How Many Billboard Hits Came From Outside The US?
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2023
- The Billboard Hot 100 has been the standard record chart in the US since 1958. While most of the artists who reach #1 are American or British, there is occasionally an international surprise. Mapping the chart-topping countries shows us which countries have had an outsize influence on American culture (musically, at least), and which have underperformed.
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Intro animation by Party Kaleta: / partykaleta
Editing by Aldo Pinheiro
0:21 Europe
2:23 Asia
3:30 Nord VPN
4:33 Africa
5:34 Oceania
6:57 North America
8:24 Central / South America
10:42 Closing Thoughts
All songs featured in this video:
Europe
The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
A-ha - Take On Me
Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling
Abba - Dancing Queen
Ace Of Base - The Sign
Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue
The Weekend - Starboy
Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number
Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Los Del Rio - Macarena (Original)
Harry Styles - As It Was
Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix)
Asia
Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki
BTS - Dynamite
Psy - Gangnam Style
BTS - Butter
BTS - Yet To Come
Africa
Akon - Don't Matter
Akon - I Wanna Love You
Drake - One Dance
Wizkid - Essence
Oceania
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
Bee Gees - To Love Somebody
Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Olivia Newton-John - Physical
Men At Work - Down Under
INXS - Need You Tonight
Gotye (feat Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used To Know
Lorde - Royals
OMC - How Bizarre
North America
Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean
The Weeknd - The Hills
Drake - Nice For What
Carlos Santana with Rob Thomas - Smooth
Carlos Santana with The Product G&B - Maria Maria
Los Lobos - La Bamba
Selena - Techno Cumbia
Caribbean / Central / South America
Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
Sean Paul - Get Busy
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
Celia Cruz con La Sonora Matancera - Sandungueate
Gloria Estefan - Don’t Wanna Lose You Now
Camila Cabello - Havana
Shakira with Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie
Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl
Rihanna - Umbrella
Rihanna - Rude Boy
Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
Luisa Fonsi with Daddy Yankee - Despacito
Bad Bunny with Cardi B & J Balvin - I Like It
Closing Thoughts
Raghav Chaitanya - Mujhse Mil
Phil Collins - Sussudio
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule The World
James Blunt - You're Beautiful - Розваги
Manfred Mann was born in South Africa and had a number one record on Billboard with "Blinded by the Light".
Which was written by an American. Literally do any amount of basic research dude.
@@RamonathoI don't think that's the issue, a few of the other songs were also written by Americans. This list is for singles, not albums.
I like how the Puerto Rican hits are basically the summary of the Latin Pop waves in the US:
Wave 1 (Livin La Vida Loca): Heavy use of the uptempo music, but the lyrics are almost all in English except for maybe a few catchphrases
Wave 2: Reggaeton, much darker tone like in a darkened club, lyrics almost all in Spanish
UPDATES TO MAP:
J Balvin (Colombia) -- Featured on "I Like it" with Cardi B and Bad Bunny
Billy Ocean (Trinidad/UK) -- Had 3 hits in the 80s
Hugh Masekela (South Africa) -- "Grazing In The Grass" (1968)
Rayvon (Barbados) -- Featured on "Angel" by Shaggy (2001)
Tems (Nigeria) -- Featured on "Wait for U" by Drake (2022)
Jimin and Jungkook (S. Korea) -- both BTS members have had solo hits in 2023
We stan Billy Ocean
You must be pretty young to not know about Billy Ocean.
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@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music Really now? The guy was famous in the 1970s and 1980s. That wasn't exactly yesterday.
I'd say it's more about a lack of cultural history knowledge, than age. I'm in my forties, and do not remember him from back in the day.
Literally never heard that Japanese song before, I can't believe it charted on Billboard. All in Japanese and in the 60s too? Pretty cool. Would love a video on the story behind that. That's surprising because even the BTS songs have English names and English lyrics at times, while that Japanese song is completely in Japanese...
Fun (?) Fact: that song was known in English speaking countries as “Sukiyaki” because the original Japanese title was difficult to pronounce. I don’t know why they didn’t just refer to it by the English translation instead.
