The 60th anniversary edition announces the latest record breaking achievements of the stars!
BOY BAND ONE DIRECTION SCORES INCREDIBLE RECORD FOR FIRST UK GROUP TO DEBUT AT NO. 1 IN USA WITH FIRST THREE ALBUMS
JENNIFER LAWRENCE GRABS TITLE FOR HIGHEST-GROSSING ACTION-MOVIE HEROINE FOR HER PORTRAYEL OF KATNISS EVERDEEN IN THE HUNGER GAMES MOVIES
MILEY CYRUS EARNS RECORD FOR MOST SEARCHED POP STAR ON THE INTERNET
SHAKIRA IS THE MOST LIKED PERSON ON FACEBOOK WITH 100 MILLION LIKES
GAME OF THRONES IS MOST PIRATED TV PROGRAM, DOWNLOADED AN AVERAGE OF 5,900,000 TIMES PER EPISODE
Available throughout the UK on September 11th, the star studded pages of the world’s best-selling copyright book, the Guinness World Records 2015
One Direction score a remarkable first and make their way to the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® 2015 Book with an unprecedented hat-trick of No.1 debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their record title for First act to debut at No.1 with their first three albums (USA). Their album Midnight Memories debuted in pole position last year following the chart-topping success of Up All Night and Take Me Home in 2012. One Direction is the only act in the history of the US albums chart to debut at the top with their first three releases. The boys received their Guinness World Records certificate in New Jersey at the MetLife Stadium on their Where We Are Tour, with Niall making the announcement on stage surprising thousands of screaming fans.
Niall Horan from One Direction commented: “This really is one of our proudest moments, both for us and our incredible fans. Whenever we talk about it we always say how cool it is that we did it first, how sick is that?!”
Heartthrob Jennifer Lawrence, Forbes’ 2013 second-highest powerful actress and Academy Award-winner lands a spot on the film pages for Highest-grossing action-movie heroine. The phenomenal success of the first two Hunger Games movies (USA, 2012 and 2013), means that the character of Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence is the cinema’s most successful action heroine at the box office, with both films grossing a total of £928 million internationally. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was the highest-grossing post-apocalypse movie, taking £255,278,000 in the USA and £519,711,000 worldwide.
Coming off a controversial and highly publicised year, Miley Cyrus’s popularity peaked after she ‘twerked’ with Robin Thicke at The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, gaining her a place in the 2015 book for her record title, Most searched for pop star on the internet. International superstar Shakira who recently announced her pregnancy, set a social media record when her 100 millionth fan clicked the “like” button on Facebook, making her the Most liked person on Facebook.
Records also tumbled on the small screen, the hugely popular HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones staring Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey and Kit Harington makes its way to the 2015 book for Most pirated TV programme byretaining its spot of Torrent Freak’s top 10 list of most pirated TV shows, with 5,900,000 downloads per episode. One of the main reasons the show remains the most pirated TV programme is HBO’s refusal to license the series to Netflix. HBO and Warner Bros executives also stated controversially, that “receiving the title of the ‘most-pirated’ was better than an Emmy”, creating a “much needed cultural buzz”.
Other stand-out entertainment records to grace the pages of GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® 2015 Book include:
- Highest annual earnings for a television personality (male) and the highest earnings in TV overall – is £62.4 million for the year ending June 2013, a record shared by reality TV judges Simon Cowell and Howard Stern.Cowell ranks higher than Stern when other factors, such as marketability and social media ranking, are taken into account.
- Most Oscar wins: Best leading actor – Sir Daniel Day Lewis becomes the first actor in history to win three awards in the Best Leading Actor category for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in 2012’s Lincoln, to add to his previous wins for There Will Be Blood (2008) and My Left Foot (1990).
- Most billion-dollar films at the box office – actor – Gary Oldman shares title with Johnny Depp and Hugo Weaving for (The Dark Knight Rises (2012), The Dark Knight (2010), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2 (2010)).
- Fastest-selling iTunes album – Beyoncé features in the new 2015 book for the release of her incredible self-titled album which sold 828,773 copies worldwide in the first three days of availability.
- Most powerful actor – Hugh Jackman takes the title and is the 11th overall in the list of most powerful celebrities. The list measures fame in terms of factors such as earnings, media exposure and internet presence.
- First musical act to perform a concert on every continent – Music legends Metallica who performed at Glastonbury this year, gain the title after entertaining 120 scientists and competition winners at Carlini Station in Antarctica on December 8th, 2013.
- Highest annual earnings for a film actor – Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr now share the record, Tom Cruise earned approximately £46.6 million between May 2011 and May 2012, and Robert Downey Jr made the same amount between June 2012 and June 2013, benefiting from the proceeds of both The Avengers (2012) and Iron Man 3 (2013).
- Most swearing in one film – In the film The Wolf of Wall Street (USA, 2013), there are at least 687 expletives – an average of 3.81 swear words per minute.
- Musician with the most Twitter followers – Katy Perry with 52,463,838 followers
- Most words in a hit single– Eminem with 1,560 words In 6 minutes, 4 seconds
- Most “likes” on an item– Vin Diesel for a Facebook photo of himself and the late Paul Walker
- Longest continuously running film franchise–Godzilla over a span of sixty years
This year the 60th edition of the 2015 Guinness World Records book includes a special throw back section which looks at the past 60 years and how the film and music industry has seen a huge increase in technological sophistication including a social media revolution with the creation of Twitter, Facebook and digital music. It’s almost hard to believe that six decades on there are some records which still remain unbreakable! A few of these records include, the Best-selling single (“White Christmas”) by Bill Crosby’s (USA, 1903-77) which has sold an estimated 50 million copies worldwide. The Highest grossing movie (adjusted for inflation) remains unbeaten by Gone with the Wind (1939) which took £88 million at the international box office – but with adjusted inflation comes up as a total gross of $3.44 billion.
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