The UK charts are dominated by foreign imports ... shouldn't we be celebrating?

There's barely a British voice in the top 20 at the moment. Perhaps we should just submit to sounds from America and EuropeBritish music is under threat from its European and American rivals, so screams the Independent in an article headlined "The day the music died". Last week just one act in the UK top 10 hailed from these fair isles – Lauren Bennett, a Kent-born singer on American dance goon's LMFAO's No 1 single, Party Rock Anthem – while the situation was improved slightly this week whe...

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