Countries With the Best Music

The Beatles, Queen, Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, Enter Shikari, Amy Winehouse, The Prodigy, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Arctic Monkeys, Blur/Gorillaz, Oasis, The Clash, Muse, Robbie Williams, Bullet for my Valentine, Fatboy Slim, Judas Priest The Streets, Dizzee Rascal, the list of awesome artists from the United Kingdom, goes on and on and on

The Beatles, Queen, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Pink Floyd

'enough said

Some classic bands, like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, The Sex Pistols, and now some amazing modern bands... Bullet For My Valentine, Lostprophets, Arctic Monkeys, Lostprophets, Biffy Clyro... I agree bands like Alter Bridge, Metallica and Foo Fighters are American, and that mean's they're a very close second.

Hands down the best.

Yes, underneath the mainstream garbage is real, true music.
You have to look for it, but it's there.
And you can't say you've never had a favorite singer, any time period, from the USA.
And I'm sorry but Canada? Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, what?
How about Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, etc, etc? Are we going to completely wipe out the USA's history of music just because of the last few years?

The USA has the best music out of all the countries. Now I'm not saying that other countries don't make fantastic music, but how can you compete with the King of Pop Michael Jackson, the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley. Not to mention Frank Sinatra, and the best trumpet player of all time Louis Armstrong. And rock and roll was born in this country. Just like jazz and the Blues and pop and many other kinds of music. Aerosmith, and Metallica also come from the USA. plus other artists like the Black Eyed Peas, Madonna, Garth Brooks, Whitney Houston, etc. And many other bands and singers may have been born in other countries, but when they came to the United States, they made their best music. For example: U2, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, etc. this is the best country for music. Without a doubt.

Yes, nowadays there is a lot garbage from this country but don't forget that roughly 95% of the music we like is from US & no matter what kind of music we like. Everybody can find the best songs of his favorite genres only in the USA. Yes there are also countries with good music, like the UK, Italy & France. But what are doing in top 10 countries like Ireland, New Zealand, Germany & Brazil? These four countries generally never had normal music by far. - Fan_of_Good_Music

I agree with you that US has the best music in the world, but germany definitely isn't that bad - Disturbedpotato

Most of the singers and bands that I've taken into my heart are American. Sorry UK, I can't help it. - Britgirl

Sweden is the 3rd biggest music country after USA and UK. That's very good for a such small country.

Sweden are doing so much in the background of the music industry without getting any credits for it. Sweden is like standing behind half of the Americans biggest pop hits since 2000.
Hits like

Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
I want is that way by Backstreet Boys
On the Floor by Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull
Rain Over Me by Pitbull
Starships by Nicki Minaj
Stronger What Doesn t Kill You by Kelly Clarkson
So What and Raise Your Glass by Pink
Poker Face and Just dance by Lady Gaga
Shake it off , Blank Space and Bad Blood by Taylor Swift
About every Katy Perry hit ever!
...and many more

Is all written by Swedes, especially Max Martin.

Just Google up Max Martin to see the truth behind the American biggest pop hits.

From abba to swedish house mafia. The swedes knows how to make music. End of story

ABBA, Ghost, opeth and many others are really good at music. Sweden is really good. we won twice in a Eurovision 2000-2017. How amazing is that! Sweden deserves to be number 1. at least it is number 3.

Too many good bands to name despite a population that is dwarfed by its bigger friends. Trooper, rush, three days grace, three doors down, april wine, sum 41, not to mention Justin beiber is a talented artist or he wouldn't be where he was (any non biased musician will tell you that) as well as drake (who owns the rap game right now) as well as the Weeknd. Alexisonfire, dead and divine, protest the hero. The list goes on for a while. that's why I think this country makes the best music.

Canada should be above Sweden on this list. Sweden doesn't have an many internationally acclaimed music giants as Canada has (with the except of the immortal ABBA, of course). Think of this. Bryan Adams. Arcade Fire. Rush. The Band. Barenaked Ladies. Oscar Peterson. Tragically Hip. Blue Rodeo. Nickelback. You can 1000% understand that the UK and the US are #1 and #2 respectively, but Canada should be third, with Sweden in fourth.

