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As far as most Americans are concerned, foreign music isn't that much of a thing at all unless there's some pop band like 5ive or TATU pushing their crap on TRL. Rammstein was the last really mainland European offering out there. UK bands like Coldplay and Radiohead have huge followings and are generally considered to be more intelligent fare than most of the rest of the music on the airwaves. Compared with all the nu-crap that clogs up the toilet that is the airwaves here, I can't argue.

Bands like Blur, Oasis, Portishead, PJ Harvey, and a host of others have all had their 15 minutes here and occasionally still get some airplay. You tend to hear them more in trendy art supply, record and clothing stores than you do on the radio or TV though. [/B]

About a year ago there's was all this big fuss in the UK 'cos for the first time ever there wasnt a single UK act in the Billboard 100. that prat Blair even tried to launch some initiative to get UK acts back on track in the US. frankly I think this showed good taste on the part of the US music buying public as the UK mainstream pop,rock and dance scenes have sucked for a few years now.