2020s Music Trivia

1. Which seventeen-year-old American star scored her first UK number one hit in 2021 with her debut single 'Drivers License', which topped the chart for nine weeks?

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: Olivia Rodrigo

When Olivia Rodrigo released her debut single, 'Drivers License' in January 2021 it immediately became a global smash hit. It reached number one all over the world and broke numerous records in the process, including for most streamed song in a single day on Spotify. In 2021 she also scored another number one single in both the UK and USA with 'Good 4 U' and her debut album, 'Sour' enjoyed widespread commercial and critical success. Her second album, 'Guts' was released in 2023 and has also received critical acclaim as well as topping albums charts all over the world. The first single to be taken from 'Guts', 'Vampire', also reached number one in the UK in 2023.

From Quiz Songs of 2022

Answer: Harry Styles

After being part of the hugely popular boy band One Direction, Harry Styles launched his solo career in 2017 after the band went on hiatus. Styles found success as a solo artist, especially with his single "Sign of the Times". His third studio album, "Harry's House", was released in 2022 and won a Grammy Award the following year. "As It Was" was the first single from that album and was played extensively on radio stations all over the world. It peaked at number one on several international charts.

From Quiz 2020s Lockdown Playlist

Answer: Blinding Lights

Though "Blinding Lights" released as the first single from The Weeknd's fourth album, "After Hours", in late 2019, the track had already gained significant traction by the time the planet went into lockdown, catapulting the Canadian singer to the top of the charts in numerous countries, peaking at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and appearing on eight other U.S. charts. The track ended up being performed remotely from the top of 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan for the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards and was the closing number at the Super Bowl in 2021.

From Quiz Alternative 2020s artists

Answer: Car Seat Headrest

Car Seat Headrest are a lo-fi indie band that began in Leesburg, Virginia. They consist of frontman Will Toledo, guitarist Ethan Ives, bassist Seth Dalby and drummer Andrew Katz.

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: Doja Cat

Doja Cat had enjoyed viral success with her 2018 single 'Moo', but it was her 2019 breakthrough album 'Hot Pink', which really catapulted her to worldwide fame. One of the singles taken from the album' 'Say So', reached number two in the UK and USA, with a remix featuring rap superstar Nicki Minaj later reaching the top of the charts in the USA. Her 2021 single 'Kiss Me More', which featured rapper SZA and was taken from the album 'Planet Her', reached number three in the UK and, finally, Doja Cat topped the UK singles chart for the first time in 2023 with her song 'Paint the Town Red'.

From Quiz Songs of 2022

Answer: Tom Odell

Tom Odell is a singer born in England in 1990. Odell's songs convey a great deal of emotion through the combination of his unique voice and smooth piano playing. Odell released "Another Love" in 2012, a song that became rather popular and launched him into worldwide fame. Some other successful tracks by Odell have included "Jubilee Road" and his cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors". In 2022, Tom Odell released "Flying :))" as part of his fifth studio album, "Best Day of My Life". Though it is a rather short and simple song, it has quite moving lyrics and music (and, at least to me, is rather addictive to listen to!)

From Quiz 2020s Lockdown Playlist

Answer: Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa's sophomore album, "Future Nostalgia" was radio pop at its catchiest. The album started releasing singles like "Don't Start Now" as early as November 2019, but with the disc's release in late March 2020, it primed itself to be one of the first official COVID-19 releases altogether. Though Dua Lipa would be unable to perform the tracklist live for several months, the singles kept coming with "Physical", "Break My Heart", "Hallucinate", and "Levitating" all providing levity in a time of need. Her tour for the album wouldn't begin until early 2022 by which point "Future Nostalgia" would receive a number of accolades and 'Best of' rankings.

From Quiz Alternative 2020s artists

Answer: Shygirl

Shygirl, born Blane Muise, is an English rapper, singer-songwriter and DJ. She co-founded the label 'NUXXE'. Her music has been used in multiple ads for Fenty, Rihanna's fashion brand.

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: Tate McRae

Born in 2003, Tate McRae first gained public recognition as an award-winning dancer, making a number of tv appearances as well as performing on music videos and shows with the likes of Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato. From around 2017 she began uploading videos of herself performing songs she had written to Youtube which garnered significant attention and millions of views. 'You Broke Me First' became a worldwide hit in 2020 bringing her to wider public attention and kickstarting her music career. In 2022 she released her debut album 'I Used To Think I Could Fly' which received critical and commercial success and featured the single 'She's All I Wanna Be' which became a top 20 hit in the UK. In 2022 she also collaborated with Dutch producer Tiesto on the UK top ten hit '10:35'.

