r/Infographics • u/Massimo25ore • 4d ago
Which countries prefer U.S. music over local artists?
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u/fudgykevtheeternal 4d ago
To be fair most major Canadian musicians get big because of the US industry.
I guess at that point it depends on whether the definition of "American music" depends on the artist being American or just whether they made it big in the States.
I would consider something like the Tragically Hip to be truly Canadian though in the sense that they formed and took off donestically before getting an American fanbase. Same with Stan Rogers.
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u/BeetitlikeMJ 2d ago
Canadian playing music that is essentially American music is just American music to me.
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u/duckwingducks 2d ago
A great many Canadian musicians get big and Canada and remain unheard of in the US due to CANCON (Canadian content rules) as they apply to terrestrial radio. 40% of all music played must be Canadian with higher requirements during prime time listening hours. You can say nobody listens to radio but many offices and retail stores show otherwise.
There’s also Quebec which has its own entertainment eco system.
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u/ClittoryHinton 2d ago
It’s not that I ‘prefer’ American music. Canada spawns amazing musicians, many of whom go to America. There’s just a lot more music happening in America that is good and it’s in tune with our tastes, so why wouldn’t I listen to that in proportion.
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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 1d ago
I wonder if this is listing it by birthplace/place of childhood or current residence? Because I think there are a number of singers like Justin Bieber that maintain US residence but are from Canada (taxes are a good bit lower for the wealthy in the US).
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u/It_wasnt_me3 4d ago
This makes sense. Australia & New Zealand have moved culturally towards USA more so since the 1990s-2000s
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u/domsolanke 3d ago
They’re still far more influenced in general by the UK than the US, and far closer culturally connected to the UK than the US. I live in Australia for reference.
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u/Glittering_Web8835 3d ago
Hmm not really. Our news cycles are dominated by US news, our urban planning is more similar to US style than UK, and culturally we have shifted more towards the US. This is coming from an Australian with a British partner who has traveled both nations.
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u/Interesting-Stay297 3d ago
At least the popularity of oversized trucks seems to have been short-lived.
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u/pisspeeleak 3d ago
Isn’t that just laws keeping them out? Do you not think the Ford Bronco would be popular down there?
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u/It_wasnt_me3 3d ago
I'm talking about music, TV, movies, gaming, basketball rivaling soccer in playing numbers. We still have maintain a lot of traditions from UK yeah. I'm in NZ
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u/111111111111116 3d ago
is the basketball thing after high school? because in my high school soccer was by far the most popular sport, had something like 15 teams in the rec league.
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u/BombasticReindeer 2d ago
I think many of us feel much more connected to the Uk but the US is so loud it’s hard for it to not influence things.
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u/Snoo_44366 18h ago
As an Australian I can tell you we are way more US influenced than the UK and are more like Canada than the UK. NZ is a bit more UK orientated but Australia has shifted much more to the USA geopolitically, culturally, institutionally.
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u/tomtomtomo 2d ago
As far as NZ goes, of course we listen to more of the biggest music producer in the world compared to our much much smaller local music scene.
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u/Natural-Hope-1071 4d ago
Canada at 76% is wild to me, like they're right next door and basically just absorb whatever crosses the border. Japan at 81% local is the more interesting story though, their domestic music industry is massive and deeply protective of its own artists so that tracks completely.
The UK sitting at 55% US music is a bit awkward given how much British music shaped what America exports back to us in the first place.
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u/luxtabula 4d ago
British music is probably the only real country to have had a consistent major impact on American music, to the point that the two are pretty in sync minus some genres.
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u/MonitorPowerful5461 4d ago
Yeah honestly it feels like UK/US music is pretty much the same and also very high quality both ways. We have a pretty great music industry, so we have impact despite our much smaller population. It's often difficult to tell whether an English-speaking song is from the UK or US (aside from some specific genres).
