There’s a lot of musicians who are huge in Europe, but not in the US. Robbie Williams, Anastacia, most of Eurodance,… What musicians are the other way round?
- Released over 30 albums since the early 1970s, of which nine were multi-platinum
- Worth over $500m when he died in 2023
- To the best of my knowledge, never even on the radar in the UK or Europe.
I grew up in the UK in the 80s & 90s, which seems to be the period he was really becoming huge in the US, and I had never heard of him until he died a couple of years ago.
Same with Willie Nelson.
Know the name, know roughly what he looks like through parodies, no idea about his music
I had never heard of the (frankly horrible) band “Train” until recently.
Grateful Dead
Dave Matthews Band
Phish
It’s hard to imagine stoner bands not doing well in Europe. Maybe it’s just because they’d start heading across the pond, get distracted, and turn around?
Hootie and the Blowfish comes to mind.
They haven’t had a hit in a while thoughthe singer Darius Rucker has had some success as a solo country artist.
I think the U.S. exports a fair amount of media and personalities involved in it, while other countries don’t necessarily do as much. RRR or Ne Zha 2 might have been box office monsters in India or China (respectively) but not nearly as much here, while Avengers and the like do absolute numbers the world over. Kpop has started to gain international appeal (e.g. BTS) but thats about it.
I think a fair amount of country likely doesn’t escape the states. Or at least I haven’t heard of a big chunk of folks rockin out to Shania Twain or whatev.
Unfortunately I can report that Shania Twain scored a couple of big hits this side of the pond
