Hits In Sweden, Flops In The U.K.

N/E = Released as a single but failed to enter the chart.

[@PopUnlimited]

E-Type's This Is The Way was UK #53

[@ExplorHits]

Oh I was sure I was typing it :o( Thanks for pointing it out!

[@ltd1980]

Alphavilles Forever young only hitting 98 in the UK is a scandal. It's my favourite song of all time. So beautiful and still sounds amazing 40 years later

[@ExplorHits]

Yeah, It's really shocking. Same goes for Sandra.

[@Beckford4000]

Honestly, I can understand why it wasn't a hit. I really can't stand the song

[@fnafpapercraft2153]

Totalmente de acuerdo.

[@fnafpapercraft2153]

@@ExplorHitsSi , en lo particular a mi también me sorprende

[@rickylock5609]

Doesn't surprise me one little bit.....not because it's not a great song because it is !!!...such a beautiful song , it's just that I could name you off the top of my head a 100 fantastic songs from all decades that were not hits here in the UK , but were massive hits in the USA from artist such as journey , bob segar , the eagles , the byrds, Fleetwood mac , hall and oates , crosby stills and Nash and young to name just a few, just so so so many...........don't know what it is about our crappy charts !!.....OK so I love all the feelgood harmony kind of songs that yes sometimes you do get some in the uk charts.....but my god dozens and dozens do not !!!.....oh well only my opinion !😊😊😊....god bless and b kind to each other and love animals ❤️

[@AceFreehley]

Swedes have better taste. Clearly.

[@DECKER1982]

Of course 😂 . Some great classic songs . Top class 😅

[@yossarian6799]

I wouldn't call all that German "rave" rubbish "better taste".

[@TomSUGNET]

​​@@yossarian6799 eurodance wasn 't "rave"... rave artists were marusha and dj dick. The most famous eurodance singer from the uk were australian😂 (gina g).

[@JohanHaagg]

Considering several of this hits are Swedish artists that didn’t get much international airtime or some not even released outside of Sweden at the time… it is not that strange.

[@marcusn1219]

Which one? Most of the one from Swedish artist where big hits in many countries.

[@JohanHaagg]

@@marcusn1219 Isabella Scorupco, Trance Dance, One More Time, Rob'n'Raz, Dr Alban, September to mention a few. Sure, a couple of time hade a limited amount of international success, mostly in Germany, but not that widespread.

[@marcusn1219]

@@JohanHaagg No you are wrong, they were played all the time on MTV and were high up on charts across Europe.

[@JohanHaagg]

@@marcusn1219 You do know that MTV was adjusted to fit the country in where it was brodcasted right? So what people saw in Sweden, was not the same as someone saw in say Germany or the UK. If all the artist that we geatting all the same music everywhere, Ulf Lundel and Stakka Bo would be huge internationally.There where -some- shows on MTV that was the same all over, like Headbangers Ball, but those very few and only aired like ones a week.

[@marcusn1219]

@@JohanHaagg I had satellite TV and could see all the different MTV channels, and also read the toplist of different charts across Europe at that time. And many of the Swedish artist had hits across Europe. Still today if you go to the Mediterraneans you will hear a lot of Swedish music that was big here in the 90-00s.

[@LigerLt]

Wow, some of these songs were absolutely HUGE in sweden and some are even treated as classics. While not getting recognized at all in the UK

[@elrastrillo1]

Almost all of those songs that were successful in Sweden were also successful in Latin America.

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! Fantastic singles, my taste is very similar to those in Sweden!

[@victorwidell9751]

Growing up in sweden in the 90s, a lot of those songs were HUGE. My brother would play Trance Dance on repeat on his boombox tape deck.

[@sheep1ewe]

Trance Dance where originaly a protest against the style of bands like Modern Talking, Ben and Pelle wanted a tougher style but still following the theme to fill in a missing gap that was previously empty at the time. When i was a kid in the 80s they where as big as they where in the 90s which is super cool in my opinion! There often tend to be a slight gap between kids groing up in different decennias, but not at all here!

[@Giacomo-wy3bk]

They were great. I’m from Italy. Hodoo Wanna Vodoo was a huge hit here

[@MMM18092]

It's clear the UK did a Brexit on Eurodisco already in the 90s...

