Why the downvotes ? It's actually true and really relevant to the article. Music was way more localized back then and a lot of mainstream US artists never actually reached a worldwide audience. (especially on the Rap section of the article).

It's all of Spotify. So while it's international data, it certainly skews toward western music.

While the author does refer to US music charts as a reference to past popularity, I don't see any indication that the Spotify data was US only.

While I don't doubt your mental narrative nor dismiss the value of evidence, if you think about the parent's assertion ("US and pop-culture bias") longer, it's obviously correct.

I agree with the parent poster that the article is US pop-culture centric. I just wanted to point out that the data isn't, necessarily, strictly US specific. I also felt that that the parent comment was a bit snarky given that this website has a large US audience, and US music and pop-culture are popular around the world.

You should say what you mean, then.

In which case, I should voice my opposition to the suggestion that we non-USians (eg. I'm an Australian in China) should communicate (even in our own language) with hat tipped to US popular culture because (inertia of Colosseum-fawning masses).

Here's a contrary view: I believe that intelligent people tend to respect and encourage diversity because it's both more interesting for them ("are we nought but latter-day curios for the coming AI overlord?") and because many fields of science (chiefly biology) show us strength in heterogeneity. The parent's comment was, I believe, offered in this spirit.