American Reacts to HUGELY Popular European Songs That Rocked America

[@thomaspagh8988]

And 90% of American pop hits is made bye a swedish guy called max martin

[@okklidokkli]

And the other 10% is made by Norwegian Stargate.

[@f3m467]

@@okklidokkli stargate never heard about him.

[@MWillberg]

We should not forget Denniz Pop who created this modern Swedish club sound. He actually hired Max Martin for his company and they co-wrote bunch of hits together. Sadly he died at 35, but there is huge list of songs that he was involved with.

[@pezlover1974]

@f3m467 stargate has produced a lot of songs for Beyoncé and Rihanna among others

[@TullaRask]

@@f3m467 that's the difference between Swedes and Norwegians. They shout it from the roof tops, we find it wierdly satisfying that we own the hole "world" and no one knows.

[@klarasee806]

If a song becomes a hit in Europe or the USA, chances are that Sweden is involved in one way or the other. Greetings from Germany!

[@LolTollhurst]

That's the secret: cooperate with others regardless of where they're from and you will be successful. Swedish writers and producers are not only "helping out" with billboard music, they're deeply involved with k-pop and local European acts. The thing is, very few of the modern projects are 100% swedish people alone. Different voices makes the music better

[@PeterLan1]

And Germany.. Rammstein is one of my fouvorites...

[@tommi7554]

Or Germany and France, they are in everyrhing at least some parts.

[@MrDevilFlash]

Germany, Scandinavia and Ireland...so many hits!

[@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff]

So, what you're saying is, the Swedish are to pop music, what the Dutch are to water projects? (:

[@Stefus87]

Sweden, our neighbour, has blessed the world with so much music. You should look up the song writer "Max Martin", who is also Swedish. You will be surprised how many US artists got their big hits from this guy.

[@tinasjostrand2677]

Your'e welcome 😋

[@verttikoo2052]

He is amazing 🎉

[@Eastlomond]

ABBA of course are a band we all love, but I really enjoy Roxette, Ace of Base and First Aid Kit too. Thank you Sweden.

[@gwaptiva]

Yeah, reading Max Martin's etnry on wikipedia will humble many an American.

[@flamenmartialis6839]

I agree. Maybe mr saxobeat is made by a swedish producer and that's why it's listed as swedish.

[@CatsLilaSalem]

15:51 Stromae does sing in French; Belgium has a mix of mostly Dutch and French speakers, the confusing part is that they often only speak one of those two. The North speaks mostly Dutch estimated around 60%, the South mostly French estimated around 39%, and the East has a small part that speaks mostly German that is estimated around 1%. And a very small part speaks other as their main language

[@alex__andrei]

5:35 That is wrong. Alexandra Stan is Romanian and that is one of the most popular Romanian songs that got international fame. Don’t know Why it says Sweden…so one of your favorite songs is actually Romanian ;)

[@SIP100Ka]

He looks at the wikipedia page 5 sec later

[@SainteHorus]

I think he just made a mistake when editing the video.

[@mindwis3]

@@SIP100Ka alex was very unhappy and started ragetyping right away.. looool

[@module79l28]

@@SainteHorus - Correct, he even posted a comment on the video apologising for the mistake.

[@nntflow7058]

I thought the was signed to Swedish division of the music label. I think they count the company that produce the songs, not the artist's original country. Similar to Dua lipa. She's English, even though she is ethnich albanian from Kosovo. They won't put Kosovan flags up there.

[@BoredSquirell]

11:54 "I didn't know Daft Punk were French" My friend, Daft Punk are like the most French thing in the history of Frenchness

[@Lillith.]

If you don't know what Frenches that isn't very useful. It is pretty French if you do.

[@EilaGomez]

Waterloo by ABBA was the winner of the Eurovision song contest in 1974, which started their worldwide fame..

[@IWrocker]

@@EilaGomez woah that’s a cool fact.. I had no idea 🎉

[@eimere]

​@@IWrockeryou could react to some eurovision content! 🎉❤

[@garyiow8482]

It was held in Brighton on the south coast of England. The Royal Pavilion.

[@annfrancoole34]

@@IWrocker The following all participated in the Eurovision SONG Contest. Julio Iglesias represented Spain & finished in 4th place in 1970, Olivia Newton John (Sandy in Greece) represented the UK in 1974 & finished in 4th Place. Celine Dion won for Switzerland and won in 1988

[@aussiematt5591]

​@@annfrancoole34you sure about Olivia competing for UK I know she's an Aussie my aunt went to school with her in the 60s

[@Suchac_cz]

Those 90s Eurodance songs era was my teen years, what a wonderful time it was 😍😍

[@uncle_matula]

I'll also let you in on a "little secret", many of the American hits were also written by Swedish/Scandinavian writers/composers/producers

[@zorrothebug]

First and foremost Max Martin (Sweden)

[@Papa_Ul]

This is so true. And most new songs use samples from abroad or are a modernized cover of a foreign song.

[@olgahein4384]

Yeah, here in Germany we laugh about it quite often, how the majority of the us-american music industry is actually swedish.

[@JanHejn]

That's why the Nsync song is "it's gonne be MAE" and not me :D because the Swedish producers wanted to sound it like that.

[@mort58]

@@zorrothebug Yes it would be fun to see him react to "Top 50 songs produced By Max Martin"

[@janihaavisto79]

We Finnish are celebrating our independence Day today, 6th of December. So have a great weekend there...

