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50 free Modern Pop Music trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Pop since 2000 is a story told in numbers: a 59-week climb to No. 1, a 19-week reign, a debut album that outsold the rest of the UK top 20 combined, and a ringtone that beat Coldplay. Behind each figure is a story people still argue about, whether it was a Grammy upset, a TikTok revival or a lawsuit. These 50 questions run from the early 2000s to 2026. The 2000s bring Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson, Kesha and a Britain's Got Talent sensation; the 2010s add Adele, Drake, Lewis Capaldi, Meghan Trainor and Macklemore; the 2020s belong to Hozier, Benson Boone, Teddy Swims, Alex Warren, Bad Bunny, Peso Pluma and the first K-pop song to win an Oscar. Expect Grammy winners with the year attached, Eurovision upsets, viral videos and a few facts only a superfan will know. It is written for pub quiz hosts, group chats and anyone who has argued over a year-end list. Play it on your phone with an explanation after every answer, or print it for a music round.
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Q 01'Golden', a 2025 Hot 100 No. 1 that later won the Oscar for Best Original Song, comes from which animated film?
KPop Demon Hunters
KPop Demon Hunters arrived on Netflix in June 2025, and 'Golden' is sung by Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami as the fictional girl group Huntrix, winning Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2026 Grammys too.
Q 02Whose 2024 hit, built on J-Kwon's 'Tipsy', tied the Hot 100 record with 19 weeks at No. 1?
Shaboozey
Shaboozey interpolated the clean version of the 2004 single on 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)', and its 19 non-consecutive weeks on top equalled the longest reign in the chart's history at that point.
Q 03Wiz Khalifa's 2015 hit 'See You Again' was commissioned for Furious 7 as a tribute to which actor?
Paul Walker
Paul Walker was honoured with a track produced and co-written by Charlie Puth, and its video was YouTube's most-viewed for almost a month in 2017, overtaking Psy.
Q 04Which Glass Animals song reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 in March 2022 after a record 59-week climb?
Heat Waves
Heat Waves had been released in June 2020 as a single from Dreamland, the band's third album, and re-entered the chart in September 2021 on the back of heavy use as TikTok backing music.
Q 05Which singer swept the Grammys' four main awards in January 2020 at 18, a feat only Christopher Cross had managed?
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish became the youngest winner of Album of the Year and the first woman to take all four general-field awards in one year; Cross had done it in 1981.
Q 06Whose 1988 hit, covered by Luke Combs in 2023, made her the first Black songwriter to win a CMA Award?
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman then sang 'Fast Car' with Combs at the February 2024 Grammys, her first televised live performance in nine years, after his version reached No. 2 on the Hot 100.
Q 07Which 2021 Disney film produced the first song from a Disney animation to top the Hot 100 since 1993?
Encanto
Encanto's 'We Don't Talk About Bruno', written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, followed Aladdin's 'A Whole New World' as only the second chart-topper from a Disney animated film; Disney had already submitted 'Dos Oruguitas' for the Oscar.
Q 08Which Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee hit's video was the first on YouTube to pass three billion views, in August 2017?
Despacito
Despacito's video went on to be the first to reach four, five and six billion views as well, and the April 2017 Justin Bieber remix carried the song to 16 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Q 09Whose 2009 album I Dreamed a Dream sold 411,820 UK copies in week one, a record for a debut at the time?
Susan Boyle
Susan Boyle had sung the Les Misérables number on Britain's Got Talent in April 2009 to over 10 million viewers, and the album also opened at No. 1 in the US with 701,000 copies sold.
Q 10Which ringtone character's 2005 'Axel F' cover outsold Coldplay four to one to reach UK No. 1?
Crazy Frog
Crazy Frog was an animated character created by ringtone provider Jamba!, and its techno take on Harold Faltermeyer's Beverly Hills Cop theme stayed on top of the UK chart for four weeks.
Q 11Which Benson Boone single topped the charts in 19 countries in 2024 yet stalled at No. 2 in the US?
Beautiful Things
Beautiful Things was released in January 2024 as the lead single from Boone's debut album Fireworks & Rollerblades, reaching No. 1 in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and the UK among others.
Q 12Which Kate Bush song hit UK No. 1 in 2022 via Stranger Things, a record 37 years after release?
Running Up That Hill
Running Up That Hill made Bush, at 63, the oldest woman to reach a UK No. 1 and gave her a 44-year gap between chart-toppers, a record for a solo artist.
Q 13Which Lewis Capaldi ballad's video starred his distant cousin Peter Capaldi before it topped the Hot 100?
Q 21Which 2012 Baauer track debuted at No. 1 in February 2013 in the first week Billboard counted YouTube views?
