 | Kayleigh by Marillion
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $1.13 Prog revalists were out of place here, yet have a cult following by the thousands.
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 | Greatest Hits by Robbie Williams
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $5.48 The biggest example of making it everywhere else but the US.
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 | Greatest Hits by Take That
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $3.40 They won't be "Back for Good" on our charts after that.
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 | Complete Hits by Cliff Richard
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $49.48 Had a couple of minor and US Top 10 hits, but started the trend of missing out on the colonies.
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 | Spirit of Place by Goanna
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $9.99 Aborigine advocates didn't get proper promotion by the US label.
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 | X by Kylie Minogue
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $0.78 Only had a few US hits, yet rode the Loco-Motion to the top everywhere else.
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 | Suzi Quatro - Greatest Hits by Suzi Quatro
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.95 Only "stumbled in" once at home.
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 | Not That Kind by Anastacia
Buy used from: $0.01 Maybe she isn't. Also overlooked in her own backyard.
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 | 99 Luftballons by Nena
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.31 They popped after that one-hit wonder in the Anglosphere.
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 | Memphis Album by Guy Sebastian
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $11.49 He'll need a prayer to get recognised across the Pacific.
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 | Hunting High and Low by a-ha
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.98 I do regret that they couldn't go further from "Take on Me" in my country.
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 | Mountains of Time
a-ha side project couldn't get a worldwide deal after first album.
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 | Shotter's Nation by Babyshambles
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $10.03 Even Pete Doherty's tabloid antics don't get a lot of attention here.
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 | Greatest Hits
Buy used from: $32.49 Scottish-born Australian John Paul Young only made the US chart once.
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 | Judgement Days by Ms. Dynamite
Buy new: $29.49 / Used from: $9.98 We have so many R&B/hip hop singers, that she didn't explode stateside.
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 | Original Pirate Material by The Streets
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $2.06 Also the case for this chav.
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 | All Saints by All Saints
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $0.01 "Never Ever" could match the success of rivals The Spice Girls.
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 | Chemistry by Girls Aloud
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $9.58 Same with these babes.
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 | 12 Gold Bars, Vol. 1 by Status Quo
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.98 Matchstick men didn't strike with our status quo.
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 | Agnetha Faltskog - That's Me: Greatest Hits by Agnetha Faltskog
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.89 Only one US solo entry she "couldn't shake loose".
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 | Forever Young by Alphaville
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.30 "Big in Japan", at home in West Germany, but not the States.
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 | Major Tom
Buy used from: $12.64 Not much English-language material after this rocket took off.
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 | Anthologie: 1966-69 by Johnny Hallyday
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $7.99 Not well-known outside the developed Francosphere.
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 | World of Freddy Quinn by Freddy Quinn
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $37.08 Schlager isn't big with Anglophones.
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 | Very Best of Japan by Japan
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $12.28 New Romantic trailblazers never even charted here. Nor could David Sylvian on his own.
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 | Best Of Real Life: Send Me An Angel by Real Life
Buy used from: $24.00 They'd have to be sent another to go beyond that.
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 | At Worst...The Best of Boy George and Culture Club by Culture Club
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.02 Not really much doin' on his own.
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 | The Very Best of Lindisfarne by Lindisfarne
Buy used from: $5.81 Also a minor one-hit wonder. There's "Fog on the Tyne" here too for prog legends.
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 | Anthology by Sad Cafe
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $6.72 Were their albums ever even released in the US when Paul Young was alive?
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 | The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $6.29 The early lineup's lack of US success was an "Albatross" around their necks.
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 | Busted by Busted
Buy used from: $0.98 The kids here would like them.
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 | Jim Diamond by Jim Diamond
Buy used from: $59.06 Only a few fans here found him in the rough!
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 | Lil' Chris by Lil' Chris
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $3.76 Accidentially discovered him on the Sony UK site.
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 | That's Life by Russell Watson
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.99 That's true about barely competing against Josh Groban.
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 | Ph.D (12",33rpm, Vinyl Record)
Best known here to the few who had MTV in its infancy.
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 | Part One by Wet Wet Wet
Buy used from: $0.01 More like Dry Dry Dry this side of Edinburgh!
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 | Life in Cartoon Motion by Mika
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.80 Scant attention in these parts.
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 | Alright, Still by Lily Allen
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.28 Even "Smile" wasn't smiled upon much here.
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 | The Best of Siouxsie & Banshees by Siouxsie & Banshees
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.99 Better known in punk circles.
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 | From Now On by Will Young
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $1.61 Winner of 'American Idol' precursor couldn't even chart here.
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