Some of the best canadian musicians in my opinion are rush, three days grace, silverstein, the guess who, sum 41, anvil, and the barenaked ladies.

Neil young and Bryan Adams... enough said

Classical: Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, Schubert. I doubt there is any other country coming even close to this.

Electronic: Kraftwerk. Electronic music originated in Germany and Britain, but there are few bands whose contribution is comparable.

Metal: Rammstein, Scorpions. Both are among the best metal bands. Only problem is Rammstein sings mostly in German.

Why'd must Rammstein sings in english, when they are german bands? - somekindofaguy

All (or at least) most of the credit for classical music and the best musicians go to Germany... How can we ignore this? Even modern bands like Modern Talking and Rammstein, Running Wild and many more are all German... German is among the top 3...

The foundation of Western music comes from Germany. There would be no Beatles or Rolling Stones sound without the great classical composers. So everybody who doesn't vote Germany has no clue about music at all.

Germany will be number 1

When asked this question - many people say UK and US, whose music is not bad, infact very good. This is a matter of individual tastes and clearly people would be biased. But When comparing music that REALLY is able to touch your heart - there is nothing that comes close to Indian music - if you have heard Indian/Bollywood songs - you know I am right, for those who haven't - time to start listening. PS: I have listened to many cultural music from all over.

Indian music is at its best when its embracing its roots, and especially when it's tied to a Bollywood epic. If it wasn't for the language barrier, I think Indian music would be so much bigger internationally. Nothing like the drums, strings, emotive singing and mood of Indian music.

India's music is totally nonparallel. western music might compassionate the various emotions of a human being but the Indian Raga Music is the only music which can up-bring the eternity of Soul

MERA BHARATH MAHAAN~

My two favorite Italian composers have got to be ennio morricone and nino rota, And my two favorite Italian bands are lacuna coil and rhapsody of fire.

Maybe not well known as english or american ones, but italians made music. From singers to bands to composers to opera (created by italians).

The music of this period isn't very good but the music of the past or of the 20th century was very very good. Italy is fantastic.

The best opera music ever...and not only...folk, do not always think the unique world things are from UK or USA... their music are low cultured like everything born the last decadent century - bigtraveller

All kinds of Japanese rock music and Pop music are underrated by the world in which music generated from this region should be more worldwide than now

LiSA, Eir Aoi, and Luna Haruna are the best! They sing a lot of good songs for Sword Art Online! Not to mention FLOW is known for a lot of good songs for Naruto and Code Geass! And finally, Linked Horizon sings one of the best opening songs ever for the anime Attack on Titan! - ModernSpongeBobSucks

Dir en grey, Versailles, X Japan, Galneryus, Onmyouza, Concerto Moon... More than enough said.

Voted for One OK Rock.

These guys really work hard to put out very different and complex music. In Kpop, it is apparent when headliners like Girls' Generation, BoA, 2NE1, SHINee, and 2PM release new songs that they have come a long way. All of these artists work nonstop, not only releasing Korean tracks, but also Japanese, Mandarin, and even some English. They are reaching out to the rest of Asia, and the world. Last month alone, tons of South Korean idols released comeback albums, singles, mini-albums, and music videos. I hope more people will appreciate South Korean Music and Culture more.

They work to make sure that people can relate to their music and that they've given their all and more into what they've produced. They succeed all limits and really move people from places like Australia to places like Canada. BTS started from a small label but still beat the chances. Big Bang have been the "kings of kpop" for a decade now. Korean idols don't disappoint. Their are many people who underestimate South Korea when it comes to the music industry but once they actually take the time to check out a kpop music video, there are next to no chances they wont come back for more. South Korea will continue to attract people to their amazing music and will continue to inspire people all ver the world

The Korean music industry is ridiculously developed. Music is a large part of modern Korean culture, and Korean artists have fanbases that span the entire globe. The language barrier hardly exists for international fans, as English lyrics are included in most songs to boost global appeal, and artists hold world tours. Idols train for years, sometimes a decade, to ensure that mainstream Korean music is flushed with undeniable talent. Unlike most Western artists, Korean groups and solo acts release new content every few months, so the music is always evolving. It's not just 'K-Pop' anymore; there are dozens of genres represented in Korean music so everyone can find something they enjoy. The artistic presentation, too, puts SK on another level, from group choreography to detailed album packaging. Once someone is introduced to Korean music, they can't deny that South Korea has perhaps the most intense music scene in the world.

