MORE THAN 50 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MUSIC

This post is a collection of FACTS regarding MUSIC..!!

I enjoy exploring more and more about music as much as i enjoy singing..!!

I hope you enjoy this article and a little study of mine..!!

Many of them are proven but few of them are fun to believe leaving us clueless if its proven or not..!!

Lets dive into the FACTS..!!

1. Musicians Have Shorter Life Spans Than the General Population - Researchers at the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University 
2. Singing in a Group Boosts Mood , helps heal mental illness, and gives confidence 
3. Listening to Music Enhances Physical Performance - blood flows with ease, when music is played, which hence
4. An Astronaut (Chris Hadfield) Released an Album with All Songs Recorded in Space
5. Music Affects Your Perception of the World
6. Music Helps Plants Grow Faster
7. The Most Expensive Musical Instrument( Italian Violin) Sold for $15.9 Million
8. Metallica is the First and Only Band to Have Played on All 7 Continents
9. The "Happy Birthday" Song Brings A Bunch of Royalties (App 5000 Dollars per day)
10. A Sea Organ is Built Into the Coast of Croatia  - 230 feet long
11. Loud Music Causes You to Drink More in Less Time
12. Cows Produce More Milk When Listening to Slow Music
13. Heavy Metal and Classical Music Fans Have Similar Personality Traits
14. 70 different pieces of wood make a violin.
15. Yuri Gagarin sang a song in space
16. Nashville is the Home of Country Music
17. Jazz has positive effects on creative thinking and health.
18. There are two kinds of music therapy: active and receptive.
19. Babies remain calm twice as long when listening to a song as they do when listening to speech, according to a study.
20. Japan has the shortest national anthem in the world. (Only 4 lines)
21. The chills you get when you listen to music, is mostly caused by the brain releasing dopamine while anticipating the peak moment of a song.
22. There are few activities in life that utilizes the entire brain, and music is one of them.
23. The brain responds to music the same way it responds to something that you eat.
24. Listening to music while exercising can significantly improve your work-out performance.
25. Your heartbeat changes to mimics the music you listen to. (The graph )
26. Unborn babies hear & react to music

27. Premature newborns benefit from hearing lullabies

28. Music trends might affect the stock market

29. 5% of the world population has musical anhedonia: the inability to enjoy music.

30. listening to music decreases anxiety & boosts immunity

31. At two months old, babies can distinguish between pleasant and unpleasant sounds.
32. Most toilets flush in E flat. LOL
33. The oldest musical instruments in the world are flutes that date back some 32,000 years. These instruments made from bird bones have been found in the Isturitz caves in France and the Geissenklösterle caves in Germany.
34. According to studies, music helps us to regulate emotions.
35. Kenny G set a Guinness World Record back in 1997 for the longest note ever held on a saxophone.
36. A radio station out of Georgia was the first to play folk music to its audience in 1922.
37. Michael Jackson’s Thriller goes platinum for the 21st time and the Guinness Book of World Records certifies it as the best-selling album ever.
38. Madonna holds the Guinness World Records as the world’s most successful female recording artist of all time.
39. The longest national anthem in the world comes from Greece: a whopping 158 verses!
40. With music, chronic pain can be reduced and depression can be alleviated. Body and soul react.
41. Rapper NoClue is the World's Fastest Rapper with 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds (14.1 syllables per second).
42. Only about 1 in every 10,000 people has "perfect pitch", the ability to identify a musical note just by hearing it, with no reference note.
43. The word "music" comes from the Muses, goddesses of the arts in Greek mythology. (One among many explanations)
44. 19.3% of deaths for metal musicians are suicide.
45. 51.5% of deaths for hip-hop musicians are homicide.
46. Mozart sold more CDs in 2016 than Beyonce did
47. The earliest surviving written music is a Hurrian hymn which date to approximately 1400 BC.
48. Kenny G broke a Guinness World Record in 1997 for playing the longest note ever recorded on a saxophone: an E-flat for 45 minutes and 47 seconds.
49. Researchers at the University of Leicester found that cows produce 3% more milk when they listen to relaxing music.
50. Music May Help You Sleep Better (Try Sleep Music)
51. Songs which you have never heard before, help you drive safer on the road.
52. The way to communicate with babies isn't cooing to them, but music
53. Hit songs tend to have repetitive choruses.
54. Listening to classical music for just 45 minutes prior to bed can improve sleep quality
55. Music makes you happier

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