The song has somewhat stood the test of time.
The disco group A Taste Of Honey covered it in the 70s and their version was successful. In the 90s, Mary J. Blige interpolated the song in her hit “Everything.”
I worked in a strip club in San Francisco for a couple of months where it was a rule to open and close the club with the original version, also it had to be played every few songs all day. The owner did this to honor the Japanese servicemen who used to frequent the place, I think it may have been kind of a big deal to them.There was a personal story attached too, I wish I could remember so far back (1991) because after I heard the personal story about why it was played so incessantly it stopped being corny and annoying and became comforting and welcoming. That song meant more to the owner than anything else, I feel like an ass for forgetting why, he was a good boss and well liked by everyone.
The Taste of Honey version was on the air in heavy rotation in 1978, I think it sounds lovely slowed down now but I hated that it blew my little kid disco dancing trip with all that yukky grown-up stuff but now I think I'll definitely check out the Mary J. Blige version, I didn't know it existed until now, thanks!
@@Divinemisssm5758selena also did a cover of the song in Spanish. Her dad picked it out because it was the first non-english song to top the charts and that was his hope for her
Had a big impact too; many people covered it over a lot of years.
this was super interesting!! i’m really surprised no one has compiled a database of this, i feel like it would make a good wikipedia article haha
There are some articles for specific countries/continents, like this one for Latin America: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_songs_on_the_Billboard_Hot_100 -- but that one was actually super inaccurate. Missing "La Vida Loca," "Hips Don't Lie," and all of the Cuban singles.
"Latin" definition for Billboard includes also the European countries of Spain ;) Thanks Los del Río, Enrique Iglesias and Rosalía
I kinda wonder if the sudden reduction in UK songs getting to number 1 in the US was (and still is) due to tastes changing; during the 90s in the UK, rock music still had a big following, but hip-hop became more popular in the US. UK hip-hop is basically it's own separate genre compared to US hip-hop nowadays, so maybe there's less crossover appeal?
That would make a lot of sense considering Oasis, Blur, Radiohead etc. were all popular in the US, but just not nearly as much as in the UK. Radiohead especially had the “loner indie kid” vibe, and it’s so strange to me that they wee more like an ordinary pop band in the UK, chart-wise, at least.
@@Bandsplaining Agreed. I think the smaller population has something to do with Radiohead being an ordinary pop band; it's a lot easier for weirder songs to get to number 1 over here because there doesn't need to be so much of a massive crossover appeal with songs like there often has to be in the US.
If people are not aware ua-cam.com/video/Zp4CE__i3fQ/v-deo.html is a video by Diamond Axe Studios (ft the Mode reviews) that delves into some of the UK number 1s that US people may not be aware of.
It was due to Billboard introducing Soundscan which resulted in better tracking of sales information when compared to more radio plays oriented charts in the 80s. This resulted in obscenely long overstays at No.1 by some urban artistes, such as One Sweet Day (16 weeks), Jump (8 weeks).
@@kennywong4239 I didn't know that; cheers.
Dude this fusion of music and geopolitics is just amazing. And I like how natural it is you arent trying to make large reaches connecting music and politics its all just natural and simply stating the facts.
What a great video! How about "Girl from Ipanema", the Brazilian bossa nova song? I've just checked Wikipedia and it seems that it was #1 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1964. Imagine, before the Summer of Love!
I didn’t include that one since it wasn’t the hot 100 chart. I figured with all the charts they have now, I’d need to keep it focused or this would get too big too fast.
That said Girl from Ipanema probably could have gotten an honorable mention. It went #5 and, I mean, come on. What a tune.
Less than 200K subscribers is fucking criminal for a channel this good. This is better music journalism and history than most established outlets can manage to make.
I really love seeing this all laid out in such an easy to digest format.
