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Its not just the music industry, the British have a genius for creativity.
and Irish
What can I say 🤭🤭🤭 lolll jkjk
You are right. I give you me.
But a lot of songs also have Swedish help!
Creative genius is respected in British society historically.
The British music scene is massive and world famous the UK as been pumping out music since the 60s
Elgar disagrees
50s
Probably the most popular artists of all time with the beatles and arguably the most popular song of all time with bohemian rhapsody, just crazy
Truly proud of our music heritage
Long long before the 60s
It's not just music but science/inventions/transport/energy/literature/films andd the list goes on.
Yes. Definitely. Even Sir Thomas Crapper, guess what he was knighted for? Yes, his contribution to sanitation with the flushing toilet
Aye, we're class really 🥲😌
Just a creative country. Probably the weather, gives us more incentive to occupy ourselves by creating things because we can’t just chill outside like everyone else😂
@user-ed7et3pb4o I seriously think there might be some truth in that.😀
Nah mate, if our transit is so good we need to buff it up a bit here in Leeds
The problem with these most streamed songs vids, is that is doesn't necessarily relate to the best of British music. It only reflects the modern trend of streaming, so it's going to be top heavy on modern music which doesn't hold a candle to older classics. Saying that, it does show the durability of some of our older artists in the modern era.
Too true. Tbf tho I didn't realise we were representing so well still.
But only one Beatles song in the top 100 is an outright insult
British 80s songs were the best
Exactly that.
You’re stupid if you think streaming doesn’t apply to older songs.
Tracy Chapman's original "Fast Car" is so beautiful but then I'm a different generation 😊
I was sailing across the Atlantic and a cassette of Tracy bloody Chapman got stuck in the stereo. 14 days non-stop of that 24/7 did my head in.😂
.Fact. 💙✌️
Also a differt song , same name
That whole album is a masterpiece.
I see her first album,, "Tracy Chapman", has been remastered and released on vinyl 5/4/2025
*person with the thickest most distinctively british accent comes on*
"OMG i never wouldve guessed they were british!"
for real, a lot of peoples accents arent so distinct when singing because emphasis on words is changed to fit the song rhythm rather than normal speaking rhythm, but george ezra always manages to still sound distinctly english
Ikr, how could anyone not realise the arctic monkees are British, they have a song called mardy bum. 😂
If you haven't watched it already, you could react to the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olymics in London. That's an amazing show of British talent. And s hoot😂
9:50 - As a 41 year old, I heard a new Calvin Harris song on the radio yesterday and (Not realising who it was) I said "This takes me back to the glory days of my 20s/30s!". He was the soundtrack to every night out, every summer and every vacation.
Tracy Chapman was the artist behind Fast Car.
Original Fleetwood Mac were English with the fabulous Peter Green. Check out 'Albatross' way back in 1969 !!!
They were the REAL Fleetwood Mac! The second incarnation was a commercial success, but never comparable.
Thought the object of making records is to be a commercial success so your career can continue ….. by that definition the Lindsay and Stevie era was the most successful, but Lindsey and Stevie are American so debatable if that would even count
The second more commercially successful incarnation of Fleetwood Mac would be best described as an Anglo-American band.
@Nana_Reads not for Peter Green. He just wanted to make music. He didn't want the money.
The band name was originally called _"Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac",_ because it was formed by Peter Green! But it soon got shortend to just "Fleetwood Mac". From the Mick Fleetwood _(the band's drummer)_ and John 'Mac' McVie _(the band's bassist)._
Population of the uk is about 70 million, which is about 20% of the us population, 340 million. So even though it’s a fairly small island, it still has a lot of people.
Was 55 million 20 years ago. Yep. They forced that many more onto a land mass thats now way over its natural sustainable population number.
But still far less people than France, Spain, Germany, Italy etc. Whilst those countries have produced a few big global artists it's nowhere near the success of British artists. In other fields such as transport, industry, communication, technological innovation, medicine, physics etc we have punched so far above our weight for a relatively small country. We don't celebrate our achievements as much as we should (which is a very British trait).
