17 Jan Fun Music Facts

You can never learn enough facts about music, so here are 10 interesting musical facts that involve scientific studies, popular musical artists, and statistics, and history!

1. Music, as well as other areas of fine arts, used to be a part of the modern Olympic games from 1912 to 1948.
2. 1 in 20 people have musical anhedonia, which is a biological condition that makes people dislike music.
3. A study found that when jazz musicians improvise, the brain region associated with inhibition and self-control turns off, while the region associated with self-expression turns on.
4. Music triggers the brain to release the “pleasure molecule” dopamine, which comes from activities such as eating and exercising.
5. Babies stay calm twice as long as they do when listening to people talking.
6. The piano Freddie Mercury plays in Bohemian Rhapsody is the same piano Paul McCartney plays in Hey Jude.
7. Perfect pitch is the ability to identify a musical note just by hearing it without any reference note. 1 in 10,000 individuals have perfect pitch.
8. Queen, Bob Marley, Tupac and Jimi Hendrix never won a Grammy, while Justin Bieber and Milli Vanilli did. Additionally, Barack Obama and Martin Luther King, Jr. have both won a Grammy.
9. Music helps patients with traumatic brain injuries improve memory recall.
10. Listening to music during workouts improves physical performance.