I think for basically all artists throughout the world (including the USA) breaking into the top ten is such a massive deal because through its cultural diversity and exchange the US more or less created what has been considered popular music since music has been easily consumed. We gave the world the electric guitar and bass, the modern drum set via jazz, the “pop hit” through the early crooners, and Tin Pan Alley writing rooms, the recording studio, the LP, even the very idea of a record company.
The United States’ biggest export is, and has been for a very long time been culture, and it’s because we are oozing culture out of every nook and cranny that exists due to the massive amounts of it that are imported in on a daily basis.
Thank you for the compliment! I think that’s great way of describing it. I understand why some people in other countries would scoff at this a bit, because they don’t want to give random people in the US the right to determine what “successful” means for the globe. But if you ask any individual artist, I bet they’re absolutely stoked to break the top 10 in the US. It’s probably extremely validating, for the reasons you just described.
@@Bandsplaining As a musician who has been playing at a professional level since I was 13, I can pretty confidently say that is 100% the case. I’ve met a lot of musicians from all over the world in my days touring, and outside the USA most of them see simply getting recognized in the US as a huge leap towards being what they consider “successful”. In fact I’ve heard several artists, bands, managers, and even producers say that it’s much easier to develop a fan base outside the USA, and for a lot of small to medium sized labels and production companies are actively cultivating their artists in markets outside the USA in hopes that it will create some sort of noise that draws the domestic market attention.
I have to say again that I love your channel, and I really appreciate all that you do, and hope you never stop curating these wonderful stories, and videos, and introducing the world to parts unknown of the most universal language throughout humanity!
As an ancient retail worker who's been annoyed by quite a big amount of no.1 hits, I can assure you Ricky Martin's Livin La Vida Loca certainly isn't one of them 😭🙌
Colombia actually has two other number 1's in addition to Hips Don't Lie: Cardi B's "I Like It" featured J. Balvin, and Disney's "We Don't Talk About Bruno" featured Carolina Gaitán and Mauro Castillo...
And talking about Bruno... Argentina deserves a mention as Stephanie Beatriz was born there...
Good catch. This is why it gets so tricky to research. Every single nowadays has 1-2 "featured" artists and they don't always get included in the stats. The Disney one I don't feel AS bad about, since it was written by Lin Manuel Miranda. I'll let the other commenters weigh-in on whether we should award Argentina a point on technicality.
@@BandsplainingLos Lobos are From East L.A , Selena was born in Texas. At least Santa was born in Mexico. About the Bruno song, Mauro Castillo had a music career based in Colombia as a singer of Grupo Niche. Stephanie Beatriz was born in Argentina but is more like the Santana case, more American based.
@@jota8193 It's more of an art than a science. From what I understand, Los Lobos identified more as an American band, but their #1 single was a cover of a Mexican folk song. Selena was born in the US and wasn't even fluent in Spanish, but her #1 album (Amor Prohibido) was in a techno cumbia style that originated from Mexico. I honestly wasn't sure how to credit them, which was why I added that whole paragraph in the video. It seemed wrong not to give Mexico anything when they've actually had a lot of influence on the American charts.
With the Disney song, I'm still torn. 😂 Perhaps Columbia can get a point, but there has to be line drawn somewhere when it comes to performers who had a minimal role & didn't get any songwriting credit. If one of the trumpet players in the Village People was born in Costa Rica, that wouldn't be enough to call YMCA a "Costa Rican" hit.
Granted, I haven't watched Encanto and have just now spent way more time researching a Disney track than I ever imagined I would. So I'll remain open to other opinions.
@@Bandsplaining As a Latin American who argues about what is Latin music all the time, I understand your points. With Selena, her Mexican contribution has practically normalized, basically because almost her entire career was in Spanish and she did several tours in Mexico during her career. The same is not the case with Los Lobos, because their use of Spanish in their career was sporadic and they have barely visited Mexico despite their long decades. In the case of Bruno, I do think that the comparison of Village People is unfair because the names of Colombians are accredited as interpreters in Billboard and if we decrease the value of the interpreter we could remove Rihanna and other artists. Thanks for the reply. I love your video about peruvian cumbia.
