How can that affect the trending in the UK? That shouldn't have any influence on it but they messed up the views in Romania so bad that it starts to affect other countries as well.
There are objective reasons why manele has risen in the charts in the past few years (they gained support from some of the media conglomerates). That said, calling a trending list where two thirds of the entries are manele, realistic for Romania is nonsense. Only about 10% of the population listens to manele exclusively, maybe 20% actively search for manele among other kinds of music. But 50% of Romanians hate manele with a passion. This has been deemed racist as of late so youtube is taking measures to correct it
This oversized influence of manele is only on youtube and not on any other kinds of media.
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