Holland:
* album chart top 10 (20 jan 2008):
1- Winehouse, 2- anouk (dutch - EMI, rec'd & prod'd by Glen Ballard in LA) 3- paul de leeuw (dutch - Universal) 4- nick&simon (dutch, indie) 5- alain clark (dutch, indie, w/ Steve Gadd on drums!) 6- trijntje oosterhuis (dutch - Blue note, 2nd Bacharach album, Mixed by Al Schmitt!) 7- radiohead 8- katie melua 9- andre hazes (dutch - EMI) 10- Alicia Keys.
Approx 25% of the rest of the list are dutch artists.
So we're doing not so bad here in Holland. Most interesting for you gearslutz are the Anouk and Trijntje Oosterhuis albums. They are both aware of the fact that there are no top-engineers (but me of course
)and producers in their homeland. On the other hand: both artist won't do it bad in foreign charts.