@@jota8193 As a Latin American you should know that Mexico is probably the most influential country in the region in music. From Mariachi to corridos tumbados, the most number of songs and most prolific song writers in the region.
Very cool video!!
I'm very glad you are doing UA-cam. This is amazing content.
wow every single video on your channel is on a topic i never heard of or thought about before, despite being a lifelong music fan. can't wait to stay up all night digging thru them all 🙏🙏🙏
Great video! Rock Me Amadeus being the one Billboard #1 that's sung in German is so weird
In Germany and Austria, Falco is a legend with many famous songs that often have random English thrown in, but I suppose the 80s had enough wacky pop acts already to allow more of his songs to cross over
But I'm surprised that no artist from Brazil or South Africa has ever hit #1
I heard "Der Kommissar" for the first time recently and was blown away. So such a cool, dark new wave song with German rapping and pop chorus. And it was released in 82??
Just found out Nena did not make No.1 in the U.S. They did everywhere else in the world.
The Girl from Ipanema, that Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song, won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965 but only got to #5.
Beautiful work as always.
I love your deep dives into kind of niche scenes and the way you tell the stories of amazing people, rejoy my love for music each time as well as discovering new likings.
Here you talked about billboard top 100 and only accorded a few seconds to talk about certains song, this didnt felt "bandsplaining".
But others doesnt seem to dislike it..
Anyways! Cheers, i love what you do.
For sure! I'll be the first to admit that it's a different type of video. If the others are documentaries, this is more of a video essay. It's fun to make & helps pay the bills, but the ones I'm most proud of are the ones you're describing, and they'll always be my main focus. Anyway, I appreciate the comment even if it wasn't your favorite video. It means a lot that you still dropped in!
@@Bandsplaining Thank you, im looking forward to see where you will steer that boat of yours.
Did AC/DC not get a number 1 hit? That’s insane
The video didn’t mention every hit from Australia since there was over 30. That said, AC/DC did not have a #1 single on the hot 100. They have had a few recent (post-2000) songs go #1 on the mainstream rock chart
I was curious about this too, turns out their highest peak on Billboard Hot 100 was Moneytalks in 1990 at #23. Insane indeed
@@Bandsplainingthey're not really aussies, though. Two Anglos. Two Scotchmen.
Yep,acdc didn't have a single born aussie,two of u2 were born in uk,you could say this with lots of bands
Did you have to upload the video again? Anyway, I'll watch it again on one sit so the algo doesn't push it down. Keep up the good work
Oh boy I was looking for this video
2:32 Japan hasn't even sniffed the US Billboard Top 40 since Pink Lady's "Kiss In The Dark" in 1979, and that factoid usually leads into 'NBC gave those two a variety show in 1980 for whatever reason.'
And obligatory fact 2: they were Mothra's fairies
Wow watching a few clips of the Pink Lady TV show is surreal. Especially after realizing they didn’t speak any English at all and were reading phonetically off cue cards.
This channel is so underrated!
Oh boy I love this video!
Man I really dig your channel. If you're not familiar with the black metal scene in Norway in the 90s, it's worth looking into. Could make for a very good video
Thanks! I know about Burzum of course and have listened a few times out of curiosity. What other bands you recommend though? Or better yet, if you had to recommend 1 album from any band, what would it be?
@@Bandsplaining his first record.
@@BandsplainingProbably either Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger, Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (although much of their most iconic material predates when they were making full albums as such), or Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse. I also think Burzum's Filosofem is brilliant, but the super long ambient piece in the middle and overall minimalism may be a bit much for some. I will also vouch for Ulver, although I think that their best work came after they'd mostly moved on from black metal as such, exploring darkwave and drum'n'bass.
Now, if you really want to hear some wild stuff coming out of the international metal scene of that period, look no further than Colombian ultra metal, with Medellin's own Parabellum being the standard bearer of the style. Absolutely explosive stuff, the sonic equivalent of a nail bomb going off.
@@Bandsplaining Musically, the band Dark Funeral I think has the best work from that scene. They're still putting out quality releases today.
