[peterkelly]

So what? The US has less than 5% of the global population. Pretending the other 95% of the world is "irrelevant" seems odd.

[thesuitonym]

This article is about US charts, so any conversation about the other 95% of the world is, by definition, irrelevant.

[BiteCode_dev]

Espacially for art, since a song can have decades of success without the need to make billions on the us market.

[323]

But probably 50% of the global population listens to US music.

[narag]

I don't have the numbers but I would be cautious there. Some US music is listened in other countries, but not all of it. Not everything is easily exportable.

Also there are local musicians popular in each country. And there are musicians from countries other than the US that are international but unknown in the US.

Anyway, Eurovision is quite irrelevant in Europe too :)

Edit... for native English speakers, consider this: there're songs in which the lyrics are more important than music. That kind of music is usually boring if you can't understand what they're saying.

[toomanybeersies]

Anecdotally, most of the music I heard when I was travelling in South America wasn't American music. Same thing with South East Asia.

Look at the Billboard (or equivalent) charts for Germany, France, Argentina, or any other non-Anglo country; maybe 10% of the entries are English language or from American artists.