Countries With the Most Popular Music
Beatles, Oasis, iron maiden, elo, Elton John, fatboy slim, chemical brothers, the prodigy, queen, dire straights, Duran Duran, small faces, Tom Jones, Amy Winehouse, rolling Stones, David bowie. I could go on and on, literall! But I'll give credit where credit is due, America has done a dam fine job too. As for any other country they don't deserve a mention at all. Apart from one exception, Australia. And they only have one offering to bring to the table with ac/dc. And even then the lead singer was English.
RULE BRITTANIA, BRITTANIA RULES THE AIRWAVES...
Undeniably the best; the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Dire Straights, the Animals, the Rolling Stones, Queen, there really cannot be a debate about this. Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Peace, Wild Beasts, Foals, and I'm sure they're a lot of things I don't listen to, having the selective taste that I do. Sure, I'm sure America produces more music by volume, having 5 times the population and all, but for quality and how influential it is, the UK surely takes the lead.
Sorry but Rihanna is not even American! The Beatles! One direction! Rolling stones! Spice girls! Led Zeppelin! Adele! Take that! Elton John! Tom Jones! Lilly allen! Duffy! Olly Murs! Leona Lewis! Ed sheeran! Cher Lloyd! All huge everywhere including the states! America can keep their rubbish artists, who by the way are all immigrants from other country who left for america, You just can't compete with the uk! And coming from an aussie that's a lot!
Ahh... It's un-debatable. Take, for example the Beatles, the most influential pop-rock group of ALL TIME and STILL WILL ALWAYS BE! I also love Dire Straits, the Gallaghers (Or they might be Irish... )etc. I hate American Artists such as Madonna and Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus... It can clearly be seen by the producers that they don't know anything about music.
Guess what folks? Rock N' Roll is an American genre and Britain's top Rock bands like The Beatles and The Stones were influenced by American music. We are the birth place of Motown, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues as well as Rock music. The British took their inspiration from these genres as well as our pioneering artists: Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, etc.
John Lennon said it best: "No Elvis, No Beatles."
'enough said.
I believe the UK was definitely the king back in the 70's and 60's, now it has to be pretty obvious that the U.S. has taken the lead. There are still many strong British artists, but America trumps them at the moment. I think one of the best things we have going for ourselves is diversity. Pop, rap, rock, country, blues...we got it all, and it's all very popular (ever been to a country concert? White people go crazy for that stuff)
Anything the USA puts out, whether it's garbage or a masterpiece, springts to the top of the world charts.
You know what's topping the charts around the world right now?
Stay - Rihanna
Just Give Me A Reason - Pink & Fun.
Thrift Shop - Mackelmore
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
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You don't have to like the US... By you've got to admit...
American music is pretty damn popular.
Our music has spread to so many parts of the world and inspired a lot of British artist to imitate American artists. Lets Michael Jackson. King of pop. He is known all over the world. Not to mention Eminem who has gotten the attention of a lot of Europeans because they've never heard of a white rapper. US has best music hands down
Not only does Canada have many great mainstream artists, but it also has one of the greatest undergrounds and indie rock scenes ever! Everything from the very known Justin Bieber to the completely unknown Stabilo, etc.
Canada
Is where Justin Beiber was born and he is one of the most famous musician in the world. And might end up more popular than MJ was
Some of the good canadian musicians are rush, neil young, three days grace, the guess who, and simple plan.
Canada has popular music.Drake, Half moon Run, Rush, Shania twain, Metric, Celine Dion, Michael Buble, The Tea Party, Alanis Morissette and a lot more.
After Psy blew up the internet with "Gangnam Style," I'll see different Kpop songs suggested on youtube. Between Big Bang, Super Junior, 2NE1, etc etc...there is a massive amount of pop music gushing out of South Korea. Unfortunately, nearly any other genre of music in Korea goes unnoticed...which is sad because they have an amazing rock scene (Seo Taiji, N.EX.T, Novasonic, Schizo, Pia, Nell, etc).
Although K-pop music may be not the most popular in the world, I actually think that K-pop is the greatest and their choreography is amazing. It's just great to see how they are all in sync and they can dance & sing at the same time. Not just their music but I love how they are fun in programs or variety shows and they show who they really are.
Korean music is awesome hands down. Nearly every K-pop song has a dance and many singers are just hilarious people
Korean music is so popular in worldwide especially Asia, their music is not only interesting but also catchy!