@matthewcalladine5894 was 55 million not that long ago. Guess what happened when that number began to rise? DEI raised it's ugly head and the talent pool drowned.
UK is only a shadow of it's former self these days.
@timedwards5734Out of all the countries you mentioned, only Germany has a population bigger than the Uk.
@timedwards5734Only Germany has a larger population than the UK 😂 And that extra power population is older and retired that Germany has
Let’s be real and give credit where it’s due, without the Brits the whole world would still be living in the horse and cart Era, the ‘what did Britain do for us?’ Video is WILD if people haven’t seen it 😅😂
It's a mesh of a lot of countries making advancements, but you're damn right. We started the industrial revolution, and look how far the world has come
I'm really surprised Bohemian Rhapsody isn't number 1! That's a banger!
Yes! Queen ruled and I loved Freddie. 😢
It's an old song, and the streaming numbers probably jumped massively after the film came out.
old song. Hard to get as many streams as the newer ones
Not bad from a small UK.........I remember when the Beatles and the Stone's first started out........all the best from your friends in the across the pond
Oh dear. When a song's or an artist's popularity is defined solely by streaming numbers, the result will inevitably be skewed in favour of more recent music. People over 50 listen to lots of music, but Spotify is rarely our principle choice for sourcing our music. We still buy albums, we listen to the radio, or apps such as BBC Sounds, or we swap downloaded music with friends.
Please don't generalise that it's rarely your principal choice for sourcing music. it's very geolocation dependent. For example, most of my friends parents back in my home country use Spotify as their main source for music, including my parents. My parents are in their 60s, most of my friends parents are just shy of 60 or a little over.
However where I live now - in another country - that's less so the case. Funnily enough, where I live now in my friend circle friends in my generation are more inclined to buy albums, EPs and singles on vinyl than the older generations because it's becoming trendy again.
Hence this video is aimed at streams. Plenty of videos on bought singles so go watch that. But this is the way music is now so instead of moaning, think logically and move away
Yeah we have such an awesome amazing talent in the uk for music 🎵❤
Carl Cox, Pete Tong, Oakenfield, Van Dyke.. they did it decades ago, Calvin is your era but these names still rule if you clubbed and lived by the radio on your nights off clubbing! xx
You saying, I wish I was able to party when the Calvin Harris songs came out. Makes me feel old. Stop it. 😂
the problem with americans is that they think the world starts in new york and ends at california
my parents worked with calvin harris' brother doing some form of ministry work. glad to see he still bangs even today
Harris represents the decline of music
How deep is your love and Fast car are both remakes. Dancing on my own is a cover (Robyn, big Swedish artist)
90s dance music was amazing, and I still listen to it today.
I was at that arctic monkeys set. TRNSMT festival 2018 it was incredible, i was 19 at the time and a massive fan. I never thought id be able to experience it as alot of people thought their 2013 album would be their last.
Annie Lennox and Dave A Stewart are most definitely British.
Annie Lennox comes from Aberdeen in Scotland, while Dave comes from Sunderland a little bit down the East Coast from Newcastle upon Tyne.
I am British and proud of our musical heritage. Also proud of our history and inventions.
These are the songs played on radio stations on a daily basis. They really bring back memories
One Beatles song & one David Bowie ? Insane
Spotify users are on average younger, so they will pick up old songs that they hear elsewhere and like, and find them on Spotify. It's pretty random which old songs they hear.
You’re showing your age. I was at an event where John Lydon of the Sex Pistols was present. My bosses teenage daughter said, “oh look, there’s that guy from the Utterly Butterly commercial!” …and that was about 15 years ago!
@darkmatter6714😂
Nothing from many of the UK's best acts (No Who. No Amy Winehouse. No Led Zep. No Clash. No ELO. No Genesis. No Motorhead...) - streaming automatically favours the latest big thing and ignores the acts that they built their sound on.
Beatles are massively overrated.
Loved watching you react to this. Your reactions to the music could see the emotional changes! Awesome
Very Good Video and Reactions. There are a lot more Songs that Americans didn't know were British.
