Great Britain is an island nation in the northwest of Europe, creative personalities which are known all over the world. Many may not agree with this rating. This list has been compiled based on factors such as originality and social or cultural impact, which means that some bands that you might expect to see on the list are missing.
1. The Beatles
So far the undisputed champion British music The Beatles remain, even three decades after their breakup. Founded in 1960 in Liverpool, the band remains the most influential band of the rock era, with more innovation in pop music than any other band in the world.
The Beatles remain the best-selling group in both the UK and the US. During their relatively short career they won an incredible number of first lines in the British charts.
2. Oasis
Oasis were formed in 1991 and quickly rose to fame, mass media often commented on the similarities between the band and The Beatles. Long-term public interest in the group has remained high, but not exceptional.
Their sound took inspiration from early rock bands. In many ways, the group belongs to the Alternative Rock genre. Their songs won the first positions in the British charts eight times.
3. The Kinks
Influential English pop rock band with roots in Rhythm & Blues, Music Hall and Country music. Recognized as one of the most important contributors to British music, The Kinks have continued to captivate listeners for almost four decades. Hailing from Muswell Hill in London, The Kinks went on to great success in the UK and later in America.
4. The Clash
The Clash are a British musical group formed in London in 1976, influenced by the music and image of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. The Clash are one of the first and most famous bands punk rock. Despite the great popularity that the group found in the punk scene, he also experimented with other musical styles, from reggae to hip-hop. Such latitude musical range, political uncompromisingness, full of energy and provocation concerts brought The Clash a major success, uncharacteristic for punk, at home and abroad.
5. Queen
The English rock band is known for their quasi-opera character sound and live performances. Queen was founded in 1970 by Roger Taylor and Brian May. Later, Freddie Mercury joined the team, who came up with the main name of the group. Prior to Freddie, bass guitarists Mike Graw, Barry Mitchell, Doug Bogi performed in the band. They were replaced by John Deacon, who remained in the musical community for many years.
6. Pink Floyd
The British group for over thirty years of its existence retains admirers all over the world. Formed within the framework of the psychedelic underground, the group's work developed in the further direction of art rock - not accidentally developed by the musicians musical style sometimes called psychedelic art rock. Over time, their work has undergone significant changes, but the best of what has been achieved has always been preserved and the group has never lost the taste for further experiments. The innovation of the group was manifested not only in music, but also in the use of the latest technical advances in the studio and live. Thus, the group was one of the first to use laser and quadraphonic equipment, demonstrated slides, films, animation, etc.
7. Led Zeppelin
Formed in London in 1968, Led Zeppelin is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Hard Rock / Heavy Metal music genre. At the center of the band were the writing talent of guitarist Jimmy Page and the songwriting abilities of keyboardist John Paul Jones.
8. The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses- British rock band, which was one of the leaders of the "Manchester wave" at the turn of the 1980-1990s. Their debut album 1989 The Stone Roses quickly became a classic in the UK.
9. The La's
British rock band from Liverpool, known from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lee Mavers is the band's most popular member thanks to the hit "There She Goes". The band was formed by Mike Badger in 1984, with Mavers joining the band shortly after the band gained popularity.
10. The Streets
Mike Skinner, better known by his stage name The Streets is a rapper from Birmingham, England, who was the first to try to bring socio-political motives to the British 2-step/grime movement.
11 Slade
In 1974, the English magazine "Pop today" wrote the following about them: "Until now, there have been few rock bands that would bring so many radical innovations and changes to their stage image, would differ in such a characteristic image: clothes, style, manners". Many critics call Slade the most melodic rock band after The Beatles, but "the most underestimated ... which was literally ruined by clever journalists".
12. T. Rex
British rock band formed in 1967 in London under the name Tyrannosaurus Rex as an acoustic folk-rock duo of Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrine Took. Were one of the brightest representatives"British Underground". In 1969 the name was shortened to T. Rex; having achieved great success in the British charts of the early 1970s, the group became one of the leaders in the glam rock movement and lasted until the death of Bolan in 1977.
Top 12 Best British musical groups updated: August 16, 2017 by: Ekaterina Kadurina
Music has become an integral part Everyday life million people. But some musical groups stand out among the majority for their popularity and skill. We present to you the most famous bands, and most famous singers modernity.
