So why 4 nations? Well, 1) because it's available, and 2) in 40 years of chartwatching I've never seen a time when so few acts and tracks were dominant worldwide.
And it's not that American or British acts dominate, as was the case in the early 1980s. The top ten in every country contains at least one Canadian, one Australian and one South Korean. French and Swedish acts also had world-wide hits.
I don't know if this is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon or the trend to expect in the future, but in a world where more musical choices have never been available or accessible, fewer and fewer different songs are taking over the world. |