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Originally posted by iHype.
Then explain why they were buying it last Christmas.
All I Want For Christmas Is You -- December 25, 2014
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You need to be familiar with the market to answer that question. I am, so I will answer it.
iTunes is almost completely irrelevant in Latin America. Brazil and Mexico are somewhat the exception, and you'll notice that AIWFCIY is charting kind of low there. That's because most people in Latin America do not pay for music, and are not synched up with Apple the way people are in the States. Apple and its related services are a very niche market in that part of the world. The user base for iTunes in countries like Peru, Guatemala and Panama is very small (to the point where buying three copies of a song could send it to the Top 5) and made up of either immigrants/expats from first world countries, or mostly European-descended members of the local upper class/upper middle class who have been exposed to a lot more music and other media in English than the vast majority of the population.
That's why in countries like Brazil and Mexico that are a bit more developed than the rest and where the music-buying market is bigger, a song like AIWFCIY has to compete with all the other songs that the GP there is buying in Spanish and won't go nearly as high. In Peru however, some girl from a private school who wants to feel more American (because upper class Latin Americans are obsessed with seeming less Latin American and more gringo or European, to an extent) will buy that song and it will shoot up to the top, since only people like her use iTunes to begin with.
Xmas music is hugely popular in Latin America, but all the songs that play in stores, supermarkets, the mall, etc is in Spanish. Maybe in certain places they'll be playing music in English, but it's mostly in Spanish and there's Spanish versions of a lot of well known songs in English (never heard one for AIWFCIY), as well as an infinity of Xmas songs written in Spanish to begin with.
I say this as someone who actually loves All I Want For Christmas Is You. I wish it were popular there, since I would have rather been exposed to it than all the other crap, but it's really not a thing at all there.
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