Who’s popular in South Africa? A lot of information is available for many countries from Europe or America, but what about the main African market?
The few bits of data which emerged relate to artists from the 80s onwards, with the likes Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Celine Dion doing very well there. Who was at the top of the game before them, during the 70s?
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40 years ago, in the summer of 1979, the whole world was crazy about the album Breakfast In America by classic group Supertramp.
This immense success wasn’t only the peak of the group, but the flagship of an entire genre that was heavily popular back then, progressive rock.
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Is there someone who doesn’t like Tracy Chapman? She is hardly the most famous pop star, but the American singer-songwriter seems to receive only positive opinions.
Can sympathy towards her and her music songs on large commercial success in spite of her lack of fame? That’s what we are going to analyse today.
Mariah Carey is among the Top 3 best selling female artists of all time. She has massive sales in North America and Asia. In Japan, she even outsells the likes of Madonna and Celine Dion. How does the legendary diva perform in the rest of the world? We’ll find out shortly!
Britney Spears is the most successful female artist who debuted in the last 25 years. She has made it big in all the relevant music markets. How does she perform in smaller markets like Russia or the Philippines? Or even truly irrelevant markets like Belarus and Bangladesh? Thanks to the global heatmap, we can do more than just guesstimate.
The career of Meat Loaf has been a one-of-a-kind story since day one. He is nowhere and everywhere at the same time. Acting, singing and performing he built a curriculum vitae insanely impressive in comparison to his own fame. Among his stand-out moments feature the iconic album franchise Bat Out Of Hell.
Have you ever wondered where your favorite artist was truly big? In which country he has sold large quantities of albums without the news breaking traditional online boards? When he started to be popular and with which records? Answers are out there. Continuously disregarded until now, find out how insanely powerful YouTube Insights is.
How many bands have nine 5-million selling albums with a catalog of 6 studio efforts only? Not many for sure. One of them is the cult band of Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits. Responsible for some of the most iconic records of the 80s, the group has now been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame some 40 years after their debut.
We are used to being reminded how Britney Spears was still a child when Madonna was already topping the charts. In August 1965, when the Queen of Pop was going to turn 7 years old, Cher was leading the US Hot 100 ahead of Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones and until being topped by the Beatles‘ Yesterday. I Got You Babe, her duet with former husband Sonny Bono was the third View More
The years that end in a 7 are synonymous of anniversaries. No, I’m not talking about the Beatles’ cult Sgt Pepper’s which is turning 50 soon, and getting a much talked about reissue. Today we will be speaking about one of the biggest pop bands of all-time that came to prominence 40 years ago in the middle of the disco bonanza, the View More