Who is the pop queen from your country?

[Andrenekoi]

@AyuWorld
Even if her kind of music isn't really my cup of tea, damn! That girl can sing! And what a gorgeous voice! And she makes it all looks so easy! I'm totally impressed! :000

@Tomoyo
I love the way russian sounds in music *-* Tanya Bulanova interested me, I will check her out! I also found the arrangments from all the songs you linked to be all pretty interesting one way or another!^^

@Heavenly Among the pop music markets I gave a shot, French is by far the most unforgiving, even more than the japanese or american where you had 3 or 4 artists going strong and the other vanishing after making success. It always feel like after you got that one hit album in France, it's time to prepare for retirement xD

@Miku
Robyn is actually pretty well known around here among people who listen to pop music!

I'm under the impression that since the late-2000's early-2010's this women produced pop music kind of became a genre of it's own, and a lot of artists who only had appeal on their own country started getting some international following thanks to internet.

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Here in Brazil right now Anitta is at her peak, having 2 videos with over 100 million views and another 3 that are almost there. I don't think we have anyone else with that numbers. She is also starting to try a international career re-recording songs in English and Spanish.




Anitta's success lead to another funk carioca (a genre that has mostly an indie distribution) acts getting into major labels to get a pop package, and Ludmilla is the biggest one:



And as a consequence, Valesca Popozuda, most likely the funk carioca singer with the longer ongoing stable career, to reproduce this "pop package" while maintaining her indie status, and getting big mainstream hits as a consequence:



Indie rap musician Karol Conka is also getting the pop package treatment and is on the verge on making it into the mainstream:



And Marisa Monte, who is around since the end of the 80's and still dominates the more "high class" pop music around here. She has a status similar to Hikki or Shiina Ringo:

[Deibel]

Hmmm it's hard to find huge pop stars here in Spain, as it's already pointed out. Dunno why really, I guess our industry is a joke compared to other countries. That being said, we do have some artists out there. I'd like to contribute with a few of them, even if they can't really be labeled as "pop stars" per se.

Vega

Spoiler:

She became famous after taking part in a tv show in the vein of x factor, around 10 years ago. She's a songwriter and composer, and I admire her because she's been always true to herself; her music isn't probably commercial enough to be a hit, but she never cared about that. She loves writing, her lyrics are definitely her strongest point, and that's why her fans connect so well with her. She's sooo down to earth, with a very strong personality, and maybe that's why she always felt free to change and evolve in the way she wanted. She's releasing music under her own label, and have composed music for other artists as well. And she just had a baby!

Najwa Nimri

Spoiler:

She's an actress and also a songwriter. Her music isn't pop, actually, and I find it hard to choose a tag for it. She's very unique, and very loved and idealized by her public. She's so hypnotic and raw, I think that's the word. Really honest in interviews (which are always so fun to watch), she doesn't give a shit about how everyone sees her. She's been around for sooo many years, around 20, releasing music and acting, but she wasn't really famous. She recently gained more fame due to a tv series (the spanish version of oitnb, kinda), she played the evil character and nailed it. Most of her music is in english, except for 2 spanish albums. She's a solo artist, but she also collaborates with other musicians and producers, and even has a band with one of them (called Najwajean). Every album is different, and you can see so many sides from her.

[perfectodub]

From Chile; Myriam Hernandez, 30 years of career, very famous in latin America, she looks very japanish sometimes

[YUKARI]

Speaking of Russia, I doubt it has a diva similar to Ayu or Madonna.

But I'd mention Polina Gagarina. She's a good singer and she even composes her own music. She doesn't release that much music unfortunately. She's only 30 years old, she's been active for 14 years, but she has only 3 albums. She represented Russia at Eurovision 2015. I'd love her to be more active.