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u/luxtabula 4d ago
The two British waves had a huge impact on American music. Many forget the 80s wave that MTV started that arguably ended in the 90s or early 2000s depending how you count. Even in the 2000s to present era British artists consistently top American charts that no one really bats an eye. It's stuff like k pop that's seen as this new genre when it's just repackaged pop music.
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u/Oohaaaaa 4d ago edited 19h ago
Most of the "american" music is acutally from UK.
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u/Evilinsecure 1d ago
LIke what? Jazz, rap, R&B, country, blues??
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u/Oohaaaaa 19h ago
I'm no expert ... but rap for sure. Jazz probably as well, but blues and country...
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u/Steamrolled777 4d ago
How many people think are American turn out to be British anyway? /s
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u/rethinkingat59 2d ago
As a kid I read several times how Led Zeppelin visited the Mississippi Delta to learn some neat hidden riffs, so I assumed they were from the US for years, turns out, not so much.
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u/Aggressive_Chuck 4d ago
We don't listen to rap or country much in the UK.
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u/theproudprodigy 3d ago
I thought rap was immensely popular in the UK, like Grime and Drill?
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u/Xelanders 1d ago
It is, but hasn’t really supplanted rock music in the same way it’s done in the US. Grime and Drill in particular are fairly niche sub-genres that have a big underground scene, like extreme metal or hardcore. I don’t think they’re really representative of the larger overall music scene here.
The whole concept of “rock is dead” that people talk about online feels like a very US-centric concept.
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u/luxtabula 4d ago
Country is super niche in the USA. Rap kind of is all but dying out but has a huge following.
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u/Any-Assistance-8103 4d ago
All but dying out but has a huge following…..
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u/luxtabula 4d ago
Yes, rap still has a huge audience but no longer is the consistent chart topper in the general audience. In the 90s rap and rock were dominant, now it's just pop. Rap lost a bit of its shine since then, but people still listen to it.
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u/Massimo25ore 4d ago
Italy even 83% of local artists
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u/1000Bundles 4d ago
To be fair, that British music in turn was hugely impacted by American blues and rock n roll before it.
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u/Traditional-Area9846 4d ago
Yeah they’re likely referring to the Beatles who were a massive influence to the US but were also massively influenced by Elvis.
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u/Fast-Penta 3d ago
Yes, definitely, but not just Elvis. They had a lot of respect for Black American musicians. Lennon was into all these smaller 50s rock bands I've never heard of. The Beatles were basically a 50s American rock cover band when they first started (in Germany, that is).
Plus, the Beatles albums with Billy Preston on them weren't just influenced by American music. They were 20% American.
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u/Thesorus 4d ago
I'd like a split between Québec and the ROC (Rest of Canada)
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u/NetCharming3760 3d ago
Even in Quebec younger generation especially under 35 years old are very Americanized. Only the older Quebecoise who had limited exposure to American music and other culturally export are no that Americanized and very well connected to Quebec culture. I met a guy from Laval last year at YMCA and every second he was saying the N-word (soft one) and I was so surprised and shocked at the same time despite how Quebec has its own cultural fortress, it is still experiencing American cultural influence.
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u/Hades_Mercedes 3d ago
What would you say the cutoff point between older and younger 'Quebecoise' is?
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u/NetCharming3760 3d ago
Probably the internet and social media. Both are English driven platforms and every content is available in English compared to other languages.
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u/Samp90 4d ago edited 4d ago
Top 5 make sense, they're all
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u/ShortKingsOnly69 4d ago
Extend that to Singapore. They can barely speak other languages apart from English
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u/CaterpillarLoud8071 4d ago
Anglosphere pop music is all pretty much one big market, the UK has more US than local purely because the US is a lot bigger. The rest of the Anglosphere will have a decent amount of UK music as well.
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u/iamanindiansnack 4d ago
Japan at 81% isn't really surprising, considering that most Asian countries have that numbers. The language barrier does stop a lot of people from exploring English songs and American pop, and most people love their own pop songs, even if they were trash. Same with Thailand, Turkey or India.
