• The Beatles holds the top spot of album sales in the US (106 million), followed by Garth Brooks second (92 million), Led Zeppelin (83 million), Elvis Presley (77 million), and the Eagles (65 million). Worldwide The Beatles sold more than 1 billion records

I hope you enjoyed these interesting facts! Comment below and tell me what you think!

Source: www.didyouknow.org