Comments on: Swedish Invasion

By: 544jjo

544jjo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:12:20 +0000

it s only american charts…

By: vgool

vgool — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:39:35 +0000

2002′s Canadian bounce must be Avril Lavigne. And the uptick for Australia in 1998 — is that Natalie Imbruglia?

Oh, and 1994 Sweden: ACE OF BASE

By: Keyse

Keyse — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:51:27 +0000

Where can I buy this…its really awesome!

By: n0wak

n0wak — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:46:01 +0000

You oughta know, because it’s all coming back to me now, but 1996 was a double shot of Alanis and Celine.

98 was Shania, more Dion, and a bit of Sarah McLachlan. You USians sure seem to like our female vocalists: that last spike must be Nelly Furtado.

By: SchrodingersDuck

SchrodingersDuck — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:46:13 +0000

Shouldn’t there be a be a small UK spike in 2006 for James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful”? (as much as we want to deny that that song ever existed…)

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:16:08 +0000

I think 1996 was Alanis, and 98 might have been that one Shania Twain song?

By: tamasha

tamasha — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:53:41 +0000

So is the 1994 Sweden due to Ace of Base? 1996 = Celine Dion? I need to know the deets!

By: James

James — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:41:09 +0000

I think that each spike is really just a single song that was #1 for several weeks, which is why it can be labeled with a single country–for the smaller countries at least.

You can see the Beatle Mountains in this graph too–I thought I should see it in the group-size graph. Although in this one it’s more like the Beatle Canyon.

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:55:33 +0000

another fantastic chart. seeing these really brightens up my day. thanks so much!

By: SteveD503

SteveD503 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:24:07 +0000

It’s interesting how the foreign influences really do come in waves (i.e. that the red spikes can be labeled with one country, not several).