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Artists successful here but not in their country
Random thought but i was thinking about the likes of Anastascia, The Scissor Sisters, Kelis and Eva Cassidy. All four of these are american but actually had their most success in the UK more than they did where they are actually from.
Are there any examples of international acts who are more successful in the UK, but not so much from their own home place? |
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Apparently The Killers aren't as successful in the States as they are over here.
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Cher Lloyd. It seems she's enjoying quite a bit of popularity in the states. So much so that they don't even bother marketing her over here.
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Nicole Scherzinger. Totally not successful in the US as a solo artist, but definitely successful in the UK. Rihanna is also far more successful chartwise in the UK than in the US.
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Some other examples are Lana Del Rey, Nicole Scherzinger and erh Ruby Wax..(my mind went blank for a third person).
On the flip side, I know the band Bush are quite successful in the US but aren't very well known here. |
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Cher Lloyd. It seems she's enjoying quite a bit of popularity in the states. So much so that they don't even bother marketing her over here.
She's actually doing pretty well in Australia and New Zealand though. |
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Anastacia did better in Europe than the US
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Led Zeppelin biggest one I can think of... the US embraced them alot more than here. I think they got some success over here later though.
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Alexis Jordan
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Scott Walker is much more popular over here than in the US.
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Nicole Scherzinger. Totally not successful in the US as a solo artist, but definitely successful in the UK. Rihanna is also far more successful chartwise in the UK than in the US.
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She's not from the US though...
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Enrique Iglesias has had a very bizarre career in his birth country of Spain.
He started off singing in spanish in the mid nineties and became one of Latin Americas biggest pop idols but for some reason his music wasn't that well recieved in Spain and the press was pretty harsh about him. Ironicaly it was his first English album that gave him his first hits in Spain. Starting with "Bailamos" he had multiple #1 singles and multiplatinum album sales, postive media reception etc. It seemed he'd finally made it there. His followup, Escape and the single "Hero" both debuted at the top of the charts but fell fairly swiftly and while it did okay many of the press pointed to the drop in sales in comparison in a bit of jeering way. His Spanish LP Quizas and the special single for Spain did the exact same thing. He hadn't had a meaningful hit in Spain for years until his last album which was bilingual. Again ironicaly it's the dance driven english songs like "I Like It" that are hitting big over there. He's even done his first concert in Spain in over a decade too. While he seems to be in a good place there currently he's undeniably much bigger in the UK and US, Latin America and most places than the country of his birth. |
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Blondie were far bigger stars here than they were in America, at least at first. They eventually broke through in the States but their earlier success came in the UK.
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British faux-grunge band Bush sold more than 10 million records in the US in the mid-90s... and bugger all here.
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Blondie were far bigger stars here than they were in America, at least at first. They eventually broke through in the States but their earlier success came in the UK.
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Kelly Rowland seems to have done better here than in the states
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will.i.am, both solo and with the Black Eyed Peas, does better over here
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While that's true, it wasn't the UK that gave them their commercial breakthrough originally, it was Australia.
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Enrique Iglesias has had a very bizarre career in his birth country of Spain.
He started off singing in spanish in the mid nineties and became one of Latin Americas biggest pop idols but for some reason his music wasn't that well recieved in Spain and the press was pretty harsh about him. Ironicaly it was his first English album that gave him his first hits in Spain. Starting with "Bailamos" he had multiple #1 singles and multiplatinum album sales, postive media reception etc. It seemed he'd finally made it there. His followup, Escape and the single "Hero" both debuted at the top of the charts but fell fairly swiftly and while it did okay many of the press pointed to the drop in sales in comparison in a bit of jeering way. His Spanish LP Quizas and the special single for Spain did the exact same thing. He hadn't had a meaningful hit in Spain for years until his last album which was bilingual. Again ironicaly it's the dance driven english songs like "I Like It" that are hitting big over there. He's even done his first concert in Spain in over a decade too. While he seems to be in a good place there currently he's undeniably much bigger in the UK and US, Latin America and most places than the country of his birth. He has only a medicore singing voice but his father is Julio Iglesias and he has sold 300 million records with his crooner voice comparable with Neil Diamond in the US or Engelbert Humperdink in GB. |
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Well, for the failure in spain, there is a reasonable cause.
He has only a medicore singing voice but his father is Julio Iglesias and he has sold 300 million records with his crooner voice comparable with Neil Diamond in the US or Engelbert Humperdink in GB. In Latin America he was initialy compared to Julio but it didn't stop him from instantly becoming and still being a huge star there that started to outsell his father back in the 90s. When he launched his mainstream career he got comparisons to Julio at first too but he still went on to have a lot of success. It also doesn't really explain the arbitrary nature of his success or lack of thereof in Spain. If it was simply that the media there feels he pales in comparison to Julio then surely his level of "success" would be more or less constant but he seems to be huge at at times and nonexistant at other times with no real rhyme or reason - even if it's the exact opposite in the rest of the world. It's just very odd. |
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Nicole Scherzinger. Totally not successful in the US as a solo artist, but definitely successful in the UK. Rihanna is also far more successful chartwise in the UK than in the US.
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Although both went on to do well WW Didn`t both Backstreet Boys & NSync first start off in Europe before breaking through in the states?
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Yeah both did well in Europe first as pop music only came back in fashion in the States in 1997 with Spice Girls and Hanson and followed by BSB and N sync.
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Isn't she from Barbados?
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