Music Facts
To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States. Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931). Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented. 40 billion songs are downloaded illegally every year, that’s some 90% of all music downloads. 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. |
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