From Quiz Songs of 2022

Answer: David Guetta

David Guetta has been behind some of the greatest hits of the 2010s and 2020s decades. Some of his best-known songs include "Titanium" (with Sia), "Memories" (with Kid Cudi), and "Without You" (with Usher). The French DJ usually collaborates with popular artists of several genres and, like other DJs, also samples older songs to create new music. In 2022, Guetta collaborated with the American singer Bebe Rexha on the catchy "I'm Good (Blue)" song, which was part of Rexha's album called "Bebe". While the original chorus by Eiffel 65 said "I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di", the Guetta/Rexha version goes "I'm good, yeah, I'm feelin' alright".

From Quiz 2020s Lockdown Playlist

Answer: Ariana Grande

Set to release earlier in 2020, Lady Gaga's return to pop form with "Chromatica" was delayed by the lockdown, forcing her to send out the album in late May of the same year instead of the intended date. Gaga, no stranger to a world tour, didn't get to pursue her 'Chromatica Ball' until summer 2022. "Rain On Me", the album's second single, ended up being the breakout hit of the singer's sixth official album. The catchy tune also ended up being the one seen the most in live performances, many of which featured both singers performing the tight, TikTok-ready choreography onstage, fully masked, for major events (like the virtual 2020 MTV Video Music Awards).

From Quiz Alternative 2020s artists

Answer: Radiohead

'If You Say the Word' was featured on the album 'Kid A Mnesia'. The members of Radiohead are Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway.

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: GAYLE

Born Taylor Gayle Rutherfurd in Texas in 2004, GAYLE hit it big with her debut single 'ABCDEFU'. Its journey to UK number one was a relatively long one. Following its 2021 release it spent some time in the top five, but Adele's run at number one with 'Easy On Me' followed by the annual Christmas shake-up of the charts, which usually sees the top 40 dominated by seasonal favourites old and new, meant that ABCDEFU' didn't reach the top spot until January 2022. In 2022 GAYLE released her ambitiously titled debut EP 'A Study of the Human Experience Volume One', which would be followed by Volume Two later the same year. GAYLE also contributed the track 'Butterflies' to 'Barbie: The Album', the soundtrack to the hit 2023 film of the same name.

From Quiz Songs of 2022

Answer: Rosalia

Rosalia was born and raised in Catalonia, the Spanish autonomous community where the city of Barcelona is located in. Though her musical career began when she was relatively young, she released her first studio album titled "Los Angeles" in 2017, followed by "El Mal Querer" in 2018. During and after the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2019-2020, Rosalia became even better known in the international community. Her third studio album, "Motomami", was released in March 2022 and included "La Fama", "Saoko", and "Chicken Teriyaki", all of which had been released as singles months earlier. Her songs were especially popular on the TikTok app.

From Quiz Alternative 2020s artists

Answer: Black Midi

The songs on 'Cavalcade' touch on themes of falling from power and the process of creation. It has been described as "an album of extremes, fluctuating between lounging wizardry and an angular, prog-rock nightmare."

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: PinkPantheress

PinkPantheress, who has not publicly confirmed her real name, was born in Bath in 2001 and first came to public notice when she began to upload songs which she had written and recorded in her bedroom while at university in London to TikTok in 2021. The popularity of these tracks led to interest from record labels and, in 2021, she released her debut mixtape 'To Hell With it' which produced the UK top 40 hit singles 'Just For Me' and 'Pain'. In 2022 a remix of her song 'Boy's A Liar', which featured American rapper Ice Spice, reached number two in the UK singles chart as well as giving her her first US Billboard Top 100 entry, peaking at number three. In 2023 PinkPantheress contributed the track 'Angel' to the 'Barbie' movie soundtrack.

From Quiz Alternative 2020s artists

Answer: Lingua Ignota

Lingua Ignota, born Kristin Hayter, creates music that blends classical influences with extreme metal. She is from Del Mar, California and also does spoken-word art.

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: Coi Leray

Coi Leray was born in Boston in 1997 and appeared on a number of successful collaborations with the likes of Nicki Minaj and Lil Dirk in the early years of her career. In 2022 she released her debut album 'Trendsetter' which spawned the hit song 'Players' which would give Coi Leray her first top ten single in both the UK and USA. Also in 2023, Coi Leray teamed up with David Guetta and Anne-Marie for the UK top 20 hit 'Baby Don't Hurt Me', a song which interpolates Haddaway's number one hit 'What Is Love?'.

