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The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar from the ancient Greek town of Tralles (modern Aydın in present-day Turkey) in 1883.
Ugarit, where the Hurrian songs were found. The complete song is one of about 36 such hymns in cuneiform writing, found on fragments of clay tablets excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit (present-day Ras Shamra, Syria), [5] in a stratum dating from the fourteenth century BC, [6] but is the only one surviving in substantially complete form.
The newest song in the top 100 is currently "Birds of a Feather" by Billie Eilish (2024), while the oldest song in the top 100 is currently Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975). Nine songs are known to have claimed the top of the ranking, beginning with " Viva la Vida " by the British band Coldplay in 2008.
The oldest surviving written music is the Hurrian songs from Ugarit, Syria. Of these, the oldest is the Hymn to Nikkal (hymn no. 6; h. 6), which is somewhat complete and dated to c. 1400 BCE. [69] However, the Seikilos epitaph is the earliest entirely complete noted musical composition.
That song peaked at number 76 in 2019, when Blue Ivy was seven. [216] (Notably, Blue Ivy is the youngest person ever to appear on any Billboard chart, featuring on "Glory" by her father Jay-Z, which was recorded and released two days after her birth.
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The song marks a pivotal turning point in Glinda and Elphaba’s friendship. Their philosophical differences and approaches to working with the Wizard mean there is no going back to the way things ...
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".