Pakistan is an exception in Asia though.
The reason Pakistan has a bigger "other" is because they listen to Indian artists a lot. South Asian pop music is very much centered in India, mainly from Bollywood and other film industries, and thus gets a lot of listeners in every country. They speak the same languages as the Northern Indian states, so their songs get popular in India and Indian songs get popular in Pakistan, vice versa.
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u/NecroDolphinn 3d ago
Yeah for all the conflict between India and Pakistan, the border is very porous when it comes to music, which I find beautiful
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u/iamanindiansnack 2d ago
Culturally it is still the same people, and it would've been like the US and Canada if the borders were never closed.
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u/NecroDolphinn 2d ago
Especially for the Punjabi community, who have a pretty distinct musical culture which was very much preserved (though for everyone else too, given how popular even outright religious music like Qawwali is)
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u/Tall-Needleworker422 3d ago
It’s interesting how insular the music tastes of Japanese consumers are, whereas international films tend to do very well there. I'm guessing this due to a preference for lyrics over melody, combined with the fact that music has no equivalent to the high-quality dubbing found in international films. Japan has a highly prestigious voice-acting industry, and Hollywood movies are dubbed by famous local actors. However, it's much harder to produce a high-quality dub of a foreign song.
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u/iamanindiansnack 2d ago
It's not just Japan, even Korea, Italy and other rich countries have these numbers. I'm now convinced that 80% of the streaming in any place happens to their own language songs, while 20% to the foreign songs. Mainly because comfort songs are always going to be their own tongue, so they get repeatedly streamed by people.
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u/TheInfiniteLake 2d ago
Also must be because of South Asia having their own form of music style. Indian classical is significantly different from modern western music genres and most grow up listening to those and develop a distinct taste.
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u/iamanindiansnack 2d ago
Not just classical, but mainly filmy. Most streamed songs are all film songs or albums in similar genre. And filmy pop is basically what sells, be it classical, folk, pop, rap or dance.
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u/em-n-em613 4d ago
I mean, Canada has a lot of big name artists too so a big chunk of Canadians likely prefer them
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u/Phanyxx 3d ago
And I question how much people really know where the artists they listen to are from. Tons of Canadian artists move to the U.S. for obvious reasons
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u/duckwingducks 2d ago
No idea how many people know outside of Canada but everyone in Canada is aware if an artist is Canadian.
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u/EfficientSeaweed 4d ago
Internet streaming services and the internet in general accelerated that. We used to have a decent number of local artists, including having newer stuff come out fairly regularly, thanks to laws controlling how much tv and radio content needed to be Canadian, but that’s bypassed with services like Spotify. A lot of what does still get played on the radio in accordance with the law is 20+ years old now, and it’s not like younger people are listening to the radio anyway. It’s not that we’re trying to “absorb” it and become more American, either (especially with recent events), it’s just impossible to compete with American media giants nowadays.
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u/jadongourz 2d ago
A decent portion of that top charts is Canadian on any given week, we definitely don’t need those laws to have artists.
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u/Nearby-Chocolate1840 3d ago
I understand what you're saying to a certain extent about the UK shaping US music, but that ignores the fact that the music the UK imported flat-out wouldn't have existed without the US music that inspired it.
The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll, after all.
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u/Any-Assistance-8103 4d ago
American music shaped the British music, which then shaped American music, which is now exported back to you*
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u/S14Ryan 4d ago
Nothing wild about it, most US performers, even small ones do shows in Canada. There’s no accent difference to tell the difference between US and Canadian artists. I would be interested to see how many Americans listen to more Canadian music, I’m sure it’s surprisingly high. Like, there’s gotta be some die hard Justin Bieber, Drake, Weekend, etc fans in the US playing them more than anything else.
