Here is some data I manually pulled for English music in Vietnam, kind of an unofficial ranked (my suggestion is that this is pretty damn accurate) list of the top acts in Vietnam right now (all of these albums are fairly new as well, so I guess the data is reasonably current)
1. High School Musical 2 OST
2. High School Musical: The Concert
3. Avril Lavigne: The Best Damn Thing
4. High School Musical OST
5. Linkin Park: Minutes To Midnight
6. Shayne Ward: No U Hang Up | If That’s OK With You
7. Tata Young: I Believe
8. Ne-Yo: Because of You
9. Justin Timberlake: Future Sex / Love Sounds
10. Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad
11. What A Girl Wants OST
12. Akon: Trouble
13. Julio Iglesias: Love Songs
The Long Tail talks about how people started getting away from pop music after the Internet opened up and people really had the tools to be exposed to things that better suited their individual tastes (Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody, mp3 blogs, etc.)
I noticed this happened to me, but I always assumed I just was getting older with growing taste, asking friends (Kyle) for suggestions and so on. I didn’t realize the Internet itself was changing our habits, and there were plenty of people like me learning about the whole different spectrum of music in the world.
This hasn’t happened in Vietnam yet, even with Vietnamese music. People don’t buy music here, nor do they pay for concerts, and they don’t quite have the tools or knowledge yet to go deeper into music catalogues. Thus, most people here are very pop heavy.
Just look above. Julio Iglesias surprises me, but the album name Love Songs reminds me, Vietnamese love nhac tinh yeu (romantic love songs).
Btw, here’s a nice site that shows the top music in countries (US, Japan, Korea, Europe) all over the world: Tokyo Stage (http://tokyostage.haru.tv/)
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