But what's really interesting about that scene of music is the drama surrounding the band Mayhem. Lots of things went wrong inbetween the band resulting in murder. Very interesting story to look into
Didn't know there were blacks in Norway, nor that they played metal.
Love the video.
Nice update / re-upload. 🙂 Good fixes, especially for Lorde and New Zealand.
Fantastic video. Interesting to see how many of these songs are part of the permanent pop canon - even the more obscure ones, still recognizable to the average top 40 listener.
Info I'll probably never need, but still fascinating. ✨️👌🏾✨️
“Love Is Blue” was an instrumental cover by a French guy of a Eurovision song from 1967. Which represented Luxembourg. And was sung by a Greek woman. And got 4th place overall.
The algorithm recommended your prison video to me and I've watched a few others while I was here, this is exactly the type of music trivia I love to learn about! I had a deeper look at the list of Australian #1's and was quite surprised to see Andy Gibb with three. The Gibb's *really* dominated the charts there in the late 70's.
Yeah, and ONJ. And AC/DC ruled rock radio at the same time.
Poor Kimbra. Lorde really stole her thunder.
Best one yet!
its not a music essay channel without having to reupload due to copyright,loved the vid all the same.
Cool video. I was expecting more Latam countries and songs to made it, so I was highly surprised to learn that only a handful of songs were able to reach #1
I believe that the US version of Rock me Amadeus is almost completely stripped of the German raps of Falco. Here you also have the Milli Vanilli problem. Where MV was a Frank Farian (German) production this is a Dutch production (Bolland & Bolland). So yes, I believe there must have been some hard choices. So great job.
And always good to hear some Tinariwen albeit it be 1 nanisecond 😂
It's crazy how Daft Punk was their entire career sucessful and their only No. 1 Song was a Feature with The Weeknd.
Same with Trent Reznor. His only number one was because of old town road
Manfred Mann had another #1 single "Do Wah Diddy Diddy".
There were four #1 acts from the Netherlands: Shocking Blue, Stars of 45, Gotye, and Afrojack (who was featured on a #1 Pitbull single.
Jimmy Chambers of Londonbeat is from Trinidad.
Rayvan was feature on Shaggy's "Angel" who is also from Barbados.
api de ap from the Black Eyed Peas is from the Philippines.
Kimbra who was feature on that Gotye cut is also from New Zealand.
Tems from Nigeria was featured on a Future #1 cut.
There were 2 more South Korean #1 Billboard hits, from Jimin and Jungkook.
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How about Smoke On The Water and Radar Love?
First of all, thanks for taking the time to add all these! Manfred Mann is one I've been debating. He personally is from South Africa, but the band is English. His own website describes himself as a "South African-born" resident of Britain, so I think he is personally somewhat uncomfortable with being labeled distinctly South African, considering the apartheid at the time especially. I am no expert on his music, however, so I'll defer to other people's judgement.
The Netherland's songs are all included in the map, I just didn't list every single hit from Europe since there were so many.
As for Londonbeat and Black Eyed Peas -- I had to make the decision that if one band member was born in another country, but they aren't exclusively the frontman, it wouldn't count. It would be kind of unfair to consider Black Eyed Peas a Filipino band; although I could see giving The Philippines a shoutout in a future version of this video.
Kimbra was included in the NZ section!
Rayvon and Tems are both good catches. I missed these and will include them now in the stickied comment. The BTS solo members both had hits after this script was written/recorded. I figured since they're members of BTS it was still *mostly* accurate, but I reckon they should also get a shoutout in the comment.
Thanks again; it's a big help and I appreciate you contributing.
Here's a random fact: between the Summer of 2003 and 2006, not a single non-American act reached #1 on Billboard, and the streak started and ended with Sean Paul.
Probably just coincidence, but those years in particular were very nationalistic, after 9/11 and in the early days of the Iraq war.
Smooth by Santana is one of my favourite songs, and Havana is a guilty pleasure song😆
Gotye was originally born in the Netherlands but has spent a lot of his life in Australia. You mentioned kimbra being from NZ, but she was just a collaborator.
