Well there was at least a Brit in the top ten last week in the form of Lauren Bennett. It's just a pretty quiet period for British acts at the moment - I mean, this can't be the first time this has happened.

 

Oh definitely. I'm almost convinced if we rewind back to 2003 or 2004 there must've been quite a few weeks throughout the year where there wasn't a single British act in the top 10.

Well there was at least a Brit in the top ten last week in the form of Lauren Bennett. It's just a pretty quiet period for British acts at the moment - I mean, this can't be the first time this has happened.

 

It definitely isn't, I definitely remember a week in either 2009 or 2010 where the highest British act was only #14 or so. Let me see if I can find it again...

 

EDIT: Hmm, I must have made that up as I can't find it.

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It definitely isn't, I definitely remember a week in either 2009 or 2010 where the highest British act was only #14 or so. Let me see if I can find it again...

 

EDIT: Hmm, I must have made that up as I can't find it.

 

I'm kind of shocked if it hasn't happened before tbh. 2009 and 2010 were less US dominated than I thought, if that's the case! :o

It should still be noted that the biggest selling single and album of the year to date is British, (although they are both Adele :P), but Jessie J is also doing really well, as is Tinie Tempah.

Tbh it would be great if there's an International/Domestic Chart in the UK charts....

The main problem here, imo, is that the UK charts appear to have morphed into the US charts, just as the Australian charts did a few years ago.

 

In Australia, local acts used to fill up half or more of the top ten on a regular basis, now the country rejoices if there's even one homegrown act in the top ten at any given time, in fact I can only think of Havana Brown, Vanessa Amorosi and Zoe Badwi that have managed to crack it recently.

 

And I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is now happening to the UK charts - it will be different in the final quarter when the huge acts are all saving up their material to generate high sales, but during the rest of the year don't be surprised if this is the way forward from now on.

 

It's a shame because we've always had a very strong music industry and it would be nice to see people actually buying the stuff produced locally. Look at France, Italy, Spain and Sweden's charts and they're dominated not by US music (the huge hits - Bruno Mars, J.Lo still get through though) but by local acts, just like ours used to be. Now the general rule is that if it goes top five in the US, it goes top ten here. I Look back to 2000-2005's US charts and there are a good 50% or more of songs that I've never heard of - I look at them now and it's maybe 5%.

This tbh. I'm sure it's happened before. And if this actually is the first time it's happened, then the US dominance in the chart hasn't been as bad as I thought tbh! :o

 

The biggest British artists simply aren't releasing any songs at the moment. When JLS, Cheryl Cole, N-Dubz, Olly Murs, Cher Lloyd, etc. release more songs, then we'll have British artists back in the top 10.

I agree somewhat (infact I think I made this point about two months ago), but since then Take That and The Saturdays have both released singles - one of which didn't do as well as I hoped (although there's still time I guess) and the latter of which is touch-and-go at the moment and may miss the top 10 this week too.

 

And I'm not sure the last three are particularly going to change anything... :lol:

 

Oh definitely. I'm almost convinced if we rewind back to 2003 or 2004 there must've been quite a few weeks throughout the year where there wasn't a single British act in the top 10.

Err, there were loads of British acts doing well in 2003/2004 at various points... Dido, Busted, McFly, Natasha Bedingfield, Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Atomic Kitten, Jay Sean, 2Play, Craig David, Big Brovaz, Jamelia, The 411, Blazin' Squad, Joss Stone, Blue, Mis-Teeq, Gareth Gates, Will Young, Liberty X, The Cheeky Girls, Lemar, David Sneddon, Alex Parks, Westlife, Daniel Bedingfield, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Snow Patrol, Morrissey, The Libertines, The Darkness, Embrace, The Streets, Robbie Williams, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Rachel Stevens, Sophie Ellis-Bextor... not even CLOSE to being comparable to now :lol:

Jessie J was the highest placed British act in last week's chart at #12, instead the top 10 is represented by all these Americans, a Frenchman and an Italian. The British music industry needs to get its finger out, absolutely embarassing.

 

 

Jessie J is not American? :o

Well, I thought I'd found a week (30/09/2006) where there were no Brits in the top 10 but I then realised Snow Patrol are Northern Irish/Scottish, not [Republic of] Irish.

 

Still, as Lauren Bennett is in the top 10, I refuse to accept this as a Brit-less top 10 :kink:

That's mainly because the British music hasn't been up there at the moment. All these british artists in the 2003/2004 has just either retired/started a family/moved into another career. Also there are other factors such as Sugababes not really relevant much now in the charts and Girls Aloud on hiatus. Even Cheryl wanted to move to the US scene and Nadine is planning to.

