The singer did what no one else could. hit the "daughter" of the main US chart with a song in Russian. In 2007, the track peaked at number 41 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks. "I Will" had a chance to hit the Billboard Hot 100, if not for the rule that songs not released in the United States fly past the "hot hundred" of the cradle of show business.
Valeria - Wild!
In 2009, very unexpectedly, the singer's single hit the Billboard Hot Dance Club. The chart shows the popularity of songs in American nightclubs.
The track debuted at #48 and it was a national event. Almost all Russian publications wrote about the stunning success of not the most popular singer in Russia. In order to make it clear what kind of musical Chomolungma Valeria conquered, the publications specified that Britney Spears' "American Dream" single then occupied the 45th line. Over time, the track managed to reach the 25th position and stay on the chart for more than 10 weeks.
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The group has several tracks at once, which flashed in various international charts. "Mama Lover" peaked at number 49 on the Japan Hot 100 (Japan's national chart). And Mi Mi Mi - up to the 88th line. The English-language version of "Mama Lyuba" also aired in Mexico, reaching the 19th place on the Mexico Airplay (radio chart). Residents of the Netherlands liked Mi Mi Mi more: in the Netherlands Digital Songs (download chart), the single peaked at number 8. But most of all, Serebro is loved in Italy. Four songs of the group appeared in the download chart: Mama Lover, Mi Mi Mi, Kiss and Gun.
Julia Kova
Singer Yuliya Kova quite successfully debuted on the international market. In 2008, her single Beep Beep peaked at number 27 on the Hot Dance Club Songs. And the song Sorry appeared on the Japan Hot 100, peaking at number 88. In Japan, the singer enjoyed such success that it was even planned to release a specialized version of the album "This is me." But due to disagreements with the record company, the release was cancelled.
Timati - Welcome to St. Tropez (feat. DJ Antoine)
The 2009 single reached number 1 on the Billboard Luxembourg Digital Songs, number 2 on the German chart (the video was in hot rotation on local MTV), number 7 in Austria and France, and number 9 on the Billboard Global Dance. Songs. 145 million views on YouTube!
"PPK" - Resurrection
The Russian electronic group first conquered the Internet, and then the national hit parade of Great Britain.
In 2001, the track "Resurrection" (Resurrection) hit the rotation of BBC Radio One. Perhaps due to this, the single soon reached number three on the UK Singles Charts. The track was based on a motif from the soundtrack of the Soviet film "Siberiada", written by Eduard Artemyev.
"Gorky Park" - Try to Find Me
And now let's remember about the artifact of ancient times that broke out from behind the Iron Curtain immediately after it rusted. The band's self-titled debut disc sold over 300,000 copies in the US. It was in 1989. In "hot" figures, this is a peak 80th line and two weeks in the overall standings on the Billboard 200 chart. Only one song managed to get into the Billboard Hot 100. Try To Find Me peaked at number 81. A relatively successful group was still in Norway and Denmark.
On the wave of interest in Russia at that time, many producers tried to find and promote someone, but it didn’t work out very well. One can only recall the group "Aquarium", whose longplay Radio Silence was on the 198th place Billboard in the same 1989.
Alsou - Before You Love Me
After a successful performance at Eurovision, the singer began to be promoted as the Russian Britney Spears. But something went wrong in the singer's PR team, and her single Before You Love Me was able to debut in the UK Singles Chart in 2001 only at number 27 and stay on the charts for only three weeks. Although it is worth recognizing that the track was no different from the endless pop chewing gum that then stormed the American and English charts.
Leonid Rudenko - Everybody
The DJ's career began after he, rejected by Russian record companies, began to send his recordings by e-mail to managers of Western labels. Soon he signed the first contract.
In 2009, the single "Everybody" entered the UK National Chart. Debuting in 24th place, he left the hundred in just three weeks. The single later peaked at number two on the Upfront Club Chart's Top 100 Tracks of the Year list.
t.A.T.u.
Three singles hit the main UK hit parade: Not Gonna Get Us, All About Us and All the Things She Said, thanks to which she became the first Russian group to reach the top of this chart. The song was in the lead for four weeks.
The group also achieved success in the United States. The debut English-language album, for example, peaked at number 13 on the Billboard 200.
But most of all t.A.T.u. loved in Japan. Here the record 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane sold 1.8 million copies. At that time, these were record sales among foreign artists. By the way, after the collapse of the group, one of the ex-members again submitted to Billboard. The remix of Lena Katina's single Never Forget was able to reach the top of the magazine's dance chart.
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Nobody in the world knows Soviet and Russian pop musicians. Especially in the West. Nevertheless, musicians from Russia at different times fell into 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 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 British album chart in 1972, reached the 16th position and lasted 15 weeks in it.
By the way, his music is so popular in the world that it was even used in such famous films as 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
The success of Gorky Park in the US cannot be overstated. 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 Gorky Park sold well in general - 300 thousand copies sold in America alone - this is a 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" she got to 27th place for only a week, during the period when they tried to promote it in Europe after 2nd place at 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
A famous, sad and beautiful story, as a result of which the great pop singer is 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, has become the most famous musical group from Russia in recent times. Suffice it to say that in the West the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is known as the 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. She enjoys particular success in Austria, where she received citizenship. Also lives in New York. Her recordings are constantly on the classical music charts, 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
Bloody viral hit "Bad Motherfucker" by the Russian band Biting Elbows, filmed in the first person and therefore more like an action video game than a music video. The clip was publicly noted by Samuel L. Jackson and Darren Aronofsky. 24.6 million views on Youtube.
