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Country music... big in the US but non existant elsewhere?

This helps explain why there is no country radio in markets with a high concentration of recent immigrants such as NY and LA.
 
I would think that would be a given. Why would country music be popular abroad when it is clearly American music? 99.9% of people living abroad would consider it cowboy music having little to do with anything European, S. American ,etc....
Very strange to think it might be otherwise.
 
Jeffrey said:
I would think that would be a given. Why would country music be popular abroad when it is clearly American music? 99.9% of people living abroad would consider it cowboy music having little to do with anything European, S. American ,etc....
Very strange to think it might be otherwise.
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New Country, or better put, anything that is "Cross over" Country can still pass outside North America.
It's the stations that play too much "twine" that won't make it in those places you speak of.
 
Ironically, a fair amount of US traditional and indie country acts have had very successful European tours. Such as Todd Fritsch, Tift Meritt, and The Believers.
 
Country music - Australian country music - has a pretty strong following here in Oz. The annual Tamworth County Music Festival is on at the moment. Mainstream commercial radio has generally ignored the format, but it's carried by most community and narrowcast stations in one form or another.

And yes, crossover is happening with a number of established country artists making it on the pop charts. We have Aussie Keith Urban to thank for that.
 
Yeziknoradio said:
Jeffrey said:
I would think that would be a given. Why would country music be popular abroad when it is clearly American music? 99.9% of people living abroad would consider it cowboy music having little to do with anything European, S. American ,etc....
Very strange to think it might be otherwise.
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New Country, or better put, anything that is "Cross over" Country can still pass outside North America.
It's the stations that play too much "twine" that won't make it in those places you speak of.
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Perhaps but the occassional mainstream country song doesn't mean other countries could support country as a viable format on radio nor as a popular genre in general.
 
Country Music is very strong in the UK and Austria... I lived in Italy for 3 years, and was surprised how much demand there was in those countries...
 
Gil said:
Country Music is very strong in the UK and Austria... I lived in Italy for 3 years, and was surprised how much demand there was in those countries...
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By your statement of country music being strong in the UK and Austria can you define strong?
I travel to the UK once a month and while there is always a fan of a niche format country music is anything but mainstream/popular in the UK.
As for Italy, I lived in Milan for 10 years and NEVER heard of anyone even remotely mentioning country music let alone listening to it. Perhaps our foreign experiences were greatly different but to say that country music is strong in the UK/Austria and Italy is exagerated. Country is nothing more than a niche musical genre with very few fans in countries other than the United States.
 
Country is nothing more than a niche musical genre with very few fans in countries other than the United States.
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Rephrase: American Country is nothing more than a niche musical genre with very few fans in countries other than the United States. That makes sense. We don't all eat McDonalds either.
 
easyfm said:
Country is nothing more than a niche musical genre with very few fans in countries other than the United States.
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Rephrase: American Country is nothing more than a niche musical genre with very few fans in countries other than the United States. That makes sense. We don't all eat McDonalds either.
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Fortunately not all americans eat at McDonalds either. It's sad other countries have imported some of the gastly negative aspects of the US. such as McDonalds. Perhaps they should worry about creating their own unhealthy, fattening, fast food institutions instead of importing them.. :D
That being said it's nice to see that Oz has created it's own version of country music instead of another importation...good or bad in this case depends on the listener.
 
It would be great if some of the Australian and Canadian country got US airplay.
 
Relatively few Australian or Canadian Country artists try to get US airplay or to get signed by US labels. For example, Canada used to sponsor a showcase luncheon at the Country Radio Seminar during the days when Shania, Michelle Wright, Paul Brandt, Lisa Brokop, etc. were getting US airplay, but they dropped that and seem to have given up trying to export their music. The Road Hammers do have a showcase during CRS week and I'm looking forward to that. I am a great fan of Canadian Country music, but it is like any other producrt; you have to promote it.
 
I agree with the last two posters... I've been hearing online some of the country product out of canada (as before this post I hadn't seen a site with just country from australia) and most of the product seems like what is on american stations, some would definitely have to be polished but others are here in America under different names already (Jason McCoy is a great artist and has won awards in Canada as a independant artist there but is only known in the USA for the minor sucess from a side project called " The Road Hammers")

Keith Urban pushed himself outside of the borders of down under to make it as the international star he is today.

One of the reasons I published the letter and wanted comments is that for example in Europe, our pop artists and unknowns in the states (Like David Hasselhoff for pop) can make hits and waves, but our country stars with possibly more success can't?


Also Easy FM... You know of any stations there streaming 24/7 where we can hear or even a program that features Australian acts that I can stream from say ABC?

RFLA
 
The COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION will honor AUSTRALIAN Country music artist ADAM HARVEY as the recipient of the 2007 GLOBAL COUNTRY ARTIST AWARD. The award recognizes outstanding achievement by an artist who has both furthered Country music's popularity and brought attention to the format in their foreign-based territory.

HARVEY will accept his award JUNE 9 at the 2007 CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL during his performance on the GREASED LIGHTNING DAYTIME STAGES at RIVERFRONT PARK.

AllAccess.com
 
I spent a semester abroad while in college during the mid 90's. London had Country 1035, an AM station that played a rather broad mix of country and crossovers. In Spain, where I was most of the semester, Canal Sur 2, the regional broadcaster for Andalucia, played several hours of country on Saturdays.
 
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