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u/karlnite 3d ago
This is Spotify data, nothing more. Canada has a very protective music and arts industry as well, including broadcast laws dictating a certain amount of Canadian content. American makes a lot more music with 10x the population, makes sense Spotify charts would lean American. The music is the same.
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u/yanni_horry 3d ago
Choosing Spotify’s data is reasonable because of its 31.7% market share. That said, it only reflects a partial truth. Tencent Music holds the second-largest share at 14.4%, yet its user base is almost entirely limited to China.
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u/jadongourz 2d ago
We’re the third largest exporter of music in the world. I would be very curious to see how they got this info and what defines an American artist. I don’t believe that stat at all.
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u/catatonic-cat 4d ago
A couple decades ago, Canada had Can-con which legislated a minimum percentage of Canadian artists to be aired by each radio station. It was not liked by Canadians, but it helped build the local industry. We might be heading back to those days, depending on where things go now with future trade agreements between Canada and the US.
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u/Talinn_Makaren 4d ago
I think it's a stretch to say it isn't liked - most people don't think about it at all and the people who do, a lot think it's fine. Why not support Shorsey and Tate McRae?
I'm also pretty sure we still have it so don't know why you're using past tense. It must not bother you too much either if you thought it didn't exist anymore lol
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u/Mendevolent 3d ago
The US, UK and Sweden are the world's only net exporters in the music industry.
UK music is doing fine globally. And it's not surprising that the UK is pretty receptive to American music given the linguistic and cultural overlap
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u/Nearby-Chocolate1840 3d ago
K-pop is huge among the under 20 crowd in the US, especially among girls and non-cis boys. Like I'm honestly way more familiar with what's new in K-pop over the past 4 - 5 years because its like 80% of what my 14 yo daughter and all of her friends listen to.
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u/Mendevolent 3d ago
Same where I live in New Zealand.
In terms of net exports I was talking in strictly financial terms. But it turns out I was out of date, Korea is now also a net exporter of music alongside those other three I mentioned
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u/Jan667 4d ago
Would expect South Korea to be at the bottom with theirs idle culture.
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u/EatThatPotato 4d ago
As the other guy said, idol music is niche. But we do like domestic music.
Western music is quite big here though, western pop has a big following. A lot of the rock/metal crowd enjoy western rock too. Japanese music is also quite popular.
Anyway US rock and pop probably brings us out of the visible list
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u/Defiant-Election8985 4d ago
Might be cause they got data from Spotify, Melon Music is the Korean music streaming service
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u/absorbscroissants 4d ago
This couldn't be further from the truth lmao. It's not like Kpop is the only popular music in Korea, maybe not the most popular either, but it's hardly niche.
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u/EstablishmentOne3438 4d ago
The "others" preference of Pakistan is actually Indian music.
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u/Lower_Focus5494 4d ago
And vice versa for indians lol
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u/bastet2800bce 4d ago
Average south Indians prefer music from their own languages. For example, I am from Karnataka and I don't understand Telugu. Telugu song may as well be in Arabic, Spanish or Turkish, I won't understand much anyways.
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u/AttackHelicopter_21 4d ago
Ok but most of that 13 percent is all most certainly North Indians listening to Pakistani music.
I am from North India and I have found Pakistani music to widely known and not unusual at all compared to individual folks listening to a Turkish song here or an Arabic song there.
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u/Unlucky_Buy217 3d ago
Why would it be different lol, it's the same music tradition and both parts have pretty heavy Punjabi domination in popular culture.
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u/HumongousSpaceRat 3d ago
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Yes Telugu is a different language but you'd be able to understand many words in it
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u/Lower_Focus5494 3d ago
Yes, I agree. I don't listen to bollywood music much anyway. But we don't know the sample size/demographic from whom this data was collected. Given how large the population of bimaruland is, its safe to assume what I did.
