Best music

[panakos]

Which countries do you think make the best music?

overall - England, Russia or Sweden

by music styles
pop - England, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine
rock - England, Germany, Finland, Sweden
metal - Finland, US
folk - Turkey, Lebanon
electronic/dance - Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden
classical - Germany, Italy

Of course, I like the music of my country but it's lame to write it.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Quite simply United Kingdom and United States. There is no other country that matches our music.
We are actually classed as entertainment superpowers so I am not biased, it's just the British music charts are virtually all either British or American music. We dont have much European music at all.
-uk -us -uk -us -uk

Apart from us I also think Canada, Ireland and Australia.
-ca -ie -au

 

[Stella]

Romania is a good example for dance music and not only

 

[No Name]

For the genres I listen to I'd say:

electronic/dance: UK, Germany, Israel
pop: UK, Russia, Sweden
Rock: UK, Sweden, USA
Metal: Sweden, USA, Germany, Finland

 

[SpZ]

pop - USA, UK, Finland, Canada, Sweden
rock - UK, Canada, USA, Finland, Japan
metal - Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Japan (i find both USA and UK to be quite mediocre in metal)
folk - Germany, Scandinavia,
electronic/dance - Netherlands, UK, Canada, perhaps Australia and USA
classical - USA, UK (most modern classical music companies are either USA, or UK based)

 

[Alexu]

nobody mentions Romania, but our dance music is in all European charts.

some few examples: (I take in consideration only big radios)
Greece:
http://www.radio1.gr/charts/dance.htm (13 songs from the top are Romanian)
http://www.loudradio.gr/Airplay.htm (4 Romanian songs)
Turkey:
http://www.numberone.com.tr/tr/muzik/nu ... dex.1.html (3 Romanian songs)
Hungary:
http://www.mahasz.hu/?menu=slagerlistak ... nce_top_40 (7 Romanian songs)
Spain:
http://www.maxima.fm/51Chart/ (5 Romanian songs)
Russia
http://www.europaplus.ru/index.php?go=Chart40&page=0 (5 Romanian songs)
Malta:
http://www.bay.com.mt/page.asp?p=17600&l=1 (2 Romanian songs)
France:
http://www.disqueenfrance.com/fr/page-256084.xml (2 Romanian songs)
Poland:
http://www.eska.pl/topmuzodajnia (3 Romanian songs)
Czech Rep:
http://www.freeradio.cz/charts/top107 (11 Romanian songs)
Lithuania:
http://donzastop40.eu/ (3 Romanian songs)
UK:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles (1 Romanian song)
Netherlands:
http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=875994/pid=875605 (2 Romanian songs)
http://www.dancetrendstop30.nl/ (2 Romanian songs)
Germany:
http://www.musicload.de/officialcharts# ... %20Singles (1 Romanian song)
Austria:
http://www.dj-charts.at/ (1 Romanian song)
Denmark:
http://www.hitlisterne.dk/default.asp?list=t40 (1 Romanian song)
Ireland:
http://www.fm104.ie/music/music-chart.aspx (1 Romanian song in top 3)
Portugal:
http://www.artistas-espectaculos.com/topaplay/pt/ (1 Romanian song in top 7)
Slovenia:
http://www.radiohit.si/si/glasba/ (2 Romanian songs)
Ukraine:
http://www.mfm.ua/top20/ (5 Romanian songs, no1 a Romanian song)
Latvia:
http://www.europeanhitradio.com/topi (2 Romanian songs)
Sweden:
http://www.swedishcharts.com/weekchart.asp?cat=s (1 Romanian song)


and so on......

those are the actual official top music charts from several countries.....Romanian music it is played all over Europe, so it is quite good I guess

 

[panakos]

metal - Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Japan (i find both USA and UK to be quite mediocre in metal)

ähm apart from Epica and WT do they have any other good bands?

 

[ParadiseES]

^
Alex, the chart you took from Spain is just from a radio station, nothing official
But it's true that Romania i so big when it comes to dance music

 

[ParadiseES]

Quite simply United Kingdom and United States. There is no other country that matches our music.
We are actually classed as entertainment superpowers so I am not biased, it's just the British music charts are virtually all either British or American music. We dont have much European music at all.
-uk -us -uk -us -uk

Apart from us I also think Canada, Ireland and Australia.
-ca -ie -au

That's a bit arrogant IMO...

 

[No Name]

ähm apart from Epica and WT do they have any other good bands?

^ Was just about to ask the same question

Netherlands I mainly associate with dance- and trance-music.

In metal I find the Nordic countries (except for Denmark) ahead any other part of Europe. Sweden and Finland are the biggest metal-countries imo, and then we have Norway as a dark horse who are mostly recognized by metal-fans for their controversial and theatrical black-metal ( ) so i guess they should be mentioned too.

 

[Alexu]

^
Alex, the chart you took from Spain is just from a radio station, nothing official
But it's true that Romania i so big when it comes to dance music

I mean is the official chart for that radio.....which is enough I think.... :?

 

[Alexu]

Quite simply United Kingdom and United States. There is no other country that matches our music.
We are actually classed as entertainment superpowers so I am not biased, it's just the British music charts are virtually all either British or American music. We dont have much European music at all.
-uk -us -uk -us -uk

Apart from us I also think Canada, Ireland and Australia.
-ca -ie -au

Well, I'm not sure your're right....
http://www.theofficialcharts.com/singles-chart/
I could see many artists non-american/british, including 2 Romanian singers in your official chart.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

@ Pablo

It's not arrogant, it's just true that UK and USA have the biggest music industries . It doesn't mean other countries have crap music, just it's not as big .

@ Alex

I didnt say there was no European music, I said there isn't much . Yes there are some European singers but the vast majority of music in UK charts is from Anglophone countries .

 

[ParadiseES]

^
But we asked here for the bes music, not the biggest

 

[Alexu]

the vast majority of music in UK charts is from Anglophone countries .

and....

the vast majority of music in Romania is from Romania
the vast majority of music in Spain is from Spain
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the vast majority of music in Japon is from Japon

yea, this is a normal thing, but even if a country has only 2-3-4 songs in a chart (which is not from its own country) is already a big performance and it shows a high level of quality. Seing Romanian songs in all radio charts across Europe for me is more than enough to be satisfied about our music industry.

 

[No Name]

In metal I find the Nordic countries (except for Denmark) ahead any other part of Europe. Sweden and Finland are the biggest metal-countries imo, and then we have Norway as a dark horse who are mostly recognized by metal-fans for their controversial and theatrical black-metal ( ) so i guess they should be mentioned too.

You don't consider Iceland a Nordic country?
Denmark has Týr! Viking metal is cool

Of course Iceland is a nordic country. Just couldn't think of any Icelandic metal-bands.

Well, in fact Týr is from Faroe Islands but since their lyrics are in Danish (like much other music from the Faroe Islands) I guess they can be considered Danish. Undoubtedly Volbeat is the only big band who have also gained international succes but apart from them there really isn't anything to write home about on our metal-scene.

 

[94ayd]

Bulgaria's best for chalga.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Ahh there is no point replying to this coz people are telling me that I am arrogant for saying British and American music is the best and also saying that they have a bigger idea about the impact of Europe on the UK music scene than I do! :roll: :evil:

 

[Alexu]

^ nobody said that I don't think u are arrogant, u just didn't exprim very well

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Yea I'm sorry... I stressed a bit

And I didn't mean I don't like any other music than UK/USA, I like several Spanish and Romanian songs. All I meant is that generally UK/USA music is the main music here.
Anyway, Alex you never said about arrogance so don't worry about it