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50 free 2019 Music trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Music in 2019 moved fast. A track could start as a meme, spread through a video app and end up rewriting the chart record books within months, while teenagers recording at home out-streamed the biggest names in the business. This quiz covers the year from every angle: the number-one singles and breakout albums, the Grammy and Oscar nights, stadium tours and headline sets, K-pop's arrival on American television, reunions nobody expected and the legends the industry said goodbye to. It suits a pop fan testing their memory, a pub or party quiz host who needs a ready-made round, or anyone curious about what the world was listening to as the 2010s came to a close. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you with a story.
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Q 01Which country veteran joined Lil Nas X on the chart-topping 2019 remix of Old Town Road?
Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus got the call after Lil Nas X tweeted, a day after the original came out, that he wanted him on the song.
Q 02Which singer's 1994 Christmas classic finally reached number one on the Hot 100 in December 2019?
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey waited 25 years for All I Want for Christmas Is You to top the chart, and it has returned to number one in later holiday seasons.
Q 03Which children's song from South Korean brand Pinkfong broke into the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2019?
Baby Shark
Baby Shark later became a ballpark anthem when the Washington Nationals adopted it on their way to winning the 2019 World Series.
Q 04DJ Marshmello staged a virtual concert for players in February 2019 inside which hit online video game?
Fortnite
Fortnite drew over 10 million players to the set, the first of many in-game concerts that later featured Metallica and Ariana Grande.
Q 05The 2019 film Yesterday imagines a world where only one struggling musician remembers which band?
The Beatles
The Beatles' songs cost the filmmakers $10 million to license, though none of the band's members was involved in making the film.
Q 06Which 17-year-old singer became the first artist born in the 2000s to top the Billboard Hot 100?
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish was also the youngest chart-topper since Lorde, who was 16 when Royals reached number one in 2013.
Q 07Which flute-playing singer topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019 with Truth Hurts, a song released in 2017?
Lizzo
Lizzo saw the two-year-old track take off after it featured in the Netflix film Someone Great and spread on TikTok.
Q 08Taron Egerton sang live on set to play which piano-pounding star in the 2019 musical film Rocketman?
Elton John
Elton John was played by an actor who also learned piano for the part and won a Golden Globe for the performance.
Q 09A troubled 50th-anniversary revival of which 1969 festival was cancelled weeks before its August 2019 date?
Woodstock
Woodstock 50 was hit by permit problems, venue moves and artist withdrawals, and shrank from three days to one before it was called off.
Q 10Which band headlined the Super Bowl LIII halftime show in 2019 with guests Travis Scott and Big Boi?
Maroon 5
Maroon 5 slipped a short SpongeBob SquarePants clip into the set after fans petitioned for a tribute to Stephen Hillenburg, who had dreamed up the cartoon.
Q 11Ariana Grande's 2019 number one 7 Rings borrows its melody from a song in which classic musical?
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music tune My Favorite Things proved a costly loan: its publishers took 90 percent of the songwriting royalties.
Q 12Which sibling trio returned from a six-year break in 2019 with Sucker, which debuted at number one?
Jonas Brothers
Jonas Brothers cast their real-life partners in the video, including Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner.
Q 13Which former Fifth Harmony singer joined Shawn Mendes on the chart-topping 2019 duet Señorita?
Camila Cabello
Q 21Which song ended the then-record 19-week run of Old Town Road atop the Billboard Hot 100 in August 2019?
Bad Guy
Bad Guy had been stuck in the runner-up spot for nine weeks before it finally climbed to the top.
Q 22Which Scottish singer-songwriter had a worldwide 2019 hit with the piano ballad Someone You Loved?
Lewis Capaldi
Lewis Capaldi gave a part in the video to a distant relative, Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi, who plays a bereaved husband.
Q 23Which singer's Divide Tour ended in 2019 as the highest-grossing concert tour in history at the time?
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran passed the record of U2's 360° Tour despite keeping ticket prices relatively low, and finished with four hometown shows in Ipswich.
Camila Cabello had teamed up with him once before, on the 2015 single I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Q 14Lady Gaga's duet Shallow, which won the Best Original Song Oscar in February 2019, came from which film?
A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born also brought her a Best Actress nomination, and she sang the song at the ceremony with co-star Bradley Cooper.
Q 15Which rock frontman did Rami Malek play to win the Best Actor Oscar in February 2019?
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury's story in Bohemian Rhapsody made Malek the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win the category.
Q 16Which K-pop group performed on Saturday Night Live in April 2019 and later sold out Wembley Stadium?
BTS
BTS used the show for the first live performance of Boy with Luv, their new single with American singer Halsey.
Q 17Which Taylor Swift album, released in August 2019, was her first after leaving Big Machine Records?
Lover
Lover came out on Republic Records under a new contract that gave her more artistic freedom than she had before.
Q 18Which rapper began leading weekly gospel Sunday Service gatherings with a choir in January 2019?
Kanye West
Kanye West followed the sessions with the album Jesus Is King and, on Christmas Day, the choir's own record Jesus Is Born.
Q 19Which former One Direction member released his second solo album, Fine Line, in December 2019?
Harry Styles
Harry Styles borrowed the title of its hit Watermelon Sugar from Richard Brautigan's 1968 novel In Watermelon Sugar, a copy of which was to hand during the writing.
Q 20Which Spice Girl sat out the group's 2019 stadium reunion tour of Britain and Ireland?
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham stayed away while the other four sold out three nights at Wembley Stadium, the highest-grossing engagement of the year.
Q 24Which 2019 hit by former Australian busker Tones and I reached number one in more than 30 countries?
Dance Monkey
Dance Monkey set an Australian chart record with 24 weeks at number one, a year after its singer was living in a van and busking in Byron Bay.
Q 25Which former Disney Channel star scored her first Hot 100 number one in 2019 with Lose You to Love Me?
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez reached the top in the ballad's second week, beating the number-five peaks of Good for You and Same Old Love.
Q 26Which Weeknd song, released in November 2019, was later named Billboard's top Hot 100 hit of all time?
Blinding Lights
Blinding Lights stayed on the chart for 90 weeks, after a Mercedes-Benz commercial had previewed it days before its release.
Q 27Which artist behind the album Hollywood's Bleeding was Spotify's most-streamed act worldwide in 2019?
Post Malone
Post Malone passed 6.5 billion streams for the year, and his Spider-Man soundtrack hit Sunflower was among the three most-played songs.
Q 28Which Texas rapper's viral catchphrase became the 2019 single Hot Girl Summer, featuring Nicki Minaj?
Megan Thee Stallion
Megan Thee Stallion had already styled herself the hot girl on the artwork of her mixtape Fever, months before the single arrived that August.
Q 29Which country singer's album Golden Hour won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards in February 2019?
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves won all four categories she was nominated in that night, and the record jumped back into the top ten a week later.
Q 30Which Australian pop star played Glastonbury's Legends slot in 2019, 14 years after illness made her cancel?
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue had been booked to headline in 2005 before her breast cancer diagnosis, and Nick Cave and Coldplay's Chris Martin joined her on stage.