In 2019, "Old Town Road" topped the charts, Avengers: Endgame packed theaters, a stamp cost 55¢, the average home went for about $272,000.
🎵 Top songs of 2019
"Old Town Road" — Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
"Sunflower" — Post Malone and Swae Lee
"Without Me" — Halsey
🎬 In theaters
Avengers: Endgame
The Lion King
Frozen 2
What things cost in 2019
$2.60
Gallon of gas
55¢
Postage stamp
$9.16
Movie ticket
$3.04
Gallon of milk
$272,000
Average home
$37,600
New car
$68,700
Household income
In today's dollars, 2019's $2.60 gas comes to about $3.30 and the $9.16 ticket to roughly $11.55 — essentially the same real prices Americans pay today.
The biggest moments of 2019
Avengers: Endgame broke box-office records.
The first image of a black hole was released in April.
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was severely damaged by fire in April.
The U.S. women's soccer team repeated as World Cup champions in France.
The world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Tiger Woods won the Masters, completing one of the great comebacks in sports history.
Toys, TV & trends of 2019
Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian melted hearts everywhere.
VSCO girls said "sksksk" while collecting scrunchies and hydro flasks.
TikTok dances went mainstream, and "Old Town Road" ruled the charts for a record 19 weeks.
Over two million people RSVP'd to jokingly "storm Area 51" — a few hundred showed up for the party.
The Popeyes chicken sandwich caused real lines around the block and sold out nationwide.
Untitled Goose Game let everyone become a horrible goose honking through a quiet village.
The music scene
Seventeen-year-old Billie Eilish, recording with her brother in his bedroom, topped charts worldwide and set the stage for a historic Grammy sweep. TikTok began resurrecting songs overnight — Lizzo's two-year-old "Truth Hurts" rode the app all the way to No. 1. And Blackpink became the first K-pop girl group to play Coachella as the genre's global wave kept building.
At the movies
Green Book won Best Picture in February. Disney had the most dominant year any studio has ever had, with a record seven films crossing $1 billion worldwide, then launched Disney+ in November and kicked off the streaming wars in earnest. Bong Joon-ho's Parasite won the Palme d'Or, setting up its historic Oscar night the following winter.
Cartoons kids loved
Steven Universe
The Loud House
Bluey (a global hit)
Bluey arrived in American living rooms in 2019, and parents quickly discovered the Australian import was as much for them as for their kids. SpongeBob SquarePants celebrated its 20th anniversary the same year — old enough that its original viewers were now the parents pressing play.
The world in 2019
World population: about 7.7 billion
U.S. President: Donald Trump
Greta Thunberg led global youth climate strikes
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir carried out the first all-female spacewalk.
Massive pro-democracy protests filled the streets of Hong Kong for months.
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending a 20-year border conflict.
2019 birthday questions
How old is someone born in 2019?
Someone born in 2019 turns 7 in 2026 (6 if their birthday has not come round yet).
What was the number one song in 2019?
"Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus was among the biggest hits of 2019.
What movie came out in 2019?
Avengers: Endgame was one of the films packing theaters in 2019.
How much did gas cost in 2019?
A gallon of gas ran about $2.60 in 2019, and a postage stamp cost 55¢.
How much did a house cost in 2019?
The average home went for roughly $272,000 in 2019, against a typical household income of about $68,700.