Question: While both singer-songwriters have displayed incredible talent, what sets Robert Palmer apart from Wayne Coyne, causing him to gain populatiry in two continents?

Context articles: Salah (dancer)
Addictions: Volume II
Wayne Coyne
Clues (Robert Palmer album)
Zaireeka
Very Best of Robert Palmer
Paleocontinent
La France a un incroyable talent
Gummy Song Fetus
Robert Palmer (singer)

Salah "Entertainer" Benlemqawanssa (born June 28, 1979), also known as Spider Salah, is an award-winning competitive hip-hop dancer from France who won the inaugural season of "La France a un incroyable talent" ("France has Incredible Talent") and the fourth season of "Arabs Got Talent".
 He was born in the Paris suburb Saint-Denis and is of Algerian and Moroccan ancestry.
 He calls his personal dance style P.A.B.E. which stands for Popping, Animation, Boogaloo, and Effects.
 Although Salah is best known for popping, he is also skilled in b-boying.
Addictions: Volume 2 is a Robert Palmer compilation album released in 1992.
 The album contained noted songs that Robert Palmer had from his Island Records albums "Riptide", "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley", "Pressure Drop", "Double Fun", "Secrets", "Clues" and "Pride".
 The compilation album is known for most of its songs being either remixes, remakes or revoiced, with the exception of songs 5, 10, 14 and 15.
Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13, 1961) is an American musician.
 He is the lead singer, occasional backing vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, theremin player and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips.
Clues is the sixth solo album by Robert Palmer, released in 1980.
 It has a rockier, new wave edge compared to his previous releases.
 The album peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart and No. 31 in the UK in 1980.
 The album also peaked at No. 1 in Sweden, No. 3 in France, No. 15 in the Netherlands and No. 42 in Italy.
 Donald Guarisco of AllMusic described "Clues" as "one of Robert Palmer's strongest and most consistent albums", despite being somewhat short at 31 minutes.
Zaireeka is the eighth studio album by the alternative rock band The Flaming Lips.
 Released on October 28, 1997, the experimental rock album consists of four Compact Discs. Each of its eight songs consists of four stereo tracks, one from each CD.
 The album was designed so that when played simultaneously on four separate audio systems, the four CDs would produce a harmonic or juxtaposed sound.
 The discs can also be played in different combinations, omitting one, two or three discs.
 The album's title is a portmanteau of two words: "Zaire", chosen as a symbol of anarchy after Wayne Coyne heard a radio news story about the political instability of the African nation, and "eureka" (literally: "I have found it"), an expression of joyous discovery.
Very Best of Robert Palmer is a 1995 compilation album by British singer Robert Palmer.
 Re-issued in 1997 with the addition of "Addicted To Love '97".
A paleocontinent or palaeocontinent is a distinct area of continental crust that existed as a major landmass in the geological past.
 There have been many different landmasses throughout Earth’s time.
 They range in sizes, some are just a collection of small microcontinents while others are large conglomerates of crust.
 As time progresses and sea levels rise and fall more crust can be exposed making way for larger landmasses.
 The continents of the past shaped the evolution of organisms on Earth and contributed to the climate of the globe as well.
 As land masses break apart species are separated and that were once the same now have evolved to their new climate.
 The constant movement of these landmasses greatly determines the distribution of organisms on the Earth’s surface.
 This is evident with how similar fossils are found on completely separate continents.
 Also, as continents move, mountain building events (orogenies) occur, causing a shift in the global climate as new rock is exposed and then there is more exposed rock at higher elevations.
 This causes glacial ice expansion and an overall cooler global climate.
 Which effects the overall global climate trend of the Earth.
 The movement of the continents greatly affects the overall dispersal of organisms throughout the world and the trend in climate throughout the Earth’s history.
 Examples include Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia, which collided together during the Caledonian orogeny to form the Old Red Sandstone paleocontinent of Laurussia.
 Another example includes a collision that occurred during the late Pennsylvanian and early Permian time when there was a collision between the two continents of Tarimsky and Kirghiz-Kazakh.
 This collision was caused because of their askew convergence when the paleoceanic basin closed.
La France a un incroyable talent (English: France has incredible talent ), previously known as Incroyable Talent is a French television programme, based on the Got Talent series.
 It debuted on M6 on 2 November 2006, presented by Alessandra Sublet.
Gummy Song Fetus is a three-track EP consisting of a USB drive embedded inside a gummy fetus.
 It was first hand-delivered to Love Garden record store in Lawrence, Kansas by Wayne Coyne before its official release date of June 25, 2011, where the early gummy fetuses sold out quickly.
 Being that the gummy fetuses are smaller than the $150 Gummy Skulls released previously in April 2011, they were originally priced at $30, as opposed to the former's price.
 Songs were recorded at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York, Steven's computer, Michael's musical M.A.S.H., and Wayne's house in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March–May 2011.
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
 He was known for his distinctive, soulful voice, eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, blues, and sartorial acumen.
 He found success both in his solo career and with the Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the UK and the US.