Russian pop singers men. show business stars

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 bowels 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 stage for only a few years, but are already collecting thousands of concert halls, delighting their fans with good music.

And who, in your opinion, should receive the status of the most popular singer in Russia. Is he on our list of the most popular Russian singers? If not, tell me who he is - the most famous singer in Russia ...

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. The most popular performers in Russia: Emin Agalarov The most popular Russian singers of past years: Oleg Gazmanov
The most popular singers in Russia: Valery Meladze The most popular artists in 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 help but include the king of Russian pop music 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. The most popular Russian performers: Irakli 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

I suggest you take a look at the following Top 17the most beautiful Russian singers, which presents the singers of the national stage. When compiling this rating, I took into account external data, photogenicity, charisma, not paying attention to the merits of men in the professional field.

17. Alexey Chumakov(born March 12, 1981, Samarkand, Uzbek SSR, USSR) - Russian singer and musician of Bulgarian-Armenian origin. Competition finalist "National artist" on the TV channel "Russia". Official website: http://www.chumakoff.ru/

16. Abraham Russo(born July 21, 1969, Aleppo, Syria) - Russian pop singer. Discography: "Tonight", "Just to love", "Engagement", singles: "Love that no longer exists", "Just to love you", "Color of Love", etc. Official website: http://avraamrusso.net

15.Valeriy Meladze(born June 23, 1965, Batumi, Georgian SSR, USSR) - Russian singer, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2006), People's Artist of the Chechen Republic (2008). Discography: "Sera", "The Last Romantic", "Samba of the White Moth", "Everything Was So", "Real", "Nega", "Ocean", "Contrary". Official site: http://www.meladze.ru/

14. Nikolay Baskov(October 15, 1976, Balashikha, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian pop and opera singer (tenor) and TV presenter. People's Artist of Russia (2009). Discography: "Dedication", "Encore Dedication", "Masterpieces of the outgoing century", "I'm 25", "Never say goodbye", "Let me go", "Best songs", "You alone", "Sudden love", "One in a Million", "Romantic Journey". Official website: http://baskov.ru/

13. Irakli Pirtskhalava(born September 13, 1977, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian singer and radio host, former participant " Star factories. Albums: "London-Paris", "I'm with you", "Take a step". Official site: http://iraklimusic.com/

12. Philip Kirkorov(born April 30, 1967, Varna, NRB) - Soviet and Russian pop singer, composer and producer People's Artist of Russia (2008). Eight-time award winner "Ovation", five-time award winner World Music Awards as the most popular performer in Russia, multiple award winner "Golden Gramophone Award", "Stop hit", "Silver galosh", winner of the annual festival "Song of the year". At the film festival "Kinotavr" in 2002 became the winner in the nomination "Best Actor" for a role in a musical "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". Discography: "Oh, mother, shikadam!", "Stranger", "Duets", "DruGOY", etc. Official website: http://www.kirkorov.ru/

11.Vasily Kireev(born April 7, 1987 in Saratov) - soloist of the group "Prime Minister". In 2005, as part of the group "March 8" took part in a musical project "Secret of success". After the end of the project, he became the soloist of the group "Prime Minister". Official website of the group: http://www.premier-ministr.ru/

10. Alexander Astashenok(born November 8, 1981, Orenburg, RSFSR) - Russian musician, actor, singer, composer, former soloist of the group " Roots"(in 2002-2010) and the winner of the first Star Factory. Official site: http://astashenok.ru/

9. Dmitry Fomin (Mitya Fomin)(born January 17, 1974, Novosibirsk, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian singer, TV presenter and producer. Award Winner "Golden Gramophone Award" and festival "Song of the year". In 1998 - 2009 pop group soloist HiFi. Studio album: "So it will be." Singles: "Everything will be fine", "Gardener", etc. Official website: http://www.mityafomin.ru/

8. Vladislav Topalov(born October 25, 1985, Moscow) - Russian singer, ex-soloist of the group "Smash!!". Albums: "Evolution", "Lone Star", "Let the Heart Decide", "I Will Give It All To You". Official website: http://vladtopalov.ru/

7. Stanislav Piekha(born August 13, 1980, Leningrad) - Russian singer and poet. Winner of music awards and prizes: MTV Russia Music Awards / "Best Composition" "Soundtrack" - "Duet of the Year"- “You are sad” (duet with Valeria), Muz-TV Award 2008 - "Best duet"“She is not yours” (duet with Grigory Leps), “In the palm of your hand is a line”. God of Ether Award: Radiohit- duet "She is not yours" 2009, "Radio favorite" 2010. Golden Gramophone 2011"The best duet" "Me and you" (duet with Slava). Albums: "Albums", "One Star", "Otherwise", "TBA". Official website: http://stas-pjeha.ru/

6. Alexander Berdnikov(born March 21, 1981, Ashgabat) - Russian singer, member of the group "Roots", the winner of the musical project "Star Factory".

