Is it me یا why country موسیقی only appeal US and Canada and regular موسیقی and not مقبول music? Why country موسیقی worldwide release only appeal pop موسیقی release سے طرف کی country artists like Florida Georgia Line pop موسیقی and crossover like Lady Antebellum’s Need آپ Now? That’s all people listening to country موسیقی worldwide does these days. Pop موسیقی released سے طرف کی country stars like Leann Rymes pop موسیقی and crossover like The Band Perry’s If I Die Young.

Not only that, مقبول موسیقی does not appeal country موسیقی like Miranda Lambert and آپ have to use other مقبول موسیقی like pop موسیقی to use people listening to مقبول music.

Worse, مقبول موسیقی like Vevo and general public like MTV don’t seem to care about country موسیقی like Brad پیسلی, پایسلی these days.

It appears that country موسیقی did not survive the مقبول موسیقی curse and آپ have to use regular موسیقی like video game موسیقی to hear country موسیقی like Tim McGraw.

Not only that, it originated only in US and hasn’t travelled worldwide whereas other genres like rock, pop already have as lot of the appeal of country موسیقی comes from being from its origin. آپ have to use mainstream موسیقی like Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ to listen to مقبول music.

Speaking of Taylor Swift, she is not country nor crossover. She is pop because Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ only appeal pop. Her موسیقی does not appeal country like Picture To Burn. آپ have to use computer and albums to hear country موسیقی سے طرف کی her like Ours. Not only that, country موسیقی don’t care about Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ like Red and آپ have to use Taylor Swift-less country موسیقی to hear country like Little Big Town. Why can’t Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ use her crossover country act anymore? I guess people listening to Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ only appeal pop like Love Story and not country like Mean. In addition, Taylor Swift's country موسیقی are not mainstream country. Her country موسیقی are pop music. آپ have to use pop موسیقی to hear her pop country. That's why country Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ are pop music, not country music. I guess Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ only appeal pop and not going سے طرف کی different genres like country.

Worse, country موسیقی is not even on the radar really in the UK. I am not sure why, just a quirk of history. In the UK people have only really heard of Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ (and only since the Red era) and before her آپ have to really go back to Shania Twain and Garth Brooks for name recognition. Older Brits will know about Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash but most Country Stars can walk around unrecognised in the UK. Reba who? Tim who? George who? If آپ showed 100 random Brits a pic of George Strait, آپ probably would be lucky to have 1 person name him correctly.

There are some UK Country موسیقی singers but can anyone name any without looking them up? Exactly.

The only real markets for Country موسیقی are USA and Canada and not other markets like Australia and Brazil (despite to a much lesser degree Australia and Brazil has a small scene too respectively).

The CMA is always trying to expand into new markets. That is why they give Pinnacle Awards to Garth Brooks and Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ because of the immense international interest they have generated for Country Music. I only know about Country موسیقی in detail because of Taylor. Lots of other Country Artists have benefited from my coin due to her getting me interested in watching the CMAs, ACMs, CMT awards etc. Taylor was always very articulate and passionate about Country موسیقی in the UK and helped dispel the bad image it has in the UK of being for bigoted and unsophisticated hicks. She was a great ambassador for it. Nashville owes her a lot. Sadly, internet does not help either because people listening to موسیقی on the internet don’t care about country موسیقی and they only listen to mainstream موسیقی like rock and regular موسیقی like video game music. The only way is inventions. Country موسیقی is suppose to be مقبول موسیقی because country are مقبول music, but it's the ''Made in the US'' label that turns off the GP in Europe and مقبول موسیقی quickly prefer mainstream موسیقی as their مقبول موسیقی course like R&B and rap.

It's true that country موسیقی is irrelevant here but there are a couple that have small loyal fanbases. Carrie Underwood managed to sell out the royal Albert hall in apparently 90mins and Lady Antebellum have 3 سب, سب سے اوپر 10 albums (1 which is platinum and 1 that is gold) and Dolly Parton is also doing well right now but besides a few examples it really isn't on many people's radars unless it's used in like an Avicii song یا it's Taylor Swift.

I know that Carrie Underwood has had a few concerts here plus that Country 2 Country Festival. The Royal Albert Hall is a beautiful and important venue but in reality it has a small capacity of about 5k. It is hardly Wembley Stadium. The Country 2 Country Festival relied on several major US Country stars to fill the 02 Centre which sound impressive but 20k people out of 10million Londoners is not earthshattering. And it hardly got any UK media attention.

Major US Country acts can come and do a کنسرٹ in London but those attending will be شائقین because of what they have achieved in the US rather than in the UK, if that makes sense. Kacey Musgraves was here and she did a ٹمٹم, gig, لٹو in a record store! I could have seen her from 1 foot away but I was busy!

The internet makes it easier for international شائقین to follow US Country موسیقی Scene such that the above concerts can happen in London occasionally but when will Carrie یا Miranda یا Luke actually have a hit in the UK. Blown Away was Carrie Underwood's most successful UK hit but it peaked at 155! There are no Country موسیقی radio stations in the UK AFAIK so it is difficult even with big names like George Strait.

A lot of current Country Artists actually sound very close to Rock, so Brad Paisley, FGL, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Keith Urban could actually get some traction here because Rock is مقبول here. Carrie has some songs that sound like soft rock too, reminds me of Belinda Carlisle who was successful in the UK. So it is possible.

I would like Country موسیقی to be مزید successful in the UK, but at the moment Country acts still struggle to break into the market. Singing about tractors and catfish dinners is not gonna change that either. Thus internet does not break country موسیقی into the mainstream and آپ have to use US/Canada and country tastes like Nashville and CMT to play country like Reba McEntire. So yeah, internet screwed country because internet don’t seem to care about country موسیقی and مقبول موسیقی only appeals country music-less مقبول موسیقی like hip-hop.

