Why do The Hives sing in English since they are swedish?

I can list many, many European bands that sing in English even though they aren't from English speaking countries.

Nightwish.

Sonata Arctica.

Children of Bodom.

And the list goes on. I believe they're doing it to sell the music to the English speaking world, in which there is a significantly larger profit margin.

English conversing countries - united kingdom,US, Australia, Canada additionally are a number of the biggest markets for track. Swedish conversing countries are Sweden. the two by utilising being the 1st countries to undertake Rock, Blues and a variety of of different different track types the U. S. and united kingdom have made English the common language for music writing. in case you write it in English you are able to marketplace it incredibly much everywhere it the international. in case you write it in the different language you have a tendency to get undesirable attractiveness in countries that don't talk that language. as an occasion very few songs in Spanish make it outdoors Spanish conversing countries. Du Hast is the only hit i will think of of that's in German. Even in factors which do not talk English natively it rather is the main commonly spoken 2d language in the international. so which you will good numbers of folk in maximum international places able to talk English. So it rather is in general to be understood, sell information in greater of the international and because it rather is the default language for many track types. To sing in yet another language limits your objective audience. What musician desires to try this from an ingenious and comercial stand element?

English = more playtime, more listeners, more money.

I saw the Hives open for Maroon 5 and the lead singer speaks English very fluently. Just a slight accent.

im guessing to get their message across kinda globally c:

if nawt, they would probably nawt be famous in countries like the US or the UK or whatever. people tend to listen to music they understand and is in their own language (or atleast a language they know how to speak)

pfft it would be cool if they did have a couple song in swedish though xD hah.

edit: lmao at the guy below mee.. i live in norway, and have some swedish friends. it's the same as here - yew grow up speaking swedish and start learning english at a young age. then later when yew come to senior school {or high school, whatever} yew start learning french, german or spanish :P where the heck did italian come from?

...Soilwork, Millencollin, Lacuna Coil... All European Bands are basically obligated to crossover and sing in English to capture the market here. Why? Because American listeners are not too keen on embracing foreign language acts. It's too bad, but it's true. As a result any band wanting to tour the US basically has to make the crossover.

Because if they sang in their own language, their music would be known only to Sweden and instead of being an internationally known band, they would be just a local.

Moreover, people (no matter the nationality) tend to listen to English songs more because they don't find them as weird as the singers' maternal language.

The Swedes are kicking butt right now musically. Besides the Hives check out The Knife and Love is All.

1. They want to.

2. It helps their popularity

3. They most likely grew up listening to english-speaking rock bands.

The Swedes grow up speaking 4 lanuguages; Swedish, English, Italian, german, and English. Engish is thier chief commercial language.

That where the money is.