5. Anton Makarsky(born November 26, 1975, Penza, USSR) - Russian theater and film actor, singer. After the army, having learned about the musical "Metro", he came to the casting, where he was accepted by the selection jury. Since May 2002, he has also been busy in the musical Notre Dame de Paris. He played one of the main roles - Captain Phoebus de Chateauper. He starred in the video for the Russian version of the main musical theme from the musical - "Belle". In the summer of 2003 he recorded a solo album. Official site: http://www.makarsky.ru/

4. Sergey Lazarev(born April 1, 1983, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian singer and voice actor, former soloist of the group "Smash!!", theater actor, film actor. The repertoire is predominantly in English. Solo albums: "Don't be fake", "TV Show", "Electric Touch". Official website: http://sergeylazarev.ru/

3. Alexey Vorobyov(born January 19, 1988, Tula, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian musician and actor, representative of Russia at the competition Eurovision 2011. Album: "Vorobiev's Lie Detector", singles: "Tosca", "Forget Me", "Bam Bam", "Get You". Official website: http://alekseyvorobyov.ru/

2. Alexander Lominsky(born January 9, 1974 in Odessa) - Ukrainian and Russian singer. In 1995-2000 he was a soloist of the popular Ukrainian boy band "Lomi Lom / Lomy Lom". Then he started his solo career. Since 2000 he has been living in Moscow. Famous songs: "Tear", "Stolen Happiness", "Sweet Deception", "Love in the Photo", "You Knew", "Vulnerable Heart". Official site: www.lap.ru/story

1. Dima Bilan(real name Viktor Belan; born December 24, 1981, Moskovsky settlement, Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Okrug, USSR) - Russian singer. Represented Russia at the song contest "Eurovision" twice: in 2006 with a song "Never let you go", taking second place and in 2008 with the song "Believe", taking first place and becoming the first Russian artist who won the song contest "Eurovision". He is Honored Artist of Kabardino-Balkaria (2006), Honored Artist of Chechnya (2007), Honored Artist of Ingushetia (2007) and People's Artist of Kabardino-Balkaria (2008). Discography: "I am a night hooligan", "On the bank of the sky", "Time-river", "Against the rules", "Believe", "Dreamer". In autumn 2012 the album "Vitya Belan" is expected. Official site: http://bilandima.ru/

1 place. Vera Brezhneva

The 32-year-old singer and actress knows how to masterfully ... count. She grew up in a family where every penny was taken care of, and from an early age she went to earn money - she traded tomato paste and pasta in the market. “When familiar guys passed by, of course, it was embarrassing,” Vera recalled. But I tried to ignore the sidelong glances and grins. I knew that I needed to help mom and dad. It was then that for the rest of her life she got the hang of quickly and clearly counting, after school she went to study as an accountant. She did not graduate from the university, but knowledge of accounting still helps. Vera associates a lot with numbers, remembers almost all the dates of significant events in her life, phone numbers, cars, etc. The singer helps the sisters keep financial records in their clothing store The Box in Kyiv. And she herself controls the budget of her own charitable foundation "Ray of Faith".

2nd place. Julia Lipnitskaya

After the Olympics, many fans filled up 16-year-old Yulia Lipnitskaya with poetry. “Whole collections were devoted to her, and she, of course, is very touched,” Daniela’s mother, the champion, shared by phone with StarHit. We read everything with gratitude. Previously, Julia was not fond of poetry, but now she has become involved. I discovered, for example, the "rebellious" poems of Daria Sklyarova ... "

Everyday training almost does not leave the athlete free time. She has no time to hang out with her friends or ride horses, and Yulia loves horseback riding. But she still manages to read. As the mother says, the daughter recently discovered Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" - she liked it!

3rd place. Olga Buzova

Somehow, for the sake of interest, Olga “tried on” new images - Marilyn Monroe, Christina Aguilera. The experience turned out to be successful, but she admitted on social networks: “I like being myself more.” With every act, the 28-year-old TV presenter breaks stereotypes about blondes. It is no coincidence that she topped the rating of show business stars for the highest IQ on one of the Internet portals. She has no problem with ideas on how to make money: she came up with the C&C by Olga Buzova clothing brand, opened a jewelry store. From a participant in "House-2", as she dreamed, she grew into a leader. And she became the editor-in-chief of the magazine.

