Poll: Is your fave local? - Page 4

dinorel

Quote:

Originally posted by aaronsmithjune1

So if 50-60% of your album sells come from one continent but your not from there.what dose that make you?

Not local

Mélina

I voted yes when I meant no.

HazelEyes

Quote:

Originally posted by dinorel

I mean it would be a more successfull album than the second one for sure .... but at the same time it would be unproportional because the majority of its success was concetrated in one location.

I'll give you an interesting example

Example one:

The emantipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey
US sales = around 7M
WW sales = 9M

77,78% of the albums sales comes from US = Local album

Example two
Blackout - Britney Spears
US sales = 1M
WW sales = 2,7M

37% of the albums sales comes from the US , while the majority of its sales comes from the rest of the world = Non - local album

In conclusion ... Mariah's album is more successfull overall but its worldwide impact is not proportional and could be considered more local than WW ..... while Spears' album was less successfull overall it had a more "relative" ballance between the US market and the outside market.

I mean a Local album doesn't mean "less successfull" , it just means what it is .. an album that found the most of its success in the home country of the artist. thats all

Besides for the wrong numbers, the logic is flawed. With this methodology Thriller would be considered local with 30 million sold in the US and 30 million out of the US. A worldwide flop like Bionic would be considered more global than Thriller because it sold 300k in the US and 650k total.

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Originally posted by wanderlust

where are the janet stans?

edit: ah, and mariah of course. cant get more local than that.

She's sold more than 150 million albums. Only 65 million came from the US. That's 85 million+ albums sold without counting the US.

HazelEyes

As for the question, no. Mariah has dominated the two biggest markets in the world.

YSL

Not at all.

MissBreakaway

No, otherwise I wouldn't know her

. She has toured all five continents several times and sold more outside than inside the US

aaronsmithjune1

Quote:

Originally posted by HazelEyes

Besides for the wrong numbers, the logic is flawed. With this methodology Thriller would be considered local with 30 million sold in the US and 30 million out of the US. A worldwide flop like Bionic would be considered more global than Thriller because it sold 300k in the US and 650k total.

You know atrl is a mess.

Rolland

No, they are all recognized all around the globe. And three of them are Legends.

katykater

Quote:

Originally posted by AnginaWilliams

This is all very confusing. So let me see if I have this straight.

If you are a U.S. artist and the bulk of your album and singles sales are concentrated in the U.S. (or split almost evenly between the U.S. and overseas) and the bulk of your touring success is from overseas = LOCAL.

If you are a U.S. artist and the bulk of your album and singles sales are concentrated in the U.S. (or split almost evenly between the U.S. and overseas) and the bulk of your touring success is from the U.S. = GLOBAL

If you are U.S artist and the bulk of your album and singles sales are concentrated in Europe and the bulk of your touring success is concentrated in Europe = GLOBAL

Percentage of the sales doesn't say that much.

Taylor is the example of local. Her newest single is her first song that gets airplay on continental European radios and TV channels. Nobody know her songs here and her status in Europe is like Katy's before IKAG went number 1. Her main market is the US and she barely touched the Anglo-Saxon countries (the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland).

Katy's main market are the Anglo-Saxon countries and had good number 1s on the Continent. Tour tickets sales goes till Asia (Japan, Philippines, Indonesia) and Latin America.

P!nk is more established on the Continent than Katy, but doesn't go beyond Europe. Same + Brazil for Rihanna.

Robyn is local and got good airplay in Europe. Katy helped her with promo in the US.

emmanuel_punk

No obviously.

Guernica

I'm never really sure with Christina. She was local with her debut but then global with Stripped, but I think she may have lost some of that now

VIRUS

Gaga is the definition of global, and I say that with pride.

Tropez

Quote:

Originally posted by dinorel

An artist is considered local when (no matter big or low sales), more than the 50% of the final global sales from an album comes from one specific country.

And nop my favs are not locals

Then tons of artists are local. If they're from the US, then half or over half are US sales. Making some of the biggest artists local.

Gavin.

Nope. They are more popular over All over the world (ecspecially south America) than they are in the US

BlazingLovatic

SebaMonster

Only the urban songs are local.

crazthonfry

GAGA IS A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR

Lipton

Nope, far some it. Some girls are though.

Ressti

Quote:

Originally posted by HazelEyes

Besides for the wrong numbers, the logic is flawed. With this methodology Thriller would be considered local with 30 million sold in the US and 30 million out of the US. A worldwide flop like Bionic would be considered more global than Thriller because it sold 300k in the US and 650k total.

She's sold more than 150 million albums. Only 65 million came from the US. That's 85 million+ albums sold without counting the US.

Right.

atrl.... smh