The Austrian #1 single this week is - Primavera In Anticipo (It Is My Song) by Laura Pausini feat. James Blunt

It's also doing well in other mainland European countries.

Great song so WHY NO UK RELEASE :angry: Because it's half in Italian. Monolingual bias reigns again. Is there not a law against this like there is with racism, sexism, ageism etc.

 

 

 

Its doing pretty well around Europe

The Austrian #1 single this week is - Primavera In Anticipo (It Is My Song) by Laura Pausini feat. James Blunt

It's also doing well in other mainland European countries.

Great song so WHY NO UK RELEASE :angry: Because it's half in Italian. Monolingual bias reigns again. Is there not a law against this like there is with racism, sexism, ageism etc.

 

 

There really should be. There are so many great Italian songs coming out at the moment that we'll probably never get a chance to hear :(

Actually not James Blunt but Laura Pausini is #1 in Austria. James Blunt is only a featured artist! ;)

Great song so WHY NO UK RELEASE :angry: Because it's half in Italian. Monolingual bias reigns again. Is there not a law against this like there is with racism, sexism, ageism etc.

Its because its bollocks, just like all your posts.

The UK are not racist or Xenophobic or whatever else you want to ignorantly label them as. Foreign songs aren't hits here because they aren't released and if they are, recieve minimal promotion like the recent Kate Ryan single. If something is not released we CANNOT buy it, if people are not aware of a song existing they CANNOT buy it! When a song not in English is promoted well it shockingly becomes a hit like most songs with promo do! :o It's a terribly simple model which people just don't ever seem to understand!

Sorry, but I'm with Euro Music on this. There is clearly a streak of xenophobia in the UK music industry, which means that European music, even when in English is never considerted the equal of British or American music. The same is so in America, but in the rest of Europe it's definitely not so...

I really don't think there is, and if there is then the music industry, record compnaies and to an extent the artists themselves have a huge part to play in it. Whenever I've seen a foreign song be promoted in the UK it's been a hit. The reason there are no foreign hits here is because there's so little opportunity for us to make a foreign song a hit. Look at the iTunes top 300, 95% of the songs in there will have had more promotion than the recent release of 'Elle Ella La' which didn't really do anything because there was such minimal promotion. People didn't know the song existed, why would they buy it?!

 

I agree there's probably a reason why they don't come here but I really can't fathom what. If utter $h!t like 'Gasolina' by Daddee Yankee can be a fairly big hit then anything can with the right promotion. Sigur Ros sing in a mixture of Icelandic and a language they invented themselves but 'Hopipolla' became a hit because there was actually some PROMOTION! It was played on radio and used in an advert, as a result it made the charts. It's simple, it's the same model as artists who sing in English use. Promote = Hit. Don't = Flop!

Edited June 8, 200916 yr by RabbitFurCoat

Well,OK, but I don't think the options are even offered to European acts. Record companies don't want to go to the hassle of dealing with foreign branches of the labels, or artists who might not be fluent in English, so they don't bother.

I think with unknown artists in the UK like Kate Ryan you'd expect them to flop without any promotion. It's when big artists like Jlo, Shakira or Ricky Martin release spanish songs that you start to wonder why they flop when they still manage to keep having hits in the continent. I think it's just easier for non-english songs to cross over from one country in mainland Europe to another. Its built in our european culture to be more tolerant to other languages, I mean we all know are native languages, and we all learn english as our second, its easier to be more accepting of other languages. People in the UK learn english and that's all they need to know. Even in countries which are very patriotic of their own songs like France, its not unusual to see songs in spanish, italian, portuguese, whatever, charting from time to time.

Exactly... I have nothing more to say. The average Brit thinks it's acceptable to go on holiday to some remote part of the world and speak English. If it's not understood SPEAK LOUDER :manson:

I dont think that's the issue here though. Its not just english people who go on holiday and speak english, nearly everyone does it because its the only "world" language out there. Its more of a cultural thing.

I guess you're right. But it always confuses people when I say the UK isn't Europe. It really isn't :(

I agree w/ RabbitFurCoat tbh. Enrique once made a hit with a English/Spanish track before 2000.

What about US and UK singles that are big in mainland Europe and never see the light of day in the UK.

 

Such as: Mr. President by Pink - a year or so back Robbie Williams released a single in mainland Europe but never heard of here

Then there was Kylie's - Disco Needs You - massive in Europe and no UK release.