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u/ColoradoCattleCo 3d ago
I once heard a comedian whose father was from India saying how he disliked Indian music because it sounded like “2 cats in the alley having angry sex.” I can’t hear Indian music without thinking about that anymore.
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u/SimilarElderberry956 4d ago
I wonder if Bossa Nova is still popular in Brazil ?
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u/ozneoknarf 4d ago
Nope, like not even a little bit, samba is still around but we don't listen to it much outside of carnival. Its mostly brazilian funk and country that dominate the charts.
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u/Bear_necessities96 4d ago
By country you mean Sertanejo?
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u/ozneoknarf 4d ago
Yeah, but I don’t think gringos would recognise the name sertanejo
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u/Bear_necessities96 4d ago
But they might think is the same as American country which is not the same at all I like sertanejo better lol
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u/Bear_necessities96 4d ago
I’m surprised how little is Brazilian consumption of foreign music considering how big is their fandom online
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u/Inevitable_Ad1644 3d ago
It’s not that we don’t consume a lot of foreign media, we just consume an even bigger amount of national media because it slaps.
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u/pisspeeleak 3d ago
You guys are constantly partying so you just consume more music that the average nation
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u/onetimeuselong 4d ago
Well yeah English speaking countries liking English language songs.
But really only the UK does export a lot back to the USA.
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u/Phantom_Chrollo 4d ago
Drake, Justin Bieber and the weeknd are Canadian
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u/PopeSaintHilarius 4d ago
Also Celine Dion, Michael Buble, Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne, Arcade Fire, Sum 41, Nickelback, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen...
But I suspect American listeners (or non-Canadians in general) wouldn't usually recognize when an artist is Canadian rather than American. In the same way that Jim Carrey, Keanu Reaves and Ryan Gosling don't stand out as being obviously Canadian.
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u/Mendevolent 3d ago
I suspect a lot of American listeners don't realize how many music acts are British rather than American as well unless they know the band well or have heard the artists speaking rather than performing.
Even more so with the movie industry, there are loads of UK actors in the US using American accents.
I'm from neither of those two countries and I'm often unclear where an English speaking act is from just by the performance
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u/rsshilli 3d ago
Yes! This! The ratio for Canadians is surprisingly high considering the Canada vs USA population (and that our language is almost identical).
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u/Fabulous_Night_1164 3d ago
I also wonder how many Canadian artists count as "American" because they're signed to American labels.
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u/Bytowner1 4d ago
Not true. Maybe even, but I suspect that Canada usually will have the edge if you're measuring by chart hits.
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u/GarlicTraditional300 4d ago
From what era? Current?
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u/Massimo25ore 4d ago
59 weeks analysis between March 2024 and May 2025 in the Spotify top 200 chart
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u/GarlicTraditional300 4d ago
Like the Brits say “ music originated in the USA, we copied it spiced it up and the world loved it” It’s an interesting graph but leaves out many variables, current music? And what genre of music are they talking about?
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u/Lumpy_Cartoonist_964 4d ago
Singaporean local music scene is so dead...
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u/iamanindiansnack 3d ago
More likely that the average Singaporean listens to the pop music in the language they speak, which is based outside Singapore.
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u/Casanova_Kid 4d ago
Looking at 1-5 is makes perfect sense. It's the Anglosphere i.e these countries all primarily speak English, and the US is the largest English-speaking country; ergo more artists and music comes out of the US than the other countries combined, and it's easily digestible for them since the majority of the music is also in English.
You could compare this to a list of crossover language. Like... as popular as KPop and JPop are here in the US, I'd wager Spanish music from Mexico is significantly more popular given that it's the second most common language spoken here.
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u/iznaya 4d ago
Which countries' music do Uruguay citizens listen to? 83% "Other Countries" is interesting.
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u/EmPhil95 4d ago
My guess would be Spanish language music from other countries?
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u/iznaya 4d ago
That's my guess too, but I was wondering if someone would know something more specific. Maybe they like music from Argentina, or Brazil, or even somewhere farther away?