[@bruder5385]

A boring nation just like its weather 🥱

[@alexo_dream]

Capital of world music hits 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

[@nicholasharvey1232]

Let's face it, "Maria Magdalena" was basically a hit everywhere outside the English-speaking world. All of mainland Europe, Latin America, Africa, East Asia, etc. Not knowing this song basically outs you as being American/Canadian/British/Australian. It's almost as if Sandra is playing a game of Truman Show with the Anglosphere. It feels weird for me to be an American who knows this song (and is a Sandra fan in general, with several of her CDs special-ordered from abroad!)

[@yossarian6799]

Sandra was hugely popular in South Africa, an ostensibly English-speaking country. She was out-selling Madonna at her peak. Alphaville and Modern Talking also had many hits in Sunny S'effrica. That country has a long history of English-language hits by European artists. Amanda Lear, Luv', Peter Maffay, Maywood, Linda Williams, Shuki & Aviva, and one-hit wonders like Ruschda, Pierre Groscolas, Titanic, Jeronimo, Danyel Gerard, Cyan, and countless others, including, and especially, Left Side's "Like A Loco-Motion", which was a big hit in Portugal and Brazil and one of my personal favorites! The Dutch were cranking out some seriously bangin' sh/t in the 70s. And all the UK acts that had hits there but were all but unknown in the UK. 1970s acts like Duffy, Kincade, Keith Hampshire, Shabby Tiger, and Big John's Rock 'n' Roll Circus. The Edgar Broughton Band had a huge following there though not so much on mainstream radio. And remember the "Second British Invasion" that swept the US when MTV exploded? Half those songs weren't hits in the UK, or didn't do nearly as well. "She Blinded Me With Science" comes to mind. Wang Chung and The Outfield also did way better in the 'states than in Blighty and Naked Eyes never once saw the UK Top 40!

[@Ragnemalm]

Interesting. I do recognise many as totally dominating the radio here in Sweden. I know two bands that could also qualify for a list like this: CCS and Les Humphries Singers. CCS did chart in the UK but generally lower than in Sweden. In particular, their wonderful rendition of "Sixteen tons" was a top 10 hit in Sweden but marginal in the UK. While CCS was a UK band, Les Humphies Singers was german, which can account for them AFAIK more or less ignored in the UK while getting a range of top 10 hits in Sweden including two #1 ("Mexico" and "Kansas City"), and also scoring many hits in other parts of Europe.

[@ivorb8835]

Promises - Baby It's You also reached Number 2 in Australia (3 wks April 1979). Kept from No.1 by Blondie - Heart Of Glass. Cannot understand how it never charted in the UK. Still a great tune 45 years on.

[@andrewbloom7637]

Roxette's 1999 single "Stars" reached #13 in Sweden, but only peaked at #56 in the UK. Likewise, Tove Lo's 2016 song "Cool Girl" charted at #15 in Sweden, but stalled at #46 in the UK.

[@Nordic.Skorpion]

Alphavilles Forever Young was only at place 98 in the UK?? 😬 What was wrong with you people? 😯😅

[@godsgroove94]

I love the swedish charts

[@Matteney]

Désenchantée my most beloved❤️ Quite a few of my forever songs are on here lmao

[@niklasmoquist6116]

Mylène Farmer's version is still the one for me.

[@haardkaar]

Haha at 01:45 One more time - Highland, Swedish entry to ESC I think. One cold rainy day it came on radio, three seconds after I started my father's Land Rover Discovery (V8, 5-spd manual, MY '96) and I felt like a king that could conquer any steep mountain in Scotland. The only thing that worked properly in the car was the Sony stereo and the V8. It seems like this hit had the same success in the UK, that British cars had in Sweden.

[@christofferahlund2467]

They entered Eurovision a few years later with the song ”Den vilda”, finished in third place.

[@MrEurominx]

I will never understand how these White Lion, Sandra, Nick Kamen and Alphaville songs failed to chart Top 40 in the UK

[@springbay1]

It's the Kaj Kindvall effect.

[@Snobiker13]

Maybe his terrible pronounciation of Sandra's name even helped getting her more well known. :)

[@PopUnlimited]

Worth noting In-Grid was #200 on import sales - UK release was cancelled

[@ebbhead20]

The easiest way to show England is weird is Depeche Mode are Gods around the world since the 80s basically, and England talks about them like some tiny band thats just started. This is a band that are way bigger than U2. Coldplay or anything else for that matter. Played for 20.000 people in the mid 80s and since early 2000s can gather 44.000 people every single tour in Denmark. No one can do that date after date after date for 20 years or so. And also play several nights in Denmark in different places on the same tour. No one does that here.. So thats proves that UK are not that sussed when it comes to their own stuff.. Adam Ant having sold out tours in England to this day even though people dont see him anywhere is also interesting. Hes seen as the best live act in the 21st century by the Americans. Rolling Stone magazine did a thing about that in 2004 or so. 😊

[@АндрейМягчило]

By the way, Bono himself once called Depeche Mode a great group in an interview and was perplexed why they were not appreciated by the UK.

