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?

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    12 hours ago

    Country artists. Even Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are unknown to most of Europe.

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      12 hours ago

      That is taking it a bit too far. Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are definitely known, especially because they kinda crossed over into over genres than straight country, but 99% of other country artists aren’t.

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    2 days ago

    Jimmy Buffett

    • 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.

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    King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

    they play HUGE venues over there

    • yata
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      12 hours ago

      Grateful Dead is definitely huge in Europe as well.

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        7 hours ago

        I’d heard of them but hadn’t ever heard any of their music before I lived in the US for a bit.

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      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?

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    I had never heard of the (frankly horrible) band “Train” until recently.

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      They haven’t had a hit in a while thoughthe singer Darius Rucker has had some success as a solo country artist.

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        14 hours ago

        As a European: I was asked to play wagon wheel for a small party recently. . I didn’t know the song and I learned that would’ve been pretty unlikely in the USA.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    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.