Post all the music trivia you know here. Will be curious to know what people post. We could all be suprised.

None at all? The film one generated much interest

Shayne Ward's winning song on XF was turned down by Westlife.

Miley Cyrus has peaked at #11 on three occasions and never gotten any further.

Depeche Mode have had 40 hits but never a #1.

Erm...

Elly Jackson of La Roux is the daughter of Trudie Goodwin who played June Ackland on the Bill.

'Billie Jean' by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist. Initially, the channel did not want to air any music by black artists.

Swedish Singer Robyn sings on Britney's Piece of me. She sings the line "you wanna piece of me"

Paris hilton was apparently offered Don't chat that eventually went to Pussycat dolls. It also apparently offered to Britney

Beyonce's halo was originally written for Leona Lewis

Taio Cruz wrote Break your heart for Cheryl Cole originally

Lady GaGa originally wrote Telephone for Britney Spears

Keri Hilson wrote Britney spears's Gimme More. She also co wrote 2 more tracks on her blackout album.

Dido wrote Britney's I'm not a girl, not yet a woman

R Kelly wrote Britney's Outrageous song.

Britney's song Everytime is the only song that has been released as a single that was written by her.

If I Were a boy is Beyonce's biggest here. Yet, she never even wrote herself which is rare for Beyonce to not have a song written by her.

It wasn't, Ryan came out and cleared the rumour
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/ne...for-leona.html

Phil Collins had a song of his played on the first and last ever episode of Miami Vice the TV series. The first episode featured In The Air Tonight the last one had Land of confusion by Genesis

"About you now" by the Sugababes was originally meant to be for Kelly Clarkson.

Denial by Sugababes is co written by VV Brown.

Sash! and Frankie Sandford/Rochelle Wiseman from The Saturdays have a record for most #2's without getting #1.

The first ever UK number 1 hit was Al Martino's Hear in My Heart in November 1952. The good old days of music

Frankie Laine - I Believe, had the longest run at UK#1 with 18 non consecutive weeks at the top

The record for most consecutive weeks at UK#1, with 16 weeks is Bryan Adams - Everything I Do I Do It For You

Can anybody tell me what was the lowest selling #1 ever? I know Pixie Lott (or Taio Cruz) had the lowest selling #1 of 2009 but what about other years/all time?

Orson - No Tomorrow in March 2006 i think

It sold around 17,000 copies

That's awful!! I remember Cheryl Cole needed like over 38K or something to get to #5 a few months back.

Glenn Miller was the first artist to receve a Golden Disc for Chattanooga Choo Choo in 1942.

Take That - Rule The World remained in the top 100 until April 2009, 1 year 5 months 21 days after the single was released.

Elton John played piano on The Hollies hit I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top

and

then recorded the same song for the Hot Hits/Top Of The Pops series of cheap cover LP's that were very popular in the early 1970's'

The record for the longest number of weeks on the UK charts is held by Snow Patrol with Chasing Cars - a total of 139 weeks to date.

In fact the top ten chart for number weeks on the UK Chart are all tracks released in the 2000's

1) Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars - 139 Weeks
2) Take That - Rule The World - 93 Weeks
3) Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire - 77 Weeks
4) Flo Ride - Low - 75 Weeks
+5) Amy Winehouse - Rehab
+5) Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody - both 73 Weeks
+7) Rihana - Umbrella
+7) Killers - Mr Brightside - both 71 Weeks
9) Jason Mraz - I'm Yours - 63 Weeks
10) Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me - 60 Weeks

The first appearance by a record from the 20th Century in the list is at 13 - Engelbert Humperdink - Release Me (1967) - 56 Weeks.

282 records have spent 25 or more weeks on the chart.

6,253 records have spent only 1 week on the chart and bottom place, purely by alphabet goes to ZZ Top whose 1996 single "What's Up With That" which beats their only other 1 week contender "Breakaway" (1994)

Only one I can think of at the moment is that Girls Aloud's Graffiti My Soul (from What Will The Neighbours Say) was originally written and recorded for Britney's In The Zone album. But when Britney's people heard it they told Brian Higgins (the writer and producer) "Where's the chorus? Why are there no repetitive parts?" and turned it down.

And Cheryl said: "I heard it and it was really strange. We didn't hear it fully mixed. But on our version I sing the line 'You dream of touching me there' and I heard her sing it in that really strange voice and it freaked me out."

Oh and also, Rachel Stevens' Sweet Dreams My LA Ex was orginally written for Britney. It was meant to be in response to Justin Timberlake's Cry Me A River.


I'm a Robyn fan and I never even realised that! But listening to it now, its obvious its her. Thats really random though.

The first million selling record was Enrico Caruso's recording of "On With The Motely" in 1908.

An "alleged" recording of the composer Brahams is supposedly the earliest known piece of recording that still exists - it was recorded by Thomas Edison onto a wax cylinder.

Interestingly only 3 of those reached Number 1

also Mr. Brightside has only spent 3 weeks in the Top 50

Katy Perry wrote, 'I Do Not Hook Up' for her original pop album (her first album was by Katy Hudson and was Xstain rock) before Kelly Clarkson used it.