Some interesting facts about music you probably never new !
To win a gold disc for music sales in the Uk , you need to sell 100,000 copies , in the USA you have to sell 500,000 copies.
The CD was first developed in 1980 by Phillips and Sony.
There are 2.4 billion CD's sold every year , of these one third are pirated.
The message " Elvis has left the building " was first quoted in 1954.
The band Duran Duran , named themselves after a mad scientist in the film Barbarella starring Jane Fonda.
Ireland has produced the most Eurovision song contest winners with a total of 7.
Worldwide sales of The Beatles records totals one billion.
The LP ( long playing record ) invented in 1948 by Paul Goldmark is still alive and selling over 10 million per year.
The first pop video was made for Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen in 1975.
In May 1997 Paul Mcartney recieved his 81st Gold Disc.
The top selling single of all time is ' Candle in the Wind 97 ' by Elton John it sold 33million.
Dvd's are the same dimension as the CD , but the DVD can hold 13 times more data than the CD.