U2
The world-famous rock band should definitely get into the list of the best. 12 albums secured the group a place in the Hall of Fame. The biggest concert the tour lasted from 2009 to 2012 and attracted a record number of fans. The band even has a special platform arranged in such a way that people can completely surround the guys during the concert.
cold play
Songs performed by Chris Martin, Johnny Blackland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion are required listening. Not many can compete with these guys in live performances. Since 1996, the group has been gaining fame, and finally achieved worldwide recognition.
Lady Gaga
The most outrageous world stage singer. Lady Gaga remembered not only thanks to the chic vocals, but also incredible costumes and defiant behavior. The singer herself notes that she is quite picky about details.
Red Hot Chilly Peppers
"Hot peppers" are famous all over the world for their song californication, and there is hardly a person who has not heard it at least once in his life. Improvisation, which is not inherent in all groups, is necessarily found at concerts. "Chile Peppers".
beenci
One of the "100 Greatest Women in Music" is not only attractive, but also has a great voice. An incredible amount of drive, which is created thanks to the mixture of the incendiary nature of the singer and musicians, is guaranteed.
Katy Perry
The ban on listening to pop music affected the young body, as you can see, very strongly. Katy is the only performer who has held top 10 chats throughout 69 weeks. Beautiful, unusual and with excellent vocals.
Adele
Graceful and mysterious music will conquer anyone and will never let go. Adele entered the Guinness Book of Records by selling 3 million album copies per year in England.
Pink
Very charismatic and unusual performer. The songs are full of drive and energy. In 2013, a tour took place with more than a hundred concerts in America, Europe and Australia.
Muse
Alloy numerous genres along with an incredible light show will be remembered by anyone who attends their concert. Since 1994, there have been 6 albums. We recommend that you go to the band's concert if there is such a chance, because emotions will accompany you for a long time.
Bon Jovi
A whole generation grew up on the music of this wonderful band. Millions of fans around the world are waiting for the concert. In 2013, a tour began in Africa, Europe, America and Australia. As is known, John Bongiovi spares no effort at concerts, for which he deserved the love of millions.
Linkin group Park became famous thanks to the hit Numb, which appeared on radio stations in 2003 with the release of the album Meteora. Then these guys excited the crowd of fans and, of course, their competitors. They won two Grammys and were once named "Best Group" by the American Music Awards.
Three Days Grace is a Canadian rock band formed in 1992 in Norwood, Canada by Adam Gontier, Neil Sanderson and Brad Walst. In 2003, the musicians released the album Three Days Grace and in 2006 album One-x, which received platinum status. For their musical talent, the group has been nominated an incredible number of times and received many music awards and awards.
In eighth place on the list of the most popular rock bands of the 21st century is Kasabian. This is a British rock band, whose popularity just rolls over. It was formed in England in 1992. Considered a follower of the Rolling Stones.
Kings of Leon is an American rock band founded by three brothers: Kalebo, Jared and Nathan and their cousin Matthew in 1999. It was named after their father and grandfather. Already in 2003 Kings of Leon became famous all over the world. Today the guys remain very popular in Ireland, Great Britain and Australia.
Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band that was formed in Seattle by the drummer of the Nirvana band shortly after the death of Kurt Cobain. This project was conceived as solo project Dave Grohl.
Arctic Monkeys are an English indie rock band that released 5 studio albums: Humbug (2009) and Suck It and See (2011), Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favorite Worst Nightmare (2007) and AM (2013). It was they who made the guys popular among young people and just connoisseurs of good music. Arctic Monkeys members: Alex Turner, Jimi Cook, Nick Omail and Met Helders.
This group is also from the UK. It was founded in Oxfordshire in 1985. Band members: Thom Yorke (vocals, piano, guitar), Johnny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards and other instruments), Phil Selway (drums, percussion), Ed Obryan (guitar). They released their debut album in 1992 called Creep. However, the popularity of the group began to grow only with the appearance of the second album Pablo Honey in 1993.
Scottish rock band consisting of four members, Simon Neil, James and Ben Johnston. This is a fairly young band, but already very successful, the musicians have a huge number of fans around the world. Biffy Clyro has recorded and released 8 albums, the last of which was released in 2016 under the name Ellipsis.
