[Article] ayu in german tv again... (only a few seconds)

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Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

Yeah but I'd expect them to at least mention people like Mylene Farmer. I mean...she's THE European Pop Queen if you ignore the UK(since the UK can simply export their artists to anywhere in the world and easily chart everywhere)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mylene isn't that well known outside of francophone europe, I know for sure she's not known very well in any of the scandinavian countries. I can't find a single tour date for her outside of Belgium, France and Switzerland (and Russia). Francophone artists seem to have found a market in russia for reasons unknown to me (Patricia Kaas, Zaz are other good examples) if anyone knows I'd be happy to hear any theories. I'm surprised that she wouldn't even be mentioned on arte though. =/ ALso a bit surprised that such a programme would even be aired on arte, doesn't sound very informative. But I guess that's television these days.

I think there are very very few lasting pan-european pop artists that didn't at least make it early or in the beginning of their career the US or UK using those markets as vectors. Most of those who do sing in english anyways. Eros Ramazotti (even if I don't really listen to his music) is the only one not mostly singing in english I can think of at the moment, though surely there are others (Lara fabian perhaps?). It's incredibly difficult to make it in all regions in europe at once there are so many widely different languages, traditions, cultures and fashions in music that don't correspond and also quite a lot more lingering resentment and xenophobia than the notion of a single european union might imply.

There are a number of producers and DJs though, such as David Guetta, as well as artists catering mostly to an english speaking audience (tons of swedish exports, some dutch etc). Artists not singing in english have a big disadvantage internationally because the biggest market in the world is anglophone, allthough we shall see how that works out in the future, things sure are changing atm.