Q 01/05

Whose debut album opened with 701,000 US copies in November, the biggest sales week of any album in 2009?

A) Susan Boyle

B) Lady Gaga

C) Beyoncé

D) Leona Lewis

Answer · why

A) Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle had lost the Britain's Got Talent final to dance troupe Diversity that May, yet I Dreamed a Dream also became the fastest-selling debut al...

Q 02/05

Which Flo Rida single, interpolating a Dead or Alive hit, set a first-week record of 636,000 downloads in February?

A) Right Round

B) In the Ayer

C) Be on You

D) Club Can't Handle Me

Answer · why

A) Right Round

Right Round beat a download record set only a week earlier by 'Crack a Bottle', and its uncredited female hook was sung by a then-unknown Kesha.

Q 03/05

Whose 'My Life Would Suck Without You' leapt 96 places to number one on the Hot 100 in one week, a record?

A) Carrie Underwood

B) Pink

C) Kelly Clarkson

D) Katy Perry

Answer · why

C) Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson won back a record she had first set in 2002 with 'A Moment Like This'; it had been broken four times since, most recently by Britney Sp...

Q 04/05

Whose debut single 'Whatcha Say', built on Imogen Heap's 'Hide and Seek', topped the Hot 100 in November?

A) Jay Sean

B) Iyaz

C) Sean Kingston

D) Jason Derulo

Answer · why

D) Jason Derulo

Jason Derulo's hook is the bridge of 'Hide and Seek', which viewers already knew from a slow-motion shooting in The O.C. and the Saturday Night Live s...

Q 05/05

Who became the youngest winner of the CMA's Entertainer of the Year award in November 2009?

A) Carrie Underwood

B) Taylor Swift

C) Miranda Lambert

D) Kellie Pickler

Answer · why

B) Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift, 19, took country's top prize two months after Kanye West interrupted her at the VMAs, and this time she finished her thanks in tears; Fe...