[jusben1369]

It's refreshing. I'm not really sure if it's just a blip though. It seems like every few years there is this "Not US/West European" phenom that rises fast and disappears. Macarena anyone? 99 Red Balloons? There must be a couple more I'm missing?

EDIT: 99 Red Balloons is in fact Western Europe but was in German for more than a year (and widely successful) before being released in English. An oddity. Should have said "Non English" as more accurate than just Western Europe.

[Aticus_Finch]

Macarena is a spanish song (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Del_Rio) and 99 Red Ballons is german. How is this Not West European?

[maigret]

99 Luftballons is German, so... West European much. And South American music has been integrated in western culture for a long time already. South Korean not much.