Singers from Russia do not enjoy world popularity, but in Russian-speaking countries their success surpasses many Western stars. The secret is simple - they, like no one else, understand the tastes and preferences of the Russian-speaking audience. So we present to you 10 most popular singers in Russia. Pay attention to the 10 most popular female singers of 2015.
Like a hurricane that sweeps away absolutely everything in its path, the singer Zemfira burst into our lives. Deafening, unbridled, hard vocals, caustic words, and at the same time the image of a charming girl. All this could not but attract attention to her. Zemfira bewitched us with a mirror-like glow of her eyes from under her dark hair.
Znamenia is a Russian folk-rock singer, soloist and founder of the group " ". She naturally has a very pleasant voice with a wide range. Pelageya sings Russian folk songs.
An amazing choice for such a young girl, given that now folklore is not at the peak of popularity among her peers.
Famous Russian singer. She writes lyrics and composes music for them. The beginning of her musical career was the victory in the project " Star Factory - 4". She is now a judge on the show herself.” X factor". Irina often calls herself " man with cleavage”, because she is used to solving problems with male perseverance and onslaught.
Tall brunette with kind eyes. The unimaginably charismatic singer Slava won the hearts of millions after her first appearance on stage. A bright and unique image, a sparkling sense of humor, all this instantly raised the ratings of television and radio programs, as soon as she appeared there.
To date, it has received national recognition. The owner of one of the most significant music awards in Russia - the Golden Gramophone, which she received in 2005 for the song " Cool».
The take-off of a career began with a victory in a music competition " New Wave 2003". Her songs " Veins of the river”, “Cool”, “You say”, “Give me five minutes", for a long time took a leading position in all charts. As a child, Anastasia danced, played the piano, trumpet and even wooden spoons?
The real name of the singer is Marina Maksimova. Born in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan. Her older brother and friends, with whom she spent a lot of time and gave her the nickname - " ". At the age of 14, Marina graduated from a music school in piano and immediately began writing songs.
Subsequently, they were included in her debut album. Even while studying at school, she participated in many city music competitions. The singer made her first attempts to record her own songs together with the group " Pro Z". These were the songs Passerby”, “Alien” and “Start". The latter enjoyed great popularity on local radio and became a hit in Kazan.
After the release of the song Oh god what a man", Natalie's star rose again in the firmament of Russian show business. However, according to the singer, she never felt forgotten. All these years she has been touring and participating in various shows. However, we still miss her tender and lyrical song " Wind was blowing from sea”, with which many fond memories are associated.
Elvira's story is reminiscent of the plot of the classic fairy tale about Cinderella. Elvira Tugusheva was born in Saratov. Since childhood, she dreamed of performing on the big stage. Her first song All is decided has gone viral on the internet. Now Elvira's songs are played on almost all television and music radio channels in the country. She received an award Fashion People Awards» in category « discovery of the year».
Often, in show business, a young and charismatic performer can capture the hearts of an audience of all ages at once. Her songs are greeted with joy by a young audience, and the older generation rejoices at the opportunity to make a nostalgic journey into the past with their help. Nyusha is included in the top 10 most beautiful women in Russia in 2015.
« I could describe my life in one sentence: the race for popularity"- Said the singer once. Become a winner at any cost. To always remain the most beautiful, talented, charming and attractive was the main goal of her life.
She is not only a singer and figure skater, but also an actress. Your first hit On the seas"She recorded together with the singer Arash.
Russian singers are not only talented and successful, but also beautiful. A selection of the most beautiful Russian singers.
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.
Timati's rapper 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 has 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.
, .Modern show business surprises every year with new faces. New popular Russian singers appear on the starry Olympus more and more often, delighting fans with original, and sometimes quite banal repertoire.
The most popular singers in Russia shine at the largest concert venues, decorate glossy magazines, perform at important events and excite fans from TV screens.
Often, popular Russian singers try themselves in a different role, acting in films, or trying themselves as leading grandiose television projects, but at the same time they manage to successfully perform and tour not only in Russia, but also abroad.
Popular singers of Russia, who have long taken their place in the depths of show business, and already have their own audience of listeners and fans, cannot always boast of only impeccable vocal abilities, they have a special charm, charisma, and, to be honest, chic external data that are a defining feature of their development in show business.
Young popular Russian singers are confidently competing with Russian celebrities of the older generation, offering the public new songs, new presentation, new creative experiments.
Many popular singers in Russia, despite their star status, are very simple and open people who do not have star disease at all.
But there are popular Russian singers whose pathos rolls over. They are stellar in their behavior, in their demands, in their lifestyle.
Such popular Russian singers are not just artists, they behave and present themselves like true stars, which often stand out among the general mass of famous personalities in the world of show business.
Also in our photo top are popular Russian singers from young talents who have been on the stage for only a few years, but are already gathering thousands of concert halls, delighting their fans with good music.
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Heartbreaking chanson is performed by popular Russian singer Denis Maidanov 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 gums 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 breakup 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.
This time I made Top 25 the most beautiful Russian singers, which presents the singers of the national stage, as well as one opera singer. When compiling this rating, I took into account external data, photogenicity, not paying attention to the awards and merits of girls in the professional field.
