No'1 U.K., A Flop In The U.S. | Sam Smith, Rita Ora, Little Mix & More! | 2010s Edition

Basically I can sum it up as usual: Dance Music: N/E

[@christianjones5891]

It's safe to say from the looks of that compilation, that Rita Ora, Little Mix & Sam Smith pretty much ruled that space in time

[@twistedwind5774]

Unfortunately....

[@SuperCosty2010]

That Sam Smith guy must be some genetic error

[@paulojrneto]

I didn't even know that Nero's Promises charted in the US, let alone peaking at #70.

[@johncady9780]

I fell in love with Nero's song when it was released. It deserved much more exposure here in the USA.

[@subhaan7861]

Anything with Example Becomes a legend.

[@trxs_pnl]

Damn I’m shocked some of these didn’t make it in the Us, this is love, lovers of the sun, symphony, hideaway, no promises etc were inescapable in France 🎉

[@ExplorHits]

I was sure 'No Promises' was huge in the U.S. as well

[@gnu_andrew]

Americans don't generally do dance music.

[@shakz86]

Great songs and great memories. A little bit samey at times but every decade has that.

[@juliusnepos6013]

Ooo, this is gonna be interesting

[@JaredtheRabbit]

As a Canadian, I heard Hideaway quite a bit, with KIng and Are You With Me playing occasionally, with the former being on a weekend block on one particular station I tuned into called the "Weekend Blowout", during which remixes of the popular songs of that time would play; as well the original versions of other songs playing as well, with King being among them.

[@derrygowley]

Keep making these vids !

[@JonnyInfinite]

Really want to see the other way around - again, Americans really not a fan of anything dance

[@gnu_andrew]

Always the case. The UK kind of loses the dance side for the most part in the mid 2010s too and unifies with the US.

[@Damian-sn2sx]

Rita Ora always releasing bops!

[@trickygoose2]

Despite this being the decade where I first felt somewhat out of touch with the UK charts, I recognised all of these tracks to some degree.

[@marcus813]

I've heard only a few of these songs here in the US. Then again, I didn't even hear of Little Mix until 2018, when WWE used "Salute" for its all-women's Evolution pay-per-view/livestreaming event. As far as dance music goes, I'm glad I got to hear plenty of it in the 2010s on my local heritage Top 40 radio station, but I live in a major market, so maybe it was different in other parts of the country.

[@lauracasero2849]

King es un temazo!!

[@Rtotalmagic]

Loads of dance songs here - they tend to sound pretty repetitive, but also “Read All About It” - probably my fave No 1 of the entire 2010s…

[@ExplorHits]

Cahill's remix was amazing! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIfJZnaYqJhlqNk

[@MrStGeorgeIllawarra]

So does Country music the lowest most pathetic music genre.

[@SigiOhaion]

it sounds like the same 3-4 producers produced all these songs

[@diegoantuna7639]

Well Max Martin surely produces most of them

[@gnu_andrew]

They probably did.

[@SuperCosty2010]

Applies to ALL of the pop music of the last 20 years

[@skurinski]

you need your ears cleared then

[@heekamalokilo7194]

I'm assuming you're counting Ellie's cover of River as the first #1 of the the 2020s?

[@ExplorHits]

Indeed

[@PC1974]

Robbie Williams never cracked the American market yet Ed Sheeran is mega popular there. Weird. 🙃

[@molinalong3468]

Request Uk flop in usa in 1970s

[@bunjijumper5345]

Top of the list would be Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

[@gnu_andrew]

Me too.

[@juliusnepos6013]

Really surprised Shout out to my ex was not a hit on US

[@mjsicinski]

Little Mix can’t seem to get on middle American radio. The Sirius XM stations play the hell out of them 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@gnu_andrew]

@@mjsicinski couldn't? Haven't they split up now?

[@ederdeleon7333]

Please make a part two!!

[@thegoodlife6172]

Some of these are house classics now; people shitting on these clearly don’t understand the genre whatsoever and the effort that goes into making these tracks. That being said I do prefer a lot of house/ dance tracks from the 2020s to the 2010s

[@gnu_andrew]

Most of this is pop. Most house classics are from the 80s & 90s.

[@johncady9780]

Sam and the Womp: "Bom Bom Bom" #1 UK, N/E US 2012 Cheryl Cole: "Call My Name" #1 UK, N/E US 2011 Example: "Stay Awake" #1 UK, N/E US 2012

[@MaximumEfficiency]

well the quality of those songs is just avereage

[@twistedwind5774]

+1

[@ruialvis]

@@twistedwind5774 America love America music xD Sack Noel... bro.... you never enjoy a real party without that, don't mesion " under controul" and others xD just crazy xD

[@gnu_andrew]

Average is too kind. Mostly rubbish.

[@matheusbr7340]

So Good, So, Algum brasileiro aqui ???

