Maybe not the best example, but The Carpenters may be better known in Japan at this point than in the US. I think the first song by them that I ever heard was i

Maybe not the best example, but The Carpenters may be better known in Japan at this point than in the US. I think the first song by them that I ever heard was in Japan. > As recently as 2009, another Carpenters retro album (40/40) reached No. 3 on Japan’s overall charts [1] http://splashingrocks.blogspot.com/2013/01/opening-splash-east-asia-and-carpenters.html http://splashingrocks.blogspot.com/2013/01/opening-splash-ea...