Best Australian Music Export

[SaintsSupporter]

AC/DC by far. Longevity, immense popularity and although their songs weren't and aren't genius, they do it for most.

 

[Brittany]

if 'welcome to whereever you are' (inxs '92 album) was marketed oveseas properly it would have been a massive album, arguably bigger then anything ACDC ever did

That album was number 1 in the UK though, shame it wasn't bigger in the US.

 

[rubbers0ul]

That album was number 1 in the UK though, shame it wasn't bigger in the US.

my bad! sorry i was indeed referring to the US market! Cheers on that. The tracks on that album are F*****G sensational!!

 

[crownie]

i think you would have to go popularity and i think if you asked people overseas to name an Australian band most would say ACDC then maybe INXS.

as for people saying ACDC are overated, not everyone has to like them but a band that for 30 years and until the day they die will sell out joints around the world to call them over rated doesnt make much sense.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Dont forget Rick Springfield, singing and acting

 

[Leaping Lindner]

Good call Mantis.Don't agree necessarily wrt BIGGEST, but they were a fair bit more successful overseas than people care to remember.I guess it depends on what you consider overseas.I would love to add LRB because I think they had the biggest musical effect in the US along with Men at work.I've always been a bigger fan of Reminiscing than I was of Down Under, but they were nonetheless a hit there.In fact MAW were a huge hit in Brazil, of all places.England? who cares.Their tastes have been going down hill since about 1975, besides they probably shade us a little wrt exports.

I think The Easybeats and Vanda and Young had/have a lot of "street cred" in the UK and US, but saleswise they never set the world on fire. 'Friday On My Mind' went #6 in the UK and #16 in the US, and "Hello How Are You" scrapped into the UK Top 20 and none of their LPs charted in these countries. Mind you bad decisions more than lack of talent were responsible for their lack of sales.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

And of course Helen Reddy is up there too.

 

[Brittany]

my bad! sorry i was indeed referring to the US market! Cheers on that. The tracks on that album are F*****G sensational!!

Yeah I reckon, great album with fantastic songs like Taste It, Not Enough Time & Beautiful Girl. Very much underated IMO

 

[Upgrayedd]

kylie or the wiggles, both made the most moneys oversea's
i like kylie because she usually brings the money she makes over-sea's and then spends it in australia, good for the economy

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Do you mean the best or the one that has sold the most records?

By the looks of many of the suggestions, Leapster, I'm convinced they mean the latter.

 

[the fly]

It's not a market like the US, but when I was in Paraguay on student exchange, it was unusual to visit somebodys house and NOT find an INXS CD. They were absolutely huge there.