[@ebbhead20]

@АндрейМягчило the status these guys have around europe is insane. I lived in England for most of the 90s and they hardly mentioned them. From jan 1994 to nov 1999 i saw them on tv two times. One was a late ITV special centered around the release of ULTRA and the ither thing was some 80s tribute thing. I read one article about them. And that was about Dave Gahan thinking he was Jim Morrison and having a Jesus complex. It was about the whole Faith and Devotion period. That was a very long tour. It basically had two parts and therefore have two different tour programmes. It the the second tour i never did since my first in 86. But too much stuff was going on around that time. Splitting up with an important girl took so much out of me i ended up wanting to hide for a while in England where no one would ask about her a year later she left... So moving to England didn't set me up for DM Concerts at all. Even when working i jist didnt have the same money as on the dole in Denmark... So i only saw one act in 6 years in England whereas here it was more like 70-80 bands a year... But that Article was very anti DM. Not a great band, they're a joke, all that just doesn't fit the press in Europe where it's basically The Best to Come Out of England Since The Beatles... So it's so weird to go over there and the whole thing is just reversed almost...

[@renesauer5841]

Didn´t expect to actually find a new banger (for me) in this kinda video. But Draculas Tango slaps! thanks for that!

[@Giacomo-wy3bk]

Many of these songs were worldwide hits, with the exception of Uk

[@planeixolivier9167]

Many thanks 🙏 very interesting

[@fabb4i2]

0:57 and 1:16 😮 I thought they had literally "top 5 in the UK" written all over.

[@kianne7080]

Many of those songs were also on top in Norway

[@tohara6636]

Forever Young is one of those rare songs that became a classic of the era in the US, UK, Canada, etc. despite its lack of chart success compared to Europe. Not sure why it wasn’t a bigger hit at the time, Big in Japan had been pretty well known.

[@paulbradley705]

I loved agnetha .the songs , the singer and the woman.

[@DavyNZ]

In semi related news, in 2003 Christine Milton released her #1 song SUPERSTAR in her native Denmark 🇩🇰 shortly after that, Jamelia released her cover and it was a huge hit #3 UK 🇬🇧 #1 Australia and New Zealand 🇳🇿 😮

[@mathewbowen1753]

I think Some of these had poor distribution in the uk . I bought both Somebody Dance With Me by DJ Bobo and Obsession by Army Of Lovers at the time and both were on pretty small labels with not much availability outside the big cities and only got airplay on MTV Europe which a lot of people in the uk still didn’t have in the early 90’s.

[@Defy5]

But why wasn't the songs picked up by larger distributors? I mean "Obsession" was charting high in all of Europe and the US. Clearly there was a missed opportunity to make money here.

[@terezar880]

I've been searching for Highland for literal years and now I finally know what that song is called, thanks

[@SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk]

Highland - one more time, First time ive heard this track now im Hooked,

[@ExplorHits]

That's making me so happy :D

[@samppaankka2197]

Highland - always sounded like a Eurovision song if you ask me.

[@MatrimVidz]

A majority of these songs are Swedish, so no wonder they did well there.

[@marcusn1219]

13 from Sweden and 23 from another country.

[@marcusn1219]

13 from Sweden and 23 from another country

[@Defy5]

A verty shallow explanation. For example "Obsession" by Army of Lovers was a top 15 hit in all of Europe and even in the US. That can be said of most songs on the list with a few exceptions.

[@lancekerslake2488]

About 70% of these were hits in Australia

[@mikeauld9177]

Interesting. Will you be doing "hits in (country), flops in UK" for other European countries as well?

[@ExplorHits]

Yes, I'm currently going over the charts of France, The Netherlands and Israel.

[@dhenderson1810]

​@@ExplorHits I have noticed Israel seems to have interesting music tastes and I mean that in a good way (like a lot of No 1s in only one country have Israel where it only hit No 1).

