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 on the biggest 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, 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 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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Who are they ... The most popular singers in Russia. Our photo rating of famous show business men
Where without the favorite of all women: a popular Russian singer and one of the richest performers Stas Mikhailov
The popular Russian singer Dzhigan boasts not only a good performance, but also a pumped up body. 
Most popular artists Russia: Emin Agalarov 
The most popular Russian singers of past years: Oleg Gazmanov 
The most popular singers in Russia: Valery Meladze 
Most popular artists Russia: Dan Balan 
Our list of the most popular artists continues Vladimir Presnyakov 
Popular Russian singer Dima Bilan 
The most popular Russian singers: one of the richest performers in Russia, Grigory Leps 
The most popular singers in Russia: young performer Alexei Vorobyov 
Popular Russian singer Sergey Lazarev 
Our list of the most popular singers in Russia could not miss the king Russian stage Philip Kirkorov 
The golden voice of Russia is also in the top ranking The most popular singers in Russia 
The legend of the Russian stage and the now quite successful popular singer of Russia Valery Leontiev 
The most popular Russian singers: rapper Timati 
The most popular singers in Russia: music is in his blood - Stas Piekha 
Girls' favorite Yegor Creed and a wonderful performer could not help but get into the top rating The most popular singers in Russia 
Long-haired, but still very popular Russian singer Leonid Agutin 
No longer "Tea for Two", but a very popular Russian singer Denis Klyaver 
The most popular singers in Russia: handsome brunette Dmitry Koldun 
Vlad Topalov deservedly got into the category of the Most Popular Singer of Russia 
Another performer with a piercing gaze made it to our rating Most Popular Russian performers: Heraclius 
The soloist of the Hands Up group "is also in our top The most popular performers in Russia 
Popular Russian singers: Alexey Chumakov 
Heartbreaking chanson is performed by popular Russian singer Denis Maidanov 45 years old, married, son, Vienna
Income:$7.5 million
Media/TV mention: 1651
Requests in Yandex: 580 527
In November 2016, Anna Netrebko made her debut in Bolshoi Theater, performing the title role in the opera Manon Lescaut. She took the stage with her husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov. Opera performers are also preparing for a big joint concert, which will take place on February 7, 2018 in Concert Hall Tchaikovsky. The conductor will be Vladimir Spivakov.
50 years old, divorced, two children, Moscow
Income:$7.4 million
Media/TV mention: 9091
Requests in Yandex: 5 393 640
Pop singer Philip Kirkorov has been in the star rating every year since its first release in 2005. In 2017, he was in second place for the third time, but he never took the first line. He earned the most in 13 years in 2014 - $ 12 million.
33 years old, single, daughter, Moscow
Income:$6.6 million
Media/TV mention: 2409
Requests in Yandex: 8 789 330
Since last year, Timati's income has more than doubled. Today, Timati's business empire is the Black Star music label, Black Star Burger burger chain, clothing line, Global Star marketing communications agency, software developer for music business Make It Music, 13 by Black Star barbershop, Black Star Sport football agency and BS Gaming company.
54 years old, married, four children, Moscow
Income:$6 million
Media/TV mention: 3216
Requests in Yandex: 11 544 800
In 2008, singer Grigory Leps first appeared in the ranking Forbes celebrities in 46th place and has not left it since then. For the last 5 years, he has occupied either the second or third position, competing either with Philip Kirkorov, or with Sergei Shnurov, or with Alexander Ovechkin.
Leva Bi-2: 44 years old, married, three children, Moscow
Shura Bi-2: 47 years old, married, two children, Moscow
Income:$5.7 million
Media/TV mention: 1458
Requests in Yandex: 5 059 234
Funds for the release of the new album "Event Horizon" Bi-2 collects, including through crowdfunding. The album should go on sale in autumn 2017.
In 2017, the artists recorded a video for new song"Whiskey", performed with musician John Grant, who writes music for songs by Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and Elton John. The video will be presented in September.
44 years old, married, two children, St. Petersburg
Income:$5 million
Media/TV mention: 5752
Requests in Yandex: 2 868 740
The leader of Leningrad, Sergei Shnurov, claims that his wife Matilda is in charge of finances in his family, how much money he has on the card, he does not know where he invests what he earns, in what currency he keeps it. Ksenia Sobchak for Forbes, he explains: “I don’t even worry about this at all. A person either produces money or saves it. This is not my profile. I think about how to earn them. And if I think about where to keep them, how to keep them, on what account, this is not my business.
