The most popular performers. TOP rating Singers, country: Russia

Not far from authoritative and foreign, namely, British, magazine New Music Express conducted a poll in which twenty outstanding musical artists in the history of music were named. 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 the people's jury in the Miss Bikini contest and the like.

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 does the best performers, the best guitarists, the best songs and so on have to do with it? 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, recently taken to the public eye from the dark corners of 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 a 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 of the best performers of all time 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.

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 panels of 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
A businessman and musician of Azerbaijani origin, who perfectly joined the 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 pseudonyms - 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 of the 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, dating back to the 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 of music awards. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and a People's Artist of the 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.

Sergei Zhukov

Date of birth: May 22, 1976
The leader of the Hands Up group continued his work under his 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.

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.

We provoke the wrath of the gods, making up the top popularity of Russian rappers based on social networks.

How to understand which rapper is cooler? By the ability to weave rhymes or by a killer flow? Or maybe by the number of bullet holes in the body or the Grammy on the shelf? Or take touring or iTunes sales? Perhaps here everyone will have their own measures of coolness, fame and popularity. But measuring how much a rapper is loved by his fans is not so difficult - it's 2016 in the yard, and relatively objective popularity figures are right in front of him - in the musicians' social networks.

Enlisting the help of our friend from the public Imho Analytics, we tried to rank the popularity of Russian rappers based on social networks. Why social networks? Because they have long become as commonplace as an aluminum pan in the kitchen or a smartphone in your pocket. Even neighbor grandmothers have accounts in classmates, and only DMX is still unable to use a computer. And even despite the possibility of cheating, the numbers from social networks are more stable and generalized data than, for example, music sales figures or the density of the tour schedule.

How did we count?

We deduced the average number of musicians' followers on Twitter, Instagram and VKontakte. many listeners are subscribed to their favorite musicians on several social networks at once, and we did not want to inflate the numbers due to duplicate information.

And now let's go.

As you can see, the last ten turned out to be quite diverse - here you have a veteran Pencil, and youngsters like Basota, and connoisseurs of punk Anacondaz. Unexpectedly, Lupercal closes the top, which has been on the radar all this year, and in the fall he took part in the revolution of the game, releasing the release "House of a Thousand Drafts". Pharaoh was supposed to be somewhere nearby, who was also well-known throughout the past year, but the Dead Dynasty association has a common VK account, so he did not pass the contest mechanics.

Here we have an even more motley dozen. Her parody projects Khleb and Big Russian Boss close, the sweet-voiced Tati is next to her label colleague and hero of the year, Scryptonite, and Kravets and Joniboy dilute the patriotism of Misha Mavashi and Harry Topor with romance.

In the middle of the list, strong rap fighters are concentrated - confidently and without surprises. ST starts the top ten, and Slim closes it, which goes almost head to head with his Centr colleague Ptah - 125 thousand subscribers against 128. In the middle of the list is the namedropping master Janix, Smokey Mo, Rem Digga, The Chemodan Clan, MC Doni, Tony Raut and hit rock 25/17.

Perhaps the most controversial and interesting ten, because of which the editors argued the most. Is it possible to add Dolphin to this list from old memory? How close to rap are Dorn or Jah Khalib with Bianca? Also pay attention to the 14th position - the Ukrainian rapper Yarmak turned out to have a strong and large community of fans.

If the artists of the Gazgolder label are evenly distributed according to the rating, then the representatives of Black Star aimed at the top ten. There are four of them at once - Mot, Christina C, L "One and Timati. Plus Djigan, who left the ranks of the Blackstar mafia. At the same time, Timati took the first place with an impressive margin from Basta, and Oksimiron, who flickered literally everywhere, only closes the top ten.

What you need to know before you start swearing in the comments?

1. The data are taken for the end of December and the first days of January of this year. Over the past time, the artists managed to gain a thousand or two additional subscribers, but due to the holidays, the activity was not the highest and these figures did not affect the final results.

2. Groups like Kasta, Kaspiysky Gruz, TGK and others were counted by the total indicators and individual subscribers in the musicians' accounts.

3. The sum of subscribers and individual data on social networks were rounded separately, so when summing up the data, the final picture may differ upwards or downwards by a thousand, but this does not affect the final places.