I 100% sure that Kpop has the most and the best music of all times!

Well, there are mediocre singers like Gotye and Guy Sebastian. Keith Urban is incredible, however he was actually born in New Zealand, even though he is usually considered Australian.

Australia could be much higher up this list. But it loses many points for giving the world Rolf Harris.

AC/DC come from Down Under

Tame impala and midnight oil

So good it's on here twice!

One of the super heavyweights of the music world indeed.

Too cool! Thankyou

Actually,this should be first,people would vote the UK,england is part of the UK,and most music artists from the UK are English.

I've listened to everything. Literally everything. From rock to metal to hip hop to rap to dance to edm to pop to folk. Name a band or artist and I will most likely know their music. And from my experience with music NOTHING stands up to Brazilian music. Listen to someone like Jorge Ben and you will see where I'm coming from.

Brazil has an awesome music scene. The blend of different cultures is amazing. I love percussion based music in any genre. Brazilian music is just really upbeat, alive and rhythmic.

"The best by far. All the other voters are just ignorant" - how hypocritical. That is literally the most ignorant thing I have ever heard

Samba, choro, maracatu, bossa-nova, MPB, sertanejo, frevo, pagode, funk... it is difficult to find a country with such a large and diverse contribution to music.

France has a very deep supply of very good music in virtually all music genres, in particular in electronic, rap and metal.

This is the country that gave us daft punk.

Great country for lots of different type of musics.

France has produced decent music for a long time. From legendary Romantic composers : Ravel, Berlioz, Satie, Saint Saëns, Debussy, and Chopin (polish but lived like a French), to its traditionnal music, accordeon, Edith Piaf and so on...
It has the best Anthem in the world.
Modern music is pretty good, France is quite advanced in Rap/RnB
And essentially, France are with Sweden and Netherlands, the kings of electro/house/Edm style. Just to name a few: Daft Punk/Bob Sinclar/Martin Solveig/Carpenter Brut/M83/ Madeon/Cassius and of course Justice and Caravan palace... the list is long.

Norway has the best black metal and has great folk music. Norway has the best music is you like atmospheric stuff, especially atmospheric metal. Bands like Burzum and Ulver will blow you away - SirSkeletorThe3rd

I came to this list for folk music and traditional music that you'd hear in the canals of Venice or the streets of Paris not black metal or classic rock. It has awesome folk music

Best atmosphere and folky feel, some great metal and it feels so real...

Norway has many great musicians, like Astrid S, Susanne Sundfør, Kygo, Kristian Kristensen, CLMD and Matoma.

You cannot name a country that has had as much of an influence with its music relative to its size and population as Jamaica.

Though only having about 3 million citizens, the entire world knows Jamaican music. They have created their own musical language in Reggae, Roots, Dub, Dancehall etc.

Artists like Bob Marley and The Skatalites are know all across the world.

Jamaica needs to be much much higher up the list!

Yes,how could we forget about the great Bob Marley, Shaggy, Sean Paul- -to name a few.

Listen to flamenco music. Just listen to that raw unadulterated passion expressed through song, guitar and dance. Music with such passion deserves to be recognised.

Over rated music. The flamenco is just a bunch of screaming. Their music is stolen from the Muslims who occupied Spain and is not really theirs.

Spanish music is not only flamenco. We have a ton of good pop artists. Also, the new wave of trap musicians is fire.

It is the best

Iranian use many instruments which nowhere else in the world those have been used or even know about them

Iranian music is diverse and unique

Iran musicians are best in the world

Oh! Persian Poems!

Pakistan could have really went far in their music, like back in 80s - early 2000s. I think there was a lack of awareness of talent. There were bands and solo artists. Maybe the main reason of all the high talent music disappearance after the mid 2000s was that, artists might have also had personal reasons. Still, the FACT that Pakistani music is the greatest still stands. They must use that fact to finally improve their image to the world

Now Pakistani music in the mainstream sense is more noticeable such as by the film industry, some of which is very good however a lot of past talent and small scale talent is in their dramas and individual artists/bands. Coke Studio is large scale recognition this is a platform that creates renditions of old/folk Pakistani songs, nescafe basement is also a breakthrough for youth talent. I think Pakistani music is different and enjoyable and the world should see.