[@acetar574]

Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää!

[@AwoudeX]

When the snow starts to speak Finnish, Russians start to fear ^^

[@janihaavisto79]

@AwoudeX LOL, Simo Häyhä is somewhere there with the sniper rifle. Haha

[@landersen8173]

Happy Indepence Day from Denmark!

[@unnamellie]

​@@AwoudeX and the pines LOL

[@smoskeuh]

14:07 I see Nena - 99 Red Balloons , if you would have heard the original , you would have known she was german. The original is Nena - 99 Luftballons

[@olavlaupsa490]

And the original is so much better!

[@anouk6644]

The English version always sounded weird to me. Maybe because we’ve heard the German version way more in the Netherlands

[@tigerman1978]

@@anouk6644 I think the english version lack some of the "punch" she get from performing it in german? It sounds "flatter" somehow

[@ladykat637]

@@anouk6644 Same in France !

[@AltCutTV]

Could be the singer is just not as secure to push it in english. Or maybe they just figured it had higher international appeal as more mellow guess. At least the overall lyrics meaning is the same. Sometimes international versions of songs are not even about the same concept at all. Which is interesting too. But I still don't get why captain Kirk couldn't be rhymed with fireworks anymore.😺

[@AmigoAmigo-w5p]

What is more crazy to me is Our ability to remember songs. Even if you heard a song again after 20 years or more, you IMMEDIATELY remember it. You just get chills, your hair stands up and you are drowning in nostalgia. I have no idea how our brains are able to remember thousands of song paterns. And recognize it from the first note.

[@retropaganda8442]

Right. Although everyone has started to notice after around 2010 most of them have become forgettable 😂

[@Dougie-]

The "Take on me" video was made with a technique called rotoscoping. Very old technique, but was groundbreaking when used in a music video :D

[@paulocesardosslopes5911]

But I really sad that Hunting High and Low by them never made it in USA, I love that song-clip.

[@mathiascarlsson7674]

@@paulocesardosslopes5911 I hold Hunting High And Low as the best song AHA ever made. The video for Take On Me though was epic back when it was released, everyone went crazy over it.

[@pvksl]

That's the same technique that was used in the OG Star Wars trilogy, for the lightsaber effects, IIRC.

[@jean-mi1825]

It was used in lots if old Disney animated films, in the first animated version of Lord Of The Rings, Fire & Ice... And the end credits for the Spielberg produced Harry & The Hendersons.

[@shades2.183]

Oh the 90's, oh man the music was awesome and Europe was buzzing in every cornor, one big party.

[@annan5060]

And we were young, waiting eagerly for 21st century. It will be so awesome, they said...

[@teijaflink2226]

Europe made some good party music in the 90s.

[@andreash3132]

The most songs you were suprised they're from europe are genre "Eurodance". Think about that...

[@onnasenshi7739]

Maybe the term “Eurodance” has never been used in the USA.

[@alexanderkupke920]

@@onnasenshi7739 Thought about that as well, as a lot of this stuff, in this electronic dance music genre or when you come to House and Techno lateron in the 90s and early 00s, come from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, or somewhere up north mostly. But look anywhere and you may find one or another of those pop hits that even today are still played on the radio quite often. Depending on Genre and time there seems to be sort of a regional distribution also, although you can assign none of those genres and stiles to one country or region exclusively.

[@franckdebzh7608]

​@@onnasenshi7739Here in France, we have never called it "Eurodance" in the 90's but "Dance Music" or "Techno".

[@onnasenshi7739]

@@franckdebzh7608 It's the same here in Germany, I heard the term Eurodance for the first time long after that time.

[@moladiver6817]

Same in The Netherlands. Eurodance? We just called it dance or techno or in our case (happy) hardcore. 😅

[@razvangheorghe9230]

Perfect upload - this reminded me of so many "old but gold" songs to readd on my playlist. Thank you!

[@salmonero6472]

Yeah Sweden is a musical powerhouse! Redone is the guy behind Lady Gaga, and Max Martin is the dude responsible for pretty much 90% of the hit songs you've heard since "Oops I did it again" 😅 He's the guy you go to if you want a nr1 hit.

[@ja_ma]

There is a video about Max Martins hits on KZbin called "Max Martin - Hot 100 Chart History (1995 - 2021)"

[@75190255508]

Max Martin's billboard competition at one point were his other songs, haha.

[@Asa...S]

@@ja_ma And an updated version of that video: "MAX MARTIN: Billboard Hot 100 Chart History (1995-2024)". Well worth watching, and reacting to! This video is quite old now, but it's still worth watching and reacting to: Top 50 Songs Written by Swedish Songwriters & Producers! (so far) It's quite an eye opener for a lot of people, especially Americans, how many hits that were actually written by Swedes!

[@Divig]

Red One is a bit iffy though. He is Moroccan/Swedish and lives in the US now and I think I have seen him call himself moroccan.