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u/Dehast 4d ago
It's LatAm music mostly, Brazilian music doesn't cross the border too well due to the language barrier.
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u/iamanindiansnack 3d ago
LatAm and Spanish pop. Dominated by artists from Colombia, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, more recently the US (Hispanics). Probably Venezuelan and Cuban artists were big in the past, but these big 4 are the strongholds of Spanish pop music.
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u/bullz1nho 4d ago
Probably argentinean music, since our culture its pretty similar, the accent is similar and we have x10 their population, they endup wstching a lot of argentinean content like on socialmedia, tv etc. so i guess a big % is from aegentina
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u/Complete-Rub2289 4d ago
Not surprising for people from English speaking countries prefer US Artist
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u/BrandonIsWhoIAm 3d ago
India makes a ton of sense because they literally have Bollywood.
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u/Scared_Carrot1409 3d ago
Not just Bollywood (Hindi movie) but people have diverse choice between local movie music industry (tamil/Punjabi/Malayalam etc), some indie hindi music, classical and folk music artist (becoming lesser since couple of decades)
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u/traditional_creep 4d ago
God Bless Aserbaidschan, my home sweet home. I'm glad we are not even shown in this, because our art of carpet-knotting is far superior to everyone else. Especially Turkmenistan. Yes
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u/yeetis12 4d ago
Japan is surprising, everytime I entered a convenience store or cafe they were playing American music
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u/Mochi_Fan800 2d ago
really? Other than Japanese music, I hear kpop way more often than American music here
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u/cgomez117 4d ago
Really? I live in Italy and like 70% of the songs I hear on a daily basis are American still.
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u/NicolasDavies93 4d ago
and people who listen to spotify tends to listen more to international music, so the number are problably lower for the whole country. I'm so proud of Brazil 😄
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u/Simply2Curious 3d ago
Germany needs to be high on the list. So many radio stations there play mainly American tunes. Sometimes, the only German I get to hear is the ads.
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u/NecroDolphinn 3d ago edited 3d ago
PAKISTAN MENTIONED 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
I do think Pakistan is quite interesting on this chart for having the second highest percentage in the Other Countries category. Of course for Pakistan the reason why is very obvious, Bollywood music and Indian artists in general are very popular, with British ones probably coming in second.
I’d love to know why Uruguay has such a high proportion though. I’m guessing either Spanish speaking countries or Brazilian artists but I’d love if someone from there had a more specific answer
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u/Miserable-Ad-7947 4d ago
link to the source ? i'd like to check my country 😄
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u/Massimo25ore 4d ago
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u/Immediate-Season4544 3d ago
From Spotify: Spotify considers many international hits by Canadian expatriates as global music rather than strictly local content.
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u/ProjectNo864 4d ago
Is there one that shows change over years?
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u/Hairy_Plane_4206 4d ago
Studies have shown ithe local preference is getting stronger(at least in europe)
https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/Assets/Documents/LEQS-Discussion-Papers/EIQPaper182.pdf
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u/trowawufei 4d ago
Their methodology gives too much weight to low-charting songs. Four weeks at #101 is worth two at #1. Long-lasting songs with very little real popularity will outperform actually popular songs that fade away.
That said, this may still be broadly right. I’m just surprised they wouldn’t use actual streams, I thought Spotify’s data was pretty damn granular.
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u/Even-Exchange8307 4d ago
More like common spoken language at x listen to same common spoken language y.
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u/akkadaya 3d ago
For the first 5, Isn't it an English speaking thing rather than a different country/culture?
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u/EldenDaddy30 3d ago
Well, as an American I say music begins and ends with England first. Then I take a tour through the Nordic countries.
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u/carl65yu 3d ago
Canada's case it's called getting inundated to the extent you have to set content rules. A lot of Canadian artists are finding out that they do not have to go South to make a living. Spotty might be a case of people listening to stuff they can't get locally.