40 years old, single, Moscow
Income:$5 million
Media/TV mention: 1171
Requests in Yandex: 2 611 820
In May 2017, the premiere of Renata Litvinova's play "The North Wind" took place at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, the music for the production was written by Zemfira.
40 years old, divorced, son, Moscow
Income:$4.3 million
Media/TV mention: 2337
Requests in Yandex: 2 689 348
23 years old, single, Moscow
Income:$4 million
Media/TV mention: 1309
Requests in Yandex: 10 632 100
Yegor Creed is Timati's ward of the Black Star label. Timati skillfully converts his popularity into his own profit - the producers claim that he takes more than half of the income of Creed and the musicians of the Black Star label. By the number of requests in Yandex, Yegor Creed is in second place among Russian stars- after Grigory Leps.
Valery Gergiev
Income$16.5 million
Concerts Behind incomplete year- from December 21, 2012 to November 29, 2013 - Gergiev, according to his schedule, will have to lead 211 concerts in Russia and abroad. In 2010, the Internet portal Bachtrack named Gergiev the most sought-after conductor in the world.
Opera In 2003, Gergiev returned Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen to the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre; more than a century ago, it was the St. Petersburg theater that staged the first Russian production these operas.
Scandal In November 2012 the union ballet troupe Mariinsky Theater sent a letter to the Ministry of Culture, where he accused the theater management of violating labor law and prejudice against artists. Gergiev called the letter "an emotional act", but promised to look into it.
Titles People's Artist of Russia, Ukraine, North Ossetia, five-time winner of the theater award " golden mask”, Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation.
Business Owns 15% of Eurodon, Russia's largest producer of turkey meat.
Hobby President of the Finnish Black Sauna Society.
Grigory Leps
Income$15 million
Patrons With billionaires, regulars Forbes list Grigory Lepsveridze, a former restaurant singer from Sochi, became friends with Iskander Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev in the 1990s, the partners helped the artist to "unwind" by spending $ 8 million.
Best Disk The album "Pence-nez" in 2011 became the best-selling in Russia (according to the company 2M), ahead of the collections of songs by Elena Vaenga and Stas Mikhailov.
Scandal In the winter of 2013, together with Stas Mikhailov and Valery Meladze, he spoke at an expanded meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the protection of personal rights in the information sphere. “I am an impulsive person, I will break someone, they will put me in jail, and let me serve it! Some creature comes to my house, I'll get it anyway! We are starting a fight with you! My darling can’t stand it, I will soon calm them all down, freaks!” - Leps turned to reporters ("Moskovsky Komsomolets", 2013).
Fees Last year, Leps became the main pop star in Russia: for each of the four anniversary concerts at Crocus City Hall in December 2012, he expert opinion, received $ 500,000, and for two concerts in St. Petersburg - $ 750,000. This record amounts fees for Russian performers.
Stas Mikhailov
Income$9.8 million
Career In his native Sochi, he sang in restaurants, sold cassettes with his songs, moved to Moscow in 1992, worked at the Variety Theater, and in 1997 released his first album, Candle.
Hit The song "Well, that's all" has collected more than 16 million views on YouTube.
Scandal In the spring of 2013, the court rejected Mikhailov's claim for 10 million rubles, which he demanded as compensation for the damage caused to him by the film "Understudy". Mikhailov considered that the image of the main character of the film, singer Mikhail Stasov, was completely written off from him, only offensive behavior was added to him.
Titles Honored Artist of Russia (2010), "Artist of the Year" according to the radio station "Chanson" (2009), laureate National Prize"Golden Gramophone" (2009).
Philip Kirkorov
Income$9.7 million
Quote“In general, I was the very first in this country to put on rhinestones, then everyone around without exception began to wear them, and only me was blamed for this” (OK! magazine, 2010).
Family Son Bulgarian singer Bedrosa Kirkorov met Alla Pugacheva at the age of 11, at 27 he married a 45-year-old prima donna, after 14 years the couple divorced.
Business Owner of two small second-hand clothing stores selling clothes Russian celebrities. Advertising of LG smartphones in the Euroset video.
Scandals In 2004, Kirkorov insulted the Rostov journalist Irina Aroyan during his press conference. In December 2010, at the rehearsal of the Golden Gramophone award, he beat the assistant director Marina Yablokova. She turned to the police, two weeks later the conflict was settled in the magistrate's court.
Achievements Received the annual World Music Award five times as the singer who sold the largest number discs price Russia.