I counted him under Australia, but just didn't mention it specifically since there were so many Aussie hits. (too many to fit in the video)
The reason I didn't include him under Belgium is a bit complicated. But basically; if someone were to migrate from say, Cuba to Miami, or Jamaica to London, they are most likely going to grow up in a diaspora community and retain their national identity. There's also a good chance this will influence their music, since Miami has a strong Cuban music scene, London has a strong reggae scene, etc.
In the case of Gotye, he moved from Belgium to Australia at age 2 and presumably assimilated quite easily into Aussie culture. I am reading now that he still speaks Flemish, which would give some points to the contrary. But there's also this thread from /r/belgium where the top comments all kinda mock the idea of him being Belgian: www.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/18awk4/belgianaustralian_singer_gotye_wins_three_grammys/
@@Bandsplaining That makes more sense now. I recon it also depends on age too. Camila Cabello for example probably had the opportunity to learn more about her ethnic identity while she was in Cuba. She most likely brought that over to the US - and it shows in her music. Gotye however was only 2 when he migrated so he would've grown up more so Australian. Btw thanks for the reply, I really like your videos.
Re-watching. :)
Yes, you missed Miriam Makeba ("Mama Africa"), S. Africa, with 1967's Pata Pata song. 😊
I wonder why some of your videos do so well and others bomb hard. The algorithm must be bi-polar with you man.
I don't think I'll ever understand it 😂. But the reality is none of my videos take off right away. Even the most popular ones need at least 1-2 weeks, and I've had some flatline at ~5k views, then suddenly shoot to 1million 6 months later. I appreciate the sympathy, tho
Rick Steves' cool nephew does it again
Digging deeper into singles' producers (since e.g. Daft Punk was included) would probably uncover a lot more, with Sweden alone having a couple dozen more no. 1 hits thanks to Max Martin and Co.
It totally would. I kinda drew a line for that reason. Daft Punk were considered co-performers, since the song is officially credited as "The Weekend ft Daft Punk" and their name is on the cover art, etc.
With Max Martin I don't believe he was ever credited as an artist or co-performer. He wrote and produced "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears, but his name isn't listed next to hers. He's basically completely absent from the marketing.
Were I to update this video sometime in the future, though, I could see giving Max Martin a special shoutout.
This video deserves millions of views, great content!
we’re these the corrections?
It's like a game of I spy, except it's "catch which pop stars bandsplaining forgot to include"
Was this only for the #1 spots? I wonder what that map would look like expanded to the full top 100...
I looooooove this channel i learned so much from it and I am still waiting for Turkey to be represented. If you are ever interested in our music scene i'd say look up for 70's 80's. Keep giving us more content please
1:36 "When the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia on 20 August 1968, Hammer's studies at the Academy were cut short. Hammer recorded a jazz trio live album at "The Domicile" in Munich on 30 August 1968. This was released as Malma Maliny by the German label MPS Records. Hammer decided to move to the United States and resolved to become a citizen after receiving a scholarship at Berklee School of Music in Boston." - Wikiepedia
Gloria Estafan had a No. 1 hit with Miami Sound Machine for Anything Must Go, and a solo No. 1 hit with Coming Out of the Dark.
10:48 you should do a video on how Jason Mraz is played everywhere or maybe how every Region's retail stores will play different music like in the midwest it's always Alanis Morissette for the last 30 years
Sweden has been producing very succesful songs for decades now. Swedish somgwriters work with the biggest acts in the world. Sweden is considered the biggest exporting country of music per capita in the world, in fact. It's quite fascinating.
There's a reason they're the best country in Eurovision right now. Only Italy and Ukraine come close.