Calvin Harris dropping on Ibiza boat parties was epic…. EPIC!!!
Fleetwood Mac were formed solely of British musicians until several original members left and they bought in Americans Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham
Stevie's real name is Stephanie
Stevie and Lindsey were the real stars of the band, they were nothing before they joined.
@Josh-wu7kz You're having a laugh! They were at their best with Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan.
@Josh-wu7kz
Tell me you know nothing, without telling me. 😅
@UrbanSpeciesUK I mean, they were that good that they sold less records in the US than the British band before they'd even gone to the US. Fleetwood Mac had hits, including a number 1, in the UK before the Yanks joined, so they were hardly nothing. On the other hand, as good as Stevie and Lindsey were, they would still be nothing if they hadn't joined Fleetwood Mac.
Ren, mentions Calvin Harris in his song born in the 90s, Mick Fleetwood the Drummer was British along with some of the others. Stive Nicks is American . Love Artic Monkeys and the follow-on bands.
Having seen Adele coming up on this list time and again it got me thinking, Have you ever watched Adele at the BBC:
When Adele wasn't Adele... but was Jenny!
It's a funny short film she did in collaboration with Graham Norton.
It was great. I love music from brit. islands. Grandfather Pavel from Czech rep.
most of the ones that have american artists on them its the name before the FT, so calvin harris is british and its his music but featuring other artists
Imagine hearing the beatles first releases,, i am 78 and believe ive heard the best of best
I believe that your generation (same as my mum and dad's) lived their young lives at the best of times. The best of music, optimism, high employment rates, decent pension schemes. It's all rather went downhill the last 40-years or so, in my opinion.
I am 86 yrs old and for the life of me never ever understood what the fuss was about with the Beatles. My choice would be the Bee Gees, ABBA and Dire Straits and for sentimentality Matt Monro (fabulous). You can keep the Beatles. For rock style I would say the Rolling Stones were far better.
@davey8914 All started with Thatcher.
But im 22 and can hear all of it right now
That's the difference when you grow up in another country - you don't assume artists on the radio is necessarily from your own country
It's the same thing with huge actors in Hollywood too
I've always felt that music and film in the UK is more about quality than. Quantity and it means my collection of entertainment is so eclectic and deeply satisfying.
So, literally, the Top 100 songs that people didn't like enough to buy 😂
Saw Calvin Harris live at V Festival twice. He was amazing.
crazy that the top 10 were all released in the last 10 years
It's funny how musical tastes can differ so much between people an cultures. Most of Calvin Harris's work is what we consider music for a Childeren's birthday party in Belgium.
Fleetwood Mac.
The drummer is Mick Fleetwood who is the tall bearded guy with the bald head and he's from the very Southern county of the UK called Cornwall.
Christine McVie who sadly died in 2023 from cancer was from Lancashire which is in North West England.
And John McVie, her ex-husband, the bass player is from London. The band was named after him and Mick Fleetwood.
@thomassharmer7127 Yep, by Peter Greene
I was a teenager and into my early 20s at uni when Calvin Harris was breaking out with those bangers... we had amazing parties with those songs. I remember summer holidays in the Med dancing on the beach with them and rooftop bbqs/parties with them in Leeds and London.
I think some of the debates around whether a song is British should be more attributed to the production. Sometimes the lead vocals may be someone from somewhere else but if the writing and production (the real creative legwork) was done in the UK then I think it's fair to say it is a British song.
9:54 I live in Scotland and was 16 when Calvin Harris dropped Summer. I can absolutely confirm that this was the best summer ever. Honestly Calvin Harris was dropping banger after banger during this time, combined with T in the Park it was an incredible time for house party music!