[@pezlover1974]

Meanwhile, Beyoncé and Rihanna get their songs from Norwegian Stargate

[@publicminx]

One has to keep in mind that behind many projects/bands are often powerful/creative individuals. In Germany people like Frank Farian (Milli Vanilli, Boney M. La Bouche, Le Click, produced a Meat Loaf album etc.) or Giorgio Moroder who moved from Italy to Germany and set up there his career. He is the father of Disco, Euro-Disco, Electronic Dance Music and influenced due to his Synthesizer work significantly hi-NRG, Italo disco, synth-pop, new wave, house, and techno. While in Munich in the 1970s, Moroder started Oasis Records, later a subdivision of Casablanca Records. He is the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, a recording studio used by many artists including the Rolling Stones, Electric Light Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, and Elton John. He produced singles for Donna Summer during the mid-to-late 1970s disco era, including "Love to Love You Baby", "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "On the Radio". During this period, he also released many albums, including the synthesizer-driven From Here to Eternity (1977) and E=MC2 (1979). He began to compose film soundtracks and scores, including Midnight Express, American Gigolo, Superman III, Scarface, The NeverEnding Story, and the 1984 restoration of Metropolis. Moroder's work on the film Midnight Express (1978), which contained the international hit "Chase", won him the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. He also produced a number of electronic disco songs for the Three Degrees and two albums for Sparks. In 1990, he composed "Un'estate italiana", the official theme song of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Moroder has created songs for many performers including David Bowie, Falco, Kylie Minogue, Irene Cara, Bonnie Tyler, Janet Jackson, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Blondie, Japan and France Joli. Moroder has stated that the work of which he is most proud is Berlin's "Take My Breath Away",[13] which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song after appearing in the film Top Gun in 1986; he had earned the same awards in 1983 for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" (as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for all of his work on Flashdance). The reality is that already back then in the 20. century you had a kind of international music scene in which the more creative guys had in general a kind of network and often cooperated together. Also masses of composer and producer like Hans Zimmer (too many movies), Max Richter, Ramin Djawadi (from Batman to Games of Thrones), Harald Faltermeyer, Franz Waxman (from Hitchcock to Billy Wilder movies). But again: one has to see certain scenes as rather international within the Western countries. In a certain way they are simply 'Western producents/creatives' ...

[@praeceptor]

Vielen Dank dafür!

[@suicidalbanananana]

Alors On Danse (and most songs bij Stromae) is a song that most people don't realize is about something fairly serious, it's about how bad life can become (work debt relations etc spiralling out of control) and trying to hang on and forget about your problems trough booze and parties

[@johnjanssens8998]

A bit like let's dance by axelle red

[@Krausty]

I love Stromae till this day for bringing something different and sticking to his roots (language). Alors on dance therefore will always be a personal classic

[@khaelamensha3624]

Stroma is for me the heir of M. Brel, doing songs about subject of every day life... And every day life is not a fairy tale

[@Media_Ranker]

Appreciate the reaction and channel shout out mate! Glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah for some reason i didn't notice i still had the Sweden flag on the page for Alexandra Stan, even after checking the video once i had finished editing lol, it should have been the Romanian flag that's my bad! Cheers

[@shanwyn]

This was something I really loved about growing up here. You listened to the radio with friends while playing and almost every song came from a different country. Not only that, they often used the language of their country (italo pop, french chansons, german schlager and so on). Years later I noticed how that kinda got rare and now many songs are just english and all sound a bit the same. But maybe that's just a normal feeling when you get older because I heard my parents talk like that when I was a child/teenager too

[@m0t0b33]

yeah, and what was once considered noise by our parents, is making even them nostalgic when they come up on the radio, because most of the "music" of today is trash. With very few exceptions... by me, music peaked in the 80's.

[@Krausty]

I wholeheartedly agree! Music used to be so diverse. Yes, I'm old(er, 47) 😉

[@Marmagon]

I once watched a video wich explained that in the late 80s and early 90s, a german label specifically wanted to make international hits and tried to form a bunch of groups/bands to home in on that goal. That is why there are so many famous english songs from germany from that time. Most of those bands made a few songs and disappeared again. 8:00 Yes, it is a Testarossa. The Album "Outrun" is named after the old Sega game Outrun where you drive a Ferrari Testarossa.

[@maxime-me]

This was fun as hell to watch, I couldn't stop smiling the entire time. Too bad KZbin sucks with copyright issues and you can't do this type of videos more often. Love your content! - A fan from France

[@IWrocker]

@@maxime-me Thank You! 🎉🎉 I had fun as well 😎

[@Safi_JC]

Loved it as well and sang through much of it! Hi from Italy

[@lynnm6413]

Same…born in 80’s W-Germany, these were the songs I grew up with! So much member berries, good times!

[@BRIDINC1972]

Ditto!!! Ireland

[@peterhoz]

Looks like the 100 Eurodance songs (linked at the end of the video) should be your next one! You'll probably know them all but would be fun.

[@top40researcher31]

Take ON Me by Aha this was a *HUGE* number one hit in Australia from 1985 and it was regarded the greatest Music Video of all time

[@hanssrensen3641]

Aqua is danish, but lead singer is norwegian ;)

[@VampyrMygg]

Yeah, but I think the band is considered Danish even if Lene is Norwegian, I believe she was at the time dating one of the band members? I don't remember.

[@hanssrensen3641]

@@VampyrMygg She did yes, and yes they see them self as danish, but Norway need some credits ;)

[@runeingebretsen8378]

@@VampyrMygg she was married to one of them and they had a child at the time i saw them in a interview.

[@HASarpsborg]

Same with Abba and Europe, both Swedish bands with Norwegian members 🙂

[@alexanderkupke920]

I think if you look at a lot of those artists and bands, they are more like European cooperations. You may have spanish, dutch, whatever singers produced with a band in for example germany, living actually on the islands of Ibiza or Mallorca in Spain...