25.Nyusha(at birth - Anna Shurochkina; a pseudonym is also used Nyusha; born August 15, 1990, Moscow) is a Russian singer.
24.Jasmine(real name - Sarah Manakhimova, born October 12, 1977 U, Derbent, Dagestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian pop singer, actress, model, TV presenter. Honored Artist of the Republic of Dagestan.
23. (born March 27, 1987) - Russian-Ukrainian singer, songwriter and composer, actress, winner "Star Factory-2", laureate of the music competition "New wave", television festival "Song of the year", National Television Award for Popular Music "Muz-TV Award".
22. (born December 13, 1983, Moscow, USSR) - Russian singer, performer of traditional Russian songs in modern processing, finalist of the competition "People's Artist-3". Often acts in different countries as an "ambassador" of Russian culture.
21. (born January 31, 1981, Voronezh) - Russian singer, actress. Took part in the international vocal competition "Big Apple-95" where she won the Grand Prix. Since then, her popularity has grown: she was the host of the program "Saturday evening" and channel "Star". In 2000 she starred in the musical "Formula of Joy", in 2001 - in the film "Hero of her novel", in 2004 - in the series "Bomb for the Bride".
20. (born March 1, 1980, Moscow) - Russian figure skater, actress, TV presenter and pop singer; former soloist of the group "Brilliant" (2003-2007). Films with her participation: "Club", "Dad of All Trades", "Taming of the Shrew", "Rzhevsky against Napoleon", etc.
19. (born May 10, 1986 in Astrakhan) - model, singer, TV presenter. She worked in the Podium and Tootsie groups, and is now building a solo career. From 2009 to 2010 she was the host and face of the TV channel World Fashion Channel.
18. (born December 25, 1983, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian singer, soloist of the Fabrika pop group, formed in 2002 on the Star Factory-1 project. Graduate of GMU them. Gnesins (department for the training of leaders of folk choirs and folklore ensembles).
17. (born August 30, 1985, Vytegra, Vologda region) - Russian singer, actress and TV presenter. Films: "The Bachelors", "Young and Happy", "Swan Paradise", "Three from Above", "The Crime Will Be Solved", "Love in the Big City", "In Love and Unarmed", "Heavenly Relatives".
16. Valeria(real name Alla Perfilova; born April 17, 1968, Atkarsk, Saratov Region) - Russian singer, Honored Artist of Russia (2005).
15. Zara(real name Zarifa Ivanova; born July 26, 1983, Leningrad, RSFSR) - pop singer and actress of Yezidi origin. Project participant "Star Factory-6" where she took 3rd place.
14. Sogdiana(real name - Oksana Nechitailo; born February 17, 1984, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR) - singer from Uzbekistan. Performs songs in Russian, Uzbek, French, English, Chechen. She is the author of some of her songs, and also had some experience in writing songs for other artists.
13. (born November 12, 1982, Volzhsky) - Russian singer, TV presenter, former soloist of the Russian female pop group "Brilliant" (2001-2007), after leaving the group, she began a solo career.
12. (born September 18, 1971, Krasnodar, USSR) - Russian opera singer, soprano. People's Artist of Russia.
10. (born August 21, 1977, Moscow, USSR) - Russian singer, soloist of the Russian pop group Vintage. Former soloist of the Russian pop group Lyceum (1997-2005).
9. barbarian(real name Elena Susova; born July 30, 1973 in Balashikha) is a Russian singer. Honored Artist of Russia (2010). She graduated from the Gnessin School and GITIS. She performed as part of the troupe of the State Theater of Variety Performances. The first solo album, which was called so - "Barbara" - the performer released in 2001. She also released the albums "Closer" (2003) and "Dreams" (2005).
8. Vera Brezhneva(real name Vera Kiperman; better known under a pseudonym; born February 3, 1982, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dnipropetrovsk region) - Ukrainian singer, actress, TV presenter, former member of the pop group VIA Gra (2003-2007)
7. (born October 2, 1982, Verkhny Kurkuzhin, Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) - Russian singer, former soloist of the Russian women's group Fabrika (from December 2002 to May 2010).
6. (born April 23, 1988 in Sochi) - singer gr. "Yin-Yang", actress of the youth series "Give Youth".
5. Alsou(maiden name - Safina; born June 27, 1983, Bugulma, Tatar ASSR, USSR) - Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2000), People's Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2010). UNESCO Artist for Peace (2011). In May 2000 she represented Russia at a music competition "Eurovision" where she took second place.
4. (born December 16, 1982, Kyiv) - pop singer of Russian origin, TV presenter, actress. Former soloist of the "golden composition" of the Ukrainian female pop group VIA Gra.
3. (better known by the stage names Tanya Tereshina, Tanya and Tanya; born May 3, 1979, Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic) - Russian singer and fashion model, ex-soloist of the Hi-Fi group.
2. (born September 27, 1978, Leningrad, USSR) - Russian singer, musician, composer, songwriter.
1. (born September 3, 1985, Sholokhovsky settlement, Rostov region, USSR) - Russian singer, title holder "Miss Russia 2006", former soloist of the Russian-Ukrainian female pop group VIA Gra (2008-2010). After leaving the group, she began a solo career, and also starred in the TV series "Happiness is somewhere nearby."
