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A lot of time has passed from the first charts to today. The criteria for assessing the “marketability” and popularity of musicians have changed. They are influenced by various factors - from moral values ​​to the state of global financial policy.

But there are celebrities whose popularity the Pope himself will not challenge. The 25 most expensive artists whose albums are selling out faster than hot cakes will be discussed below.

25. Rod Stewart - 76 million copies

Six of his albums and six singles took first place in the UK charts. 16 of Rod Stewart's singles entered the American top 10. He can rightfully be considered one of the most successful solo performers of our time.

24. Britney Spears – 80 million

Britney is one of pop music's greatest stars, achieving fame in at a young age. Her commercial success is comparable to that of Madonna and Michael Jackson. True, her record company's claim of selling 200 million singles is somewhat exaggerated.

23. Phil Collins – 85+ million

This musician has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His name is immortalized in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sales of his albums worldwide exceed 150 million copies. But there are only 85 million officially sold singles.

22. Metallica – 90 million

The band's self-titled album, released in 1991, has sold more than 16 million copies in the United States. This made the record the best-selling of the entire SoundScan era. Metallica is without a doubt one of the most commercially successful bands of our time. Its worldwide sales are estimated at more than 120 million copies.

21. Aerosmith – 90+ million

This is one of the “long-lived” groups. It has been around for more than four decades and has sold more than 150 million copies of its albums throughout its history.

20. Barbra Streisand – 97 million

She has 50 gold, 30 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums to her credit. With such “baggage” Barbara managed to become one of the best-selling artists. In addition, she is one of the few singers who has also won an Oscar, Grammy and Tony Award.

19. Bruce Springsteen – 100 million

A hardworking artist who has received many awards for his music, including a Grammy, a couple of Golden Globes, an Oscar and others. Bruce is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and his latest album, High Hopes, has achieved 100 million sales worldwide.

18. Billy Joel – 100+ million

He is the third best-selling artist in America. Only Elvis and Garth Brooks beat him. His albums Greatest Hits Vol I and II went platinum 23 times. Of course, there was a place for such a musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

17. The Rolling Stones – 100+ million

Many will be surprised, but one of the most popular groups didn't sell as many albums as it seems. Official sales are just over 100 million. At the same time, the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge Tour and Big Bang Bang became top in the 90s and 2000s, respectively.

16. U2 – 105 million

A small Irish project grew into something colossal thanks to the charismatic frontman of the group - Bono. Over the entire history of its existence, the group has won 22 Grammy Awards. That's more than any other group. In 2005, the group entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

15. Queen – 105+ million

Great amount their songs took first place in the American, British and many other world charts. The Greatest Hits album is considered the best-selling album in British history.

14. AC/DC – 110 million

The Back in Black album alone is worth something: 40 million sales worldwide, of which 22 million are in the USA. Their official sales are 110 million, but in reality the numbers should be much higher.

13. Whitney Houston – 112 million

12. Eminem – 115 million

He is the best-selling hip-hop artist of the 2000s. 45 million copies of his albums have been sold in the United States alone. Around the world the numbers are much higher. And these are only physical sales.

11. Pink Floyd – 115+ million

Their sales will not fully describe the value of their musical heritage. Philosophical texts, unique sound experiments, complex and vibrant performances - Pink Floyd have had a huge influence on many modern musicians.

10. Celine Dion – 125 million

Her career took off after Eurovision. Celine now has two singles with sales of more than a million copies, and Dion's album D'eux has become the most successful French-language record. She has many awards and prizes, and it seems that she does not intend to stop.

9. Mariah Carey – 130 million

It would take a long time to list her commercial achievements. Mariah managed to stay at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks. But instead of talking about her and her merits, it’s better to listen to a few of the star’s tracks.

8. Eagles – 130+ million

Most commercially successful American band. Their album Greatest Hits (1971 - 1975) shares first place with Jackson's Thriller in the top best-selling albums.

7. Led Zeppelin – 140 million

They are second after The Beatles in America. What else can you add?

6. Garth Brooks – 145 million

Garth is called the king and he is truly a great performer. Brooks is America's best-selling artist since the SoundScan era.