Titles People's Artist of Chechnya (2006), Ingushetia (2006), Russia (2008), Ukraine (2008).
Nikolay Baskov
Income: $8.9 million
Career At the age of 22 he won All-Russian competition young opera singers.
Family In 2001 he married the daughter of his producer, businessman and former member of the Federation Council Boris Shpigel, in 2008 he divorced.
Titles People's Artist of Ukraine (2004), Chechnya (2005), Ingushetia (2007), Russia (2009), Moldova (2011).
Detail In the spring of 2012, he became the host of the Nikolai Baskov Marriage Agency TV show on the Russia-1 channel, but a few months later it was closed.
Income$5.6 million
Career In 2001, due to a conflict with her second husband and producer Alexander Shulgin, she stopped creative activity, returned to the stage in 2003, signing a contract with producer Iosif Prigogine, who became her third husband. According to the results of 2012, Valeria became the highest paid Russian singer(according to fees).
Event In 2013 she received the title People's Artist Russia.
Valeriy Meladze
Event In February 2013, together with Grigory Leps and Stas Mikhailov, he criticized journalists at an expanded meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, where the issue of protecting personal rights in the information sphere was discussed.
Hits The song "Heaven" (2010) has almost 9 million views on YouTube. The song "Light of the Departing Sun" (2012), performed with Vakhtang Kikabidze, has almost 7 million views.
Business Together with musicians Andrei Makarevich and Stas Namin, he owns a stake in the Rhythm Blues Cafe.
Oleg Gazmanov
Quote“My songs, the same “Officers”, men sing karaoke with vodka 3-4 times a day. I should get decent interest. But there is none of this” (“RIA Voronezh”, 2013).
Career First famous hit Gazmanov - a song about the missing dog "Lucy" (1988), which he performed with his little son Rodion. Posted by unofficial anthem Moscow, which was very much liked by the former mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov. The new authorities have different tastes. In the summer of 2013, they turned to Russian Railways with a request to stop playing the song “Moscow, the bells are ringing” on trains arriving at metropolitan stations.
Dima Bilan
Career The start of a career in the early 2000s was given by producer Yuri Aizenshpis, former director group "Kino". After the death of Aizenshpis in 2005, Yana Rudkovskaya, at that time the wife of businessman Viktor Baturin, became Bilan's new producer.
Achievements Participated twice in music competition Eurovision: in 2006 he took 2nd place, in 2008 - 1st place with the song Believe. Honored Artist of Ingushetia and Chechnya (2007), National artist Kabardino-Balkaria (2008).
Detail In 2012, he announced his intention to start a new musical project under the name by which he was named at birth - Victor Belan.
Income$3.8 million
Family Daughter former member group " Tender May» Vladimir Shurochkin. Father is a producer of the singer. At the age of 17, she changed her name in her passport from Anna to Nyusha.
Career Since winning the television show "STS Lights a Superstar" (2007), the singer has won music awards 33 times, including "Muz-TV 2013" ( best song- "Memories"), RU.TV 2012 ( best singer), "Glamour - Woman of the Year 2012" (singer of the year), "Golden Gramophone - 2012" (single "Memories"), "Golden Gramophone - 2011" (single "Choose a Miracle"), "Muz-TV 2012" (best song - "Higher").
Event In August 2012, she gave birth to her first child, she named her son Ivan. He plans to adopt a girl from an orphanage so that Ivan has a sister.
Career Performs songs own composition, more than 800 in total. In the 2011 tour, she gave more than 150 ticket concerts, including in the USA, Germany, and Israel.
Prizes"Chanson of the Year - 2013", laureate of "Song of the Year - 2012" (song "Where Was"), "Golden Gramophone - 2012" ("Where Was"), laureate of "Song of the Year - 2011" ("Chopin"), "Gold gramophone - 2011 "(" Keys ").
Yuri Bashmet
Quote“I love the word “ambition” very much… I still have the ambition to make the best of my orchestra. If I don’t think so, then there will be no forward movement” (“Snob”, 2008).
Career For the first time in history classical music made the viola solo musical instrument. Performs with an instrument made by the master Paolo Testore. With the ensemble "Soloists of Moscow" for 15 years, according to his own assessment, he traveled Earth 34.5 times (by distance).
Alla Pugacheva
Income$2.5 million
Event In February 2013, the singer closed her official website. The reason, according to media reports, was Pugacheva's new songs leaked to the Internet, performed by her at Christmas Meetings. The singer intended to record a disc and sell it, but the pirates prevented these plans.
