05 Nov 2008 -
- To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
- In 1966 British pop music promoter, group manager and songwriter Ronnie Scott, along with legendary UK pop singer Marty Wilde wrote the track "When Jesamine Goes", for Welsh rock band The Bystanders (later called Man), BUT the songwriting duo went under the pseudonyms of Frere Manston and Jack Gellar. (In 1968 the track was covered by The Casuals as "Jesamine" and got to No.2 in the UK singles chart).
- *As of 2005, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums had spent a total of 1,322 weeks or twenty-seven years on the UK album charts; more time than any other musical act. In 2006 the Queens Greatest Hits album was the U K's all-time best selling album, with sales upwards of 5,407,587 copies, over 604,295 more copies than its nearest competitor, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The band has released a total of eighteen number one albums, eighteen number one singles, and ten number one DVDs worldwide making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. Their total album sales have been estimated at over 300 million worldwide including 32.5 million in the United States alone as of 2004.
- *After counting 23 faked orgasms performed by Donna Summer in "Love to Love You Baby", the British Broadcasting Corporation (The BBC) banned the song. However, it did not stop it from becoming a massive hit, in 1976, Love to Love You Baby reached No.4 on the UK single charts and peaked to number two on the American Billboard pop chart.
- *The week after Michael Jackson died he had thirteen top 40 Hits in the charts (the chart w/e 11th July 2009), he held positions 2, 10, 12, 13, 19, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40 with "Man In The Mirror", "Billie Jean", "Thriller", "Smooth Criminal", "Beat It", "Black Or White", "Dirty Diana", "They Don't Care About Us", "Earth Song", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "You Are Not Alone", "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", and "Bad".
- *According to Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, Carol Kaye is the most recorded bassist of all time, with 10,000 sessions spanning four decades.
- *In the mid-1950s, Ella Fitzgerald became the first African-American to perform at the legendary Mocambo, on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, after Marilyn Monroe had lobbied the owner for the booking. The incident was turned into a play by Bonnie Greer in 2005.
