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From it, Madonna made $500 million for her label. [20] The soundtrack to the film The Bodyguard, the best selling soundtrack album of all time, selling over 45 million copies worldwide to date. Its leading single "I Will Always Love You" became the best selling single by a female artist (Whitney Houston) of all time, selling over 15 million copies.
At a similar time, "YouTube Disco" was launched, a music discovery service. It closed in October 2014. [90] [91] YouTube's current headquarters in San Bruno, California (2010 to present) In January 2010, [92] YouTube introduced an online film rentals service which is currently available only to users in the US, Canada and the UK.
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
In 2013, David Peel and the Protesters released Up Against the Wall Street, an album of themed protest songs. In 2015, Peel was back to his fight for the legalization of marijuana, releasing his latest album as David Peel and the Lower East Side titled Give Hemp a Chance. He also made film music for the avant-garde director Rosa von Praunheim.
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
This timeline of music in the United States covers the period from 1850 to 1879. It encompasses the California Gold Rush , the Civil War and Reconstruction , and touches on topics related to the intersections of music and law, commerce and industry , religion, race, ethnicity, politics, gender, education , historiography and academics.
"Classic Rock" was first issued in the winter of 1988, with the first volume in the series titled Classic Rock: 1965.Like most compilation albums, songs by two of the era's most successful groups – The Beatles and The Rolling Stones – were not included due to licensing issues; however, several albums had cover art with drawings of male rock singers resembling The Beatles.
The 20th century has exact dates, but is strictly a calendar based unit of time. The Modernist era is confined mostly to the 20th century, but the Postmodern era continues into the current century which is therefore not a separate musical era in its own right.