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Post by dukelightning on Jul 24, 2014 20:47:26 GMT -5
In an AT10 show from 2004, Casey just talked about how Air Supply was hugely successful in the US with 12 top 10 AC singles and 8 top 10 pop but barely charted in the own country, Australia. Casey said "Lost in Love" sold 400 copies there. Russell Hitchcock of the group said he admitted that their music is too soft for Australia. Anyway, this thread can be for listing acts who had great disparities in their chart success between their own country and the US(those that WERE very successful here).
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Post by rayshae3 on Jul 24, 2014 21:57:10 GMT -5
My favorite trivia about the strict British vs. the US chart numbers: There’s been only one British act with a US#1 who never had a chart title (in any position) in Britain. Who is the act? Answer: The Escape Club.
Other trivia: Although Lulu had twice as many British chart singles in her home country than she had in the US, one of her singles (“To Sir, with Love”) is the only BB #1 of the year in history by a British act, that never charted in the UK.
Successful Brits in America than in the UK: The Fixx Steve Winwood A Flock of Seagulls (only slightly) Al Stewart John Waite/The Babys Climax Blues Band Alan Parsons Project Peter Frampton
Other more successful Australian in America (at least by chart numbers) is Helen Reddy; even though she really established her career in the US after she arrived in America in the mid-60s. Also: country star Keith Urban (NZ-born Australian), negligible success down under.
On the Latin side: Shakira, it might be difficult to measure and compare her success inside Columbia vs. the US and obviously Havana-born & longtime anti-Castro act Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine.
This is the reverse of this thread's title! But I thought might be interesting for comparative purposes. Successful US acts overseas: Diana Ross…no Hot 100 entry post 1986, more success elsewhere in the past 20 years. Randy Crawford (solo hits of “The Crusaders” singer) Alessi (or Alessi Brothers) from Long Island, NY Sparks Scissor Sisters Blondie (pre-“Heart of Glass” only) Odyssey (4 British Top 10s, one of them a #1, post-“Native New Yorker”) now a UK-based American Act which presently you can catch them at various venues in and around Liverpool. Three Degrees Dean Friedmn (post-“Ariel”) Stylistics (Continuing international success after Bell/Creed years in the mid-70s as they incorporated Van McCoy w/Soul City Symphony sound) Sister Sledge (three US Top 40 vs twelve British Top 40)
reverse-import of Long Islanders, NY 'Stray Cats", one of favorite stories of Casey in the early 80s.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 25, 2014 6:06:34 GMT -5
I remember hearing how Led Zeppelin was more popular in the U.S. than in the U.K. Even though they weren't much of a singles act, they did better on the U.S. singles charts than Britain's. Only "Whole Lotta Love" charted in the U.K. (at least up through 2003, which is where my book on U.K. chart singles ends), and it peaked at #21.
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Post by dougbroda on Jul 25, 2014 6:33:18 GMT -5
The Walker Brothers, Americans (and not brothers) who had multiple hits (including two #1s) in the UK; highest peak in the US was #13 with The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore).
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Post by rayshae3 on Jul 25, 2014 6:37:04 GMT -5
I remember hearing how Led Zeppelin was more popular in the U.S. than in the U.K. Even though they weren't much of a singles act, they did better on the U.S. singles charts than Britain's. Only "Whole Lotta Love" charted in the U.K. (at least up through 2003, which is where my book on U.K. chart singles ends), and it peaked at #21. They haven’t charted in Britain (or the US) since 2003 either, not counting their Download chart hits either side of the Atlantic. (e.g. “Stairway to Heaven” charted in the Download Top 40 portion at #30US and #37UK in 2007.) Yes, they were an album act in Britain, all of their studio, live or compilation albums did better (or equaled) in the British album chart than on the Billboard 200 (with the exception of live sets‘BBC Sessions’ in 1997 and ‘How the West Was Won’ in 2003, as well as their first boxed set from 1990.)
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Post by blackbowl68 on Jul 25, 2014 8:32:22 GMT -5
I do know the Drifters (the American doo-wop group, not the British group that backed Cliff Richard) had a string of chart hits in the UK top 40 in the 1970s. AFAIK, none of these singles were issued in the US.
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Post by mct1 on Jul 25, 2014 8:41:00 GMT -5
I remember hearing how Led Zeppelin was more popular in the U.S. than in the U.K. Even though they weren't much of a singles act, they did better on the U.S. singles charts than Britain's. Only "Whole Lotta Love" charted in the U.K. (at least up through 2003, which is where my book on U.K. chart singles ends), and it peaked at #21. Led Zeppelin never hit the singles chart in the UK at all during their heyday because they refused to release any singles there commercially. "Whole Lotta Love" charted there in 1997, long after the band had broken up. Their popularity was arguably deeper in the U.S. than in the U.K., but they had eight #1 albums in the U.K., so they were still very popular there.
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Post by keithr63 on Jul 25, 2014 22:25:19 GMT -5
I don't know about chart success but Dan Baird ,former lead singer of the Georgia Satellites,is much more popular in Europe than in the US,same for Toto
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 26, 2014 0:22:35 GMT -5
Elton John did not have his first #1 single in the UK as a solo artist until 1990. Even then, it took a double "A" side (Sacrifice/Healing Hands) to reach the top.
Crocodile Rock - UK #5 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - UK #10 Philadelphia Freedom - UK #12 Island Girl - UK #14 Benny And The Jets - UK #37 (in 1976)
He did reach #1 in the UK with Kiki Dee (Don't Go Breaking My Heart).
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Post by davewollenberg on Jul 27, 2014 20:00:31 GMT -5
The Outfield, though a UK band, was MUCH more successful, in the States. P.S, RIP, John Spinks.
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