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Facts about Music

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

Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).

Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980.

About 2,4 billion CDs are sold annually. The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been about equal.

About one-third of recorded CDs are