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Having spent several months in Europe, the dominance of US music seems so obvious as to not need explanation.
But here you go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Hot_100_Singles
Adding all those up by country we get
USA (50)
Sweden (13)
UK (9)
Germany (6)
Barbados / USA (5)
Australia (4)
Colombia (4)
This is just the top acts, obviously, but the US is so incredibly dominant that I don't feel the need to do a deeper dive.
This is not a particularly good way to show European music charts on this particular topic, actually, since the question is whether people in whatever country listen more to American music or their own country's music, and these charts aggregate around the common denominator, which is American (and, historically at least, UK) music.
According to this article I managed to find, Finland's most streamed songs in 2022 were:
BESS – Ram pam pam
JVG – Amatimies
Ramses II – Villieläin
Gettomasa – Shamppanjadieetillä
Olli Halonen – Pohjola
Harry Styles – As It Was
El Migu - Erilainen
Isac Elliot – 20min
T Swoop – Mon Ami
Pihlaja & Etta – Bändäri
Harry Styles is the only non-Finnish artist, and at least if we go by titles most of these are in Finnish. Predictably markets for music in Finnish are pretty sparse outside of Finland.
Here's the most sold music artists of all time in Finland. As one can see, the top 10 is entirely Finnish (and, apart from Nightwish, sing in Finnish), and Finnish artists take up 41 spots from the top 50.
Then again, Finns might have expectionally domestic tastes, but assuredly almost all of that, apart from Nightwish and HIM which managed to break abroad, would be utterly unfamiliar to non-Finns, and similarly, say, Dutch or Portuguese domestically popular artists would be unfamiliar to pretty much anyone who didn't make a specific effort to get to know them.
I don't think so. It's similar in Sweden with 8 of the top 10 singing in Swedish and 9 of the top ten being Swedish artists, Ed Sheeran being the only foreign artist making the top 10.
And this is Sweden, a famously xenophilic country.
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Thank you for validating my choice to stick to listening purely to established 80s artists.
The only one of these songs I might have heard was Ramses II - Villieläin, since someone posted it on Facebook. Can't remember at all how it went, though.
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