Perez Prado could count as both Cuban and Mexican but he peaked in the 1940s-50s and had the top USA year end hit of 1955
Wyclef Jean was also the part of the Fugees and they charted number one with Killing Me Softly
Weirdly that song was never on the billboard hot 100 - www.billboard.com/artist/fugees/chart-history/hsi/ - it must have been for some technicality, like OMC
Oh, weird. Google has fooled me. Or should I say: How bizarre
Two of the biggest selling album artists in the us in the last 10 years have been by Adele and ed sheeran (and one direction)
Selena is from Texas. Carlos Santana was born in Guadalajara but formed his band of San Francisco.
On Britain: I guess that is probably hiphop related.
Love from Sweden, we just have the best music❤️😎
lol flex ❤️
Something I didn't consider is that Sweden's population is twice that of Ireland. So they actually have roughly the same number of hits relative to their sizes. Of course, with Ireland being native English speakers and Sweden not, you'd expect Ireland to have a big leg up. Although I've also heard that Sweden is basically English-speaking in some regards. Not trying to downplay your success. 😂 Just find it fascinating.
@@Bandsplaining I'm Swedish too, and yes, we start learning English when we're 5-6, but before that almost all media we consume (movies, music, television, video games) is in English too, so I'd say we're a country of 2 languages - Swedish and English. Everybody _knows_ English, some better than others, but everyone understands and speaks relatively good English - the accent is the hardest part. Though we learn British English in school, so then it becomes a mishmash of both British and American English when we write/speak.
The music scene has always been very lively in Sweden too, a lot of electronic music, rock, metal and of course pop too. I don't know why Swedish artists chart better in the US than, say, Norwegian musicians, since our two countries are very much alike and the Norwegian music scene is truly excellent. It's been a mystery to me, since I live in Norway now but grew up in Sweden.
This is fascinating, thanks for sharing! I always assumed that video games were published in dozens of different languages, but I recently noticed that most are just a handful; English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, etc. I take it most people in Scandinavian countries would default to English? I had enough trouble as wee lad trying to collect all 120 stars. I can't imagine *also* doing it in a secondary language.
I loved how you talked about people thinking they are better then someone else because of their music taste. Because I used to be like that lol. I would only listen to small artists and shit on popular music to be edgy. Luckily now I have explored more music and love artist of all different sizes. Like Beyoncé and Kendrick are my two favourite artist. It I still love to explore local musicians from my town
You missed French singer Patrick Fernadez "Born to be alive" 1978.
If you haven't done a video about it already, you should definitely do a video on the genre of Plunderphonics and stuff like DJ Shadow and The Avalanches.
Love these bands, especially DJ Shadow. Is there actually a connection between them and the development of 'plunderphonics'? Or was it just, technology finally reached a point you could more easily work with samples, and both groups happened to have the same idea independently?
@@Bandsplaining I believe it was both. DJ Shadow’s Entroducing was actually listed in Guinness World Records as the first album to entirely use samples. The Avalanches Since I Left You used over 3,500 samples in the album.
How my Brazil doesn’t have even ONE single? I thought at least The Girl From Ipanema had charted at #1.
Paul Anka is Canadian too, and must have tons of billboard hits
i dont want to brag but south americans all across like argentinian music, maybe check it out :p. Aninteresting story is Luca Prodan, an italian who grew up in britain and went to Argentina to leave heroin, started a band called Sumo and shaped argentinian rock and roll for ever, cus he brought music and equipment that were not available during the military dictatorship.
I was going to mention OMC on the previous upload 😆
Canada-Celine Dion
Australia-Rick Springfield
"Dominique" from the Singing Nun is missing. From Belgium. Number one in 1963
That one was included on the map, even though I didn't specifically mention it/play the track. I didn't have time to play all 30+ hits from continental Europe. My apologies Belgium!
Does anyone know what the song was playing in the background when he was talking about “Akon City”??😢
Housin - Yung Logos. It’s a public domain song from the UA-cam library, but actually really sick haha.
Another one from Africa you missed. Queen hit number one in Billboard with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust". its lead singer,Freddy Mercury, was born in Zanzibar (later Tanzania).