[@BabzV]

Born in '82 so I know all of these songs, wow the 90's had the best music! And dang Sweden, thank you for the music! 🎶😉 Thanks Ian, warm greetings from the Netherlands. 🌷

[@tinasjostrand2677]

Your'e welcome/Sweden 😊

[@piotrzagorski611]

Born in `82 and I prefer... 80`s music. I'm vaccinated against nostalgia from my teenage years ;)

[@Remko_Simracing]

This was another walk through memory lane! Great video

[@Sclero80]

Disco music was born in Europe and also an Italian called Giorgio Moroder made a big contribution by discovering a young singer named Donna Summer! 😅

[@Murello.]

Disco is from the 70's and 80's, this is mostly eurodance

[@glastonbury4304]

Europe has some good Dance music but Disco was not born in Europe 😂

[@StevenQ74]

There are some Dutch artists with big hits in the US they missed for sure: Golden Earing with "Radar love" and "Twilight zone", Shocking Blue with "Venus", the George Baker selection with "Little green bag" and EDM DJ's like Martin Garrix, Afrojack, Armin van Buren and Hardwell

[@Laluan]

Ja inderdaad, vond dat er al weinig NL tussen zat voor wat we exporteerden…

[@enr6781]

Does (Eddie & Alex) Van Halen count? 😉

[@Bramfly]

Tiesto

[@StevenQ74]

@@Bramfly Tiësto was in the video

[@maartenvanderzwan8281]

@en6781 No they grew up in the us

[@dutchbachelor]

Fun fact: DJ Ötzi (his real name is Gerhard or Gerry Friedle) used to be our upstairs neighbor together with his dad (who also was a DJ) when I was still maybe 4 years old (that would have been 1983/1984). Apparently had a habit of playing music way too loud, way too late at night back then and my dad, who also had taken over the janitorial duties for the building just flipped the fuse for their apartment.

[@PixelatedSpirit]

Music is one of our biggest exports 💪🏻🇸🇪

[@NotYourKindOfPeople-z6m]

With Ian's other favourites..... SCANIA and VOLVO! 😂

[@znail4675]

Yeah, Sweden is close 3rd place in music exporters behind USA and UK.

[@lynnm6413]

@@znail4675 the UK opted out of the European project (EU), so it’s only fair they don’t get included in this video

[@danijelmandrak7132]

Damm I thought it was IKEA.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@KrlKngMrtssn]

Depends who makes the list. In the Hispanic world we don't really care much for Swedish techno

[@Kivas_Fajo]

I once danced with Nena in a club in my hometown. She was there for a TV interview and went clubbing after. Pure coincidence meeting. I was dancing, she came on the dance floor, and we danced. We had a drink later and talked a while and that's all. Pretty boring story, but I'm happy about it.

[@magicrat74]

No worries, that is definitively a story worth telling every chance you get

[@peterhoz]

Awesome!

[@19WTR89]

Alexandra stan - mr saxobeat isnt swedish, its romanian

[@SIP100Ka]

He looks at the wikipedia page 5 sec later

[@DaciaProject]

Don’t vote Georgescu!

[@juansanchezvilla-lobosrami5404]

@@DaciaProject Nu mai e cazul :))

[@sergiudan9010]

@@juansanchezvilla-lobosrami5404 sa dus drq revenim la turu unu poate avem si noi noroc de presedinte anul viitor prin vara candva

[@DaciaProject]

@@juansanchezvilla-lobosrami5404 I saw! Georgescu is a fraud!

[@top40researcher31]

Take on me by Aha. The video used a pencil-sketch animation and live-action combination called rotoscoping, in which the live-action footage is traced using a frame-by-frame process to give the characters realistic movements. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, which took 16 weeks to complete. The idea of the video was suggested by Warner Bros. executive Jeff Ayeroff, who was pivotal in making "Take on Me" a globally recognised music hit.

[@rakrega]

Thanks for explaining

[@Dennis-xj8nh]

There is a cool movie made in this style called Waking Life

[@rakrega]

@@Dennis-xj8nh ⁠Good recommendation, ty.

[@taifuuni]

Happy Independence day for Finland! Darude go strong even these days

[@DK_1983]

This video made me feel so old. But thx for a nice trip down memory lane... Damn how Ive forgot and missed some of these tracks. *gonna rework my playlist now ^^

[@klizzard5166]

all these songs together as a playlist beats ANYTHING today. time travel please we wanna go back in the good old club days

[@IWrocker]

@@klizzard5166 I totally agree 🎉🎉

[@ellenstergaardgravesen1011]

I on the other hand really hated these Eurodance songs as a teenager in the 90's!

[@dieZera]

the video for sandstorm was filmed in Helsinki, the opening scene is at the steps of the dome and there is for example parts at kaivopuisto (wellpark)... the video of freestyler by bomfunk mcs was filmed at Helsinki metro

[@tinasjostrand2677]

I watched a video on youtube about the song sandstorm. People had tried to follow in the steps of the video without realising that it wasn't filmed in one long walk 😊 it's actually filmed in lots of different places.

