Yeah, english acts have a hard time surviving in Singapore.
There are kinda a few reasons to this though, a lack of market and
with people already given so much choice of other already
established US/UK acts, it's hard for people to try something
new.
Any artiste that just releases a CD or tour in SG itself isn't
going to make much money, face facts, the demographics over here is
small and among our population, maybe around 20% do actually buy
cd's as opposed to downloading.
Countries like the UK and US are so much bigger geographically and
can sustain a market of music listeners. But even now, record
stores are closing down all around the states as people are no
longer interested in browsing through a record store for their
music, it's downloading high heaven now...
SG does produce some good acts like Electrico for example, but how
many cd's do they actually sell? Like perhaps, 20 000 copies? In
the states, a album can hit millions of copies already, thats BIG
money. An artiste can establish itself here, but ultimately, they
have to go overseas if they do want to make it big.
SG by itself is not a music hub...well, that's another reason.
Everyone all over the world is looking to the UK and US for their
fix on music, who is fixing their eyes here even? If The Beatles
were to produce the same definitive quality of music but in a twist
of fate were based in SG instead, we would be going,
Beatles...who?
All of us can do a part and support local gigs and buy local cd's
though, that's the least we can do, to partly help the industry
over here... 