[@helenaguterres2837]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@gnu_andrew]

Well, still hoping for a 70s one... Most of these I didn't even know were UK #1s as I long since stopped following the charts (probably after Top of the Pops ended) I'm not surprised the US missed out on a bunch of TV karaoke winners and charity records, and they did well to do so. I would say the only ones they should have enjoyed were Nero & Sak Noel. It's also no surprise that most of the differences are from before streaming was added to the charts (summer 2014) and release days were unified (summer 2015). The first half of the 2010s was when the X Factor was still dominant and there was a lot of dance music about, basically a continuation of the second half of the 2000s. The second half of the 2010s was a world unified around dull dross.

[@blue_eyed_aries]

other way around plz

[@soasmelhoresdetodosostempos]

Good Selection

[@quarterbackgr]

3:20 Black Magic has over a billion views on KZbin, I thought it did better on the charts, same with Symphony

[@joshhorrobinstanye2266]

How about a few hits that were not here? No regrets by dappy, pass out by tinie tempah, my love route 94, rattle bingo players, young tulisa, the x factor singles, shout james corden, i wanna feel secondcity?

[@ExplorHits]

I'm including singles that had a U.S. single release.

[@fabriziodambrosio86]

Uhm, sure unforgivable sinner wasn't #1 In Italy as well?

[@cooperman397]

Most of that is shite to be fair. Chart music is pretty dire the last decade onwards.

[@twistedwind5774]

+1

[@stef8073]

Boomer mode on I don't follow modern music much but I didn't expect to find such a large number of really bad number 1s. For once I have to agree with the Americans, but I think it's more likely that their number 1s are just as bad. Boomer mode off.

[@gnu_andrew]

Agree with you as a millennial, and yeah I think the US is just as bad. The differences, mostly in the first half of the decade, are because they are mostly X Factor contestants who weren't known in the US.

[@kirilvelinov7774]

Best choices ever

[@stephaniegriffin7176]

Not really surprising. Someone else said it but dance music is not really the US's jam on the hot 100. Plus these songs are quite mid. But I say that as a person who rarely listens to the radio. And honestky to get radio play in the US is really is like payolla; I don't care what anyone says!

[@SuperCosty2010]

And why does Mariah sing the R.E.M. song so horribly at the beginning? This was No. 1? merciful god

[@ExplorHits]

It was a charity single

[@jovike7203]

Most of these hits in Uk have not only flopped in USA but also in the rest of Europe. The times of british invasion of 80’s are today a distant memory. There is no longer an anglosaxon cultural domain except marginally in Germany, Holland and Scandinavia. France, Italy and Spain remained indifferent to these songs with very few exceptions ( generally those no british).

[@gnu_andrew]

I doubt most people in the UK even remember these without prompting. A lot of it is people who were briefly popular on the X Factor.

[@SIlver_FOX_wow]

cheap. Over the past 20 years, popular music has totally degraded. I don't like anything.

[@martinryan2370]

I thought I would never say this but the Americans definitely had better taste than us in that decade.

[@JonnyInfinite]

Hold your judgement until you see the reverse..

[@shakz86]

@@JonnyInfinite Exactly. I have no idea what were hits in America at the same time as these, but my gut tells me it's an absolute snooze fest.

[@skurinski]

yeah... no. They were making crappy hip hop and trap hits number 1. I'll take EDM and house music any day over that drivel

[@subhaan7861]

Not really because they had bare Girly Pop. Atleast We had The Fab Likes Of Example he's a Legend When it comes to Dance Music. SO We Had Swedish House Mafia,Example,Calvin Harris,Avicii,Alesso and not to mention Rap/Grime Artists We Had the Likes Of Professor Green,Tinchy Styder,Tinie Temper,Taio Cruz,Skepta. Not to Mention during that Era Before There was Little Mix There Was The Saturdays and Pixie Lott, Jessie J and Pitbull Was In Like Every Song and this was the Early 10s Era from 2010-2014 so how could you perfer Shitty American when we had all these Classics Artists which all in there own way had real Lyics with True Meanings in there songs. On the Other Had in America during this Era it was all Dominated by Justin Bieber when he first Started 😂😂😂 and those werid American Hip-Hop Artists like Popping out of nowhere how could you say thats better then what we had during the early 10s because all the UK Artists had Meanful Lyics and Americans was just stupid. And then Came 2015 the Streaming Era which like the Whole World Music Era Become like U.S Music.

[@eastwest108]

Pffff. There is not one BIG hit. Now no one remembers these worthless songs.

[@vamp8305]

This was the worst decade for uk pop music to be honest

[@SPITFARE]

bad music

[@Nick-1992-SRB]

2010's Era was the start of trash music.

[@gnu_andrew]

I'd say about 2006 on chartwise, but yeah.

[@subhaan7861]

Yh that maybe but 2010-2014 was the best time for mostly EDM it went all shit in 2015

[@twistedwind5774]

Almost all the songs - mediocre, monotonous, boring and no different from each other - in each song the sound is the same ... In general, pop music has been dead for a long time. Amen.