[@MarcKloos]

"House" music and DJ's usually come from the Netherlands (2 Unlimited, Venga Boys, DJ Tiesto, Martin Garrix, Armin van Buuren). But lets not forget other famous Dutch songs: Radar Love (Golden Earring), Venus (Shocking Blue), Little Green Back (George Baker Selection).

[@esaedvik]

None of the ones you mentioned are "house" though except for Garrix. Europop and Tiesto and Armin are trance DJs.

[@platinaatje6134]

And don't forget Twilight Zone by Golden Earring Tune also used in the Williams "Twilight Zone" pinball machine.

[@themetricsystem7967]

KYGO, AURORA and Sondre Lerche are from Bergen, Norway. Alan Walker is British- Norwegian. Sigrid, Astrid S. Susanne Sundfør, Maria Mena, Wardruna, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Mari Boine, Dagny, Emma Steinbakken, Gabrielle, Angelina Jordan, Ane Brun, Girl in red, Ina Wroldsen, Emilie Nicolas, Anna of the North, and Karpe with «Baraf/Fairuz» are other Norwegian artists.

[@tigerman1978]

Ina Wroldsen is also a pretty successfull songwriter for other artists, like Kylie Minogue, Sean Paul & David Guetta, Anne Marie, Clean Bandit, Tinie Tempah, Olly Murs, Jess Glynne, Demi Lovato, Madison Beer and Shakira (and a lot more)

[@jokervienna6433]

Not so famous perhaps, but Vidar Busk is a Norwegian badass guitarist. One of the few that actually CAN do covers of Jimi Hendrix songs.

There are some cool, but lesser known maybe, Norwegian artists like in electronic/EDM: Royksopp, Todd Terje, Those Norwegians, Biosphere, Bjorn Torske, EROT, Luis Molinari (DJ with several CDs of mostly fast/hard house), Palace of Pleasure, Ost & Kjex, Ugress, Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren band, Others: Madcon, Jan Garbarek, Nico & Vinz, Oral Bee and Big Ice (producer, who has worked with west coast rappers). Warlocks and Tommy Tee. And more. I have not mentioned all the death metal and other rock stuff, someone else will have to do those. I just wanted to mention some other ones from Norway. These might be known for people who dig into those genres.

[@saskiapanter]

Lol the hit from Nena was a hit in the German language all over the world, except in the UK and the USA. It's called, 99 luftballons. The German version is absolutely the best veesion. Tiësto, I've seen him perforn at F1 in Zandvoort, after the race, that was fun. 😊

[@amanda-al01]

Yes ive never heard the English version in Norway

[@VauxhallViva-s8x]

It was the German version that was number 1 in America. The English version topped the UK charts

[@glastonbury4304]

Nena is my favourite female ever ...she is stunning ❤

[@parandersson6541]

Sweden is one of the biggest producers of music in the world. 150 million records To date, ABBA have sold more than 150 million records worldwide becoming one of the best-selling music artists in history. They have scored 9 No. 1 singles and 10 No. 1 albums in the UK, becoming the most successful Swedish act of all time on the Official Charts.

There is this Enigma song Return to Innocence. The main guy is also Romanian, lives in Germany, but they recorded this song in Ibiza, Spain. It was quite popular for a long while.

[@Dennis-xj8nh]

Enigma is awesome, and this is one of their best songs

[@inegom1735]

My mind is blown by Lou Bega being german! Europe is a behemoth of musical talent. I did wonder where the UK was in this until you said!.

[@delfean2666]

OMG I need a playlist of these!

[@armandorodrigues144]

this made me remember a meme I saw some days ago «Queen are the American answer to the British Beatles» and another one from someone saying the music in the US is so much better because of "American" bands like Coldplay System of a Down Gorillaz etc

[@gellawella]

Whaat?? Seriously? 😂

[@armandorodrigues144]

@@gellawella yes, the meme (a twitter print) also included Rolling Stones and other well known non-American artists

[@gellawella]

Ah. Well, to anybody’s defence, it’s hard to hear the origin country when they’re singing. Right? That’s what I, with another mother tongue than english, thinks anyway. 😏

[@armandorodrigues144]

@@gellawella I also noticed that in many British groups/singers, their accent is not as easily perceived HOWEVER you have to consider that all of those artists have been to HUNDREDS of American talk shows, it is almost impossible to never have heard them speak normally with a very clear accent, especially Coldplay and Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger)

[@therealcsing]

You should react to '50 songs written and produced by swedes' 🇸🇪

[@xcoder1122]

Sweden is actually bigger in the pop business than most people realize. Many songs performed by famous UK or US artists were actually composed by Swedish producers. Here are some examples for that (yes, all these songs were composed by a Swedish producer; if anything, the performer might have made some adjustments to the song or was responsible for the lyrics): Producer: *Max Martin* Britney Spears "…Baby One More Time" "Oops!... I Did It Again" "Stronger" Backstreet Boys "I Want It That Way" "Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)" "As Long As You Love Me" Taylor Swift "Shake It Off" "Blank Space" "Style" Katy Perry "Teenage Dream" "California Gurls" "Roar" The Weeknd "Can’t Feel My Face" "Blinding Lights" Producer: *Shellback* Maroon 5 "Moves Like Jagger" "Animals" Taylor Swift "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" "22" P!nk "So What" "Raise Your Glass" Producer: *RedOne* Lady Gaga "Just Dance" "Poker Face" "Bad Romance" Jennifer Lopez "On the Floor" Producer: *Avicii* Coldplay "A Sky Full of Stars" Aloe Blacc (US vocal, Avicii co-produced) "Wake Me Up" Producer: *Anders Bagge and Arnthor Birgisson* Westlife "Fool Again" Producer: *Tove Lo* Ellie Goulding "Love Me Like You Do"