From Quiz 2020s Lockdown Playlist

Answer: South Korea

Though the popular South Korean boy band BTS has seen significant popularity on their home turf, "Dynamite" helped propel them to stardom overseas, allowing them to break into the mainstream radio charts in North America and Europe and become the top-selling South Korean musical act of all-time. "Dynamite", from their fifth album, "Be", was written during the COVID-19 pandemic and became a late summer 2020 hit topping out at number one in the U.S., Mexico, Malaysia, Israel, Scotland, and on and on. Going multi-platinum in the U.S., it also netted the band's first Grammy nomination.

From Quiz Alternative 2020s artists

Answer: Viper

Viper is one of the most prolific artists of all time, though the amount of new material in his many albums is usually low. Other albums include 'Enter Tha Void: Enter Tha Viper', and 'Inhuman Resources'.

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: Mimi Webb

Born Amelia Anne Webb in Canterbury in 2000, Mimi Webb released her debut EP '7 Shades of Heartbreak', from which her first top ten UK hit single 'Good Without' was taken, in 2021. In 2022 she released the single 'House On Fire' which peaked at four in the UK singles chart. Mimi Webb released her debut album, 'Amelia', in 2023 accompanied by the release of her top 20 UK hit 'Red Flags'.

From Quiz 2020s Lockdown Playlist

Answer: Drivers License

Young singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo would hit the jackpot in 2021 with her debut single, "Drivers License", which wouldn't only make her the youngest musician to top the US Billboard Hot 100 (which she did for eight weeks), but give her a multi-platinum debut. Not only would the track lead her to a Grammy win, but it would give her the footing to release "Sour", her debut album, in May 2021. It would get her more Grammy Awards-- one for Best Pop Vocal Album and another, for herself, for Best New Artist. Rodrigo met her producer a week before the COVID-19 lockdowns, managing to release the album in full just over a year later.

From Quiz Alternative 2020s artists

Answer: Kanye West

The album in question is 'Donda', dedicated to his late mother Dr. Donda West. Kanye was well known for his marriage to reality star Kim Kardashian. They separated in 2021.

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: 10 Things I Hate About You

Leah Kate began sharing her songs on Youtube and TikTok in 2018 and 2019, many of which generated millions of hits. Her first chart success came with her major label debut '10 Things I Hate About You', which was taken from her second EP, 2021's 'What Just Happened', and charted in both the UK and Australia.

From Quiz Songs of 2022

Answer: West

"West Coast" was released as a single in February 2022 by the well-established band OneRepublic. The band, led by vocalist Ryan Tedder, is known for hit songs like "Apologize", "Good Life", and "Counting Stars". "West Coast" is a tribute to the state of California, and its style is similar to that of Californian groups like the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas. The band had begun working on this song as early as 2015.

From Quiz 2020s Lockdown Playlist

Answer: 30 & Thirty

Adele, known for album releases corresponding to her ages upon their creation, took five years to make "30", following up on her smash-hit release "25". The creation of the album took a while longer than expected, partly due to the singer's ongoing health problems, her personal life, and COVID-19. After hosting "Saturday Night Live" in late 2020, she kicked off the speculation of the release of "30" and finally sent out "Easy On Me" a year later. The album was an unsurprising success worldwide, topping the charts on nearly every continent in its first weeks. "Easy on Me" would receive four Grammy nominations, winning one for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 2023 ceremonies.

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: Jesy Nelson

Little Mix were formed during the 2011 series of 'The X Factor UK' and became the first group to win the show. They went on to enjoy a very successful career, including five UK number one singles. Jesy Nelson left the band in 2020 and released 'Boyz' the following year.

From Quiz Songs of 2022

Answer: Slipknot

Slipknot was formed in the 1990s and has had a rotating list of members since its foundation. Its original members were Anders Colsefni, Donnie Steele, Josh Brainard, Paul Gray, Joey Jordison, and Shawn Crahan. The band is one of the best-known in the heavy metal genre. Slipknot released "Yen" in 2022 as one of the singles from "The End, So Far", which was their seventh studio album.

From Quiz Alternative 2020s artists

Answer: Arca

Arca has been pushing the boundaries for electronic music since 2013. Her album 'KiCk i' was nominated for a Grammy for best dance/electronic album.

From Quiz Top Pop Girls of the 2020s

Answer: Kim Petras

Kim Petras was born in Bonn in 1992 and began writing and recording music as a teenager. She released a number of independent singles on her own record label between 2017 and 2020 before signing to a major label. Not only did 'Unholy' become a major global smash hit in 2022 but it earned Kim Petras a Grammy Award, making her only the second out transgender artist ever to win a Grammy.

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