Glastonbury Festival 2008 on to their money. The event did eventually sell out, although the final tickets were sold on the opening Friday. It was announced on 1 February 2008 that Jay-Z would headline Glastonbury Festival in 2008, becoming the first major hip-hop artist to headline the British festival. His selection was blamed by some for relatively slow ticket sales for the festival, although a more likely cause is the preceding run of terrible weather and flooding that in 2007 made life at the festival very difficult An outspoken critic of his selection was Noel Gallagher of Oasis fame. In response to Gallagher's
Asian hip hop in 1991 with Softhard and in 1999 with the formation of LMF, the first rap/rock group signed by a major record label The first Chinese language song to feature rap style content was by rock artist Cui Jian in the early 90s, though viewed as experimental. Mainstream American hip hop started to emerge in clubs, as well as the influence of Taiwan and Hong Kong hip hop. Hip hop music began to be produced in Indonesia in the early 1990s, with the first Indonesia artist to release a full-length hip hop album being the rapper Iwa K, who has released