FINALLY! THANKS TO THE ONE WHO CREATED THIS KIND OF THREAD!


Just to name a few. there are artists who crossed over the Western market like:

- Utada Hikaru
- BoA
- Se7en
- Wonder Girls
- Charice (not to mention her...err....)
- Rain (as an actor)
- (i forgot the others... sorry...)

Far*East Movement is actually a group consisting of Asians of American citizenship. I love their song "Like a G6", though. the question is, why FEM rated more than Hikki in terms of sales? Their album, "Free Wired", sold 17,000 copies on its first week of release. Since FM and Hikki are of the same label before (both hailing from the Universal Music Group...disregard the sub-labels!) I hope UMG promoted Hikki more and Island records should promote Hikki the way they promote their biggest selling artists there. My only opinion.


Charice also confessed that she had a hard time promoting the album in the United States despite her debut American album, "Charice", peaked at #8 in the Billboard 200 selling 43,000 copies on its debut week. But seriously her single "Pyramid" did well on Billboard charts.

There might be a handful of Asians to debut very soon in the United States, but hoping to give them immense promotion. The reason why Asians don't sell much in the Western market is because they didn't appear often in shows in the country. IMHO.