[@bastiwen]

One that wasn't shown here that was also pretty popular is Oh Yeah, which was also used in memes on KZbin. It's from a Swiss band called Yello. Another Swiss song that was pretty popular but maybe not in America was Chihuahua by DJ BoBo.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Big Yello fan here.😊

[@MrReese]

7:27 Only an Austrrian would make a song about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most famous Austrians 😄. You really gotta look into Falco, he was a fascinating personality with multiple controversial songs...and with a tragic demise. Regarding Modern Talking...they are considered rather cringe here in the German-speaking region, but personally as someone who loves 80s music I really enjoy some of their songs :D. I went through their discography this year and I can recommend the following songs: You're My Heart, You're My Soul // Cheri, Cheri Lady // You Can Win If You Want // Brother Louie // Don't Worry // Geronimo's Cadillac

[@wkrijthe]

"Rock Me Amadeus" was written by Falco along with Dutch music producers Bolland & Bolland. Falco unfortunately died of severe injuries received on 6 February 1998, at age 40, when his Mitsubishi Pajero collided with a bus on the road linking the towns of Villa Montellano and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic.

[@watchnocatch171]

As much as people thought or think that they are cringe every artist from DACH wishes to be a fracture successful as they were. The biggest artists of DACH from the last 20, 30 years have sold a 10th of what they did and you don't get 5 consecutive #1s if everyone thinks you're cringe. It's the same with a lot of artists in DACH actually. Publicly everyone says they don't listen to them and their singles or albums still go #1.

[@ange1098]

All their songs are very catchy and great to sing along to

[@schelfie1986]

Stardust was a group were one of the 2 persons from Daft Punk was in. Thats why they "sound" quite alike.

[@vinniamsterdam700]

The frontman from Boney M is Bobby Farrel he is Dutch but he doesn't sing, he playback's everything, you actually hear the voice of the German producer Frank Farlan. Sweden is indeed goated but watching that UK list will be an absolute shocker for you.

[@platinaatje6134]

Bobby Farrel was from Aruba (Dutch Antilles) and later moved to Amsterdam.

[@Cosbi]

Mr Saxobeat By Alexandra Stan is Romanian, not Swedish.

[@PropertyOfK]

Hats off to French house in the late 90's and early 2000's. I feel lucky to grow up in the central Europe and have access to European AND American music, I do know almost all of the songs listed : ) As a lot of older Millenials I got my music education from the parents, Bravo Hits albums, MTV and VIVA : D

[@ElaineWallll]

Thank you for your attention to detail! Your videos are always top notch! 💋🔥

[@MrImmers]

I miss "Radar Love" from "Golden Earring" 1973 made it to the 13th in the American charts. And "fun" fact: the band was the oldest still performing band till they quit in 2021 (because of one member is suffering from ALS). They were ONE year older then the Rolling Stones. Other hits are: Twilight Zone When the lady smiles. But...... Radar Love. It is one of the best songs ever.

[@Laluan]

Fun fact: Vengaboys are from Vlaardingen, The Netherlands. A little city next to mine

[@IWrocker]

@@Laluan That is awesome 😎🎉

[@catonkybord7950]

As an Austrian, Ibiza will forever have a special place in my heart 🫡🙏

[@MrThomashorst]

I love their videos😀

[@fiachramacaodha1260]

Are they still driving the vengabus around?

[@Soulspinner001]

@@fiachramacaodha1260 No they had to retire it, as it was not Eco compliant.

[@JonasSahlstrom1]

I'm swedish and naturally proud of the swedish music, but there are some really good music made by other european countries also.

[@ericsicard910]

"My way" by Frank Sinatra is a cover of a French song from Claude François titled "comme d’habitude" Same for "Seasons in the sun", "Autumn Leaves", "What’s now my love", "Beyond the Sea", …: all covers of French originals

[@Toxxic13]

Euh...the orginal "seasons in the sun" is not french but belgian (Jaques Brel " Le Moribon" ) 1961 🙂

[@ericsicard910]

@ correct, I was thinking « French speaking songs »

[@module79l28]

@@Toxxic13 - You missed that he wrote French with a capital F, meaning the language. 😉

[@Jean-LucGrosgeorges]

"Let It Be Me", "What now my love" (2x Gilbert Bécaud)

[@Songfugel]

Almost all pre 70s hits have a separate composer, writer and performer. The concept of band/singer making their own songs is a quite recent phenomena

[@snasturbate1087]

I'm Canadian, and we knew upon releases where all these song came from, just sayin. ya soshla s uma (Я сошла с ума) from t.a.t.u was so huge. Modjo, is my bro in the MV, filmed in montreal and st-jerome quebec ;)

[@almostyummymummy]

Nena (99 Luft Ballons) - I had the huuuuuugest crush on her. Still do, as a matter of fact.

[@avanap8096]

@@almostyummymummy yeah still prefer that over the red balloon version.

[@almostyummymummy]

@avanap8096 the English version lost all the impact the original had.

[@TonyDracon]

but you're a chick......

[@platinaatje6134]

Join the club! @ 64 still very beautiful! Also a very nice personality.