 

The british scene is just dominated nowadays by Jessie J/JLS/Take That/Adele/The Saturdays. Not much variety of British Music for me imo.

The Cheeky Girls are definitely NOT British. We're not claiming them.

Jessie J is not American? :o

 

I find it funny how once someone gets popular in the US, they're not considered "British" anymore :lol: (Estelle and now with Jessie J)

Estelle is not American? :o

Well, I thought I'd found a week (30/09/2006) where there were no Brits in the top 10 but I then realised Snow Patrol are Northern Irish/Scottish, not [Republic of] Irish.

 

Still, as Lauren Bennett is in the top 10, I refuse to accept this as a Brit-less top 10 :kink:

 

2006? Was it normal to not have many British artists that year, or was it just that particular week which didn't have many (i.e. 1)?

2006? Was it normal to not have many British artists that year, or was it just that particular week which didn't have many (i.e. 1)?

 

I wasn't really looking at that to be honest, just meticulously searching through my spreadsheet to try and find another week with no British artists in the top 10. :P

Wasn't the week where the entire top 6 was made up of new entries in 2004 (with Just Lose It #1) an American top ten, or was that just the top 6?

It looks as if euro-pop songs are getting more and more popular though which is good :)

 

At least if we don't have British, we can have our neighbouring country's music :D

2006? Was it normal to not have many British artists that year, or was it just that particular week which didn't have many (i.e. 1)?

 

2006 was pretty eclectic, indie was becoming a bit poppier (The Feeling, The Kooks, The Automatic) but normal indie was still doing very well (Snow Patrol, Razorlight, Embrace), there were a few Euro anthems about (Cascada, Infernal), the comebacks (Take That, All Saints) and some genuine huge one off hits (Gnarls Barkley, Sandi Thom, Shakira feat Wyclef Jean, Rogue Traders) but US urban still played a massive role (BEP's, Pussycat Dolls, Rihanna) but there was also a lot of other stuff about that doesn't fit into any of these categories getting hits (Lemar, Paolo Nutini, James Morrison, Westlife, Troy & Gabriella, Fall Out Boy, Lily Allen, Orson, Corinne Bailey Rae). It was a very diverse year musically and for the charts and I absolutely LOVED it. My favourite year of the noughties overall definitely, although 2007 was my favourite for absolute highlights. To see how things have changed so much in the past four to five years is quite scary, it doesn't seem like that long ago :o

The main problem here, imo, is that the UK charts appear to have morphed into the US charts, just as the Australian charts did a few years ago.

 

In Australia, local acts used to fill up half or more of the top ten on a regular basis, now the country rejoices if there's even one homegrown act in the top ten at any given time, in fact I can only think of Havana Brown, Vanessa Amorosi and Zoe Badwi that have managed to crack it recently.

 

And I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is now happening to the UK charts - it will be different in the final quarter when the huge acts are all saving up their material to generate high sales, but during the rest of the year don't be surprised if this is the way forward from now on.

 

It's a shame because we've always had a very strong music industry and it would be nice to see people actually buying the stuff produced locally. Look at France, Italy, Spain and Sweden's charts and they're dominated not by US music (the huge hits - Bruno Mars, J.Lo still get through though) but by local acts, just like ours used to be. Now the general rule is that if it goes top five in the US, it goes top ten here. I Look back to 2000-2005's US charts and there are a good 50% or more of songs that I've never heard of - I look at them now and it's maybe 5%.

I can see your point somewhat - but we have ten times the population of Australia (therefore technically more musicians/singers) so I don't think we'll ever get that bad! I think you're being a bit doom and gloom here regardless. If it's still the same next year once the music trends have hopefully shifted a bit away from the club music style then I'll be perhaps ready to agree with you.

 

The Cheeky Girls are definitely NOT British. We're not claiming them.

LOL!! Of course they're not. No idea what I was on. I was thinking of reality TV acts and then just put them down without thinking :lol:

 

Hopefully Inna knows the target she needs to beat if she wants to become the most successful Romanian act in UK chart history!!

 

2006? Was it normal to not have many British artists that year, or was it just that particular week which didn't have many (i.e. 1)?

It wasn't normal, no. There was loads of what is often termed nowadays as "landfill indie" (most of which was British) around that year.

If you class Aggro Santos as British there's been one week this year where the majority of the top 10 have been by British acts. Every other week at least half of been from abroad.