[@ExplorHits]

@@dhenderson1810 The israeli charts from the 80s and 90 were very interesting, many songs had success only there. I'll try to include the most unique ones when I'll do a video about it.

[@SirTubeALotMore]

Swedes have better music taste 🎉❤

[@fnafpapercraft2153]

Wow, no sabia que Sandra estaba en esta lista, muy bien, para mi la mejor.

[@fabb4i2]

The first two realky shocked me. 😮

[@mattel1814]

Isabella is a star. She should do more music! 🇸🇪❤️ and she is a James Bond 007 girl!

[@Beckford4000]

"Highland" by One More Time is a fantastic song. I had never heard of it until I moved to Czechia, where it regularly appears on the radio. That's one song the UK really missed out on. Twisted Sister's track is great too. "Shame Shame Shame" by whoever this Izabella is, wasn't a hit in the UK in 1992 because Sinitta had a top 30 hit with the song. It's amazing how artists like DJ Bobo, Kate Ryan & Sandra were huge across the rest of Europe and never had a single hit in the UK. With Bobo, it was probably connected to how stupid his name sounds in English (e.g. Bobo the Clown).

[@tennisvideos1180]

Izabella is Izabella Scorupco, known as the Bondgirl Natalya Simonova in GoldenEye.

[@wesleyvalk9129]

I’m glad I’m from the netherlands, most good songs charted in the top 40, spare for a few I really don’t understand why they never entered (chain reaction, how long, don’t stop believing, sister golden hair, the boys are back in town and stars from roxette)

[@Chris_Love]

This is literally my playlist growing up *lol*

[@paulojrneto]

The Izabella of "Shame Shame Shame" is Izabella Scorupco a.k.a. Natalya Simonova of Goldeneye!

[@yossarian6799]

My favorite Swedish act of the 2000s were The Hives, though they did well in the UK. Not big in the UK, however was "Destiny Calling" by The Melody Club, which reached #15 in Sweden, with its brilliant retro 60s UK sound!

[@ddjr6673]

UK here and LOVE Swedish pop music and Swedish pop taste. 80s child here so of course Forever Young, Crimes of Passion and Maria Magdalena should have been huge in the UK ‘sometimes we just didn’t get it right’ and Sweden does!

[@VHO42]

Perhaps the strangest is Twisted Sister as that song is a very well known classic in the UK!

[@marklar9156]

It's not really that strange. I was heavy/hard rock fan and kid in the 80s and we hardly ever bought singles.

[@VHO42]

@marklar9156 ah, good point, I didn't think of that! Singles sales were a very selective measure!

[@pigimiss6577]

so many great songs

[@Snobiker13]

The Swedish comedy group Helt Apropå made their own hilarious version of We're Not Gonna Take It. Probably extended Twisted Sister's popularity a bit.

[@TheGKFront]

DJ BOBO didn't chart in the UK AT ALL? :O how crazy. a lot of the songs were hits in Israel too.

[@indiansoul1633]

Rob'n'Raz ,,In Command" is also one example. Charts in Sweeden is slighty better than UK one :)

[@Flowerbranche]

Some really great smash hits there! It's a mystery why they weren't hits in the UK as well. What about other countries though? Many of these artists were Swedish.

[@tangfors]

In some cases, it's not strange at all, it's simply too bad lyrics for someone whose first language is English. Swedish musicians have gotten much better at it, but in the past it could be really bad, when it could even mean something completely different to an English speaker than to someone who has learned English as a second language. If I'm being completely honest, I think most of the list is shit, they probably had better music in the UK.

[@paulbradley705]

Status quo Covered in the army now

[@mirrrie]

I think they wrote it for Status Quo but also brought it out themselves

[@JohnNoonan1]

In the army now by status quo reached number two in the uk charts

[@cameronhamilton3717]

I counted about 5 that were hits in Australia but not UK.

[@jannie80066]

Many of these were popular in Denmark too

[@blandat1379]

Another hit in Sweden, was "Catch the Moon" with Stefan Andersson.

[@ExplorHits]

Wasn't released in the UK tho

[@tsint]

I bet you can find many many more good songs from the swedish top chart that never reached the UK.

[@annikahenriksson4404]

This just proves that we Swedes have better taste in music... plus a better music industry😁😁😁

[@ZeroCool-NT]

This issue is straight into my heart

[@jensstalberg8968]

I would argue a few of these are wrong. Like Jessica Folcker who is Swedish and mostly famous here. To be no 7 in Sweden and 47 in UK is not bad. The same goes for Leila K, September, E-Type and a few more.