// Photo: Press service of the company "White Gold"

4th place. Ksenia Borodina

Looking at 31-year-old Ksenia Borodina, it’s hard to believe that some five years ago, after the birth of her daughter Marusya, a young mother and aspiring TV presenter was terribly complex about being overweight. I did not trust anyone to correct the situation - I figured it out myself. As a result, the book “Lose Weight with Ksenia Borodina” appeared, where she frankly admitted her own mistakes. Today Ksenia is preparing another book on how to become beautiful. “I decided to talk about ways to quickly put myself in order,” Ksenia shares with StarHit. “There is also a set of sports exercises that I developed myself.” Since the TV presenter checked every recommendation on herself, it's worth a try.

5th place. Alsou

In 2006, after the birth of her first daughter Safina, the singer became interested in painting. “I’m good at portraits,” 31-year-old Alsu admits to StarHit. - It is possible to catch something important in a person - a look, eyes. Even at school, I wrote an excellent exam paper about portraits in various techniques - from ink to oil. Today there are already so many works that she dreams of her own exhibition, where there will be both a self-portrait and a portrait of her father. In the spring of 2012, the star put up for auction a portrait of Vladimir Vysotsky, it was bought for $16,000. Alsou donated all the proceeds to help hospitals and boarding schools.

6th place. Ani Lorak

When her husband opens another restaurant in Kyiv, 35-year-old Ani Lorak often participates in interior design and menu selection. “The restaurant business needs as much creativity as the stage. There are no trifles, ”the singer is sure. Neither tours nor rehearsals prevent the star from discussing ideas with her husband. Not so long ago, Murat opened his fourth restaurant in the city center - Famous karaoke. From the very first day, many stars fell in love with it - good friends of Anya. And when the idea occurred to her to decorate one wall with chic black-and-white portraits of the famous guests of the restaurant, no one objected, on the contrary, they posed with pleasure.

7th place. Albina Dzhanabaeva

“Albina, are you really going to work with us?” - senior students of one of the capital's schools asked the soloist of VIA Gra. But the singer simply had an internship with them as a student of the psychology department of the Moscow City Psychological and Pedagogical University. Vela month
classes in the lower grades, tested the older ones ... Attendance was one hundred percent! In February 2014, 34-year-old Dzhanabaeva received her diploma. She decided to become a psychologist spontaneously. In recent years, she was offered the role of heroes with complex characters in cinema and theater. And she managed to cope with them, because now the psychology of people has ceased to be a mystery to her.

8th place. Tatiana Navka

Traveling to Eastern countries inspired the 39-year-old figure skater to create perfume. She began to buy essential oils, combine them, achieving unique shades. The feature of her fragrances is the oil of the udu tree: the strongest aphrodisiac, which must be handled delicately so as not to overdo it. Several options have already been successful, it's time to open a perfume shop. This is the whole of Tatyana: no matter what she does, she will not back down until
will not become a champion, as in figure skating. And recently, together with designer Anastasia Hollandtseva and friend Lyudmila Mitvol, she released a collection of Sweet Stuff jewelry made of silver and semi-precious stones. The works resemble multi-colored lollipops, are made in Hong Kong, and cost from 8,000 rubles in Moscow stores.

9th place. Ekaterina Klimova

There are few days off in the schedule of 36-year-old Ekaterina Klimova. Now the actress is filming in two projects at once - "Mistresses" and "Plague". She recently divorced her husband, actor Igor Petrenko. Three children stayed with her. Thank you, mom and nannies help. But Katya, as soon as the shooting is completed, flies home - and stops rushing beyond the threshold. Together with 12-year-old Liza, 7-year-old Matvey and 5-year-old Korney, he watches a movie, discussing the actions of the heroes, and asks his sons how they studied English and karate. “We have complete harmony at home,” the actress assures.

10th place. Ksenia Sobchak

Entering the "TOP Beauties of Moscow-2013", Ksenia was amazed: "What a blatant lie!" The 32-year-old TV presenter prefers to be quoted as a "stylish and modern personality" - as she was recently called in the New York Times, assessing the image of Xenia at Fashion Week in Paris. Sobchak posts on social networks both fashionable "bows" and examples of the terrible bad taste of some ladies. And he personally conducts fashion master classes, where he gives practical advice.