, .A lot of time has passed from the first charts to today. The criteria for evaluating the "marketability" and popularity of musicians have changed. They are influenced by various factors - from moral values to the state of world financial policy.
But there are celebrities whose popularity the Pope himself will not undertake to challenge. The 25 most expensive artists whose albums sell out faster than hot cakes will be discussed below.
25. Rod Stewart - 76 million copies
Six of his albums and six singles have topped the UK charts. 16 singles by Rod Stewart entered the American top 10. He can rightly be considered one of the most successful solo artists of our time.
24. Britney Spears - 80 million
Britney is one of pop's greatest stars, having achieved fame at a young age. Its commercial success is comparable to that of Madonna and Michael Jackson. True, her record company's claim of selling 200 million singles is somewhat exaggerated.
23. Phil Collins - $85+ million
This musician has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His name is immortalized in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sales of his albums worldwide exceed 150 million copies. But there are only 85 million officially released singles.
22. Metallica - 90 million
The band's self-titled album, released in 1991, has sold over 16 million copies in the United States. This made the record the best-selling record of the entire SoundScan era. Metallica is without a doubt one of the most commercially successful bands of our time. Its worldwide sales are estimated at over 120 million copies.
21. Aerosmith - 90+ million
This is one of the "long-livers" groups. It has been around for over four decades and has sold over 150 million copies of its albums throughout its history.
20. Barbara Streisand - 97 million
She has 50 gold, 30 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums. With such "baggage" Barbara managed to become one of the best-selling artists. In addition, she is one of the few singers who also won the Oscar, Grammy and Tony awards.
19. Bruce Springsteen - 100 million
A hard-working artist who has received many awards for his music, including Grammys, a couple of Golden Globes, Oscars and others. Bruce is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his latest album, High Hopes, has reached 100 million worldwide sales.
18. Billy Joel - 100+ million
He is the third best selling artist in America. Only Elvis and Garth Brooks overtook him. His albums Greatest Hits Vol I and II went platinum 23 times. Of course, there was a place for such a musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
17. The Rolling Stones - 100+ million
Many will be surprised, but one of the most popular bands has not sold as many albums as it seems. Official sales - just over 100 million. At the same time, the Voodoo Lounge Tour and Big Bang Bang rolled tours became top in the 90s and 2000s, respectively.
16. U2 - 105 million
A small Irish project grew into something colossal thanks to the band's charismatic frontman, Bono. Over the entire history of its existence, the team has won 22 Grammys. This is more than any other group. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
15. Queen - 105+ million
A huge number of their songs took first place in the American, British and many other world charts. The Greatest Hits album is considered the best-selling album in British history.
14. AC/DC - 110 million
The Back in Black album alone is worth 40 million worldwide sales, of which 22 million in the US. Their official sales are 110 million, but in reality the numbers should be much higher.
13 Whitney Houston - $112 million
12. Eminem - 115 million
He is the best selling hip hop artist of the 2000s. 45 million copies of his albums have been sold in the US alone. Around the world, the numbers are much higher. And that's just physical sales.
11. Pink Floyd - 115+ million
Their sales will not be able to fully describe the values of their musical heritage. Philosophical texts, unique sound experiments, complex and bright performances - Pink Floyd had a huge impact on many musicians of our time.
10. Celine Dion - 125 million
Her career took off after Eurovision. Now Celine has two singles with sales of over a million copies, and Dion's album D'eux has become the most successful French-language record. She has many awards and prizes, and it seems that she does not intend to stop.
9. Mariah Carey - 130 million
The list of her commercial achievements is long. Meraya managed to stay at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks. But instead of talking about her and her merits, it's better to listen to a few tracks of the star.
8. Eagles - 130+ million
The most commercially successful American group. Their album Greatest Hits (1971 - 1975) shares first place with Jackson's Thriller in the top of the best-selling albums.
7. Led Zeppelin - 140 million
They are second only to The Beatles in America. What else can be added?
6. Garth Brooks - $145 million
Garth is called the king and he is truly a great performer. Brooks has been America's best-selling artist since the beginning of the SoundScan era.
5. Elton John - 162 million
He stood at the helm of the pop-rock and rock movements of the 70s and quite deservedly received the title of world-class star. And with it an unofficial 250 million sales worldwide.
4. Madonna - 166 million
Madonna is so cool that her name is even included in the Guinness Book of Records. The singer is officially recognized as the best-selling female performer of all time.
3. Michael Jackson - 175 million
Although his labels' figures for selling 750 million copies are exaggerated, there is no doubt that he is the King of Pop. During his career, Jackson set many records. Wrote the most commercially successful Thriller album, for example, or directed the best-selling music video.
2 Elvis Presley - $210 million
The only solo artist to break the 200 million sales barrier. But the worst thing is that the US Recording Industry Association began to record his commercial success only in 1958. And this means that Elvis has significantly more achievements than 90 gold, 52 platinum and 25 multi-platinum albums.
1. The Beatles - 265 million
The Beatles have become a symbol of the era. And if their albums keep selling like that over the next two decades, The Beatles could be the first band to break the 300 million mark.
