Cool Music Facts You Didn't Know
You can't always get what you want, but you can learn these cool music facts you didn't know before.
By Emily McCayPublished 7 years ago • 1 min read
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On New Year's Eve 1994, Rod Stewart performed in front of 3,500,000 people at Copacabana Beach, one of the most attended concerts of all time. (Wikipedia)
In 2016, there were 724,000,000 digital song downloads, a 25 percent drop from 2015. (Nielsen)
Studies show that students who have a musical education, on average, score 100 total points higher on their SATs. (NAfME)
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- The world's longest lasting concert will take 639 years to complete. It took 10 years to complete 11 chord changes. (Huffington Post)
- Leo Fender, the creator of the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar, never learned to play the instrument. (Britannica)
- Perfect pitch is “The ability to recognize the pitch of a note or to produce any given note.” Studies show about one in 10,000 people are born with it. Many never discover they have it. (Creativity Post)
- The song "Happy Birthday" brings in $2 million per year on average in royalties. That's over $5,000 per day. (Wikipedia)
- Studies show that music can trigger physiological changes that modulate blood pressure, heart rate and respiration, improving your heart's health. (Scientific American)
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