11th place. Christina Orbakaite

The singer has been collecting full houses all over Russia for many years, but with her stellar status, she is very easy to communicate and can find a common language with anyone. Somehow, 43-year-old Christina, along with the musicians, hit the road by bus. They were in a hurry to soundcheck, exceeded the speed limit - and were stopped by the traffic police. The director of the singer began to persuade the inspectors: "Please let go, we are taking Christina Orbakaite." They answered: “Come on, lie, we just saw her on TV!” And then Christina appeared from the depths of the cabin: “Hello, what happened?” The guards froze in admiration. Then they asked for autographs, took a photo with the singer as a keepsake and wished her a happy journey.

12th place. Adeline Sotnikova

After winning the Olympics, figure skater Adelina Sotnikova is called the "Legend at 17". After all, at this age she became the first Olympic champion in the history of Russia in women's single skating. Adelina has been considered a child prodigy since childhood. At the age of 13, she obtained the most complex elements that not every adult can do. Sotnikova devotes her free time to cinema. Recently, on the advice of my mother Olga Dmitrievna and coach Elena Buyanova, I watched the films "Champions" and "Legend No. 17". “It seems to me that coaches should feel students exactly the way Anatoly Tarasov - Valeria Kharlamova,” Adelina admired after “Legends ...”. - And as Elena Germanovna - me. Before the Olympics, Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova also advised me. Now I understand who she is - in her father!

13th place. Anna Sedokova

The singer is imitated by thousands of fans. To teach them how to dress in the same style, the 31-year-old artist launched her own casual fashion line, La story, last year. Especially popular is a sweatshirt with a big acid-colored heart and the inscription "Love -
this is all. Everything is love." Colleagues and friends support Anna: for example, Vera Brezhneva took part in the new photo shoot. Having got a taste, Sedokova recently shared on social networks: “I started to develop a children's clothing line, which will be an absolute mini-copy of my adult collection.”

14th place. Polina Gagarina

Driving around Moscow in a snow-white Range Rover Evoque, Polina, a driver with 10 years of experience, recalls with nostalgia the first car she drove at 18, a tiny Volkswagen Lupo: “I always liked the way I look in it.” After 5 years, she gave herself a Nissan Qashqai for her 23rd birthday - and with pleasure showed off a spacious trunk, which contained a gym bag, dry cleaning, spare shoes, her son's child seat, a soft horseshoe airplane pillow, a bath towel, a volume of Omar's poems Khayyama... Not a car, but a second home.

15th place. Christine Asmus

The 26-year-old actress easily got used to the role of a married lady, hostess and mother: on January 5, they had a daughter, Anastasia, with Garik Kharlamov. It turned out that Christina cooks with pleasure. Garik used to eat simply: for breakfast - fried eggs and cereal with milk, and at any time of the day - fried potatoes. But the wife tirelessly seeks out something interesting. Often appears on online culinary forums, posting photos of custard pancakes or mouth-watering samsa that she cooks at home. She is not averse to watching football on TV - with her husband and even without him.

16th place. Sasha Savelyeva

Two years ago, the singer took up skiing. In January 2012, her husband, Kirill Safonov, suddenly offered to spend a vacation at a resort in Salzburg.
Sasha used to trust her husband: “I am the kind of person who needs to reach out for someone, learn something new ...” So he persuaded her to try. In Austria, dressed in a ski suit and trying on boots with bindings, Sasha rolled down the most gentle hill - and was delighted: “Really cool!” It turned out that this sport burns extra calories much better than fitness.

17th place. Svetlana Hodchenkova

Svetlana is the only Russian actress who managed to break into Hollywood and declare herself loudly. It all started in 2011 with the thriller Spy Get Out! with Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy. Khodchenkova had an episode, but participation in such a high-profile project made her one of the most
the highest paid actresses in the country with a fee of $4,000 per shooting day. By 2013, the figure had grown to $5,000 before the actress starred
in the fantasy action movie "Wolverine: Immortal" with Hugh Jackman and played one of the main roles - a female viper.

18th place. Natalie

The performer of the hits “The wind blew from the sea” and “Oh my God, what a man” admits: “I don’t work out in the gym, I’m sad in the company of irons.” She
I have long understood that cleaning the apartment helps a woman to keep in shape much better than exercise equipment. Especially if you wash the floor, crawling with a rag in all corners. Or you rub the windows, trying to reach the window - every muscle works. “Four years ago, when I was waiting for the birth of my second son, a neighbor caught me washing the floors in the entrance and was dumbfounded: “Natasha, you are an artist, and even in demolition, what are you doing!” – shared the 40-year-old singer with “StarHit”. - And I had such a strange toxicosis, in which I liked the smell of wet cement! Nothing is
I could help myself."

