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Music Fast Facts – Week 2

  1. Kenneth Edmonds was nicknamed Babyface by funk bassist and singer Bootsy Collins.
  2. At the first Grammy Awards, held on 4 May 1959, Domenico Modugno beat out Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee for the Record of the Year, with “Volare.”
  3. Bob Dylan’s first professional performance was as opening act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde’s Folk City in New York, 1961.
  4. U2 was originally known as Feedback. To date, U2 have sold more than 70 million records.
  5. The Dave Matthews Band is the only group to have 6 consecutive studio albums debut at the top of the Billboard chart.
  6. In 2005, S. vinyl record sales generated $35 million U.S. dollars; in 2015, it had increased to $416 million.
  7. During the 2010s, 40 billion songs were downloaded illegally every year, that was approximately 90% of all music streaming.
  8. Top-selling albums used to reach sales of 20 million copies before the advent of online piracy – by 2009 it had dropped to about 5 million.
  9. During the 1990s, the number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold were about equal.
  10. About one-third of recorded CDs ever sold were pirated.
  11. DVD discs are the same diameter (120mm) and thickness (1.2mm) as a Compact Disc (CD) but a DVD can store 13 times or more data.