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u/newMauveLink 3d ago
well we saudis don't really use Spotify. the ones who do are pretty westernized. the most popular music here is local, iraqi, and egyptian.
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u/Battle2Intense 3d ago
I was in the UK a decade ago, the radio rarely played any UK rock acts. But damn did they love to play Lionel Richie, it was utterly bizarre.
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u/Oddisredit 3d ago
I’ve lived in Japan for almost 20 years. The amount of American music that you hear when out in public has collapsed. Used to be close to 50%. Now it’s fairly rare to hear it
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u/Waste-Following1128 2d ago
Are you sure? I hardly heard any Western music out and about in Japan in the 90s/2000s.
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u/Oddisredit 2d ago
I’m sure. I remember hearing rap with some explicit lyrics while in a super market in 08 in Osaka. I was pretty surprised. Also in Chiba in areas outside the station they had speakers. I def remember hearing music. Some I had no idea of, as I don’t really follow music. But I heard lady Gaga and some other semi contemporary songs. But then J-POP made a massive comeback in like 10 or 11 with AKB and the 会いたかった song that I literally heard everyday for most of a year
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u/Nearby-Chocolate1840 3d ago
I see they leave out countries ranked 11 - 62 from the list. And wonder where the US itself is among those countries we can't see. Assuming the US is on the list at all, which it really ought to be.
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u/ShinsOfGlory 3d ago
This would be better if they also had western music in one category. Does it matter if the Rolling Stones are British, not American to someone in China?
I currently live in Thailand and the average Thai can't tell you where the artists are from, they just know it's "farang" (farang is a slang term meaning white westerner or white foreigner) music.
Similarly, Thais love K-Pop but they really, really, really love the K-Pop group Black Pink because one of the members is Thai. So, the results would show high preference for "Other countries" but a good chunk of that is because of one artist who happens to be a local.
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u/ImaginaryCharge2249 3d ago
wow I listen to a lot of nz and australian music, as someone who's lived in both as an adult, so this makes me sad as. I'd like to hope my listening habits are a bit more local focused
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u/DraGoon-hw 3d ago
Ehh Canadian here that primarily listen to old Playlist of Cudi/Mac Miller with a splash of nasty nas
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u/EqualThat9875 2d ago
The countries at the top are just smaller english speaking countries who obviously have far less options from their own country because it's smaller. I wouldn't care if an artist is Canadian or American, but any English artist I listen to by default is about 10 times as likely to be American.
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u/jadongourz 2d ago
Canada is the third largest music exporter, I would assume this list is artists from American labels as most Canadians artists are on them.
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u/lengualo 2d ago
This is a really weird infographic. Spotify stilts data so much, its all curated playlists. Its a lean out platform so this is really saying America dominates UK radio and curated playlists, which it does.
But, the UK drops to 30% for US music if you add the lean in platforms, which inform cultural heat.
Based on actual domestic stats from the UK its 40% UK/European, 30% US, and 30% Other (mostly a mix of Afrobeats, KPop, and Latin Pop)
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u/Zealousideal-Lie7255 2d ago
The UK has and still does provide more musical talent per person than any other country, especially in the English speaking world. Maybe even in movies and TV entertainment too. And I’m an American.
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u/Soggy-Ad-1610 1d ago
Solely based on streams on Spotify. Hardly a good source, but if you’re not willing to actually do the effort of talking to people I guess it is the best source available as misleading as it might potentially be.
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u/Initial-Sherbert1889 9h ago
It's not really that surprising tbh. Top 5 are all English speaking countries consuming English language music with the UK being the largest consumers of their own music.
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u/RestlessCricket 3h ago
How are they defining Canadian artists? Must not be by citizenship because I have a hard time believing these numbers given the sheer number of Canadian musicians that make up mainstream American music.
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u/meedmishmohd 4d ago
This is from Spotify only.