19th place. Anna Snatkina

Dancing in the life of Snatkina appeared in 2006 - when the actress was invited to the television show "Dancing with the Stars", and she, together with Evgeny Grigorov, took first place. During the project, the participants - stars and professional dancers - had to train a lot. Sometimes the staging of the number lasted until night. Despite this, “Dancing” inspired her so much that the artist still does not give up classes and goes to the gym at every opportunity. “After winning the show, in addition to slow dancing, I have a weakness for Latin American dances,” the 31-year-old actress tells StarHit. Anna and now spends every evening on her favorite pastime from an hour to two. Such a pastime helps her not only stay in shape and tone, but also maintain a good mood.

20th place. Elena Podkaminskaya

The 35-year-old star of the series "Kitchen" loves experiments. Not only will she not refuse, for example, a nude photo shoot, but she herself will come up with a lot
interesting details. Once, having agreed to shoot for MAXIM magazine, Podkaminskaya offered to arrange it in the scenery of the bathroom and bedroom. “I wanted everything to look natural, as if the heroine was caught where you can really walk without clothes,” Elena explained to StarHit. By the way, the first to whom she showed the photos were the parents of the actress - the strictest judges. They liked it.

21st place. Elizaveta Boyarskaya

The actress was very worried when she was asked to arrange "Art Surf" - the first creative evening in her life with reading poetry, which 28-year-old Liza knows a great many. And before going to the resort area of ​​​​St. Petersburg Komarovo, Liza rehearsed, reciting poetry several times to her only spectator at that time - her two-month-old son Andrei. Pushkin, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva ... The loudest applause during her concert sounded after Apollon Grigoriev's poem “I love you ... What to do is to blame!”

22nd place. Oksana Fedorova

36-year-old Oksana has repeatedly donated money for the maintenance of churches, she often visits the Moscow church of Elijah the Prophet in Obydenky Lane. “Here I am distracted from the hustle and bustle and feel peace,” she says to StarHit. – In case of any difficulties, I approach the beloved miraculous icon of the Mother of God “Unexpected Joy”, I pray for the health of children and loved ones.” Three years ago, the recognition of the winner of the Miss Universe contest that she “begged for a child for herself” and went to the Diveevsky Monastery spread all over the country. And, as Oksana now likes to say, "according to faith, it will be given." In the spring of 2012, the son Fedor was born, and in the summer of 2013, the daughter Liza. “Only when I became a mother, I gained self-confidence,” Oksana admits.

23rd place. Ekaterina Guseva

Enthralled by the musical Nord-Ost, the polar explorers invited Ekaterina, the performer of one of the main roles, to visit the North Pole. 2002, at the pole - 43 ° C, from the cold and wind did not save even the eiderdown overalls. But, having hoisted a flag with the autographs of the troupe actors near the station, Katya sang a song from the performance: “Captains of our own destiny, it’s the trumpet signal that calls us ...” “How not to sing if the soul asks!” – then shared the 38-year-old actress. In Moscow, she had to treat her throat. But for her heroic performance at the Pole, Guseva was entered into the Russian Book of Records.

24th place. Lera Kudryavtseva

Recently, 43-year-old Lera Kudryavtseva voiced the Warface project, an online game that is gaining popularity. Gives commands to fighters, explaining to them the intricacies of tasks. And this is not her first experience - in 2007 she voiced the heroine of the cartoon "Honey Conspiracy", in 2010 she "voiced" the she-wolf from the cartoon "Alpha and Omega: The Fanged Brotherhood", and in 2012 - the heroine of "Cinderella: Full speed ahead!"... "Each dubbing is a game of intonations, the ability to express vivid emotions, a very exciting process!" – admits “StarHit” Lera.

25th place. Angelica Agurbash

The singer only looks fragile and defenseless, but in fact she has been seriously boxing for 10 years! Interest in this sport appeared soon after the birth of the third child - the son of Anastas. Angelica then gained extra pounds, and boxing allowed her to quickly lose them and pump up her arms and abs. The 44-year-old singer still finds time to “thresh a pear”. It keeps in shape and relieves stress. “I definitely don’t need a bodyguard,” the singer shared with StarHit. “I can take care of myself!”

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.

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