UK being great at music is partly due to every single school encouraging kids to learn instruments. Not seen a school that doesn't have one or two actually decent bands! These kids get encouraged to go to local venues and perform, and this is where the good ones quickly get moved up to headline at the local top venue for music. Every UK city (especially university cities) has a venue or two that are known internationally for the amount of talent that goes through them. The Leadmill in Sheffield is one examples and they discovered Arctic Monkeys, George Ezra, Lewis Capaldi, Creeper, Haze, Muse, Coldplay. Every city has a club like this and they feed into festivals and each other as well so many artists who are unreal get fast tracked quick to BBC introducing stage at glasto or similar stages at others it's really cool how quick we get to see new music.
Glad you enjoyed British music as much as you enjoyed your visits to these green and pleasant land
Do come back
Love from England ❤❤
. . . and Spotify is Swedish 😂
A lot of the ones you liked where glaswegean specifically, check out paolo nutini
That arctic monkeys performance was actually at TRNSMT in Glasgow, the near full concert is available on RUclips and worth a watch
I live literally 5minutes drive away from where Glastonbury festival is, the traffic, is MAD!
Calvin Harris was always part of the summers in Ibiza!!
I don't remember I was so drunk lol
Calvin Harris is from a town called Dumfries in South West Scotland.
All the nightclubs play allot of these but when they were new it was epic
There is an 80s version of this that is just brilliant!
Yeah most streamed 80s songs by British artists, same channel I think
Calvin Harris was too us oldies a second generation DJ, you wanted to listen to the early 90s underground dance music!! Now you're talking, Harris was heavily influenced by all that rave scene.
To continue your REN journey try Back on 74/message in a bottle, check out more of his singing skills, it's just pure soul!!!
but we here in the UK love your music x
Omg the throw back I'm having 😢 I love our music ❤
Calvin Harris’ music coming out every summer, I was in my in my late teens+ and being in a club or pub was epic. I still think the 80’s had the best music, but summer anthems from the mid noughties+, it was amazing to live through, JP you would have enjoyed being in the UK at that time. Btw if this doesn’t make sense I blame crap sleep and it being stupidly early.
You are listening to the sound track to our lives ,,,
Callum Scott wasnt even down to audition, but his sister did and then they got him to sing too and he got through, but his sister didnt, but she encouraged him to go for it.
Do not forget the Quality of the videos, as good as the Music.
4:10 Tracy chapman was the original and by far the best. That jonas bike remix I hated
Its funny for me to remember I was friends with some of the people on this list, Not the modern singers-groups but it puts a smile on my face still.
You're absolutely right, Fast car was originally Tracy Chapman,.
Tracy is American, born in Cleveland. She is associated with the UK because of the way her career took off, with Fast Car being her first hit. This is because shortly after signing with her first label she was invited to perform at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium (UK). However, Stevie Wonder was due to play first but there was a problem with his keyboard so Tracy was asked to step in for an impromptu acoustic performance rather than the planned performance, playing three of her songs including Fast Car to a global audience, which streaked up the charts (both US and UK) shortly after.
The Brits have a volcanic talent.
Tracy Chapman's is the OG and the most iconic version. The song is from 1988. Jonas Blue's version is from 2015, and Mutya Buena (of the UK girl band Sugababes) also covered it back in 2007 for Radio 1's 40th anniversary and it's really good.
The original Fast Car is Tracy
Jonas Blue remixed it
Although many artists have American and other non British singers involved in the songs it is based on the fact that the songs were written/produced by the British artist/band.
Only just seeing this vid but I feel like I need to say it’s crazy how many streams these classics have to say they’re peaks were way before streaming
As a Brit, I was between 16-18 when Calvin dropped most of his bangers, they used to be played a lot at house parties and especially in clubs even a few years after, and even listening to them alone made you get up and dance. Was just a great time for music
Calvin ? Seriously his music when music when downhill! Golden era was the 70s 80s 90s early 2000s for the UK
17:40 dont stop me now = shawn of the dead = Jps jumping and bopping and whacking the zombies lol
google " Annie lennox gets scouted by American radio". its so funny they wanted her to submit music to be considered for airing. They had no clue she was a massive artist and had a career spanning decades lol
hahaha
Back in the 80's MTV pulled the video for "love is a stranger" because they thought Annie Lennox was a man...she had to go on air and show her birth certificate to prove otherwise but it seemed to cast a long shadow and probably damaged their impact on the US music scene.
