The most popular performers. TOP rating Singers, country: Russia
Soviet and Russian pop musicians no one in the world knows. Especially in the West. Nevertheless, musicians from Russia different time hit the Western charts.
All attempts to promote and impose our popular music on the Western public failed. Russian pop music is very secondary and backward, both technologically and stylistically.
But it has already become a good tradition to hang noodles to the Russian public about the successes of certain performers in the West. It comes down to the ridiculous.
Kirkorov traveled to Monte Carlo for The World Music Awards - a show of the best-selling artists in their countries, while finding a person in Russia who has Kirkorov's album is quite difficult. Pugachev, as you know, in 1997 took only 15 place out of 25 at the useless Eurovision.
Sergey Lazarev sings in English for some reason, the human brain is generally unable to master it. Iosif Prigozhin, whose obsession was to push Valeria to the West, once stated in a paid article in a British newspaper that his wife had sold 100 million albums in Russia.
The rapper Timati had the biggest success when the Swiss DJ Antoine made a remix for Timati's song Welcome to St. Tropez. The song went around the top of the charts in the world, except for the UK and the US. In Switzerland, the song took sixth place at the end of the year. This is the peak for our variety performers for Lately.
Which of our musicians really achieved high places in the Western (and this, in the musical sense, primarily the USA and Great Britain) charts and is generally more or less known in the West.
1. Composer Aram Khachaturian - 1972
One of the recordings of the music of his ballet "Spartacus" called Spartacus, which Khachaturian made together with the London symphony orchestra, hit the UK Albums Chart in 1972, reached number 16 and stayed there for 15 weeks.
By the way, his music is so popular in the world that it was even used in such famous films like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, James Cameron's Aliens and Tinto Brass's Caligula.
2. Boris Grebenshchikov - 1989
His album Radio Silence, released in England and the US, reached #198 on the Billboard200, despite being recorded with the then super-popular Eurythmics. In the video - BG's performance on the popular TV show David Letterman.
3. Gorky Park-1990
Success Gorky Park in the United States cannot be exaggerated. They did not conquer America. One need only look at their achievements in the charts. In the Billboard Hot 100, they were noted only by the single Try To Find Me (81st place and 6 weeks on the chart), and on the Billboard 200 - the album Gorky Park (80th place and 21 weeks on the chart).
But in general, Gorky Park sold well - 300 thousand copies sold in America alone - this is very good result. The group achieved much more success in Scandinavia. Gorky Park in Norway took 9th place, and the single Bang - 5th. In Denmark, the album Moscow Calling even went platinum.
4. Alsu-2000
With the song Before you love Me "under Britney Spears" got to 27th place for just a week, during the period when they tried to promote it in Europe after 2nd place in Eurovision.
5. PPK-2001
The Rostov trance project PPK with the release of a separate single ResuRection (Eduard Artemiev's melody from the film "Siberiada" by Andrei Konchalovsky with the voice of Yuri Gagarin) debuted in the UK immediately in third place!
The song became the first track from Russia to get into the hot rotation of the BBC Radio One radio station. Then ResuRection was released in other countries, where it also charted successfully - 5th in the Netherlands, 9th in Belgium, and 15th in France and 36th in Australia.
6. Tattoo-2003
In 2002, the English version of their album "200 in the opposite direction" was released and "Tatu" became generally the most popular Russian group in the world. The girls did not become stars of the first magnitude, and their success was not so long, but they sold about 10 million of their records abroad. This is an unattainable result for Russian performers.
The English-language album is now gold in four countries and platinum in Europe as a whole, the song "All the Things She Said" occupied the first line of the British chart for several weeks, and the cover of The Smiths in 2009 sounded in the TV series "Gossip Girl".
7. Leonid Agutin - 2007
The author of The Barefoot Boy and husband of Anzhelika Varum graduated from the Moscow Jazz School and from his youth was fond of not only pop music, but also a variety of acoustic guitar music - from jazz to flamenco. In the early 2000s, Agutin began to play concerts, and then he recorded the album "Cosmopolitan Life" together with Al di Meola, an American virtuoso of the genre. In Germany, the album had more than good sales.