5. Elton John – 162 million

He stood at the helm of the pop-rock and rock movements of the 70s and deservedly received the title of world-class star. And with it, unofficial 250 million sales worldwide.

4. Madonna – 166 million

Madonna is so cool that her name is even included in the Guinness Book of Records. The singer is officially recognized as the best-selling female artist of all time.

3. Michael Jackson – 175 million

Although his labels' estimate of sales of 750 million copies is exaggerated, there is no doubt that he is the King of Pop. Jackson set many records during his career. Wrote the most commercially successful album Thriller, for example, or directed the best-selling video.

2. Elvis Presley – 210 million

The only one solo artist, which managed to break the 200 million sales barrier. But the worst thing is that the US Recording Industry Association began recording his commercial successes only in 1958. This means that Elvis has significantly more achievements, than 90 gold, 52 platinum and 25 multi-platinum albums.

1. The Beatles – 265 million

The Beatles became a symbol of the era. And if their albums continue to sell as strongly over the next two decades, The Beatles could become the first group to cross the 300 million sales mark.

Roman Litvinov, better known as Mujuice, is perhaps the most notable performer electronic music in Russia of the last decade. The artist has more than a dozen full-length releases, a minority of which were recorded with live vocals.

The last such album was Amore e morte, released last year. The release got lost in the flow new music and was not as successful as, for example, Cool Cool Death!, released ten years ago. Despite this, Mujuice is still popular today; musicians such as Zemfira Ramazanova do not hesitate to collaborate with him, and the performer himself is a welcome participant in major Russian and foreign festivals.

2. Antokha MC

“Antokha MC” is a musician from Moscow who started by studying in music school in the “Trumpet” class, and now one of the most promising Russian hip-hop artists.

In Anton’s work you can find echoes of 5’nizza and Mikhey, but in general it is quite original - it is not hip-hop in the classical sense of the term. The music is influenced by funk and reggae, and an additional highlight is the accompaniment, which in some songs is played by a trumpet.

3. Medjikul

The absence of the St. Petersburg group “Medzhikul” in radio and TV rotation is quite possibly a temporary phenomenon. In their debut album“All about Marfa” has everything to please almost any listener: you can dance to both incendiary and slow dancing, they want to sing along, while the music itself is very far from the tired pop music.

“Medzhikul” is perhaps the first group in Russia that performs music in the genre of rhythm and blues of the 70s - the so-called Motown Sound. St. Petersburgers skillfully combine the features of this genre with modern musical techniques and funny lyrics in Russian, as a result their compositions sound fresh and familiar at the same time.

4. Harajiev Smokes Virginia!

A group from Kazan, which started in 2009 with killer math-rock, now performing indie rock with elements of pop music. The group has six full-fledged releases, each of which will probably remain forever in the memory of my smartphone.

There are only three people in the group, the main instrumental core consists of drums, bass, guitar and vocals. HSV records also use other instruments, but this minimum set is enough to perform songs at concerts. If you love playful and romantic guitar music, do not understand English lyrics and have no prejudices about high-pitched male vocals, then Harajiev Smokes Virginia! you'll like it.

5.Motorama

Rostov-on-Don gave fans of hip-hop “Casta”, and fans of modern independent music - the couple Vlad and Irina Parshin, who were at the origins of the projects Motorama, “Morning” and “Bergen Kremer” (“Summer in the City”). Motorama is considered to be the main project of the musicians: the band’s discography includes four full-length and two mini-albums, and the tour map extends far beyond Russia.

Motorama's work is usually classified as post-punk and twee-pop. Unpretentious progressions and melodies, a 4/4 time signature and minimalistic accompaniment make Motorama's music simple and enjoyable.

6. Thank you

"Musical group from Moscow" is full text annotations in the “Thank you” community “VKontakte”. The participants do not try to show off their diversity of style tags and do not compare themselves with the hegemons of the genres. The band's style is really hard to describe without being boring. musical terms. Speaking in simple words, “Spasibo” - playful and sometimes experimental guitar rock with intelligent lyrics in their native language.

7. BCH

BCH is a project of Moscow musician Viktor Isaev. It all started with the album “Minion”, released in 2014, unusual both in form and content. Quality R&B and soul are not very common in Russian music, and BCH not only became a good alternative to James Blake, but also released an original experimental release. “Minion” is the album where very non-Russian music is combined with the most Russian lyrics - poems by poets of the Silver Age.