Abba, Roxette, Ace of Base, Max Martin, etc.. And Italy is still above? Germany... okay Wagner and so on... but German music should get a minus because of Boney M and that stinking Djingis Khan eurovision song. So Per Capita... I vote Usa, U.K. and then Sweden.
The reason why Sweden is popular its because Pewdiepie is born in these country.
Abba, Zara Larsson, Avicii...all pop music
Loreen abba avicii swedish house mafia roxette europe Teddybears And more.
They have excellent music. Don't forget that. AC/DC, the BeeGees, INXS, Olivia Newton-John (R.I.P. 1948-2022), Delta Goodrem, Bill Murray, Keith Urban, Lisa Gerrard, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Sia, and so many more. It can't be ignored just because some countries are ranked ahead of it. Yet we can thank Judith Durham (R.I.P. 1943-2022) for making all that a reality. Australia is a great music powerhouse in fact.
Umm AC/DC, they are still pretty popular. Don't believe me? Check out how many people attended their concert in Buenos Aries just a couple years ago.
The Bee Gees, Men at work, And the wiggles are all from Australia
South Korea no5 lol
Seriously? How is this country not in the top fifteen at least? The music from here is absolutely amazing! If you don't believe me, take a listen to the band Mayhem, one of the most influential black metal bands in history. Regular Norwegian music is just as good. If we are going on talent Norway undoubtedly takes the lead
Has nobody ever heard Norwegian black metal or just Norwegian music in general? The are obviously and undoubtedly talented in that area, look at the band Mayhem! Norway leads the music scene if we are going on talent.
Norwegian music is way better than Swedish music. Norway needs to be higher than Sweden. People really need to stop overrating Sweden.
The country with amazing "new" artists like Seeb, Kygo, Astrid S and Matoma deserves a higher placement in the list.
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Scorpions are form Germany
Ireland should be 3rd on the list- they gave the world U2 for cryin out loud. That band is the second biggest band of all time after The Beatles. Thin Lizzy, Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Enya all enjoyed huge success in America and throughout the World. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York still gets into UK chars some 27 years after its release, a bona fide classic. Pop music from the likes of Boyzone, Westlife, country from Danie O'Donnell, and indie from My Bloody Valentine.
South Korea no 5 ha ha yeah I'm sure
If India has started rock music then what is people's problems. Each and every country nowadays produce rock music. India still has song sung with emotions. Just try to explore them. And India should be in top 3.
India is following western music and also copying other music. It has lost it's originality and nowadays INDIAN MUSIC is more of a noise than music no melody at all leftover.
Indian music is outstanding and has several styles! So what is they started rock music. It might have lost some of its fame, but it should definitely be ranked in the top three.
If India would start to make rock music or artist like badshah and other start to sing hip hop in different languages then other countries artist had to sit in home.
How about anggun sasmi, the Indonesian born singer. She hits a big fame in France
Daft punk, Phoenix, justice, yelle, madeon, the French ate blessed with electronic artists.
David Guetta is also from France
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Laura Pausini, Zucchero, blind opera singer Andrea Bocelli, Elisa, rock band Verdena.
The music is beautiful
Bob marley is apparently worse than psy and all them other k pop wankers
That's my place man
J-pop is simply under-rated.. Mostly because anyone who seems to like anything about Japan gets to be called a weeaboo... Ok, now, I personally love Japanese music, and recommend it to anyone who likes music itself.. P.S. - it's funny how Japan dint make it to d top ten with Korea at 3... (you'll understand dis if u know d Eastern pop music history)...
There are actually many artist well known in Japan but with little appreciation internationally, like:
Sheena ringo, shiro sagisu, miki imai, monoral, the pillows, aco, akira yamaoka, alan, asakawa maki, asobi seksu, claris, midori, number girl, pizzicato five, koyi kondo, etc...
Also, Japan is the second country with more artist after the usa.
J-pop is literally my life.
OPM (Original Pilipino Music) are the best songs ever composed and produced. It has more soulful meaning than those upbeat and dancing acts. It delivers emotions and communicate one another with its lyrics and melodies. I love OPM. Philippines has not only have the best singers but the best songs as well.
Everybody knows OPM a lot because it adds drama to each and every song. Upbeat OPM is bothered by certain foreign acts but an OPM songs that can only be sung is purely on top notch!
Original Pinoy Music is the best!
Better than k or j pop
I tried to get into Russian music but I haven"t found any really good artists yet... Please let me know of any great ones.
It could be better than k or j pop surely it is, id say it is
Lol nearly all of the djs comes from the Netherlands