8. Eduard Khil - 2009
Famous, sad and beautiful story, as a result of which the great pop singer known in the world as "Mr. Trololo". On November 26, 2009, a RealPapaPit user uploaded the vocalization "I'm very happy because I'm finally returning home" to YouTube - today this video has 19 million 700 thousand views.
They say that the singer was even offered an international tour - but he refused. Both Gawker and The New York Times wrote about Khil's death.
9. Pussy Riot-2012
This is the only group here that has not been on the Western charts, but it is impossible not to mention it. Musically, it's a comical story. The group, not a single song of which no one really heard anywhere, became the most famous musical group from Russia recently. Suffice it to say that in the West the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is known as Pussy Riot Church.
Shortly after the arrest of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, musicians around the world began to support them, ranging from Madonna and Paul McCartney to Mike Patton and The Knife and Die Antwoord.
10. Anna Netrebko - 2007-present
The opera singer was able to achieve real world fame, including the United States. Special success she enjoys in Austria, where she received citizenship. Also lives in New York. Her records are constantly on the charts. classical music, but in some countries they also get into the general music charts. Especially in Austria and Germany. So 15 Netrebko albums got into the Austrian chart .
Bonus: The World's Most Famous Russian Music Video
Blood viral hit "Bad Motherfucker" from Russian group Biting Elbows, shot from a first-person perspective and therefore more like an action video game than music video. The clip was publicly noted by Samuel L. Jackson and Darren Aronofsky. 24.6 million views on Youtube.
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From year to year, the preferences of the public change. New performers appear, old ones are forgotten. This rating presents the top popular Russian singers for 2018.
Egor Creed
Date of birth: June 25, 1994
The young and ambitious singer continues to break into the charts and enter various ratings, taking first positions. Definitely, this rating could not do without the favorite of the female public.
Sergey Lazarev
Date of birth: April 1, 1983
Another popular, successful, stylish and very talented performer. From year to year it becomes more and more popular. In addition to annual successes and breakthroughs, one should not forget about the worthy representation of the country at Eurovision in 2016.
Dima Bilan
Date of birth: December 24, 1981
And this singer is the only one among the Russians who was able to win the Eurovision Song Contest. Now the singer can often be found in various judging teams. music competitions. Well, the creativity of the star does not stand still. Bright clips and music tracks continue to win awards and places in the charts.
Emin
Date of birth: December 12, 1979
Businessman and musician Azerbaijani origin, which fit perfectly into Russian show business. The performer has a lot of duet works in the piggy bank that blow up radio stations (Ani Lorak, Maxim Fadeev, Grigory Leps and many others). Bright and at the same time lyrical Emin definitely deserves a place in this rating.
Vasily Vakulenko
Date of birth: April 20, 1980
Russian musician, TV and radio host, actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Creative aliases Basta, Noggano. This person has many achievements in the piggy bank that cannot be ignored.
Timati
Date of birth: August 15, 1983
Better known as a rap artist. But this top could not do without this artist, who has many musical and business projects behind him. Popularity is growing more and more.
Alexey Vorobyov
Date of birth: January 19, 1988
A very lively and charming artist. Russian performer, TV series and film actor, director, winner of the Ice and Fire project, represented Russia at Eurovision in 2011. These and many other achievements make him one of the most popular performers.
Djigan
Date of birth: August 2, 1985
Better known as a rap artist. The family and at the same time media artist continues to occupy the places of popular charts.
Philip Kirkorov
Date of birth: April 30, 1967
The real king of Russian pop music. Since 2008 - People's Artist Russian Federation. You can listen to the achievements of this artist day and night, so he is still included in the ratings of the most popular performers.
Alexander Panayotov
Date of birth: July 1, 1984
For a long time, there was a lull on the singer's creative front. But his successful comeback blew up radio stations and annual music awards.
Grigory Leps
Date of birth: July 16, 1962
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. The artist has an endless number of awards and achievements, starting from Soviet era. One of the few performers who have a very wide age range of listeners. Among other things, he is a composer, producer and member of the International Union of Variety Artists.