8:05 as a Mexican-American most people would be considered Chicano. Calling them Mexican-American is enough, but if they were born and raised in America than they would be an American hit. If a Spanish person from Spain was born and raised in America and they made a #1 hit they would be an American hit. The main difference is that a lot of Mexican-American have a strong cultural hold on their native nationality because we can just drive across the border to family.
Now that you've covered the Hot 100, will you do a video about Billboard 200 hits outside the USA?
don't know how u could of forgotten der NETHERLANDS. VENUS by SHocking Blue was #1 in USA. Let's not forget RADAR LOVE, LITTLE GREEN BAG and Una Paloma Blanca. THat's just off the top of my head but the period betwnn 1970 and 73 you had a ton of Dutch artists on the US charts.
I think Akon was from St Lous, Missouri
You said it before: number 1 hits? Payola!
Sure didn't expect an OMC mention. Ahah.
Where's Belgium with "The singing nun" and her hit "Dominique" number one for one month in december 1963 ?
Not every European hit was mentioned, but Dominique was represented still on the map
Thank you for saying Yahn and not Jann!!
I think you did an editing error with Akon City, but otherwise great Video
What's that? I watched it again but didn't see anything off
Maybe I am just stupid, but for me it didn't realy made sense to have Akon City after Wizkid
@@Dario5212 Oh, gotcha gotcha. It's probably one of those things that makes more sense written down. Since I was questioning whether it's fair to call Akon's music "African" and then comparing him to Wizkid, I was returning to Akon to say "in his defense tho, he's building Akon city." Once it's in video form and there's music being played, I see how the flow gets a bit disrupted. But that's what I was going for, haha.
You gave me a mini heart attack though, haha. I thought there was some nasty glitch.
@@Bandsplainingah, ok I get it, thought about it only while watching it a second time
I've never seen a video posted seconds ago😆
Why was it reuploaded?
We forgot to include a few important bands and didn't feel right leaving it up. I'm still skeptical to say it's 100% (this was a lot harder than I thought to research), but I think it's way closer and for anyone else we missed, there will be a comment pinned at the top.
Do producers next, Sweden will be huge.
Did Gorillaz or Blur never have a number one? Damon an co. are very British. Maybe they never quite made those parameters but tracks from that first gorillaz album were everywhere for a while.
What were the Italian and Greek ones?
Italy: Domenico Modugno - Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
Greece: Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
@Bandsplaining Shame it wasn't; Italy: Blue - Eiffel 65.
@@AJWRAJWR very surprised to read that one only peaked at #6. It’s still a #1 in my book.
👋I'm bandsplaining's sister and can attest that Eilffel 65 was a household staple 😂 @@AJWRAJWR
Did the Divinyls (Australia) not make number 1.
This video will ruffle some additional feathers. Part 3 soon, for sure ...
What about Brazil? Brazil has great music.
*I'm shocked as an Aussie we had 31 number ones. I thought it was way less*
He's included child migrants from England in the list. Bee Gees and Olivia Newton John.
FOTC Joke = GOLD
We use the term Chicano’s or Mexican American
I think the UK did well in the 80s because there was an explosion of experimentation leading to many different genres. Disco was dead and people wanted something new.
'The UK'. How does that breakdown into English, welsh , scotch.
Is Puerto Rico not apart of the US anymore?
Puerto Rico is a special case. They're citizens of the US, but they don't vote in federal elections. Culturally, they usually prefer to be distinct. They compete by themselves at the Olympics, The World Baseball Classic, etc. Musically they are especially distinct, with reggaeton being a defining sound. So in the context of this video, it made more sense to mention them separately.
Gone-guh-namm Style.
Selena covered the Japanese song
RICKY MARTIN BABY!!!!
Then there's Sinead O'Connor and The Cranberries who represent Ireland well besides the amazing U2.
U2 are neither 'amazing' or irish.
So you can see that shoegaze, trip-hop and even britpop suffered from US grunge's saturation. Even iconic bands like pavement, built to spill were buried under awful payola-promoted post-grunge and nu-metal.
could have sworn gangnam style was #1 on the billboard. wonder who kept it off the top
1969, how music changed the world forever.