[@RickFromTheNetherlands]

O man, so many goosebumps moments! Thanks for the vid! I have learned a lot.

[@catalinoctaviantaut8760]

Min 5,35 Alexandra Stan ( Mister Saxobeat) is Romanian🇷🇴.

[@napsiuslebelche5846]

WHAT ?! DANZEL IS BELGIAN ? Daaaamn, I'm Belgian and I didn't know that !

[@kitsunemusic9]

15:50 I recently learned this because of a show Arcane (he made a song for the show) and the discusion on it, and Stromae is a belgian but sings his music in french.

[@MrOuazo]

Half Belgium speaks French!

[@XPLOOO]

@@MrOuazo and, whats the point in what you are saying? Half belgium speaks dutch too.

[@SebfsTolosa]

Arkane is french, so Stromae is a cousin and a natural choice

[@XPLOOO]

@@SebfsTolosa wtf are you even talking about LOL

[@kitsunemusic9]

@@XPLOOO @SebfsTolosa is a show made by people from the US (Riot Games) but the animation studio Fortige who animated Arcane is French

[@c.demets]

That list of songs is actually a damn amazing playlist. I'm off to spotify to create it!

[@tjay84]

Britain and Sweden are the music capitals of Europe (or the world in my mind). Coming from a Dane!

[@verttikoo2052]

I just go with the Swedish. Greetings from Finland. We only export heavy metals.

[@AwoudeX]

@@verttikoo2052 from a scale from white to red, Finland is registering black on the world map regarding the amount of heavy metal bands xD Not even joking

[@mickylee82]

​@@AwoudeXScandinavian thrash metal is the shit. I'm not even a big fan of metal. 👍😂

[@ellenstergaardgravesen1011]

Yep - there was a time when George Michael, Elton John, Depeche Mode and Judas Priest went to Denmark to record, but that's sadly long ago. One danish group definitely missing on the list though is Lukas Graham...

[@verttikoo2052]

Or Beatles to Germany.

[@sartian]

You should definitely listen to more songs from Stromae ! Alors on Danse was his first big hit, it's worth listening to some more if you can find some translation for the lyrics

[@dulume]

I was secretly hoping to see Yello so that a little bit of Switzerland would be heard :) most people are surprised to learn that the iconic "Oh Yeah" is from our little country

[@alexanderweiss9500]

Well, Robert Miles (children) was born in switzerland

[@dulume]

@@alexanderweiss9500 i didn't know that. Thanks!

[@rami1406]

🇫🇮 From Finland Him Nightwish Children of Bodom Apocalyptica Stratovarius The Rasmus Hanoi Rocks 69 Eyes Hurriganes And more... 🇫🇮

[@maverick4151]

That's a nice list. I have albums from pretty much all of those bands. The only one I am completely unfamiliar with is Hurriganes. Maybe I should give them a listen.

[@VauxhallViva-s8x]

And Lordi. And Kaarija.

[@lennartvers1767]

Rock me Amadeus was written and produced Dutch producers Bolland & Bolland for Falco. So much more a Dutch song than anything else.

[@m0t0b33]

what about "Jeannie"?

[@fermicosta]

Another Swedish singer, although born in Nigeria, is Dr. Alban, who became known with his huge hit "it's my life", among other hits.

[@KoRbA2310]

12:20 Romania have loads of bangers, Polish radio plays a lot of Romanian music. Highly recommend checking "Inna" she have some bangers also

[@luiwammes4193]

There is a difference between the nationality of the singer and the nationality of the producer. The Belgian producer Kluger is behind many hitsongs of the 70's and '80's. But it almost never were Belgian performers.

[@Holanduzo]

yes, that Ferrari is a testarossa

[@IWrocker]

@@Holanduzo lucky guess by me 🎉😎

[@xaros738]

@@IWrocker Is a testarossa like the one in the arcade game which have the same name as the title of the album, "Outrun". 😉

[@xaros738]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nn7ZYYOdZqarfMUsi=f9dy2UKkma1zbVoR I spend a lot of money on this one as a kid 😁

[@RammingSpeed-lk8kk]

..its a potato

[@Croccifixo]

​@@xaros738unless you turn left, then it's a assoratseT 😅

[@ffqm]

Stromae is the possibly the most brilliant musical mind in the pop world right now. And I'm not even Belgian. 😅

[@CeetjeBeetje]

If you're into Metal; There's loads of amazing bands from the Netherlands!🤘🏻

[@PixelatedSpirit]

Laughs in Swedish 😂 moahaha

[@CeetjeBeetje]

@@PixelatedSpirit Haha, yeah, I know. My favourite band is from Sweden. Which is Opeth. Their new album is a banger! Still love me some Dutch Blackmetal, though :D

[@NicholasCorvin]

*In case of Metal, it's much more Finland and Sweden.* ⬅🎸🥁🎸🎵🔥😈🔥

[@NicholasCorvin]

*But, don't get me wrong, I have enough space in my mind & ears to also love Metal made in the Netherlands.* ⬅

[@Antto]

@@PixelatedSpirit Also laughing in Finnish

[@freddiegillespie_05]

Stromae ("Alors on danse") sings/raps in French, the language, but is of Belgian nationality. French is one of the official languages of Belgium.

