Yay, more chart questions!

 

So yeah, last week there was a #9 hit for Chuckie with 'Let The Bass Kick In Miami Bitch'. Apparently, Chuckie is from Suriname. I'm just wondering if there have ever been any other artists with fairly uncommon nationalities having such a successful single in the UK?

 

^_^

I'm not sure if artists from Bahamas have scored a lot of Top 10s before. But if not, Baha Men 'Who Let The Dogs Out'?

Ehhh... well if you count Belgium with Technotronic I guess... and Brazil with Corona? Ivo Robic from Yugoslavia in the 50's with a song in GERMAN!!! Mory Kante in the 80's came from I believe the Ivory Coast. Rihanna you could count as Barbadian. "Alane" by Wes was a #11 hit in 1998 he came from Cameroon.

Edited December 14, 200915 yr by Dick Cummings

Judged purely by the size of population you could count Bjork (from Iceland - pop. 300,000) who has had three top ten singles.

 

Mika was born in Beirut to a Lebanese mother.

Also:

 

Youssou N'Dour and Akon are Senegalese.

Another one: O-Zone were Moldovan. "Uptown top ranking" Jamaican. Barefoot Man from Cayman Islands got to #29 in 1998. You could count Roger Whittaker for Kenya. Arrow's "Hot hot hot" from Montserrat (pop. 3000)

Edited December 14, 200915 yr by Dick Cummings

Tatjana from Croatia with "Santa Maria" in the mid 1990s.

 

Rozalla from Zimbawe with "Everybody's Free" in 1991.

 

Kevin Little from St Vincent with "Turn Me On" in 2003.

Edited December 14, 200915 yr by Joinwithus

Rihanna is from Barbados.

 

There's the extent of my knowldege :lol:

Hmm, I've racked my brain a bit and managed to come up with only one that has not already been mentioned - Shontelle this year, she's Barbadian too. I suppose A.R. Rahman (Indian) counts too?

 

Some pretty interesting stuff here guys :o I forgot about O-Zone lol, Dragostea Din Tei was epic.

 

I still doubt there's anyone from a more obscure nation than Suriname that has had a UK top 10 though... nobody from Djibouti? Or Sao Tome and Principe? ;o

Edited December 14, 200915 yr by BrayFish

Verka Serduchka from Ukraine had a top 30 hit here in 2007 :kink:

Katie Melua is Georgian (the former Soviet country, not the US state)

DJ Quicksilver was from Turkey and had top 20 hits in 1997.

 

Sharleen Spiteri from Texas is half Maltese - would that count?

Edited December 14, 200915 yr by Joinwithus

Nadia Ali from iiO with their hit "Rapture" was born in Libya of Pakistani descent. One of her family members is famous. He used to be the host and main judge of Afghan Pop Idol and was chief executive of the Afghan chart company, his name... OSAMA BIN LADEN.

South Africa:

 

Clout with "Substitute" in the 70s and Jody Lei with "Showdown" in 2003.

Seychelles:

 

Boniface with "Cheeky" in 2002/3.

 

Rihanna is from Barbados.

 

There's the extent of my knowldege :lol:

Add Shontelle to that list :D

Seychelles:

 

Boniface with "Cheeky" in 2002/3.

 

Ooh, good find! :o

Hong Kong:

 

Leslie Loh with "Boom Bang Bang" in 2003:

 

Sri Lanka:

 

MIA with songs like "Paper plans" and "galang"

Austria: Falco

Barbados: Livvi Franc (noticing her hit 'Now I'm that bitch')

Colombia: Shakira

Denmark: Natasha Thomas (#54 with Skin Deep)

Netherlands: Shocking Blue, 2 Unlimited (Belgium/Netherlands), Vengaboys (one of them from Trinidad&Tobago)

Philippines: Hitmanbreakoftheye (sorry xD) and Billy Crawford

Israel: Abi & Esther Ofarim (#1 Cinderella Rockafella)

Jamaica: Sean Kingston, Patra & Bob Marley

Romania: Akcent, Michael Cretu as part of Enigma and producer of Sandra

 

Pitbull is Cuban-Mexican heritage.

Edited December 14, 200915 yr by Dick Cummings