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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
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😂
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
A lot of these songs have the advantage of coming out when streaming existed. There's no way half of these would be in the top 100 if streaming had been around since the 70s.
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Algorithms by streaming platforms unfairly and purposely push some artists towards the top of recommended or currently popular lists
Absolutely! ✌️
Also there is a difference in a song having a billion listens when its been out since before streaming and one that is only a couple of years old.
Agreed. Most of these I've never heard of and I'm not mad about that.... So generic
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😂
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 😅😂
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
8:15 the primary artist is named first and then the Ft means "featuring", so the song is featuring the other artists but they're not the main artist. Jessie J is the main vocalist and it's her song featuring these others singers in a collab.
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.
*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
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.
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.
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. 😅
@@Josh-wu7kz 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.
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
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
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.
Loved watching you react to this. Your reactions to the music could see the emotional changes! Awesome
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.
2:46, 5:27, 6:01, 6:05 , 7:02, 7:03, 11:10, 11:25, 15:11, 15:15, 15:27, 18:27, 20:48, 21:11 are all of the best songs on this list.
I think you need help also Liam Payne goes bye bye
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Tracy Chapman was the artist behind Fast Car.
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
Kate Bush is a British musical legend and icon.
Mark Knopfler is the lead singer of Dire Straits, who although he has a very strong connection with Newcastle upon Tyne and the North East of England is actually born in Glasgow, Scotland.
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.
Very Good Video and Reactions. There are a lot more Songs that Americans didn't know were British.
Yeah we have such an awesome amazing talent in the uk for music 🎵❤
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!!!
The Artic Monkeys festival looks like T In The Park, there are no concrete buildings for about 20 miles around the Glasto site. It litterally is a dairy farm 50 weeks of the year.
It was TRNSMT in Glasgow.
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
Remember streaming is a newer thing, mostly done by under 30's. A lot of this is kiddie pop music, not for grown-ups.
Most of it isn’t music at all! 😂
I'm 47 and stream every day 😂
Just because something is new doesn’t make it kiddieish, technology just moves on and if you want to not move on with it then you are missing out on a lot of great music because of your ego
@@caitlina9366 Most of the music on that list was utter trash.
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!
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!
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
You saying, I wish I was able to party when the Calvin Harris songs came out. Makes me feel old. Stop it. 😂
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.
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.
Glad you enjoyed British music as much as you enjoyed your visits to these green and pleasant land
Do come back
Love from England ❤❤
There is an 80s version of this that is just brilliant!
Yeah most streamed 80s songs by British artists, same channel I think
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.
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.
Calvin Harris dropping on Ibiza boat parties was epic…. EPIC!!!
Harry always breaks records when he releases new music, literally can not wait for HS4
HS4 at midnighttt
@Jessiex818 my people!!! 😂😩😩
That arctic monkeys performance was actually at TRNSMT in Glasgow, the near full concert is available on RUclips and worth a watch
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 ❤
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.
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.
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.
These are the songs played on radio stations on a daily basis. They really bring back memories
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.
How deep is your love and Fast car are both remakes. Dancing on my own is a cover (Robyn, big Swedish artist)
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.
Calvin Harris is from a town called Dumfries in South West Scotland.
the problem with americans is that they think the world starts in new york and ends at california
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 😊
JPS you need to check out Sam Fender. Best new-ish (2019 to current) British rocker in a generation.
When you see this it makes you realise with all the negativity of everyone in Britain right now regards current affairs of our weird government just how great the British really are and most artists come from a background a million miles from the social spectrums at the top ...one of the reasons the British are so great when I comes to music creativity is partly because of how dull it is outside half the time so that inner creativity comes from home waiting to break out, hit the warmth of clubs, pubs and hotter climates in Europe and cheer up the world..as Noel Gallagher has said when you look at British bands from the 90's they will never be repeated because back then it was all about getting high in between music and today it is frowned upon by the powers that be...PS Adele is a Tottenham girl from my Manor "Cockney sounding gem ", and what makes her such a talent is that she is so bubbly so her ability to hit that Celine Dion kind of vibe is amazing...Top man JP, you said oh my days which means you are an old skool London geezer'.
