[article] We're not listening until you sing in English

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

What I'm saying, is that America IS considered the biggest music market in the world(meaning more records are bought by American artists than artists in any other country). Japan is ranked #2, yet it has a much smaller population than the USA does. So because of the population difference it is hard to really rank which is more successful. If Japan had the same population as the US, I could see Japan being ranked as the #1 music buying country.

You are talking about the quality of the music, I am talking about the sales.

Wow, you just got me thinking... US is the biggest music market right? And thus, if an artist wants to make a big profit, it's released in the US. In order to play "safe", artists make stuff that sounds "Us-y" so american music market will affect the world market a lot. Imagine if a different country had been the huget market, like f.ex japan.... ANd what will happen when the chinese market grows bigger? Perhaps chinese music will be the new "mainstream music" affecting the world...