Have you ever wondered how many songs have been created? On Average, there are 50 albums released every week in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1878 but it was always a very poor seller. The first artist to sell serious numbers of records was Frank Sinatra in the 1940 (250,000,000 records in his lifetime), so lets start there!
Lets also assume that there are 12 songs per album.
50 albums per week * 52 weeks = 2500 per year
2500 per year * 69 years = 179,400 unique albums (since 1940)
12 songs * 179,400 albums = 2,152,800 songs
So the average points to about 2,100,000 songs being released in the United States of America and the United Kingdom (and nowhere else) in musical history, give or take.
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