Best Album The disc "Mirror of the Soul" (1977) was released with a circulation of about 10 million, including reissues.
Business Owns 17% of the Alla Pugacheva Song Theater concert complex under construction.
Income$2.5 million
Business The head of the production center Black Star Inc., founded in 2006. Owns shops fashion clothes Black Star by Timati.
Clips He starred in music videos with rap stars Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and Diddy, as well as with Grigory Leps.
Income$2.5 million
Event New album“Live in your head” (2013) was made available for free listening on Yandex the day before the release, and within the first 14 hours it was listened to more than 1 million times. In Russian iTunes, the album was sold for 149 rubles and topped the chart of music sales leaders for several weeks.
Detail Together with director Renata Litvinova, she became a co-producer of the film " The last tale Rita" (2012).
fans Billionaires Roman Abramovich, Alexander Mamut, Petr Aven, Vadim Belyaev invite Zemfira to speak at their events.
Quote“When I was 16 years old, I said: “Thank you all for clear life plans, I have my own fuzzy one” (Colta, 2013).
Career Rapper from Rostov-on-Don Vasily Vakulenko is known not only as Basta, but also as Noggano and N1NT3ND0. He became interested in hip-hop while studying at the conductor's department of a music school.
Business Founder of the record label Gazgolder, publishing Russian rap and hip hop.
Start The group was founded in 1989 by producer Igor Matvienko and vocalist Nikolai Rastorguev. On February 14, the first hit "Old Man Makhno" was recorded in the studio of the Moscow Youth House.
Solo In 1996, Rastorguev released the collection "Four Nights in Moscow" from songs Beatles in their own performance.
Awards Nikolai Rastorguev - People's Artist of Russia (2002), holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2007), Order of Honor (2012).
Denis Matsuev
Income$1.7 million
Career He became a soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic, studying in the third year of the conservatory. In 1998, at the age of 23, he won the Tchaikovsky Competition. Since 2004, he has been holding the Stars on Baikal festival, and since 2009, the Crescendo festival. Has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchester National de France, the London symphony orchestra, La Scala Theater Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
Income$1.5 million
Family Married to tennis player Dmitry Ivanov, who is 12 years younger than the singer. This is her fifth marriage.
Album The disc "Format" (2005) was sold with a circulation of 700,000 copies.
Toy Maserati Spyder car.
Sergey Lazarev
Income$1.4 million
Quote“Gays are the same people, no different, talented, bright in absolutely different areas: and civil servants are gays, and politicians. It is everywhere around us. Not accepting gays is stupid, denying them too” (Heat.ru, 2013).
Conflict In December 2012, he demanded social network"VKontakte" removal of pirated copies of their tracks posted before the official release. In response, Pavel Durov posted a message: “I deleted all the tracks of Sergey Lazarev from VK. cultural property audio recordings on VKontakte has grown dramatically.
For a whole year, the stars work tirelessly, record new songs and entire albums, and also go on tour, giving all their best to them. At the end of each year, the American magazine Forbes publishes various ratings on its website to find out which of the stars in the past year was the best. The Russian Forbes is also not far behind and regularly announces lists of those who are in the top 10 of the annual rating, and who remain outsiders. Next, you will learn about the most "expensive" Russian stars and how much they earn.
Sergei Shnurov
43 years old, married, two children, St. Petersburg
Income:$11 million
Career. Sergey Shnurov studied as a theologian and engineer, tried his hand at different professions- from caretaker to marketing director. The frontman of "Leningrad" Shnurov did not immediately become, but only after the release of the first album "Bullet". In 2008, he announced the dissolution of Leningrad and took up a new project, Ruble, but in 2010 Leningrad returned to the stage. At the same time, Shnurov opened the first Blue Pushkin bar in partnership with his friend Ivan Ushkov, and in 2012, the Kokoko restaurant, run by the artist's wife Matilda. “I live like a commando, they send me a text message - tomorrow at 10 at the airport - I got ready and arrived. Where is the concert, when, for how much - competent people do this,<...>I don’t bother my head with these details, ”Shnur said in an interview with Delovoy Petersburg.
Popularity. After the release of the clip "Exhibit" (more than 80 million views on YouTube), the organizers of the exhibition "Van Gogh. Animated canvases" at the Artplay Moscow design center were offered to girls on high heels visit the exhibition for free on certain days, and men named Sergey get a 50% discount on the entrance ticket.