The latest release of the BCH “Hellenic Secret” was recorded with original lyrics. The music itself has also undergone changes: the songs are different from each other and combine echoes of many directions - from trip-hop to retrowave.

8. Pinkshinyultrablast

Pinkshinyultrablast is a shoegaze band from St. Petersburg and the only Russian band that Pitchfork likes to write about. Shoegaze is an alternative rock genre that originated in England in the late 80s. Music of this style is characterized specific work with guitar effects and the detached behavior of the musicians on stage, absorbed in this work.

In Russia, the boom of shoegaze music in the 80s and 90s went unnoticed, which is why this genre is still not popular among a wide audience. Pinkshinyultrablast do not count on success with Russian listeners: they give concerts abroad much more often than in Russia.

9. On-The-Go

A group from Togliatti, which started in hometown from killer dance-rock and later changed both genre and place of residence. After moving to the capital, the Togliatti residents were taken under the wing of the Xuman Records label, and the very first release, In The Wind, marked the beginning of the group’s creativity in a new style. Now On-The-Go is a Moscow band working in the indie-pop genre and sounding not at all Russian.

10. Sirotkin

Moscow bard Sergei Sirotkin proves year after year that in Russia you can become popular performer just playing beautiful music. The pursuit of fashion, the desire to turn creativity into bold experiments - this is not about Sirotkin. Here there is only a guitar and a young man with a beautiful voice.

The singer did what no one could do. got into the “daughter” of the main US chart with a song in Russian. In 2007, the track was placed at number 41 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks. “I Will” had a chance to get into the Billboard Hot 100, if not for the rule according to which songs not released in the United States fly past the “Hot 100” in 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 was a national event. Not about the stunning success itself popular singer Almost all Russian publications wrote in Russia. To make it clear what kind of musical Chomolungma Valeria conquered, the publications specified that the single “ American dream“Britney Spears was then ranked 45th. Over time, the track managed to reach number 25 and stay on the chart for more than 10 weeks.

Serebro

The group has several tracks that appeared in various international charts. "Mama Lover" entered the Japan Hot 100 (Japan's national chart) at number 49. And Mi Mi Mi - up to 88th line. The English version of “Mama Lyuba” also appeared in Mexico, reaching 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.

Yulia Kova

Singer Yulia Kova made her debut quite successfully at 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 canceled.

Timati - Welcome to St. Tropez (feat. DJ Antoine)

The 2009 single reached number 1 on 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 Billboard Global Dance. Songs. 145 million views on YouTube!

"PPK" - Resurrection

The Russian electronic band first conquered the Internet, and then the national charts in Great Britain.

In 2001, the track “Resurrection” was included in the rotation of BBC Radio One. Perhaps thanks to this, the single soon reached third place in the UK Singles Charts. The track was based on a motif from the soundtrack of the Soviet film “Sibiriyada”, written by Eduard Artemyev.

“Gorky Park” - Try to Find Me

Now let’s remember about the artifact of ancient times that escaped from behind iron curtain right after it rusted. The group's self-titled debut disc sold 300 thousand copies in the United States. This was in 1989. In "hot" numbers, it peaked at number 80 and spent two weeks overall on the Billboard 200. Only one song managed to make it onto the Billboard Hot 100. Try To Find Me reached number 81. Relatively successful group I was also in Norway and Denmark.

In the wake of interest in Russia at that time, many producers tried to find someone and promote them, but it didn’t work out very well. One can only recall the group “Aquarium”, whose long play Radio Silence was on the 198th place on 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 in the singer’s PR team did something wrong, and her single Before You Love Me was able to debut in 2001 on the UK Singles Chart only in 27th place and stay on the chart for only three weeks. Although it is worth admitting that the track was no different from the endless pop bubble gum that stormed the American and English charts at that time.

Leonid Rudenko - Everybody

The DJ's career began after he, rejected by Russian record companies, began sending his records via e-mail managers of Western labels. Soon he signed his first contract.

In 2009, the single Everybody entered the UK national chart. Having debuted in 24th place, he left the top 100 after just three weeks. The single later ranked second on the Upfront Club Chart's list of the top 100 tracks of the year.

t.A.T.u.

