Spanish people and their music

[Drunkle-Tron]

Hi what music do Spanish people listen to? I've heard Shakira is a big artist there, is this true?


Thanks in advance

[devilishbuzz]

That's got to be impossible to answer!!! it obviously depends on peoples taste (Spanish peoples taste in this case)!! If you asked the same question about English(or any other race)people then I'm sure you'll find that not everyone in the country likes the same music, that's what makes the world so interesting.......people have differences!!!! FFS!!

[filthiestfis]

just google the Spanish Top 40 chart to find out what they are listening to now.

[WoWo]

He's only asking because somebody had a go at him about slagging off the Spanish for liking Shakira.

I'm with you Drunkle, look at the other rubbish to make it's way from the summer bars in Spain, Las Ketchup, Wigfield etc.

[Octavius]

http://allcharts.org/music/spain/singles.htm

Worryingly, a lot of Michael Jackson

[andy-hughes]

A lot of Spanish-speaking artists like Shakira, who is Columbian, are popular in Spain. Aretists like Julio Eglasias sell millions of albums of their hits in Spanish - which sell world-wide because there are massive Spanish-speaking populations all over the globe.

Spanish pop usually consists of really dreadully sugary orchestral-backed love songs which really do all sound the same, regardless of the languae barrier.

[Amara]

It's awful most of it! There is a lot of English music - albeit old most of it - played on Spanish radio, and yes they love Shakira, I have heard that song all week everywhere I go. Thankfully I don't live on the C D S and have to suffer the other stuff aforementioned aswell. Now I sound like a grumpy old Woman, I'm not but I really can't say I like there music.

[samuel23]

We have friends that we visit who have villas in Murcia and Almeria. The majority of the radio stations stick to the pop, spanish homegrown and the awful holiday songs that brits bring back with them. However when we go to the towns and into the local bars you have the same sort of choice as we do here. There are rock and jazz bars, flamenco bars, some blindingly atrocious karaoke bars, spanish only bars and there is even a surprisingly healthy punk scene thriving in Almeria.