Valeriy Meladze
Date of birth: June 23, 1965
Performer of Georgian origin. His voice and timbre cannot be confused with anyone else. Multiple winner music awards. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and People's Artist Chechen Republic.
Sergei Shnurov
Date of birth: April 13, 1973
The film actor, TV presenter, artist and scandalous leader of the Leningrad group in one person is also included in the rating of the most popular singers.
Sergey Zhukov
Date of birth: May 22, 1976
The leader of the "Hands Up" group continued his work under own name. In the early 2000s, the Hands Up group was definitely on the list of the most popular projects. But even now this artist could not get past the real rating.
Arthur Pirozhkov
Date of birth: September 10, 1974
An artist with a humorous beginning, who moved into the music show business and is starting to gain momentum. A very successful composition #Kakcelentano blew up many radio stations.
Not far from authoritative and foreign, namely, British, magazine New Music Express conducted a survey during which twenty prominent musical performers in the history of music. More than 10 million people took part in the survey, which indicates a relatively large audience coverage. However, like everything else, the results of this action are very, very controversial. But that's what statistics is for, to have nothing to do with life. For example, for some reason, my interests constantly do not converge, so to speak, with people's jury in the Miss Bikini contest and others like it.
Deceased leads the poll Michael Jackson, with the result in 9.2
points from 10
possible recognized as the best performer in all the same history of music. Not wanting to slander this wonderful "singer", however, for me his victory is rather a big misunderstanding than a regularity. The performer is primarily a vocalist, and which vocalist from Jackson? If we compare him with Kirkorov, then he is incomparable, but when such names are next to him in the list as competitors, then the singer’s first place looks simply ridiculous. Yes, he is a great showman, a super duper dancer, the best performer of pop ideas among the masses, but by no means the best songwriter. That's what it means to leave on time. Where is the world heading?
In general, all polls, ratings and other measurements of pathos that are unknown to anyone, are called differently, but they carry one old, like the world, question - who (what) is more popular. And what do the best performers have to do with it, the best guitarists, best songs And so on? All these things are very subjective.
The second place in the top was taken by the frontman of the group Queen - Freddie Mercury, with their 8.39 points. He has not yet grown to the glorious Michael what to say. To be completely sure of this, you can listen to their joint song for comparison State Of Shock, taken recently to the public from dark corners recording studios, Where Freddie completely fades against the background of wonderful moans and squeals of a colleague.
Lennon placed in fifth place plant, McCartney, Cobain and even lower.
Almost half of the elect, namely nine people, are no longer present in the world, but relatively young talent Matthew Bellamy from the recently popular group Muse managed to gain a foothold even in the middle of the list. The rating also included two representatives of the fair sex - Aretha Franklin And Tina Turner. Discrimination, and more!
So, the list itself best performers of all times and peoples from New Music Express. If you also hope to see the rest of the greatest vocalists and performers in it, the same Dio, Klaus Meine, Joplin, Bonnie Tyler or similar, figs to you. One thing pleases that the ubiquitous Lady Kva-Kva and Britney, who is Spears, for some reason did not penetrate here, and the old Madonna is not observed either.
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In general, I found out that the service changed its policy somewhat in 2015 and simplified the registration process. True, the subscription price was raised to 390 rubles, which caused a lot of indignation and spitting in the spirit of “workzilla is a scam!”.
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We click on the “Executor” icon, after which we will be asked to fill out our specialization and offered to pass a test for knowledge of the rules, which I would rather call a test for general adequacy and the ability to click the mouse. It looks roughly like the picture.
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Rules Quiz
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As of September 2016, Workzilla's test was as follows:
Questions may change from time to time, but you can easily find all the answers on Google.
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To be honest, for how long I tested the establishment of new accounts on workzilla, I constantly received it. I carefully re-read paragraph 3, it turns out that I forgot to put a full stop at the end of the sentence. Corrected - it was successful.
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The last such album was Amore e morte, released last year. Release lost in the stream new music and did not become as successful as, for example, Cool Cool Death!, released ten years ago. Despite this, Mujuice is still popular today, musicians such as Zemfira Ramazanova do not hesitate to collaborate with him, and the performer himself is a welcome participant in major Russian and foreign festivals.
