20 Musical Facts That I bet You Didn't Know about !

Top 20 Facts about Musical Genres

Here is a list of facts I bet you didn't know

Did you Know?

1. None of The Beatles Could Read Music? Yes, really none of them.

2. Your Heart Beat Changes and mimics the music you listen to. Funny huh.

3. Elvis Presley didn't write any of his songs? So who really was wearing the blue suede shoes?

4. Snoop Dogg's mother gave him his nickname because his eyes reminded her of the cartoon dog Snoopy from Charlie Brown. I See the resemblance, don’t you ?

5.The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music but loose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.

6. In Ghana there is a genre called High Burger Life? lol.

7 The music genre Metal has the loyalist fan base in the world?

8.To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.

9. Popular rapper Kendrick Lamar real last name is Duckworth.

10.The Beatles song “Martha My Dear” was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha.

11. Bob Marley was shot in 1976, a few days before he was due to play a concert to promote peace between violent rival factions in Jamaica 

12. Marley's last words to his son? "Money can't buy life."

13. The Beatles previously use to go by the name " Johnny and the Moondogs"?

14.The song Jingle Bells was originally written for Christmas?

15. Rapper Jay-z was school classmates and friends with Notorious B.I.G?

16. Music triggers activity in the same brain structure that releases the "pleasure chemical" dopamine during sex and eating?

17. At only four lines long, the Japanese National anthem is the Shortest national Anthem. The longest is  Greece national anthem which is 158 verses long?

18. In 1989, the U.S. Military played AC/DC's music VERY LOUD at the compound of General Noriega for two days non stop. The Dictator Surrendered? Talk about the power of music.

19. Lose Yourself by Eminem is the First Rap Song to Win an Oscar? go Slim Shady.

20. As a student at the Baltimore School of Arts, Tupac Shakur took ballet classes? say what! Mr. Makaveli ??

So how well did you do, did you know any of these? ;)