A lot of people feel they have to be accepted in America, and I don’t feel that way at all,” Matthew Knowles told BBC Radio 1. “With Destiny’s Child/Beyonce, we sold way more outside America than we did in, so it baffles me that you’re trying to sell records in America,” he said. Former salesman Mr Knowles quit his job to manage his daughter when she was 12. Many in the British media and music industry feel an act has not really made it until they have become a success in the US. Artists like Robbie Williams and Oasis have never managed to achieve the same level of fame in the US as they have in the UK and Europe.