€50 CASH PRIZE TO BE WON
How well were you paying attention over the past 12 months? Test your 2019 music knowledge and you could win one of two €50 prizes. Prizes will go to the first two correct entries drawn. Write or type out your answers on one side of a sheet of paper, making sure to include your name, address and phone number. Send or drop in your answers to Music Quiz of theYear, The Argus Newspaper, Park Street, Dundalk. Entries must arrive no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, January 10, 2020. If there are no all-correct entries, the prizes will go to the entries with most correct answers.
1 Who, with ‘Bad Guy’, became the only artist born in the 2000s to score a number one single in the US?
2 ‘Señorita’, the most streamed song on Spotify this year, was a collaboration between which two singers?
3 How many number one hit singles did Ed Sheeran have in 2019?
4 Who collaborated with Sheeran on ‘I Don’t Care’?
5 What nationality is Lewis Capaldi? 6 Whose second solo album was called ‘Why Me? Why Not.’?
7 Jeff Lynne’s ELO had a UK number one album with ‘From Out Of Nowhere’. What does ELO stand for?
8 Whose ‘Map Of The Soul: Persona’ made them the first group since the Beatles to earn three number one albums in the US in less than a year?
9 Who released their first new material with vocalist Terry Hall since 1981’s number one single ‘Ghost Town’?
10 Name the Prodigy frontman who was found dead in March.
11 Duncan Lawrence won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest representing which country?
12 Who represented Ireland at the Eurovision, singing ‘22’?
13 Post Malone and Swae Lee’s ‘Sunflower’ was from which movie soundtrack?
14 Whose 2019 album included the songs ‘You Need To Calm Down’ and ‘Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince’?
15 Whose ‘Old Town Road’ topped the US singles chart for a record 19 consecutive weeks, from April to August?
16 Complete the title of Bruce Springsteen’s 2019 album: ‘_______ Stars’.
17 Who headlined at Slane in June? 18 Which Irish band worked with renowned Indian composer and producer A.R. Rahman for a new single in November?
19 Who won Album of the Year at the 61st Grammy Awards, for ‘Golden Hour’?
20 Madonna’s 2019 album stopped one spot short of number one in the UK. What was it called?
21 Ric Ocasek, who died in September, was the lead singer with which Boston band who achieved chart glory in the late seventies/eighties?
22 Whose fourth album, released late summer, was called ‘i,i’?
23 Who released an album called ‘The Lion King: The Gift’ inspired by the Disney movie remake of ‘The Lion King’?
24 Which rock band and singer did An Post honour with two 50th anniversary stamps in October? 25 Who announced a 2020 ‘Jagged Little Pill’ 25th anniversary tour?
26 Whose Twenty Tour included two July shows in Croke Park?
27 In which venue did the Spice Girls begin their 2019 tour, on May 24?
28 Which former Girls Aloud singer took part in ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’?
29 In October, who revealed the track listing of their new studio album with ads in a number of newspapers, including the North Wales Daily Post, where guitarist Jonny Buckland once had a holiday job?
30 What was the album in question 29 called?
31 Name the two music icons who played Nowlan Park in Kilkenny in July.
32 Where in Ireland did Florence + The Machine, Hozier and Billie Eilish appear on the same bill in 2019?
33 Which Dublin singer’s debut album pushed the Beatles’ special anniversary edition of ‘Abbey Road’ off the top to claim No. 1 in the UK in October?
34 Name the Snow Patrol cover released by the cast of X Factor: Celebrity in support of two charities, Together For Short Lives and Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.
35 ‘Magic Nights’ was a 2019 album from which Irish folk legend?
36 Who replaced herself at number one in Ireland with ‘Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored’?
37 How many compilations have now been released in the ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ series?
38 Who composed ‘Ireland’s Call’, the anthem played before all Ireland’s rugby internationals?
39 Who played Elton John in the movie Rocketman?
40 Whose festive hit inspired the movie ‘Last Christmas’ starring Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding and Emma Thompson?
41 Which Aussie star’s greatest hits collection was called ‘Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection’?
42 What was the fitting name of the Cranberries album that featured posthumous vocals by the late Dolores O’Riordan?
43 Whose second studio album was called ‘MDRN LV’?
44 Who reached number one in the UK for the first time with his sixth album, ‘Singing To Strangers’?
45 Who won the Oscar in February for Best Original Song?
46 What did the Killers, Stormzy, The Cure and Kylie have in common in June?
47 Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr. is better known as...?
48 Whose ‘Spectrum’ was the fastest selling album of 2019 in Ireland?
49 Who covered REO Speedwagon’s ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’ on the John Lewis Christmas ad?
50 Which One Direction star released ‘Nice To Meet Ya’ as the lead single from his new album, in early October?