At the pinnacle of glory, this is how you can describe the position of this team on musical Olympus. The group was founded by Jared and Shannon Leto in 1998. Interestingly, they took the name literally from the textbook. Classic rock bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Joy Division and others had a huge influence on its members.
Muse
The leader of our rating is the British rock band Muse. She was born in 1994 in Teignmouth. Muse recorded and released 7 studio and 4 live albums, gave a huge number of concerts and, undoubtedly, deserve the title of the best and most popular rock band XXI century!
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Nobody in the world knows Soviet and Russian pop musicians. Especially in the West. Nevertheless, musicians from Russia different time hit the Western charts.
All attempts to promote and impose on the Western public our popular music failed. Russian pop music is very secondary and backward, both technologically and stylistically.
But it has become good tradition 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 on The World Music Awards is a show of the best-selling artists in their countries, while it is quite difficult to find a person in Russia who has Kirkorov's album. 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, this is generally human brain unable to cope. 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.
Most big success was at Timati's rapper 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 behind 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
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
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.
Soon after the arrest of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, musicians around the world began to carry out actions in their support - 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 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.
, .This compilation contains the most popular music groups and foreign performers, whose performance is better to hear and see live. Nowadays, special technical devices and voice editors can improve the voice of singers to such an extent that it is virtually unrecognizable. Therefore, it is the performance in live, the diligence of performers, dancing, lighting, improvisation and other features make the musical group truly popular. Keep in mind that the list only includes musicians who are playing live at the moment.
U2
Legendary rock band Needs no introduction - with guitar by The Edge, vocals by Bono, bass by Adam Clayton and drums by Larry Mullen Jr., U2 is one of the most popular bands in the world. They released 12 studio albums and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2009, U2 created a special live platform called "The Claw" arranged in such a way that fans can surround the stage from all sides. concert tour lasted until 2012, gathering a record number of visitors. 
cold play
When it comes to live performances, few can match. coldplay. The musical group, formed in 1996 with Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland, was complemented by Guy Berryman and Will Champion and achieved international fame in 2000 when they released their single "Yellow". Now this is one of the best groups in the world, whose concert is a must-see. 
Lady Gaga
This performer impresses millions not only with her voice, but also with her eccentric videos, outfits and demeanor. Lady Gaga is definitely one of the most amazing performers to visit live. She herself says that she is a perfectionist, detail-oriented and that she is quite bossy.” 
red hot Chilly Peppers
Frankly, there is no such person on the planet who has not heard the song Californication at least once in his life. One of the world's most popular bands, the Red Hot Chilly Peppers are famous for their jamming and improvisation in their live performances. Almost all of their songs are popular hits.
beyonce
Beyonce began her career as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, and individual work from the album "Dangerously in love" in 2003, after which she got into the "100 Most Remarkable Women in Music". Beyonce is incredibly beautiful, she has a wonderful voice and amazing music. Thanks professional musicians and the band, Beyonce concerts always have a special drive. 
Katy Perry
As a child, Katy Perry's parents forbade listening to any pop music, and this is what came of it. This is the only artist who spent 69 consecutive weeks in the Top 10 charts. Beautiful, talented and unique, Katy Perry seems to have all the right qualities. successful singer. Her concerts are always in demand by fans, so don't miss your chance. 
Adele
The list of popular music groups would never be complete without this wonderful singer with a unique voice. Adele made it into the Guinness Book of Records for being the first artist to sell more than 3 million albums in a year in the UK. Adele can conquer any soul with her music, elegant and mysterious. 
Pink
In 2013 Pink started her "The Truth About Love" tour, with 100 shows in America, Europe and Australia. The tour kicked off in support of her sixth studio album, respectively titled. Marvelous talented performer, Pink puts on some very impressive shows with his band. 
Muse
This popular musical group is best known for their extravagant and energetic live shows, as well as the fusion of numerous genres. Muse was formed in 1994 and has released six studio albums. Live show will leave you breathless even if you are not a fan. Be sure to go to one of their concerts if you ever get the chance! 
Bon Jovi
Many actually grew up listening to Bon Jovi music. In 2013, the musical group announced a tour in support of their new album “What About Now”, which started in March 2013. The musicians visited Europe, Africa, America and Australia. John Bongiovi always gave his best at his concerts, for which he is appreciated by millions of fans around the world.