I grew up listening to Bollywood and no doubt the element of nostalgia is there and I have many memories, since I could understand it as Urdu is my native lol, but its true there's no match with your own roots and its been great recently being more attached to Pakistani culture such as through drama serials and coke studio, so I definitely underrated my own mother country's talents and think there's so much there for people to see other than the usual negativity portrayed in the media

I would not compare Pakistani bands to American or English classics, but they have this eccentric feel that is distinctive to any other band. Pakistani music industry, as versatile as it is, defines true music be it classical folk music or rock/metal. Platforms like Nescafe Basement and Coke Studio is the pinnacle of music in its own. With the existence of bands like Junoon, Strings, Vital Signs, Entity Paradigm, Noori, Jal, Call, Fuzon and many more, our music portrays our culture and is unprecedented. For me Pakistan has one of the best music bands/artists and music in general. Period. We take proud in our country’s music.

Who doesn't love Emmelie de Forest?

King Diamond people... and Mercyful Fate

Have you ever heard their music? It's fantastic! <3 A lot of the good stuff is danish [which is a gorgeous language so... ], but there is also a lot off amazing English songs! Check it out!

Denmark deserves a higher placement on this list. With artists like AQUA, Lukas Graham, MØ, Volbeat, Laid Back, Bent Fabric, Trentemøller, Martin Jensen - and not to mention producer Thomas Troelsen and drummer of Metallica Lars Ulrich, who got inducted to the Rock and Roll hall of fame back in 2009.
And when it comes to Eurovision, Denmark was the first country to win the contest twice in the 21st century...
To be fair a placement above our brothers from Norway would be well deserved.

Do you know any of their musicians or singers? A great domain with a lot of great and talented persons.

If you spend some time trying to find the real Romanian music elite, it's clear they are the best

This country should definitely be in top 5. Greetings from England.

It should at least be under 15 COME ON PEOPLE

The country where the most people know how to play an instrument and where most of the people enjoy music the most

I just love their mariachi bands.

A country that knows how to compose music with different instruments and makes music sound gangster, and better than rap.

I LOVE Mexican music it just cheers me up when I'm sad and makes me dance!
VIVA MEXICO!

Nigeria has good music

Tag best in Africa

Best Musicians on the world period.

Best dancing songs in the world

Of Monsters And Men is one of the best band of all time I love Indie Folk music best band of all time from Iceland great singers beautiful voice at singing.

Icelandic music has such unique styles that set it apart from most music from other countries! It's really hard to miss!

The folky atmosphere to Icelandic music is very different and very intriguing.

Sigur Rós, Björk, Ásgeir, �"lafur Arnalds, Stafrænn Hakon, Agent Fresco, Of Monsters and Men, Múm, Samaris, Valdimar, Rökkuró, Pétur Ben, Jónsi, For a Minor Reflection and so many more!
Amazing variety of music when you compare to the size of the country.

New Zealand has many talented stars that have made it to the top of the charts. Think Lorde, Kimbra, etc.

Well, we have Stan Walker (I don't know if he is a kiwi or a Australian) and that's about it...

The birth-place of Keith Urban!

The best artist the world has never heard

Love Ghana music. I live in the U.S

Music industry is suffering here. Too bad Putin won't bother investing in it.

Russia's music is great, though overlooked.

How is Russia under India?

Russia is so underrated! Pop music is amazing over there too! t.A.T.u, DJ Smash, Nyusha, Dima Bilan, Polina Gagarina, Sergey Lazarev, etc.

Has absolutely beautiful traditional music that often convey the feelings of love and sorrow. Really shouldn't be overlooked as China have some of the most ancient and diverse cultures in the world.

China is often overshadowed by Japan and Korea. Honestly, Chinese music is the best. The traditional music is great, and so is modern music. There ExoM, Luhan, GEM etc...

I love Chinese Acapella.