[@marcusn1219]

September and E-type where big in many countries in Europe. Leila k had like 2-3 hits in a short period.

[@chrisv384]

Didn´t they have MTV in UK? Isabella played non-stop for like 6 months.

[@publicminx]

different countries had usually different playlists ...

[@dhenderson1810]

Does "Mary Malagna" from Sarah sample "Lose Control" by Laura Branigan, as the backing track sounds similar and the backing singer says "Creatures of the night", which is also in "Self Control".

[@ronifriman5498]

Would you doing "Hits in Finland, flops in UK" next?

[@paulojrneto]

Lou Bega " I Got A Girl" #2 in Finland, #55 in the UK

[@ExplorHits]

Depends on the amount of the material I can find there, will check the Finnish charts for sure.

[@ebbhead20]

Although i was in Denmark most of the time since 1973, ive never heard 90% of these. But the Bolland and Bolland is important to me because i had the single when it came out, and for some reason i had to fight people from england on KZbin, and they keep insisting its a Status Quo track even though it says very clearly that they copied it when you check it. Evils Toy later just T.O.Y. did a harder version as well that i have on their album Silver Tears. Secret Service was a forgotten treasure that brought back great memories of youth club trips on a friday evening. Army of Lovers was a very important one as even all my new wave friends loved that one. I didnt at the time, but came round 10 years later. It was too camp for my liking. And Sandra was the euro queen all around Europe, but i could see england not getting that, but then again they do sometimes get into some naff holiday songs. Wasnt that Macarena thing a hit there ? And then you have the Vengaboys and shut uppa your face and so on, so not everything they do makes sense. There was more in there id forgot so will play it again to get it all...

[@Defy5]

Secret Service was big in Scandinavia but not so much the rest of the world.

[@ebbhead20]

@@Defy5 i know.. well some Asian countries loved the band it seems..

[@xsavoie1]

Many of these groups I have never heard of myself.Very interesting sounds.

[@zzekezzypt]

I think in some cases brits are like yanks: if it doesn't come from their own country they cba.

[@remyzandbergen4376]

Alphavilla on "98 blew me away..

[@fabb4i2]

1:23 At least this song has then gotten another chance.

[@Bonko78]

I think this says more about the UK than about Sweden.

[@thisbambibites]

"Forever Young" only #98 in the UK???? Really???? That song seems universally-known.

[@skurinski]

I love Jessica Folker

[@Danielboondevis]

Охренеть, Изабелла скорупко ещё и поет😮😮😮

[@stef8073]

There is only one Italian song on the list which, however, has reached number 1. (In-Grid) I'd be curious to know if the Eurodance cover of Crime of Passion (by the Italian project Blamble B) entered the charts in Sweden since the original was a good success.

[@sheep1ewe]

Not sure, but i have no memories of that, (but, yes, it is a realy good song!) however Italian Eurodance was very popular in Sweden in the 80s and 90s.

[@stef8073]

@@sheep1ewe After writing the message I checked in the Italian ranking and "Crime of Passion" had not been very successful even in Italy. Only a peak at the 21st weekly position and 100th yearly. Although in 2000 Eurodance songs were struggling to reach the top of the charts than in previous years. The genre was going out of fashion. I'm happy that Sweden liked Italian productions. What I noticed (also from the views on youtube) is that they were struggling more than those in Germany and northern Europe to spread outside the national borders. In my opinion, many Italian productions have been underestimated. I used google translate. I hope you understand.

[@sheep1ewe]

@@stef8073 No problem, Your English is miles better than mine! i am not by any means an expert, but from what i remember whan i grew up in the 80-90s, bands like Scotch and Baltimora was very popular in Sweden. Scotch is an absolute legend, almost a cult today among the old fans, like my father, (it was actualy he who introduced me to that band, not the usual other way around... Ha ha) i think it was also because they where seen as less mainstream and more independent than the others in comparision.

[@shineintheroom]

they have better music taste in the u.k.

[@MrMiroiii]

Uk peak of Izabella's hit-#98 Uk peak of Peter Schilling's hit-#128

[@MrMiroiii]

Oh,Susie & You set my heart on fire charted in UK 200, but no one knows peak positions,because BMRBs weekly's chart reports are probably deleted.

