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06:45:01 The Internet

Longest Freestyle Rap

Aten Williams

Aten Williams performed a freestyle rap non-stop for 17 hours. Watch his entire record attempt here.

00:21 Mexico

Fastest Time To Play Every Note On A Guitar

Diego Pérez

Diego P. played every note on a guitar in 12.95 seconds.

00:49 United States

Most Times Asking "Where Are My Glasses?" To Someone Tuning A Guitar In 30 Seconds

Mick Cullen

Mick Cullenasked Carl Cutler “Where are my glasses?” 28 times during a live broadcast of WRLR 98.3 FM’sSubterraneanshow in Round Lake Heights, Illinois. This record was one of 16 URDB records broken during the show’s attempt to set a new record for Most URDB World Records Broken During A Live Radio Show[].

00:50 United States

Most People Bending High Notes On Electric Guitars At Once In A Toyota Prius

Prius Records

This record was set as part of Prius Records, a two-day event streamed live on the Internet. In a 48-hour period, URDB officials adjudicated 200 Prius-related world records. This was the most records ever documented in a 48-hour window, a world record in and of itself. The event took place in Los Angeles, California on March 30th and 31st, 2011. See all the records set at the event here.

04:42

Highest Concert Performed In The United States

Chris Carraba

Chris Carraba of Dashboard Confessional performed a concert on top of Pikes Peak Mountain in Colorado at 14,111 feet above sea level. The concert was performed to raise funds for The Love Hope Strength Foundation.

01:03 Spain

Most Led Zeppelin Guitar Riffs Played In One Minute

Edu García

Edu García played 15 Led Zeppelin guitar riffs in one minute.

01:38 United States

Most Metallica Guitar Riffs Played In One Minute

Braden Harris

Braden Harris played eight Metallica guitar riffs in one minute. Riffs performed: 1. Through the Never 2. Blackened 3. Holier Than Thou 4. Enter Sandman 5. Seek amp; Destroy 6. For Whom The Bell Tolls 7. That Was Just Your Life 8. One

01:14 United States

Most Jimi Hendrix Guitar Riffs Played In One Minute

Jon Shriver

Jon Shriver played 11 Jimi Hendrix guitar riffs in one minute. Shriver set the record at a World Record Appreciation Society event held at Joe’s Pub in New York City. Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson were present as witnesses. Riffs performed: 1. Purple Haze 2. Voodoo Chile 3. Machine Gun 4. Who Knows 5. Hey Baby 6. Hear My Train 7. Midnight Lightning 8. Little Wing 9. Spanish Castle Magic 10. Freedom 11. In From The Storm [#WRAS19][]

India

Longest Time Playing Guitar Behind The Head

Raktim Khound

Raktim Khound of Jorhat, India, swung his acoustic guitar up over his head and played it resting across his shoulders for 5 minutes 37 seconds. Filmed from behind in one continuous take, the video shows his left hand on the neck above his head and his right hand strumming the body behind it, and he chose Vande Mataram, India's national song, for the attempt. RecordSetter timed the attempt from his first strum in position, about 22 seconds into the clip, until he brings the guitar back down at the six-minute mark. He never once gets to look at the strings.

Spain

Longest Solo Guitar Marathon

Jotas

Spanish guitarist Jose Javier "Jotas" Segura Delgado set up in a booth at the Leyendas del Rock festival in Villena, Spain, and played electric guitar alone from 8:23 a.m. on Monday, August 3, 2026 until 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, August 5, working through 661 logged songs with no backing tracks, metronome or bandmates. Two fixed cameras and a running clock on a monitor recorded the whole attempt, and pairs of witnesses signed off every shift and every rest break, including a power cut that he kept playing through. The result of 55 hours and 52 minutes (3,352 minutes) runs from his first song to his last, and the music only stopped on his logged breaks.

United States

Youngest B2B DJ Duo (Combined Age)

DJFacultyLounge

Young DJs CXRTER and DJ LeeLee worked a professional controller side by side in Salt Lake City while their combined age was 4,476 days. The continuous clip shows both pint-sized selectors actively working the decks together, a remarkably early start to the noble art of the back-to-back set.

United States

Youngest DJ To Perform A Solo Festival Set (Female)

DJFacultyLounge

At 5 years and 157 days old, DJ LeeLee of the Salt Lake City area took the stage alone at the Awaken Music Festival in Beryl, Utah, and played a continuous solo set under the desert sun while a full festival crowd danced in front of her booth. Headphones on and barely taller than the decks, she handled the set herself from first track to last, no adult hands on the gear. LeeLee is already half of the record-holding youngest back-to-back DJ duo alongside her seven-year-old brother CXRTER, and with this performance on August 15, 2026, she claims a solo record of her own.

China

Youngest Person to Perform a Blindfolded Electric Guitar Solo

YUQUAN裕權 ZHANG張

Fifteen-year-old guitarist Yuquan Zhang played an electric guitar solo while blindfolded at home in Hubei, China, standing in front of an amp for the whole performance. A pale cloth blindfold covers the eyes from the first frame to the last of a single continuous take, with just over four minutes of playing over a backing track. The piece is "For the Love of You," composed by Yaohua Zhang, who holds the RecordSetter record for the longest blindfolded electric guitar solo. RecordSetter reviewed the full video for continuity and accepted the age stated in the submission.

England

Most Tracks Mixed In One Hour

Daniel Gould

DJ Infinite (Daniel Gould) mixed 237 tracks in one hour during a drum and bass set recorded in September 2025, obliterating the previous record of 88 tracks. Using green screen visuals and precise mixing technique, Gould seamlessly transitioned between 250 total tracks, though 13 were conservatively excluded for mixing out before the drop per RecordSetter criteria. The full attempt is documented in a continuous one-hour YouTube video.

China

Longest Continuous Blindfolded Electric Guitar Solo Performance

YAOHUA耀華(CHAOTAO) ZHANG

Yaohua Zhang performed a continuous 10-minute blindfolded electric guitar solo, linking his original composition "For the Love of You" with "For the Love of God" in a single take. The performance was completed standing, with the blindfold worn throughout and the transition between songs kept within the allowed window.

The Internet

Most Albums of Different Genres Released by One Artist in One Day

OGMorph

Houston-area artist Gino Rodriguez, who records as OG Morph, put out 13 projects through his distributor UnitedMasters on June 6, 2026. His evidence video and a separate screen recording of the UnitedMasters dashboard show every release with a June 6, 2026 release date and the genre it was filed under. Counting one album per genre and leaving out the two releases classed as EPs, his albums cover six genres: hip-hop/rap, reggae, jazz, world, country and electronic. One artist, one day, six genres.

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