Philip Kirkorov
49 years old, divorced, two children, Moscow
Income:$7.6 million
In the spring, Kirkorov began the tour with the show "I". There are 75 people in the troupe, more than 95 in the production group. The budget is € 6.5 million. From March to May, Kirkorov gave more than 35 concerts in Russia, Belarus and the Baltic states.
Grigory Leps
54 years old, married, four children, Moscow
Income:$9 million
Achievements. Honored Artist of Russia (2011), winner of two Chanson of the Year awards, eleven Golden Gramophones, winner of the World Music Awards 2014, seven awards of the RU-TV channel. In 2016, Grigory Leps received the MUZ-TV 2016 award for the best duet with Ani Lorak.
New projects. In the fall of 2015, Leps presented his debut line of jewelry (before that he had produced glasses and watches) GL Juwelry called "Angels and Demons" and opened his own production center. In the summer of 2016, in Baku, the singer, together with Emin Agalarov and Sergey Kozhevnikov (creator of the Golden Gramophone award), organized the Heat Festival.
Zemfira
39 years old, single, Moscow
Income:$6 million
Tour. In early April 2016, Zemfira gave two concerts at the Olimpiysky, which completed her tour "Little Man", gross ticket receipts were estimated to have exceeded 150 million rubles. At a concert in Nizhny Novgorod the singer stated that this tour would be the last of her career. From February 4 to April 3, Zemfira gave 21 concerts in 16 Russian cities from Kaliningrad to Khabarovsk, as well as in Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius and Minsk. After the end of the tour, the artist performed in London, and performances are scheduled for the fall in Israel, Germany, London and New York.
Detail. In the "Olympic" Zemfira performs on April 1 every eight years - in 2000, 2008 and 2016.
Nikolay Baskov
38 years old, divorced, son, Moscow
Income:$4.7 million
The popularity of the graduate of the Gnessin Academy came after the release of the video "In Memory of Caruso" in 2000. In 2001, he married the daughter of his producer, deputy and businessman Boris Shpigel, but divorced her seven years later. In 2014, he received the Golden Gramophone statuette for the song Nikolai, recorded in a duet with singer Natalie.
Dima Bilan
34 years old, single, Moscow
Income:$4 million
Bilan is perhaps the most famous Russian singer both in the country and outside it. Largely due to the fact that the artist twice represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest: in 2006 he took 2nd place, and in 2008 he became the first Russian artist to win Eurovision. Record holder for the number of MTV RMA awards, winner of the Muz-TV and RU.TV Awards. repeatedly honored music award"Golden Gramophone Award". In 2016, he became the winner of the Muz-TV Prize in the nomination "Best Album" ("Don't Be Silent").
Egor Creed
22 years old, single, Moscow
Income:$3.6 million
Born in the family of businessman Nikolai Bulatkin, owner of Russia's largest nut processing factory. After leaving school, Creed moved to Moscow, where he entered the Gnessin Academy of Music as a producer, but became so popular that he could not finish his studies. At the age of 17, he was invited to the label Black Star Inc. musician Timati. In April 2015, Creed released the album "The Bachelor", and the composition "The Most Most" was recognized best song of the year as part of the music award on the RU TV channel.
Timati
32 years old, single, Moscow
Income:$3.2 million
In 2006, Timati's debut solo album "Black Star" was released. In the same year, Timur Yunusov, as the artist is called in the world, opened the Black Star inc production center. He is a co-owner of nightclubs and releases own line clothes " black star by TIMATI. In 2008, together with Sprandi, Timati released the first line of sportswear TS Timati for Sprandi, which was presented at the Russian Fashion Week in Moscow. In 2016, a joint video was released with Yegor Creed for the song "Where are you, where am I." Now Timati is conducting the Olympus tour in support of the album of the same name.
Valeriy Meladze
51 years old, divorced, five children, Moscow
Income:$3.1 million
In addition to recognized musical talents, Meladze is also a businessman - together with rock musicians Andrei Makarevich and Stas Namin, he owns a stake in the Moscow Rhythm Blues Cafe. Collects edged weapons, there are also several copies in the collection firearms. In February 2013, together with Grigory Leps and Stas Mikhailov, he criticized journalists at an expanded meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, where the issue of protecting personal rights in the information sphere was discussed.
Polina Gagarina
29 years old, married, son, Moscow
Income:$3 million
Gagarina is the winner of the Star Factory project. In 2015, she represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest and finished second. Winner of the Muz-TV, RU.TV and Golden Gramophone awards.
