It was never a hit single and got almost no play on Top 40 radio. There's even a dispute over the exact title. Yet “It's a Small World,” also known as “It's a Small, Small World” and “It's a Small World (After All),” is very likely the most played song in music history — nearly 50 million times.
It's actually THE most expensive song to license. So what is it? It's AC/DC's “Thunderstruck”. The producers of “Varsity Blues” paid $500,000 to use it, and that was all the way back in 1999.
Creedence Clearwater Revival were one of the biggest bands of the Vietnam era, and their protest song "Fortunate Son" was one of the most visible examples of anti-war music. Because of that, it didn't take long for it to become the go-to soundtrack for some of the best films about the war, and it soon became cliché.
John Fogerty claims he wrote “Fortunate Son” in just 20 minutes. But the music he made with Creedence Clearwater Revival has soundtracked visions of the Vietnam War in pop culture for what feels like an eternity.
King's “Stand by Me” (Stand by Me), Louis Armstrong's “What a Wonderful World” (Good Morning, Vietnam), The Contours' “Do You Love Me” (Dirty Dancing), The Righteous Brothers' “Unchained Melody” (Ghost) and Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Wayne's World) — all hit the top 40 thanks to a new movie placement.
Rihanna is the richest musician with a whopping net worth of $1.7 billion. ...
Known as co-lead vocalist, co-songwriter and bassist for one of the most popular bands, the Beatles, Sir James Paul McCartney is the fourth richest musicians in the world in 2022.
"Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003) People came out in droves for the final installment of Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. After only 10 weeks in theaters, "Return of the King" became the second movie ever in history to make $1 billion ("Titanic" was the first in 1997).
According to Guinness World Records, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies.
Since 2013, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake and Bad Bunny a record three times, with Bad Bunny being the only artist to do so on consecutive years (2020, 2021 and 2022).
Disney movies that are not musicals include: A Wrinkle in Time (2018) ... If you're also including Disney/Pixar animated movies that are not musicals, the list gets a little longer:
Dilettante music is a genre of chamber music in the traditional music of southern Vietnam. Its instrumentation resembles that of the ca Huế style. Sometimes, modified versions of European instruments like the guitar, violin, and the steel guitar are also included.
The Vietnam War may have defined 1960s and 1970s America, but it lasted 10 years by the most widely accepted metric (and, officially, it was never a war at all). And while World War I and II may have killed far more American troops, the fighting didn't linger for a decade and a half.
The root of the "three-minute" length is likely derived from the original format of 78 rpm-speed phonograph records; at about 3 to 5 minutes per side, it's just long enough for the recording of a complete song. The rules of the Eurovision Song Contest do not permit entries to be longer than three minutes.