Stephanie Sun, Penny Dai, Charlene Choi, Emil Chau, Wakin Chau, Loretta Chow, Vic Zhou, Jerry Yan, Ken Zhu, Vaness Wu, Harlem Yu, Exo-M's Kris, Tao, Lay & Lu Han, Miss A's Jia & Fei & SJ-M's Henry Lau, Zhou Mi & Han Geng --> Proud to represent China in the Global Music World!

South African house music is on the rise...we have some of the best House producers in the world

Best in Africa in terms of production quality

Ladysmith Black Mambazo are wonderful, as are all the isicathamiya groups. The harmonies and African folk influences in S.A. music take us back to the earthy heart of human civilization. Warm and full of joie de vivre.

The South African music industry is incredibly diverse. From rock to electronic music to the newer Zef.

South African rock artists include:
Seether, Prime Circle, Just Jinger, The Parlatones, the Kongos, aKING and Ladysmith Black Mambozo just to name a few.

The hip-hop and EDM industry is also booming with acts like:
PH Fat, Pascal & Pearce, AKA, Black Coffee, Protoculture, Euphonik, Hazer, K.O and Deep South.

And of course you cannot forget Zef artists like Die Antwoord and Jack Parrow

South Africa has produced many fine artists, and the ones listed above are not even the tip of the iceberg

Among the countries in Asia with best music, we are on the 7th rank. But when it comes to singers and bands, we are on top of the quality standards of vocalization in music!

Philippines is listed at the top at singers! I'm filipino so I guess this is why I would choose this!

Has best singers and songs

Probably explains why Philippines has never produced an international artist, should not even been ranked

Philippines has:

Lea Salonga
Charice
Rachelle Ann Go
Apl De Ap
Bamboo
Sarah G.
Regine Velasquez
Yeng Constantino
Martin Nievera
Gary V
Ogie Alcasid
Lani Misalucha

One of my favorite composers is from Greece and it's basil poledouris. He's composed music for movies such as conan the barbarian, Robocop, the hunt for red october, Hot shots part deux, Free willy, Con air, and starship troopers. My favorite track from him is riders of doom in conan the barbarian. It sounds so epic and grand. It's like he wanted to put all his effort into making the most awesome track ever (even though it's played while some guys burn down a village in one scene. Just a village, but it's still a pretty amazing track). It's definitely worth checking out.

Greek songs are some of the best songs in the world and the most uplifting songs.

You can't compare any song to a Greek song unless it's another Greek song.

The best mousic ever

Turkey has many amazing singers and have very rich traditional instruments. This country supposed to be at least in first 10 list..

Best song ever! I can't it's so good!

Yet I don't know any Turkish song

It's the best music

Colombia is one of the cradles of popular Spanish language music and more artists from Colombia are in the top most viewed/listened to music videos in the world.

Bangladesh have a gorgeous history of music. We have legends like Lalon Shah here. Now a days people are conducting research on his music... Our folk music is really great... Beside folk music we have a wealthy pop and rock music resources. Our Rock and especially the Underground rock music probably the best in South Asia. We have bands like LRB, Miles, Warfaze, Souls, Artcell, Black, Cryptic Fate, Nemesis, James and Nagar Baul, Shironamhin, Aurthohin and many more... Who are producing some great music and also very popular in this region.

Bangladeshi music is the best in the world... Especially Folk and Rock music.

Bangladesh should be in top 10 it is one of the best musical country kindly listen to Artcell warfaze etc damn cool band M/

Bangladesh should have been mentioned in the top 10. You guys don't have any idea how many great musicians are from here. Also there are some world class bands such as Artcell,Warfaze,Nemesis,Powersurge etc.

Soap Kills were amazing... Listen if you don't know!

Best music in the world

Wtff only 71?!?!?!

Feiruz, Sabah, wadih el safi, etc

My good friend the sound of music!

The only notable thing that has come out of Austria lately was Conchita Wurst and even that was down to Eurovision. - mom4

Mozart?

X-Wife, Sean Riley, Wraygunn, Dead Combo, Vicious Five, David Fonseca and many many others

Meaningufl lyrics by artists such as Pedro Abrunhosa and Tiago Bettencourt, great Rock such as Ornatos Violeta, Xutos e Pontapes and Silence 4, and great vocals such as Marisa singing the typical portuguese Fado music.
Many artists have the ability of connecting ideologies and comedy in their lyrics, as well as pain and the most common song subjects such as love.

