you really never heard any of those songs...i feel sorry for you

Sony completely abandoned the US after BHN, which was a debacle in the US. It soared to number 2 on release day and then crashed. None of the singles played well, exc. for "Don't Go Away" which had some success as a radio single.

They've completely stopped promoting Oasis, and it seems like the band itself doesn't give a shit. I haven't heard an Oasis single on the radio in years. HC was released to little fanfare. Many mainstream publications didn't even review it. It's sold only 200,000+ copies.

Frankly, exc. for Wonderwall, Oasis is pretty much forgotten. I'm 19, and I'm one of the few people in my age group that even knows about Oasis - plenty of others remember Wonderwall but don't even know what band made them. Oasis is slagged in the music press (even though they were universally praised back in 95/96) if it's even mentioned. It's ridiculous. The fact is, if Oasis is even remembered in the US it'll be as a "one-album wonder" for (WTS)MG. I tell you, even DM, which I consider better than MG, never sold more than 500,000 copies.

Fact is, the corporate-controlled US media conglomerates have pretty much stifled US radio. Every pop station plays the same 6 tired tracks. The gargantuan Clear Channel Communications owns most of the radio stations in the US and creates corporate-approved playlists that all the stations play. All that's on the radio is rap and hip-hop, and some crappy post-punk and post-grunge. (I'm not even saying that all rap and post-punk is bad. They're not really my type of music, but there is an audience for them and there are some true artists among both. It's just that even those rap and post-grunge acts that are good are almost never played. We constantly here Nickleback and Creed - horrible, horrible post-grunge bands).

British bands have fared horribly since the mid-80s. The Stone Roses were never big here. Oasis was probably the biggest British band in a long time, but after selling 4 million copies of (WTS)MG, they fizzled here. Blur was a one-hit wonder - only Song 2 was a hit. Pulp and Suede never had any traction. Travis bombed. Both Franz Ferdinand and the Darkness have been trying to make it this year, but I don't think either's having much success. Only Coldplay has had some success in the past couple years, going multiplatinum and Radiohead has a cult following.

It's a really sad music scene. There's so much good music from the UK and so much great music in the US - tons of great indie rock and whatnot - and none of it EVER gets played. That's why I've stopped watching MTV and listening to the radio. I just search for my own music - that's how I discovered Oasis, since I'm too young to really remember when they were big here.

It sux.

would have never imagined... in argentina they put oasis on tv or radio 1 or 2 times a day minimum!! The problem is that, though there are lots of mechandising as posters and pins.. no single gets here!!! I have all of their cds obviously...but I dont have 1 of their singles...so I have to download them all! But its true, this year I went to new york and the radios were crap...they put the same 10 songs all over again and again and again...

I'm getting an ipod pretty soon but I'll probably just upload songs from my CD collection tbh, don't see the point in using apple itunes when by the sounds of it its just the current chart music available...

It really doesn't bother me that oasis isnt popular in the states. It's really easy to get tickets and the venues are never bigger than a couple thousand people (as opposed to the 60,000-80,000 people they usually play to in England). But it would be nice to be able to find things like posters and t shirts in stores over here instead of having to buy them on the net.