That’s exactly the theory I had!! We spend so much time shut inside with boredom that we have to get creative just to occupy ourselves!
As a fellow Scot, have always enjoyed Calvin Harris' success. My favourite artist now is Ren and I love his cheeky pisstake to Calvin's song Acceptable in the 80's - Screw Calvin Harris cause I was born in the 90's, in his song & video 1990's.
As a fellow Scot I couldn’t agree with you more and as for Ren he’s restored my faith in music his is the first album I’ve bought in over 20 years
Calvin Harris was pretty much my childhood because my mum loved his music when it came on the radio as well he made several albums where every single song was a banger. Very rare for an artist.
but we here in the UK love your music x
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
Enjoy the music, whether it's Brit or American doesn't matter. The changes, are your mood at the moment.
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.
Calvin Harris was always part of the summers in Ibiza!!
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
In cinema a widely-accepted definition of origin is the production company. That’s to say if the production company is British then the film is British no matter where the actors, locations, director etc. are from or what language it’s in. In music definitions seem to be more debatable…
Just when I thought I couldn’t love Joel any more, he likes Yes Prime Minister and Elton John! 👏🏻👏🏻♥️
Calvin Harris work mid 00's to 2010 is his best work. Acceptable in the 80's era
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
I remember going into Marks and Spencer food hall for my best mate to "accidentally bump in to" Calvin Harris before he produced his first Kylie hit! She REALLY had a crush on him! Haha! He was a shelf stacker there!
5:35 having known Calum Scott before he was famous, it makes me so happy to see him on this list. What a legend!
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
Fleetwood Mac were half American but when they started in the late 60s they were all British.
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.
I love your taste in music ❤ you can deffo tell the genres you're into 👌 when you in UK next?
Omg the throw back I'm having 😢 I love our music ❤
Saw Calvin Harris live at V Festival twice. He was amazing.
I'm old (and British), never even heard of a lot of them THANKFULLY (ps Fast Car was Tracy Chapman, the best version)
I think Britain and America having so much success in creative industries is hugely to do with the state of the country, we live in countries where we have the luxury of time and access to so much that a lot of other countries may not have and other countries that may have it just may have a different general culture towards the arts. Plus it helps that English is such a widely spoken language around the world (with Americans and Brits taking it for granted sometimes that we don’t really get pushed to learn other languages) so our films and music can be understood and watched so widely. If we look at other areas of art like painting, sculpture and architecture, mainland Europe have amazing artists. Amazing art is everywhere and in every country, we just need to look a bit harder for it.
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.
The only problem with Glastonbury is, more often than not, it's a mud bath.
The summer of 2024 when Calvin dropped that album was an incredible summer to be in your late teens/early 20’s. Clubs, holidays great summer weather that year. It was a whole drunk vibe
Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and George Michael all have songs with streams bigger than those on this list, maybe it's changed since this list was created?
I think it's because of the streaming platform and those who use it have skewed the results
If you count One direction and their members' solo careers (Styles and Zayn) they are really big on the list
I have so many good memories when Calvin dropped summer, just turned 18 😍 great weather and plenty of 🍺🍻
The must be a time in every America's life when they realise all the greatest bands are British 😂
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 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As a Manchester boy, brought up on guitar bands, I found this profoundly depressing. Some ginger bloke with a ukulele at No1. Last British single having US No 1 -2005. Album-2012. 1985 -14 US No 1s by British artists, including nine of top ten in one week.
It's the same thing with huge actors in Hollywood too
The top songs are mainly the most recent popular songs. The legendary songs are the high ranking older songs. Imagine how many hits they would have if YT was available when they were released.
Do not forget the Quality of the videos, as good as the Music.
I admire your calvin harris appreciation, he's the best DJ/producer that has ever graced the earth IMO.
I was in my clubbing era when calvin dropped hit after hit after hit and let me tell you it was MAGICAL
So, literally, the Top 100 songs that people didn't like enough to buy 😂
8:45 Sam Smith now goes by “they” 🤭
8:55 Britain is not a small island at all