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Why is electronic music such bad charters in U.S. compared to Europe?
Well, not unpopular, but many people don't know any new songs released by these DJ's.
Billboard is a music chart in U.S. that shows us the most popular songs of the week, and the higher the charting place it is, the more popular and sales that song is. All the time the Billboard chart is dominated by pop, hip hop, country, blues, rock, R&B, but what about dance music? What about trance? What about electronic music? What about house? These genres are some of the best and most known in Europe but somehow in U.S. it's like a speck of dust flowing through. Barely anyone I know in America listens to these genres of music (except me, I LOVE IT). For example, DJ's such as Avicii. His awesome songs such as Levels (topped the charts in Europe, but only reached number 60 in Billboard U.S.), Wake Me Up (another European topper, but in U.S. it's only number 4), I Could Be The One (good in Europe, yet didn't chart in U.S.). Other electronic DJ's such as Tiesto or Armin Van Buuren can barely get into Billboard yet they can in other countries in Europe.
Why is this so? Is it because electronic music really is unpopular?
4 Answers
- Ortum MachinisLv 57 years ago
It's because the charts in the U.S, along with radio in the U.S, just have crap music all together.
You are right.
The charts are dominated by mindless, generic pop music about partying, dancing, getting drunk, doing drugs, having sex, etc.
Or garbage "rap" music.
Rock is okay but even it can't get its way in there.
All the weird indie rock for the hipsters and trend followers dominates the chart.
No real rock. Just rubbish like Arctic Monkeys and Fallout Boy.
Avicii has great music. Calvin Harris as well. Deadmau5, Afrojack, etc.
The highest Deadmau5 got was number 100 on a top 100 best new hits chart. Yep...
But David Guetta and his mindless pop collaborations are about as far as our talented electronic music producers are going to get in the charts.
It's bad charters because the U.S has to bastardize its music to please itself.
It cannot take European music and love it, it has to take European music, turn it into crap and then they love it.
Dubstep for example dominated the charts in 2011 only after American producers like Skrillex and DATSIK killed the original genre and turned it into what it is today.
All European music is beautiful, electronic and non-electronic.
Blame the American Music Industry. They have to ruin European music just to like it.
Source(s): http://youtu.be/mX02hcrULgQ - My channel. New song... - Anonymous7 years ago
What is popular and what is not in electronic music remains quite divided. Certain genres of electronic music such as electropop, electro house, and brostep are big charters because they are marketable to the young masses just as pop music is. Billboard has its own Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart for electronic pop rubbish. People such as Calvin Harris, Avicii, and David Guetta are consistently present on the pop charts. Heck, even Skrillex who is a RIAA-signed producer, won a Grammy for his brand of bathroom humor known as "brostep music". Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren are nothing to gleam over because they were dogs who had their day in the sun during the 2000s, but are now just guys who are told what to play and what to put in their music...literally just "followers" of hype now.
The other unpopular, non-mainstream rest of electronic music remains so, because it is just too complicated and unwieldy for corporate jerk companies to tame. Such examples are Goa trance, progressive psytrance, and psybient; will never be easy to exploit. That other "half" of electronic music should remain rightfully vibrant and expressively free. Why? Who wants generic gimmicks, corny singing, and skanky dancers in it? There is already enough of that in pop music already.
- KevinLv 57 years ago
Because the US charts are owned by corporations who are too greedy to expose people to good music.