I was in my clubbing era when calvin dropped hit after hit after hit and let me tell you it was MAGICAL
Listen to Stereophonics. Welsh band. Fab.
From a kid from England, these songs in the summer like the Calvin Harris songs where absolutely epic can’t describe it with words
Duty in American is Doodee 😂😂😂😂😂
I have so many good memories when Calvin dropped summer, just turned 18 😍 great weather and plenty of 🍺🍻
Harry always breaks records when he releases new music, literally can not wait for HS4
HS4 at midnighttt
@Jessiex818 my people!!! 😂😩😩
Alex Turner (lead to Arctic Monkeys) writes most of their songs. He said he’s been writing since he was a kid but felt too embarrassed to tell his friends, until he wasn’t. They definitely wrote WPSIATWIN.
Why would you just assume everything is American? I don't assume everything is British. Maybe it's because we get more music from other countries here. I guess if you've never been exposed to other stuff you just don't think about it .
I was born in 79 lol. I was clubbing to Calvin Harris. Bloody good times mate Hearing music you listened to as a kid sends right back there . I got so much nostalgia from this vid ❤
Some of those songs are really awesome Joel i agree with you bro Calvin Harris need,s to definitely be number because that song is such a Tune another amazing video Joel your videos are just amazing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
If you count One direction and their members' solo careers (Styles and Zayn) they are really big on the list
Can't really remember much from when summer came out.. I was drunk that year 🤣
You can quite easily tell a British artist by the singing, theyve still got that slight accent, also, The older classics, are far better, but are being forgotten.
It's funny when you said i grew up listening to them on American radio so i guessed they were American
I grew up listening to British radio and...
Believed they were American too
All this shows is the demographic of who does the most streaming because I’d only listen to like 10-15 of them
Haha "Line of Dooty" 😂
First time I have heard of Calvin Harris.
Sweet Child of Mine was my first song on guitar! 😊
You are gonna be even more suprised when you realise how many songs/artists are Australian, Swedish, German or Canadian. USA makes less music than you would think! And even if the artist is from USA, the song writer/producer might not be.
Exactly !! Although my favourite music artist happens to be American (I’m a Brit) I love many people such as Omar Rudberg and Rhys both Swedish artists.
5:49 one direction was on xfavtor aswell
Look up Fleetwood Mac in the early days. That was my years as a teenager. So so good. It was before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band. However the album "Rumors" is brilliant too. My favourite voice in the group was Christie McVie, who sadly past away recently.
Yeah, her voice was perfect.
@Escapee5931 Christine Perfect!
You mean 'Rumours'
Only a couple of those on my play list, but I tend to go for indie artists like Dan Bull and Ren.
I have loved Arctic Monkeys from their first release. Now my daughter is 18 and they are her favourite band. I took her to see them as a reward for amazing A level results.
I also considered this a worthy education for mine 😊
Calvin is a genius and even better a Liverpool FC supporter. Love your videos
The thing about streaming is that it is very different when you compare to previous eras where popularity was based on actual sales. You literally had to go into town, and buy a physical single or album, rather than push a button and spend nothing. Takes much more commitment.
Also, the way we listen to music is so different. When you bought an album, you would look at the cover, the album notes, and listen to every single track, in the sequence that the artist/record label had specifically chosen the order in which to listen to.
There are also then cases like Def Leppard, absolute monsters when it came to seriously good music, but for many years, as a result of a dispute with their record label regarding digital rights, their music wasn't available in digital format, itunes etc. Their digital catalogue was only made available in 2018!!!
That’s so true, and now some silly songs can become so popular just because taxi drivers are streaming them in their cars all day or people make TikTok videos
This video makes me feel patriotic 😭 Lots of these artists went to The Brit School as well, which is in Croydon where I grew up 🙏
JPS you need to check out Sam Fender. Best new-ish (2019 to current) British rocker in a generation.