Topic: Bringing out SONGS, ALBUMS in Europe vs USA pt 1
There is of course a great difference between European Groups and US groups.
As for me, there are still a lot of bands, famous in Europe and ready to conquer the USA, a dream becoming reality for only a few.
If I had a band (being older and supposed to be more realistic, which is difficult for me) I would concentrate me :
1) Europe, without the UK, because it is also more difficult, focusing on countries like Belgium, my or your homeland, and try to concentrate me on countries like Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, followed by France, Spain, Italy. COUNT THE POPULATION!!! and compare it with the USA.
But France is not so easy: FIRST: have you heard about "l' Academie Française" trying to avoid influences from NON French words: AIDS = SIDA. A lot of French artists covered famous song, US or UK, and sing them in French.
How big is the market: GERMANY: 82.000.000 FRANCE: 61.000.000 UK: 60.000.000 ITALY: 58.000.000 SPAIN: 40.000.000 NETHERLANDS & BELGIUM: 27.000.000 POLAND: 39.000.000
SCANDINAVIA (Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway): 24.000.000
total without UK: 292.000.000 and with UK: 360.000.000 I only added Poland, because the market is closer to us. This is a huge market, but compared to the States, we still have all those individual countries.
QUESTION: IS THERE IN THE USA ALSO A DIFFERENT MUSIC TASTE IN THE 50 STATES?
THE POPULATION IS also 300.000.000. Some US artists, like Michael Jackson did sell in the US only 27.000.000 copies of the album thriller BUT he is also huge in Europe. Less known here is GARTH BROOKS, also selling over 20.000.000 copies and relative unknown here.
This is called topic 1, because I loved to have a list with 2007 big sellers, and a top 5
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