The most popular album Thriller by Michael Jackson At the time lackson started writing his best-selling album, Thriller, he was upset because his previous album, off the Wall, hadn't won a Grammy award. He wrote on the mirror in his room that his next album would sell 50 million copies. Even today around 130,000 copies are sold in the USA every year.
The most famous classical music Beethoven's Fifth Symphony When Beethoven was alive, his Fifth Symphony wasn't his most popular piece of music 2 In the twentieth century, the first four notes were used by other musicians to make electro dance, hiphop, surf rock, rock and roll and disco tracks.
The most famous painting La Gioconda La Gioconda (which is called the Mona Lisa in English-speaking countries) was not always so famous. It only became really well known when it was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911. 3 The painting was found two years later and it is now kept behind glass to protect it.