11/2/11

My Passion

My passion is music. i love music. it makes people happy on the genre they like. Music can be shared or personal. With friends, passion, imagination, you can make your own music yourself.

Why it matters to me? well, in myh opinion i can't live without music. Music is every where. Everyday when i go to my room, i always listen to music. I use it with everything. when i read a book, do my homework, draw a picture, or even dance.

Facts.
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.
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.
Top-selling albums used to reach sales of 20 million copies before the advent of online piracy – by 2009 it had dropped to about 5 million.

info from http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/music/

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