So I think it has to do with country موسیقی being rooted in Nashville, where other acts have multiple worldwide connections, country موسیقی artists are almost exclusive to labels in Tennessee. It’s a مزید local industry, so its artists are generally مزید local.

And I can't at people on a pop موسیقی فورم (stanning for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady Gaga etc...) calling country موسیقی trash when country موسیقی شائقین think the same thing about our faves. Lol. But even with country music’s lyrics are far superior to pop music’s lyrics, people prefers pop موسیقی like Justin Timberlake over country موسیقی like Kelsey Ballerini.

That’s why country موسیقی only appeals country tastes like CMT and not مقبول موسیقی tastes like Vevo because country موسیقی is about telling a story, the essence of the songs are the lyrics. While pop شائقین only concentrate on the hooks, they probably think country موسیقی is boring.

Not only that, because they sing a lot about trucks and people dont use trucks outside of NA, they sing a lot about Jesus and all the other countries where Jesus is da man are too poor to buy music/something to listen to موسیقی with, country singers are generally talented (writing, playing, singing) and the GP is مزید interested in booties and they sing with a twang and nobody understands that outside of Georgia and Alabama. That’s why people listen to موسیقی only appeal America populars like people twerking and young fads like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. People listen to مقبول موسیقی don’t seem to care about country موسیقی like Hunter Hayes یا good pop موسیقی like Spice Girls and Avril Lavigne.

But seriously, they talk about the same things hip hop artists talk about. Only hip hop artists get مزید criticism. But hip hop is مزید global thankfully. Don't be too mad. They don't use R&B much outside the USA either despite R&B is mainstream unlike country.

Casual listener perceives country موسیقی as an essentially "American thing." And this is what keeps the rest of the world from receiving it with open arms. That’s why country موسیقی are not mainstream music. Mainstream موسیقی is country music-less مقبول موسیقی like rock and R&B.

I think there are tons of prejudices against country outside the US and it is regarded as an inferior genre. Few years پہلے during a speak activity about موسیقی in my English class, I کہا that country is very مقبول in the US and a girl was like "you can't be serious, who on Earth would listen to it!". To be honest I discovered country just a short time پہلے and I really love Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves یا Dixie Chicks. I really don't get why people WW don't listen to country because موسیقی at least سے طرف کی those artists I mentioned is miles better than 99% of current "pop" music.

As I کہا I think that the main problem are prejudices, most people associate country with cowboys, cows, pistols and silly songs about blue mountains' tops where آپ ride on your horse یا something.

The other thing can be that most (or all?) country artists don't bother to promote outside their محفوظ zone (the US).

AFAIK it's only really used in the US, and Canada and not other countries like Ireland because worldwide only appeals America-less places and America repeats like Japan and سٹار, ستارہ Wars respectively, not America like US. Worldwide does not appeal America like country music. America-less places like Europe and America repeats like America فلمیں are مزید مقبول than America like country موسیقی because worldwide hates America like Canada and stick with America-less places like UK and America repeats like pop music. That's sad. Are the major stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks unknowns to people outside those two countries?

Well there is a person from Central Europe and honestly, people in Europe had never heard of Garth before one person became مزید interested in music. That person heard about Dolly but the person didn't have any idea that she was a singer and the person thought she was just a lady with big boobs.

Other country legends like Reba McEntire, Martina, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and also every current artist are completely unknown here. The only one who is semi-known is Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ but only thanks to the Red era and songs like IKYWT and WANEGBT which aren't really country.

But I think it has something to do with the lyrics not being very relatable too and a lot of the songs namedrop US states and things that are مزید common/popular in the US that people in other countries wouldn't find relatable یا appreciate. Need آپ Now did ok here although it kinda had a pop sound with country elements but lyrics that a lot of people everywhere could relate to rather than just people in like Oklahoma یا wherever.

Country is the US's regional music. So it doesn't پار, صلیب over to other countries just like their regional موسیقی doesn't پار, صلیب over WW because other countries like Japan don't relate to singing about trailers, cowboys and the like, and unfortunately a lot of country موسیقی is cliche like that. It's the twang that sounds outdated and traditional and international people don't get the appeal of the twang.

I seriously like those country twangs if mixed with modern sounds, like what Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ is doing. Red the song is such a bop. Our Song is an anthem. And آپ Belong With Me is a smash.

What Shania Twain did is add some adult pop flavors to the usual country sound, and it worked. It didn't hurt that adult contemporary songs were a big deal during the 90s. And that's the sound she produced سے طرف کی mixing the country sound to pop songs.

So I have no idea and I thought of like R&B (too American) except R&B is kinda global. Maybe because they're centered and focused only in the US, like I don't know if they ever tried to promote themselves outside of their country.

But there are a few country songs that were global hits. But a lot of people label it as a pop-rock یا rock sometimes. For example, Need آپ Now.

Well I live in the US and growing up, barely anyone I knew listened to it on a constant basis. Even internet like YouTube doesn’t know country موسیقی at all despite country موسیقی ویڈیوز exist on YouTube. I didn't realize how much I love country موسیقی until recently and how much I connect to it. My answer is that country موسیقی can be stereotypical, but every genre is, but when آپ cut through the stupid artists of country, آپ realize how great it is.

Let’s face it, مقبول موسیقی hates country music. Plain and simple. Country موسیقی doesn’t use مقبول موسیقی like electric گٹار which country موسیقی does and only use regular موسیقی like twang despite country موسیقی are not regular music. So why US hates country موسیقی and US only wants other مقبول موسیقی like pop موسیقی and Beyonce? Why US does not play country موسیقی and the only way is country stations like CMT?

What are your thoughts on country موسیقی struggle in the مقبول موسیقی industry?