As an ABC (Australian Born Chinese), Who is an avid watcher of korean entertainment ( dramas, variety, movies etc), listener of k-pop, watch anime from japan, listen to j-pop, watch chinese tv shows and movies. Having studied German , French . It perplexes me that to this day, why entering the U.S. market is considered as being the top of ones career, the dream industry to enter. Why is that the standard of achievement. Hollywood is the go to place. Especially when the "Foreign" market is so huge itself. There is Bollywood (India), South East Asian entertainment (Don t mean to group all countries together), The European market, Korea, Japan, China. Especially with the English-speaking market being so small in numbers in comparison. Especially with many other "minority countries industries being so much more rigorous to be in and enter than the U.S. I am not that informed about the industry and the world. This has just been a faint qualm of mine and I just wanted to share it with you and see what the people of the internet thought about this. I realise and am prepared for the many negative comment that my come.

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As an ABC (Australian Born Chinese), Who is an avid watcher of korean entertainment ( dramas, variety, movies etc), listener of k-pop, watch anime from japan, listen to j-pop, watch chinese tv shows and movies. Having studied German , French . It perplexes me that to this day, why entering the U.S. market is considered as being the top of ones career, the dream industry to enter. Why is that the standard of achievement. Hollywood is the go to place. Especially when the "Foreign" market is so huge itself. There is Bollywood (India), South East Asian entertainment (Don t mean to group all countries together), The European market, Korea, Japan, China. Especially with the English-speaking market being so small in numbers in comparison. Especially with many other "minority countries  industries being so much more rigorous to be in and enter than the U.S. I am not that informed about the industry and the world. This has just been a faint qualm of mine and I just wanted to share it with you and see what the people of the internet thought about this. I realise and am prepared for the many negative comment that my come.

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gwmac · Answer

Pretty much almost all music that hits the global charts is produced in the USA. Everyone wants to listen to those global charts, and the person of the song that entered those charts are instantly launched into instant fame. No less! It becomes a #1 hit everywhere else in the world. Also, the US is a world power and English is a world language as well. Everyone is trying to learn it. It's almost imperative if you aren't in a country with English as the main language. (East Asia is obsessed with learning English.)
Huge hits all over the world usually come out of Hollywood. So many movies produced in the US are dubbed/subbed in different languages so people can watch it.
Kpop, Jpop, anime, etc. They all have their fan bases, but they're genres of popular stuff. (Not all anime is even produced in Japan...some of it is from the US!) Nor are they from huge world powers with large influences.