1. Music is so influential it can alter your heartbeat, pulse rate, blood pressure, decrease your muscle tension, and even affect your body movement and coordination.
2. The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.
3. Europe has "Silent Discos." You listen to music on your headphones. Rather than use a speaker system, some club owners have resorted to wireless headphones to entertain club goers.
4. Doctors have prescribed music to treat Parkinson's disease and strokes.
5. Playing an instrument can raise your IQ up to five points! Many young children are encouraged to play instruments.
6. To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
7. Music is as addictive as sex and drugs. Researchers found that the brain released dopamine both in anticipation of hearing music and while listening to music. The reaction was similar to the reactions in the brain that occur for drug and sex addicts.
8. 40 billion songs are downloaded illegally every year, that’s some 90% of all music downloads. The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music but loose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.
9. The harmonica is the world’s best-selling music instrument.
10. The world’s largest disco was held at the Buffalo Convention Centre, New York, 1979. 13,000 danced a place into the Guinness Book of World Records.
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