[@SusanneLossau]

Großbritannien ist nicht der Nabel der Welt, wenn es um Musik geht. 😊

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Sandra,what voice

[@verkehrsteilnehmer-berlin]

Wouldn't "Movie Star" by the artist Harpo count?

[@Hobbytrem]

Hard to please the British.

[@Prophallus88]

This shows just that UK doesn't have a good taste when it comes to music and why Sweden owns the Eurovision song contest and UK sucks at it.

[@laberdude]

and thats why the UK is most of the time dead last at the ESC

[@wollowiese72]

"Baby It's You" NO ENTRY in the UK? What is wrong with you people?

[@ExplorHits]

I don't get it as well, such a great song

[@wollowiese72]

@ExplorHits The VOICE just kills me. Shivers marimba down my spine whenever I listen to this gem. Been in my personal top 50 since it came out.

[@PennyAfNorberg]

Well swedish acts not going htis in uk isn't that strange, quite many here are swedish acts.

[@roxpace]

Quite a lot of Swedish artists are on the top lists in UK, but not always, same as not always UK artists succeeds to the top lists in Sweden.

[@roberttrei3135]

Sweden has taste

[@hallson2917]

Army Of Lovers

[@dtikvxcdgjbv7975]

Who's the girl in the middle? In which band was she singing?

[@ExplorHits]

Izabella Dorota Scorupco

[@btetschner]

x Watched the music video "The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime)" by Peter Schilling, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "Voyeur" by Kim Carnes, fantastic music video! o Kim Carnes is one of my favorite musical artists! x "I Hate Myself For Loving You" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts is one of my favorite singles of all time! o Joan Jett is one of my favorite musical artists! x "We're Not Going To Take It" by Twisted Sister is one of my favorite music videos of all time! o Twisted Sister is one of my favorite musicl artists! x Watched the music video "Baby It's You" by Promises, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "Oh Susie" by Secret Service, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "Crime of Passion" by Mike Oldfield, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "Highland" by One More Time, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "Oh Baby" by Sonic Dream Collective, fantastic music video! x "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle is one of my favorite singles of all time! x "You're The Storm" by The Cardigans is one of my favorite music videos and singles of all time! o The Cardigans are one of my favorite musical artists! x "When The Children Cry" by White Lion is one of my favorite singles of all time! x Listened to "Rok The Nation" by Rob'n'raz (from a music video), fantastic single! x Watched the music video "Shame Shame Shame" by Izabella Scorupco, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "Flying High" by Captain Hollywood Project, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "Satellites" by September, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "How Will I Know (Who You Are)" by Jessica Folcker, fantastic music video! x Watched the music video "Look Who's Talking" by Dr. Alban, fantastic music video!

[@nilov71]

What!? "Forever young" and "In the army now" didn't do better in the UK?

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Promises really

[@paulwiegand4267]

In the army now , shame, ..

[@MrGulstad]

oh why bother commenting,,, hmmm I'm boooored the majority of theese artists are from SWEDEN and Loreen won the EURO MELLO a couple of times , hejsan hoppsan vad hände här... guess the language.

[@wesleyvalk9129]

UK and USA should both be ashamed for disliking on I promised myself from Nick Kamen, they hated it only because of the hit of Erasure (a little respect)

[@SofiaMelander]

Highlands deserved better

[@matsfrommusic]

Bah, the brits trying to be too cool for school.

[@peterbushby9009]

Didn't miss much

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

No Roxette

[@sheep1ewe]

I am honestly more impressed by the fact that so many Swedish artists even made it to the UK list in the first place, even a low rank in the UK is honorable in my opinion, it is always much harder UK is both much, much bigger and a foregin nation with obviously native Ennglish speaking people, especialy concidering that kids in Swerdish shools where not even teached English before the 4th class until the -90s. In Sweden one can easily get away with very much made up English in song texts, but not so much in the UK i think.

[@bjhellstream]

Some of these were by Swedish artists not known outside Sweden. But there were some real bangers there. And some I've never heard

[@Darkling-g1c]

Most Swedish artists are only great in Sweden, the strange thing here is that Twisted Sister didn’t end up higher in the UK.

[@lightwalker7123]

And most UK artists are only great in the UK 😂 Let's see I know of Anastacia, Oasis, The Beatles, Sex Pistols, Spice Girls, James Blunt and Amy Winehouse from the top of my head. Is there any UK artists (outside of Eurovision music) that had an international hit in the past 5 years?