The biggest global music market in the world's the United States, and Shakira's career there isn't anything major. She holds no solo #1 hits there, and only a couple of top 10 hits. Impressive? Not even close.
I don't know if you get the concept of being global.
Shakira is well known worldwide, it doesn't matter if she doesn't have a solo single #1 in the US. Whenever Wherever, Hips Don't Lie and Waka Waka sales destroy your favorite entire single sales.
It's also really, really hypocrite to state she doesn't have a solo single going #1 when your favorite's best selling single is a collab.
That's because there's a critical mass of people in the markets where she's popular and she speaks/sings in multiple languages. Doesn't mean she's huge in every country though. She's not very big here in Australia, for example.
She stopped going to Australia after one of you guys attempted to throw a bag of cement at her at a meet & greet.
I agree, she's well known and has been huge at some point in so many different parts of the world. She's one of the few hispanic crossover artists that has really done well in English speaking countries as well.
She's bigger than Shakira in Japan (2nd biggest market). I didn't know they spoke English there! I don't know why you got so defensive when she/he called her sales impressive.
In Vietnam we don't have album sales since albums aren't exported here, but almost every single person who listens to music knows her. Also, football fan knows her too with Waka Waka and La La La kept being played when World Cup, Euro coming so in Vietnam, she's really famous.
She isn't popular in the UK, US, Japan, China, Korea, Australia but yass Shak gather those Lithuania and Turkey chart placements
Good to know Shakira still has several hits, millions of records sold, sold out concerts, certifications, total recognition from the GP and enormous streaming power in the countries where she "isnt popular".
Whoever said people dont know her in Asia is so WRONG and is clearly talking without facts.
As an avid music talker, I lived a whole year in Beijing and Shanghai some weeks, and EVERYONE I asked knew Shakira, with Waka Waka being the most known song (a song that wasnt even a Top 10 hit in the US).
She is GLOBAL. The U.S. is not the world, believe that.
She performed in Nanjing, Jiansu province for the 2010 new-years concert.
And lets not forget how Whenever Wherever was the biggest international song of 2002 in China, Korea and Japan.
Here in Korea, the thing is that all foreign artist in general are not big, but when it comes to foreign music, Shakira IS a name. We even got korean commercials or yogurt and toothpaste with her
She may not be Avril, but she's far from being unknown or "a flop", not to mention China and Japan are just 2 countries out of 60 countries in Asia, in which most of them Shakira is the most seccessful female artist from the western world (India, Middle East, Asia Minor..)