For instance:
Absynthe Minded - Arno (& TC Matic) - Salvatore Adamo
The Black Box Revelation - JACQUES BREL
Channel Zero
Daan - Django Reinhardt - dEUS
Rocco Granata
Louis Neefs - Noordkaap
Plastic Bertrand
Selah Sue - Soulwax - Steak Number Eight - Stromae
Toots Thielemans
...

South American and African countries are sooo underrated compared to Western (rich) countries! - Ethnopop

Eurovision music!

Veljo Tormis and Arvo Pärt, anyone?

Netherlands produces the best music in the world because most of the best DJ's in the world are from The Netherlands. If you're a fan of electronic music just like me, then Netherlands is the choice for you. So I think it should be #1 and not #43.

This is the country that also gave us the van halen brothers.

Lots of good songs, The Common Linnets are my favourite

Only good band they have is Carach Angren - SirSkeletorThe3rd

People here will probably not have heard of great bands such as, parni valjak, riblja corba, EKV, bajaga,smak, idoli, piloti and some other great rock bands.

then again these aren't all Serbian but also croation and bosnian etc. Yugoslavia had their own culture that had its own style. there was rock, just it was mostly ex- yu rock.

also there is great folk music in Yugoslavian countries if you look past the new horrible ones like ceca and karleusa there is oliver markovic, oliver dragojevic, vinko coce, aren dedic, djordje balasevic and vlado keslin.

they have their own gypsie music and gypsie swing and even their wn jazz.

definitely worth to check it out.

Best of the best

Serbia have best music! Serbia stronk! Remove kebab! - SirSkeletorThe3rd

Never ever ever give up for the best rock music ever with a traditional music blend like Bodyslam with Siriporn Amaiphong, Slot Machine, among many others. #ThaiGersUniteForMusic!

Asian language are awful for music but not indonesian, their song are surprisingly catchy

I love Indonesia's music.

RCTI ID music? Anyone?

Indonesian musicians on the rise are: Raisa, Isyana, Maudy Ayunda, Yura Yunita, Tulus, Rizky Febian, Kunto Aji, etc. The genre that's currently booming in Indonesia is jazz pop.

The best just listen to is for once and you'll see what I mean

Albanian music has improved a lot lately and they deserve credit for it

Listen its great

The best singers in region, the best beat, talented artists, Dua lipa, bebe rexha, rita ora, era istrefi, stanaj and much more

Nepal has vast variety of music. It's a country that has more than 30 main ethnic groups. And, each group has given unique flavor to Nepali music. Some of old Nepali music's instrumentals can be heard in big restaurants in big countries such as United States and United Kingdom.

Nepali music is the one of the best music in the world.

Vietnam is pretty much like K-POP, but with a wider vocal range. I don't really think it deserves to be on the bottom, especially with some of (what I would say) the most beautiful (in lyrics and video) songs. I would call for an update for Vietnam, hopefully my country will make it at least in the top 25.

Industrial band: laibach (F.I.A. T) (only band that's really famous around the world right now)
A cappella choir Perpetuum Jazzile (Africa by Toto), (one of the best in the world)
Rock bands: Siddharta (T.H.O. R), mi 2 (Sladka kot med), big foot mama (Led s severa), Šank Rock (Pravljica o mavričnih ljudeh),...
Classical composers: Jacobus Gallus (Ecce, quomodo moritur iustus) from 16th century,
Davorin Jenko (Lipa Zelenela Je), Anton Lajovic (Caprice).. from 18th century,
Marij Kogoj (Črne maske), Slavko Osterc (Religioso) from 20th century
Slovenian country/folk music: Ansambel bratov Avsenik (most famous and succesful Slovenian band ever; Na Golici - most played instrumental song in the world ever), Slaki (V dolini tihi)..
Siger/songwrithers: Tomaž Pengov (V nasmehu nekega dneva), Jani Kovačič (Delam), Adi Smolar (Daleč je za naju pomlad), Vlado Kreslin (Tisoč let),...
Punk: Pankrti (Osmi dan), Niet (Lep dan za smrt),...
And many more..
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