History GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / Music

* Iranian musician Shahram Shabpareh is famous in Italy, of all places, for his song "Pariya", which spawned an internet meme. It's popular among Italians to listen to that song on January 8th. Outside of Italy and Iran, ''Pariya'' is known as [[VideoGame/NumberZeroIggysCastle The Shopkeeper's Theme]].

* Iranian musician Shahram Shabpareh is famous in Italy, of all places, for his song "Pariya", which spawned an internet meme. It's popular among Italians to listen to that song on January 8th.

* American indie rock band Music/{{Gossip}} are much more popular Europe than they are in the US, especially in Germany where Heavy Cross was one the best selling singles of 2009.

* British soul singer-songwriter Jonathan Jeremiah has never had a charting album in his home country, but he has has success in continental Europe. His début album "A Solitary Man", reached number three in the Netherlands upon release in 2011, also seeing modest sales in Belgium and Germany.

* British pop singer Irene Sheer is unknown in her home country. But she is very popular in Germany, where she has lived since 1973.

* Before they became one of the biggest boy bands in the world, the Music/BackstreetBoys saw much of their earliest success in Germany. Lou Pearlman would repeat this by getting Music/{{NSYNC}} signed to a German label (BMG Ariola München) and sending them to Germany to start their career.

* American doo-wop revival/a capella group 14 Karat Soul are almost completely unknown in their homeland outside of the New York City area. They are far more popular in Japan, where the group was known through numerous Japanese TV adverts.

* British R&B group Floetry is an example of this. They had moderate success in the U.S. but barely scraped the bottom of the charts in their native country.

* English singer-songwriter Music/{{Passenger}} is huge in Australia, where he lived for a few years. Tellingly, his sole international hit "Let Her Go" was recorded at a studio in Sydney with Australian session musicians, and the song's music video was shot at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville near Sydney (said music video is also the most-viewed Australian YouTube video of all time as a result of this).

* The Osmond family, while popular in the US in The70s, had a brief bout of superstardom in the UK from 1972-74. The Osmond Brothers had five Top 5 hits in the UK in that period, compared to zero in America. Donny and Little Jimmy also scored #1 solo hits. They were so big in the UK that many British outlets coined the name "Osmondmania" to describe the phenomenon, much like Beatlemania the decade prior. The Osmond Brothers continue to play big sold out events in the UK, and in 2022 there will be a theatrical musical about them touring in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

* While she's had substantial success in her home country America, Music/{{Pink}} has the distinction of having seventeen sold-out shows in Melbourne, Australia, a city of four million people. It made her the most successful concert act in Australian history. It's not for nothing that she recorded her live album in UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}, complete with the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House on the cover. The website Things Bogans Like even considers her [[http://thingsboganslike.com/2010/02/26/94-pnk/ an honorary Aussie bogan]], though that's not really a compliment.[[note]]Bogans are, roughly speaking, a combination of American redneck/"white trash" and British chav stereotypes; the site's implication is that P!nk's Australian fanbase is composed chiefly of [[LowerClassLout trashy young men and women]].[[/note]]
** This has escalated further in 2013, where she performed four concerts each in Perth and Adelaide, eight in Brisbane, twelve in Sydney, and ''eighteen'' in Melbourne. (For comparison, New York, a city with twenty times the population of Adelaide, got three concerts.)

* American indie rock band Music/Gossip are much more popular Europe than they are in the US, especially in Germany where Heavy Cross was one the best selling singles of 2009.

* Malaysian [[RapRock rap-rock]] group Pop Shuvit is bigger in Japan than in Malaysia.

** After their show in 1987, the Ramones inadvertently gave birth to a new rise of Argentine punk rock bands like Attaque 77, Flema, 2 Minutos, El Otro Yo and Expulsados along with others, which within a few years would become mainstream in other Latin American countries (especially Mexico) and further would give birth to Latin America's punk rock.

* Moroccan-born French singer Daniele Vidal had a successful music career in 1970s Japan. During TheNewTens, her music experienced renewed interest in Korea after her song "Pinocchio" played in the South Korean TV Program ''The Return of Superman''.

* Brazilian band Paralamas do Sucesso was shocked to see that during the period that they were down in popularity, their songs were really huge in Argentina, resulting in an album with their songs in Spanish, many sold out concerts there, and a album that flopped in Brazil but was sold well with the ''hermanos'' (but the tour for that album, and resulting live record, lead to a resurgence in their homeland).

* Music/MrBig has always been (ahem) big in Japan, almost comically so. All but one of their eight live albums were recorded in Japan, their song "Shine" was used in the anime ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'', and their 2009 reunion was announced via press conference in Japan. Whereas other bands would usually play a few shows in Tokyo or Osaka, they've been known to play 20 dates across the country. In the US, meanwhile, they're a TwoHitWonder, with their #1 hit, "To Be With You" (from all the way back in ''1992''), being seen as the last hurrah of HairMetal, and are otherwise known for being the band with bass virtuoso Billy Sheehan. That being said, their guitarist, Paul Gilbert, at least is highly regarded in the guitar world for his technical skill.

** Similar to the above, HairMetal band "Cats in Boots"(whom Todd briefly mentioned in the Mr. Big episode) were pretty big successes in Japan(helped by two of their band members being Japanese), though unlike Mr. Big, they weren't even a OneHitWonder in the U.S.(according to vocalist Joel Ellis, their second album went gold in the U.S.) and as such quite a few fans of the genre aren't even aware of them. Their debut album "East Meets West" was a chart-topping seller(quite an accomplishment since that album was independently released) in Japan and their sophomore album "Kicked and Klawed" debuted at #3 in Japan and stayed there for quite some time, their success led to the band touring for two years straight. Also like Mr. Big, the band toured Japan when they reunited several years later in 2003.

* Before Bad Boys Blue was founded, another West German pop band was already a household name in the USSR: Music/BoneyM, as the reggae-disco-funk ensemble made a hugely popular and widely televised tour of the Soviet Union in 1978 (during the Brezhnev era), though notably did not play [[OneHitWonder what's probably known as their biggest western hit, "Rasputin"]]; in Eurasia, their wider catalogue is still popular, though "Rasputin" has gained popularity in their 21st century reunions.

* Due to the mutual intelligibility between the Spanish and Italian languages (making for very easy translations) and the catchy melodies, ever since The60s, many Italian pop singers have been ''very'' popular in Latin America, such as Music/LauraPausini, Gianluca Grignani and Tiziano Ferro.

* British pop rock band Smokie had modest success in their home country, but are even bigger in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Russia and South Africa.