International Album of the Day

[Guest]

Or something like that.

1.) Keep the usual AOTD the same.

2.) Create a second daily album, maybe call it International Album of the day. The quirk is that the following countries are excluded: USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia (top 5 countries on overall chart).


Would add a more worldly flavor. More exposure to some of the other 190 or so countries. Something new, something interesting I hope.

[Mother Nature's Son]

Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure it will favor little-known bands or music. We will probably see more from Sigur Rós, Bob Marley, Björk, Daft Punk, Can and Kraftwerk than we are used to. If there was made a rule about regular "album of the day"-albums couldn't appear again as "international album of the day"-albums, it would probably ensure more variety that way.
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[RFNAPLES]

[Guest]

"World" could work. It might be a better title. Some people relate "world music" with cultural music genres, though.

@Mother Nature's Son - yea, same rules as album of the day. Variety is good. At first we would probably only see a couple handfuls of the more popular ones but I can imagine it would start spreading out after a month or so.

[Guest]

I like this idea.

[RFNAPLES]

[thejoj96]

This is a good idea.

[Hayden]

I support this.

I try to find as many albums from countries that I don't usually hear from, but it's difficult. I recently listened to an album from Iran and loved it.

Brazil, Chile, Bahamas, Japan, etc...all have really interesting music that I want to listen to
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[Altsoul]

Perhaps a list could only include albums in foreign language, as the Oscars do.

[Guest]