Three singles entered the main UK chart: Not Gonna Get Us, All About Us and All the Things She Said, thanks to which they 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 USA. The debut English-language album, for example, ended up in 13th place on the Billboard 200.

But most of all t.A.T.u. loved in Japan. Here the record 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane sold 1.8 million copies. At that time, these were record sales among foreign artists. By the way, after the breakup of the group, one of the ex-members again submitted to Billboard. The remix of Lena Katina's single Never Forget managed to reach the top of the magazine's dance chart.

Nobody in the world knows Soviet and Russian pop musicians. Especially in the West. However, musicians from Russia in different time entered the Western charts.

All attempts to promote and impose our popular music failed. Russian pop music is very secondary and backward - both technologically and stylistically.

But it has already become a good tradition to tell the Russian public lies about the successes of certain performers in the West. It's getting really funny.

Kirkorov traveled to Monte Carlo for The World The Music Awards are a show of the best-selling performers in their countries, but it is quite difficult to find a person in Russia who has Kirkorov’s album. Pugacheva, as you know, in 1997 took only 15 place out of 25 at the useless Eurovision.

For some reason, Sergei Lazarev sings in English, something the human brain simply cannot handle. Joseph Prigogine, who became an obsession with pushing Valeria to the West, once said 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 remixed Timati's song Welcome to St. Tropez. The song topped the charts all over the world, except for the UK and the US. In Switzerland, the song took sixth place at the end of the year. This is our peak pop singers behind Lately.

Which of our musicians actually achieved high places in Western (and this, in musically, primarily the USA and Great Britain) on the 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, entered the British 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 USA, took 198th place on the Billboard200, despite the fact that it was recorded with the then super-popular group Eurythmics. The video shows BG's performance on David Letterman's popular TV show.

3. Gorky Park-1990

The success of Gorky Park in the USA cannot be exaggerated. They did not conquer America. Just look at their achievements on the charts. On the Billboard Hot 100 they only scored with the single Try To Find Me (81st place and 6 weeks on the chart), and on the Billboard 200 with the album Gorky Park (80th place and 21 weeks on the chart).

But Gorky Park generally sold well - 300 thousand copies sold in America alone - this is a very good result. Much more success the group achieved success in Scandinavia. Gorky Park in Norway reached 9th place, and the single Bang - 5th. In Denmark, the album Moscow Calling It even went platinum.

4. Alsou-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 were trying 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 Artemyev’s melody from the film “Sibiriyada” 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 be in hot rotation on BBC Radio One. ResuRection was then released in other countries, where it also charted successfully - number 5 in the Netherlands, number 9 in Belgium, and number 15 in France and number 36 in Australia.

6. Tattoo-2003

In 2002, the English version of their album “200 in the opposite direction” was released and “Tatu” generally became the most popular Russian group in the world. The girls did not become stars of the first magnitude, and their success was not that long, but they sold about 10 million of their records abroad. This is an unattainable result for Russian performers.

The English-language album now has gold status 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 a cover of The Smiths was performed in the TV series “Gossip Girl” in 2009.

7. Leonid Agutin - 2007

The author of “Barefoot Boy” and husband of Angelika Varum graduated from the Moscow Jazz School and from his youth was interested not only in pop music, but also in a variety of acoustic guitar music - from jazz to flamenco. In the early 2000s, Agutin began playing concerts, and then 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 wonderful story, as a result of which the great pop singer known throughout the world as “Mr. Trololo”. On November 26, 2009, user RealPapaPit posted on YouTube the vocalization “I’m very happy, because I’m finally returning home” - 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 Gil's death.

9. Pussy Riot-2012

This is the only group here that has not been on the Western charts, but it cannot be ignored. From a musical point of view, this is a comical story. A group whose songs no one had 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 appear on general music charts. Especially in Austria and Germany. Thus, 15 of Netrebko’s albums entered the Austrian chart .

Bonus: The most famous Russian music video in the world

Bloody viral hit "Bad Motherfucker" from Russian group Biting Elbows, shot in first person and therefore more reminiscent of an action video game than music video. The clip was publicly celebrated by Samuel L. Jackson and Darren Aronofsky. 24.6 million views on Youtube.