Europeans seem to listen to their own artists less than others.

[The Notorious SLAV]

Just something I'm noticing on this map.


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Out of the Europeans I've checked, only the French, Poles, and Italians seem to have a decent representation of their own artists among their most-listened to YouTube music.

You look at the others (mainly Germanics and CEEs other than Poles) and it seems to just mostly be foreign music there, with local stuff being at most 40-50% of the total.

Russians seem decent, but even they sometimes blip into those numbers from what I remember from the previous numbers there.

Compare that with non-European countries like Egypt, KSA, Vietnam, Japan etc., where it's overwhelmingly just local music with like one or two foreign songs here and there.

 

[SewerGoat]

Water. Group thinking even in art. Time to bomb all of it

 

[The Notorious SLAV]

Greeks, Hungarians and Romanians also seem not to listen to foreign stuff much, though the latter two share a few most listened-to songs. So I guess this is mostly a Northern/Central European phenomenon.

 

[SmhChan]

Cucks of Murica. It's not just music. There is this Australian podcast. It was bizarre to see how much these Aussies were gushing over Star Wars. I mention Australia because of the cultural similarities between Australia and Europe.