No offense but where do you live? Just take one magazine like NME or Q, or go to myspace etc.! You will find hundreds of unknown acts, most of them without any future in the music industry, despite the fact that they release material (some of them great work)! And is not only about getting recognized by the public! Hundreds of UK established acts keep recording music (thank God) but their sales are a joke!

For once again, i'm not against foreign music. I'm just sick of watching great acts flop for the likes of US superstars!

 

 

Your point is totally correct and it has never been harder for UK acts to not just get a break but sustain long term careers.Ellie can in no way be termed a great success, her luck came in because she was championed by the BRITS who always seem partial in bigging her up because she went to the Brit school.She had a huge hit with Starry Eyed and her subsequent singles have all bar Your Song(due to being a cover and part of an ad) have struggled to get radio support.Tinnie has probably been recording music for 5-6 years and his break came only last year after he was championed by Urban and pirate radio for a long time and R1 as they do jumped on the bandwagon.It is all well that Commercial radio sticks to what does well in the charts but how are new acts going to get heard if the policy does not change.R1 is just not as influential as it used to be especially with a declining listenership and commercial radio could and should be doing more to champion UK talent.

It's clearly about UK radio! And i don't understand why my reply has nothing to do with your answer. Didn't you mention that radio support UK acts (Tinie, Ellie etc.)? Didn't you said "I really don't think things are as bad as this thread is making out..."? And i've also said no offense!

My post was talking about how there isn't necessarily anything WRONG with the support system in place in this country for breaking through new artists into the mainstream. The fact is that many artists have broken through this year, which suggests quite plainly to me there isn't anything necessarily "wrong" with it. Is that such a difficult thought to understand? Some have succeeded, some have failed. It's the same as any other year. This year they've had a pretty good hit rate and the likes of Eliza Doolittle, Example, Katy B, Labrinth, Mumford & Sons, Plan B, Professor Green, Roll Deep, Rumer, Tinie Tempah, The Wanted, The xx have all done well to some extent and broken through into the charts this year. And that's not even mentioning the ones that have done pretty damn well on a "lesser" scale.

 

I've already said in this thread that commercial radio follows the charts. The fact is the most successful songs have been by AMERICAN singers, for whatever reasons that have already been mentioned in this thread (but mainly because American music is simply more in line with current trends IMO), and thus the 'year-end airplay chart' is going to have more American songs on it. If the biggest hits of the year were mostly British then we'd be seeing the same thing in reverse.

 

This random crap about unknown artists on MySpace had absolutely nothing to do with my post because they're not the ones getting pushed into the media by big record labels etc :huh:

My post was talking about how there isn't necessarily anything WRONG with the support system in place in this country for breaking through new artists into the mainstream. The fact is that many artists have broken through this year, which suggests quite plainly to me there isn't anything necessarily "wrong" with it. Is that such a difficult thought to understand? Some have succeeded, some have failed. It's the same as any other year. This year they've had a pretty good hit rate and the likes of Eliza Doolittle, Example, Katy B, Labrinth, Mumford & Sons, Plan B, Professor Green, Roll Deep, Rumer, Tinie Tempah, The Wanted, The xx have all done well to some extent and broken through into the charts this year. And that's not even mentioning the ones that have done pretty damn well on a "lesser" scale.

 

I've already said in this thread that commercial radio follows the charts. The fact is the most successful songs have been by AMERICAN singers, for whatever reasons that have already been mentioned in this thread (but mainly because American music is simply more in line with current trends IMO), and thus the 'year-end airplay chart' is going to have more American songs on it. If the biggest hits of the year were mostly British then we'd be seeing the same thing in reverse.

 

This random crap about unknown artists on MySpace had absolutely nothing to do with my post because they're not the ones getting pushed into the media by big record labels etc :huh:

This thread is for discussion. You've said that the system it's ok, supports UK acts and i told you that i disagree (and gave you sources to find not established artists - and yes on myspace there are a lot of acts with records but not success). You say your opinion and i say mine. I don't get where i am wrong?

This thread is for discussion. You've said that the system it's ok, supports UK acts and i told you that i disagree (and gave you sources to find not established artists - and yes on myspace there are a lot of acts with records but not success). You say your opinion and i say mine. I don't get where i am wrong?

I never said you were "wrong"? I was just trying to make my point clearer as you obviously didn't understand the first time.

 

And I am discussing things? Sorry if it looked like anything otherwise, but I was just trying to stress the point because, like I said before, you clearly didn't seem to get where I was coming from.

 

So now I assume that you do understand what I meant, and disagree. That's fine and I'll leave it there...

the problem is that at the moment, US Music is so much better than UK Music yet in the 90's, which by many is regarded as the finest decade was dominated by British Acts who were producing so many great songs that it would take a great US hit to do well over here e.g: Cher- Believe

So as a result, i'm voting for US Acts because there is no sign of many great British Music Acts coming anytime soon in the future

the problem is that at the moment, US Music is so much better than UK Music yet in the 90's, which by many is regarded as the finest decade was dominated by British Acts who were producing so many great songs that it would take a great US hit to do well over here e.g: Cher- Believe

So as a result, i'm voting for US Acts because there is no sign of many great British Music Acts coming anytime soon in the future

 

 

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

And american artists are great? Katy Perry is great? Stupid meaningless generic songs are great? US music is generic, all songs sound the same. Their creativity and artistry are one big 0.

 

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

And american artists are great? Katy Perry is great? Stupid meaningless generic songs are great? US music is generic, all songs sound the same. Their creativity and artistry are one big 0.

 

Some songs from the US sound similar to each other, but the same can be said of some UK songs. Do these songs sound the same?

 

And I think all heavy metal songs sound the same, and other people think they all sound really different. It's the same here. Just because they all sound the same to you, it doesn't mean they sound the same to everyone else.