[@umtbozkr2358]

Edward Maya is Romanian, but the music of this song is Turkish. The original song, which is used, is called "Zalim" originally by Sezen Aksu. But the music is even older; an Azerbaijani composer called Eldar Mansurov made the real original (1989) music; but I really doubt that Edward Maya was inspired by that version.

[@CaptHollister]

In the French speaking world, a singer named Joe Dassin was absolutely enormous throughout the 1970s and 1980s. His songs became universal anthems. To this day, you could be anywhere in the world where French is spoken and start playing one of his hits and everybody will know the lyrics. In a twist on your topic, Joe Dassin was American.

[@loreleiocarolain2209]

Son of the famous film maker Jules Dassin. Who many French people thought he was French because of his name!

[@Drescher1984]

A lot of the biggest hits written the last 20-25 years are written by 3 or 4 Swedish sing/songwriter, producers.

[@alessandroarsuffi9227]

As an Italian, I must say that Eurodance was really great, no matter where the single hits came from. Kudos to all the great groups and singers who had us dance for decades with their rhythms!

[@ElMariachi1337]

I think some of the Americans being in a German band had to do with US soldiers being stationed in Germany at the time. Captain Hollywood Project being one of them.

[@platinaatje6134]

Fun fact about Nena and 99 Luftballons: The official video (99 Luftballons version) was originally recorded for TopPop music program ) AVROs TopPop) for the Dutch TV. It was recorded on a military shooting range (Schietkamp De Harskamp.) of the Dutch army. The army was well willing to make it a spectacle without Nena and the band knowing what was going to unfold. The army went over the top with smoke bombs, fireballs and explosions. At some moments you can read the expressions of the band members "what is going on"? Afterwards the band liked the video so much it became their official video. Available on her YT channel and Vimeo

[@the_shiny_wartortle_8913]

Cool fact

[@RangerBadger19]

5:36 - Alexandra Stan is from Romania... doesn't have anything to do with Sweden

[@m0t0b33]

umm I'm pretty sure the song was produced there though...

[@u4O4]

@@m0t0b33 No it wasn't, the creator of the video put the wrong flag.

[@stijnvanderveken]

I was kinda expecting "The Way To Your Heart" from Soulsister to be in this list, Belgian band

[@MarcKloos]

There is a very cool 3 part documentary about A-Ha's Take On Me here on KZbin, worth a view!

[@IWrocker]

@@MarcKloos I’d love to watch that

[@philiptodd7062]

ABBA had 9 number one singles in the U.K. and were also huge in Australia

[@leohickey4953]

@18:11 The English-language version of Peter Schilling's _Major Tom (Coming Home)_ was used as the theme for the subtitled version of TV series _Deutschland 83_ and its successors _86_ and _89_ (but not for the original German broadcast). That's worth watching if you get the chance; it's about an East German spy posted to the west in the final years before the Wall came down.

[@JanHurych]

Damn those 90s and early 00s clips are sexy.

[@CyrilNeutelings]

7:48 It’s a collaboration between a French group, but the female singer is Angèle. You should check her out she also did a collaboration with dus lipa.

[@avanap8096]

Daft punk killed my flatmates goldfish.she forgot to take them off the speaker before the party. 51 cm mains were blowing water 4 feet out of their tank. Sad when the police pointed it out😢

[@randommusic4567]

I think this wins most random comment of the day 😂

[@m0t0b33]

that sounds sad and tragic irl, but if it were a scene in a comedy movie, I'd laugh my a$$ off.

[@Merecir]

@@m0t0b33 Sounds like the way to go to me. -Sounds... hehe.. did you get it?

[@artiefakt4402]

I'd add K's Choice with 'Not an addict' or 'Everything for free' (Belgium)

[@V530-15ICR]

5:43 I thought it was Romanian?

[@maba1503]

It is romanian

[@AdrianUng13]

It is. Wrong flag

[@TomteMiley]

I was super confused too

[@SideKickStudios]

Ian, bro, you'd be mind blown to know that something like 75-90% of all popular music is actually in one or another way written, produced or conceived by the Swedes. And it is actually true. They have cracked the code, theres even a whole docu on netflix about it, like it's absolutely insane. And i personally am grateful for our over the pond neighbors. They've made so many of my all-time fave bangers, even today. ❤

[@EilaGomez]

The huge number of hits from Sweden might be because of a composer called Max Martin. And ABBA of course🙂

[@mothbreeder641]

With the timeframe of most of the songs in this video, it's more Denniz Pop.

[@EricTheBroBean]

Lene Nystrøm from Aqua is from Tønsberg, Norway, the rest of the band is from Denmark. We got some mutual friends bc Tønsberg is right next to my city, I've seen her a bunch of times at the shopping mall and such, and she used to perform every year around the national day at "Tønsberg messa".

[@Kent.]

Check out Max Martin from Sweden, you're going to be surprised over all the hits he written/produced for BIG names in the music industry. Sweden is big in music export.

[@leec6707]

And they admitted that there was a formula to all the songs - written in the key of C, has a lull, then a key change towards the end etc. Think 'Larger Than Life' and 'Baby, One More Time' etc.

[@PerStenback]

One of my favourite bands are Roxette, and you need to check out how they made their fame in the US :D *Sweden are despite it's small population counted as the third largest musicproducing country, when you add up artists, producers, and songwriters. *Edit: Added line

[@p.m-audio]

Ian it is time to came over here in Europe with your family for a long trip ;)