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Originally posted by Mediabase
Gurl, where were you between 2003 to 2007? The majority of songs that were HUGE around the world did NOTHING in the US. Only Rap/Hip-Hop/RnB and rock/pop like Kelly Clarkson and Daughtry was getting played. Pure POP was dead.
Credibility is not an issue. Look at Madonna. She is the most known and successful pop star of all time and in 2005-6 she had the most successful single of her entire career worldwide but US radio didn't really support it.
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Pure pop was struggling everywhere at the time (although some places more than others). For example, here are the European #1s at the time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_hits_of_2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_hits_of_2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_hits_of_2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_hits_of_2006 (this is the year dance-pop started making a comeback as we all know)
Not as dramatic as the US #1s, but pop music was taking a back-seat in a lot of places at the time.
In the UK the chart was full of cheesy pop music in the late 90's to about 2001, especially boy-bands and girl groups (and mixed groups), but lots of them struggled to get hits in the mid 00s and some got dropped from their record labels, others had split up before then. I remember reading an article about one of the boy bands that got dropped and the article basically said they don't blame the boy band, they just came out at a time where their music wouldn't sell. Guitar/indie music dominated the mid-00s in the UK, especially 2006-2007. There was a lot of R&B/hip hop too, and a bit of dance and rock, but not much pure pop at all. Lots of the pop fans in the UK hate the mid 00s due to the lack of pop music doing well, so this isn't something unique to the US.
I don't know other country's charts that well, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a similar story in other countries, but less extreme.
HAC