2. Antokha MC
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In Anton's work, you can find echoes of 5'nizza and Mikhey, but in general it is quite original - it is not hip-hop in the classical sense of the term. The music is influenced by funk and reggae, and the accompaniment is an additional highlight, which in some songs is played by a trumpet.
3. Medzhikul
The absence of the St. Petersburg group "Medzhikul" in the rotation of radio and TV is quite possibly a temporary phenomenon. Their debut album “All About Martha” has everything to please almost any listener: you can dance to the songs of “Medzhikul” both incendiary and slow dancing, they want to sing along, while the music itself is very far from pop music that has set the teeth on edge.
"Medzhikul" is perhaps the first band in Russia that performs music in the rhythm and blues genre of the 70s - the so-called Motown Sound. Petersburgers skillfully combine the features of this genre with modern musical techniques and funny lyrics in Russian, as a result, their compositions sound fresh and familiar at the same time.
4. Harajiev Smokes Virginia!
A group from Kazan, which started in 2009 with downhole mat-rock, now performing indie rock with elements of pop music. The group has six full-fledged releases, each of which, probably, forever settled in the memory of my smartphone.
There are only three people in the group, the main instrumental backbone is drums, bass, guitar and vocals. Other instruments are used in HSV recordings, but this minimum set is enough to perform songs at concerts. If you like perky and romantic guitar music, do not understand English lyrics and have no prejudices about high male vocals, then Harajiev Smokes Virginia! you will like it.
5 Motorama
Rostov-on-Don gave fans of hip-hop "Casta", and fans of modern independent music - a couple of Vlad and Irina Parshin, who stood at the origins of the Motorama projects, "Morning" and "Bergen Kremer" ("Summer in the City"). Motorama is considered to be the main project of the musicians: the band's discography includes four full-length and two mini-albums, and the tour map extends far beyond Russia.
Motorama's work is usually classified as post-punk and twi-pop. Simple progressions and melodies, 4/4 time signature and minimalist accompaniment make Motorama's music simple and enjoyable.
6. Thank you
"Musical group from Moscow" is full text annotations in the "Thank you" community "VKontakte". The members don't try to trump with a variety of style tags and don't compare themselves to genre hegemons. The band's style is really hard to describe without resorting to boring musical terms. talking in simple words, "Thank you" - perky and sometimes experimental guitar rock with intelligent lyrics in their native language.
7. BCH
BCC is a project of the Moscow musician Viktor Isaev. It all started with the album "Mignon", released in 2014, unusual both in form and content. High-quality R&B and soul are not very common in Russian music, and BCC not only became a good alternative to James Blake, but also released an original experimental release. "Mignon" is the album where very un-Russian music is combined with the most Russian lyrics - poems of poets of the Silver Age.
The latest release of the BCC "Hellenic Secret" was already recorded with the author's texts. The music itself has also undergone changes: the songs are different from each other and combine echoes of many directions - from trip-hop to retrowave.
8.Pinkshinyultrablast
Pinkshinyultrablast is a shoegaze band from St. Petersburg and the only Russian band that Pitchfork likes to write about. Shoegaze is an alternative rock genre that originated in England in the late 80s. The music of this style is characterized by specific work with guitar effects and the detached behavior of musicians on stage, absorbed in this work.
In Russia, the shoegaze music boom of the 80s and 90s went unnoticed, so this genre is still not popular with a wide audience. Pinkshinyultrablast do not count on success with the Russian listener: they give concerts abroad much more often than in Russia.
9. On-The-Go
A group from Tolyatti, which started in hometown from downhole dance rock and later changed both genre and place of residence. After moving to the capital of Togliatti, he took Xuman Records under his wing, and the very first release of In The Wind marked the beginning of the group's work in a new style. Now On-The-Go is a Moscow-based indie-pop band that doesn't sound Russian at all.
10. Sirotkin
Moscow bard Sergei Sirotkin proves year after year that in Russia one can become popular artist just playing beautiful music. The pursuit of fashion, the desire to turn creativity into bold experiments - this is not about Sirotkin. Here - only a guitar and a young man with a beautiful voice.