Harlem Shake
Harlem Shake was carried by 103 million weekly video streams, as a 30-second clip of people convulsing to its beat drop was parodied more than 3,000 times.
Q 22Which Hozier single gave him a first Hot 100 No. 1 in 2024, the first by an Irish act in 34 years?
Too Sweet
Too Sweet surpassed the No. 2 peak of 'Take Me to Church' and ended a drought for Irish acts that stretched back to Sinéad O'Connor in 1990, three weeks after its release from the EP Unheard.
Q 23Which Meghan Trainor debut single's eight weeks at No. 1 were 2014's longest run by a female artist?
All About That Bass
Someone You Loved
Someone You Loved spent seven consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the UK and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 62nd Grammys, with the actor playing a bereaved husband in the video.
Q 14Which Tones and I song, written while busking, broke the Australian record with 24 weeks at No. 1?
Dance Monkey
Dance Monkey also set a record for a female artist with 11 weeks atop the UK Singles Chart, and its No. 4 US peak made it the first top-five hit solely written by a woman in over eight years.
Q 15Whose 'Call Me Maybe' took off after Justin Bieber tweeted it was 'possibly the catchiest song I've ever heard'?
Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen was signed by Scooter Braun to Schoolboy Records after Bieber and Selena Gomez tweeted about the song, which then spent nine straight weeks at No. 1 in 2012.
Q 16Which Mariah Carey single spent 14 weeks at No. 1 in 2005 and was named Billboard's song of the 2000s?
We Belong Together
We Belong Together was hailed as the 'return of the Voice' on The Emancipation of Mimi and won Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 48th Grammys.
Q 17Which Childish Gambino song, a No. 1 debut in 2018, was the first rap track to win Record of the Year?
This Is America
This Is America won all four of its categories at the 61st Grammys, and its Hiro Murai-directed video arrived the night Gambino hosted Saturday Night Live in May 2018.
Q 18Whose amapiano hit 'Water' won the first-ever Grammy for Best African Music Performance, in 2024?
Tyla
Tyla was the first South African soloist in over 55 years to enter the Hot 100, following Hugh Masekela in 1968, and the song's viral dance ends with water poured down the back.
Q 19Which Chainsmokers hit with Halsey, the first with Andrew Taggart on lead vocals, spent 12 weeks at No. 1?
Closer
Closer gained two extra writers in September 2016 when Isaac Slade and Joe King of The Fray were credited after comparisons with 'Over My Head (Cable Car)'.
Q 20Which Moulin Rouge! remake by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink hit No. 1 in 2001 on airplay alone?
Lady Marmalade
Lady Marmalade was only the third airplay-only song in Billboard history to top the Hot 100, spent five weeks there and won Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 44th Grammys.
All About That Bass was released in June 2014 through Epic Records and went on to be nominated for both Record and Song of the Year at the 57th Grammys.
Q 24Which Italian band won Eurovision 2021 with 'Zitti e buoni', then took 'Beggin'' into the US top 20?
Måneskin
Måneskin had finished second on Italy's X Factor in 2017 and won the Sanremo Music Festival in March 2021 before the Eurovision victory, and 'Beggin'' peaked at No. 13 on the Hot 100.
Q 25Which Robin Thicke hit led to a $5.3 million verdict for copying Marvin Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up'?
Blurred Lines
Blurred Lines topped the Hot 100 for 12 straight weeks in 2013; the jury's original $7.4 million award was cut to $5.3 million and upheld on appeal in 2018.
Q 26Which Fun. song with Janelle Monáe won Song of the Year in 2013 after a Chevrolet Super Bowl ad?
We Are Young
We Are Young spent six straight weeks at No. 1 after the Glee cast's version charted and Chevrolet used the song in a Sonic commercial during Super Bowl XLVI.
Q 27Which Teddy Swims song hit No. 1 in its 32nd chart week and finished as Billboard's top single of 2024?
Lose Control
Lose Control was released in June 2023 as the second single from the debut album I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 1), and its 32-week ascent was the longest consecutive climb to the top at that time.
Q 28Which Kesha debut single was the first Hot 100 No. 1 of the 2010s and spent nine weeks at the top?
Tik Tok
Tik Tok was released on 7 August 2009 as the lead single from her debut album Animal, which followed in 2010.
Q 29Which Alex Warren ballad's 13 weeks at UK No. 1 in 2025 broke a record that had stood for 70 years?
Ordinary
Ordinary was released in February 2025 as the lead single from Warren's debut album You'll Be Alright, Kid, and it also spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Q 30Which Sia song, rejected by Rihanna for her album Anti, became Sia's first Hot 100 No. 1 in 2016?
Cheap Thrills
Cheap Thrills was released in December 2015 as the second single from This Is Acting, and a remix with Jamaican singer Sean Paul followed in February 2016.