@AyuWorld
Even if her kind of music isn't really my cup of tea, damn! That girl can sing! And what a gorgeous voice! And she makes it all looks so easy! I'm totally impressed! :000
@Tomoyo
I love the way russian sounds in music *-* Tanya Bulanova interested me, I will check her out! I also found the arrangments from all the songs you linked to be all pretty interesting one way or another!^^
@Heavenly Among the pop music markets I gave a shot, French is by far the most unforgiving, even more than the japanese or american where you had 3 or 4 artists going strong and the other vanishing after making success. It always feel like after you got that one hit album in France, it's time to prepare for retirement xD
@Miku
Robyn is actually pretty well known around here among people who listen to pop music!
I'm under the impression that since the late-2000's early-2010's this women produced pop music kind of became a genre of it's own, and a lot of artists who only had appeal on their own country started getting some international following thanks to internet.
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Here in Brazil right now Anitta is at her peak, having 2 videos with over 100 million views and another 3 that are almost there. I don't think we have anyone else with that numbers. She is also starting to try a international career re-recording songs in English and Spanish.
Anitta's success lead to another funk carioca (a genre that has mostly an indie distribution) acts getting into major labels to get a pop package, and Ludmilla is the biggest one:
And as a consequence, Valesca Popozuda, most likely the funk carioca singer with the longer ongoing stable career, to reproduce this "pop package" while maintaining her indie status, and getting big mainstream hits as a consequence:
Indie rap musician Karol Conka is also getting the pop package treatment and is on the verge on making it into the mainstream:
And Marisa Monte, who is around since the end of the 80's and still dominates the more "high class" pop music around here. She has a status similar to Hikki or Shiina Ringo: