Popular entertainers. The best singers in Russia

In this article, you will learn about the most famous, popular and sought-after pop artists in our country. They are very different - young or rejuvenating, beautiful and original, talented or not. But the public loves them, no matter what, whether it's a new hit or long legs.

Variety centenarians

These are the "oldest" singers in Russia. Photo divas regularly throughout years appear in and yellow press, and crowds of fans are still hunting for their autographs. This list includes: Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, Larisa Dolina, Kadysheva, Lyubov Uspenskaya, Irina Allegrova and Valeria. Of course, this is far from complete list, only those pop artists who are currently able to draw full houses at their concerts are included here. Note: even though Alla Pugacheva left the stage, she can return at any moment and gather a whole crowd of fans.

Most beautiful singers Russia

This list includes those pop divas who do not even need to sing. It is enough just to go on stage, and millions male hearts freeze from such unearthly (and barely covered) beauty. Well, if they are also talented, they have good voice nothing can stand before this crushing force. So, the most beautiful singers in Russia are Vera Brezhneva, Pletneva, Zhanna Friske, Nyusha, Tatyana Kotova, Tanya Tereshina (Yin-Yang group), Sati Kazanova, Svetlana Svetikova, Valeria, Yulia Kovalchuk, Anna Semenovich. It is these divas who not only sing well, but also invariably attract male gazes. Many of these singers were filmed for men's magazines: "Playboy", "Penthouse" and other similar publications. And this once again serves as proof of their beauty.

The most popular singers in Russia

You can be both beautiful and talented, but only the desire of the audience to get to a particular singer at a concert or get her to a corporate or private party is a real objective indicator of the demand for a star. And demand always creates supply, and the most sought-after artists get the most high fees. However, I would like to note the fact that Russian singers, like their foreign colleagues, often overestimate the amounts they receive for their performances. There are several reasons: firstly, the thought - "what if they give just that much", and secondly, self-promotion - "look how popular I am." And, of course, the expectation of a purely psychological effect - for many people who "order" stars for themselves, the status of the performers is important, and not the quality of the songs at all. This is what many Russian singers use, asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars for a half-hour performance to the phonogram. Alla Pugacheva is considered the most expensive: she asks for €250,000 for 5 songs, and only on the condition that she does not need to travel more than 500 km from Moscow. Next comes Elena Vaenga - she asks "only" € 200 thousand for a forty-minute performance. Among younger generation we can note the singer Elka - she takes € 100 thousand Zemfira can be ordered for € 150 thousand. But the whole group "Brilliant", wholesale, will cost only €20 thousand.

As a result, we can conclude: Russian singers still do not reach world celebrities in terms of fees. And none of our stars yet can compare with Rihanna, who earned $ 8 million in one night, Beyoncé ($ 2 million for her performance at private party on a yacht) or Christina Aguilera ($1 million in one hour).

A person cannot live without music, it is so strange that he is arranged. Music and songs are always in our heads and souls throughout our lives. Who in Russia contributes to what we hear and what we listen to? Let's talk about "women who sing ...".

The youngest female singers

The Russian stage today is “staffed”, and new young stars appear less and less on it. Although, it is worth noting that our singers look so good on stage and screens that it is difficult to guess their age.

But just a couple of years ago, the music charts were attacked by very young singers. Largely thanks to the "Star Factory" at concerts and on the radio, girls began to appear more and more often, who were far from even coming of age. The forge of stars presented the stage with Julia Savicheva, Victoria Daineko, Polina Gagarina and many other beautiful and talented singers. Today, these girls have already achieved a lot: they have their own albums, awards, participation in the most prestigious competitions and charts. But, alas, age takes its toll, and they no longer fall into the top three of the rating “The Youngest Singers of Russia in 2015”.

Of course, it is indecent to find out and announce the age of a woman, so let's talk about only three of the fair sex with good vocal abilities. You can still not hide the age of these singers, but, on the contrary, be proud that in their years the girls became famous:

3. Julia Parshuta ( former member group "Yin-Yang"), a native of the resort city of Sochi. She turned 27 this year.

2. Nyusha (Anna Vladimirovna Shurochkina), place of birth, Moscow, will celebrate her 25th anniversary in August this year.

3. Nyuta Ranetka (Anna Dmitrievna Baidavletova) is from Stavropol. In November of this year, the talented and cheerful girl will turn 23 years old.

Honored and beloved singers of Russia

Everything comes and goes, but art and music live forever. Just like the music, songs and singers that we know and love for a very long time live in our hearts. For many, they evoke warm memories of childhood, carefree youth or blooming youth. Their songs are stories of love, sadness, joy and fate.

Folk singers of Russia are whole epochs both in the musical annals of the country and in the life of almost every citizen. There may be plenty of merit, awards and victories in various tops, but here are the titles " National artist Russia (RSFSR, USSR) ”not everyone is honored.

1. Pugacheva A. B. received this title in 1985, 1980 and 1991.

2. Rotaru S. M. - in 1988

3. Allegrova I. A. - in 2010

4. Zykina L. G. - in 1973

5. Tolkunova V. V - in 1987

The most persistent

Musical tastes change with each new generation. Once loved romances, then - rock and roll, music in the style of pop, chanson, rap, and so on ad infinitum. It is very difficult to always be on the crest musical wave. But there are Russian singers whom we have known for a very long time, they grow creatively and change before the eyes of their beloved listeners.

Valeria recorded her first album in 1992. By the way, a few years ago she received the title of "People's Artist". To date, the singer has 15 albums (56 singles).

Anzhelika Varum released her first album in 1991, 13 albums have been released to date.

Kristina Orbakaite released her first album in 1994, since then more than 150 songs, 10 albums have been released. Christina also participates in musicals, theatrical performances and acting in films.

Of course, these are not all Russian singers who have long delighted listeners with their singles. These are just the top three that were popular at the beginning career ladder and do not give up positions to this day.

Most Popular Female Singers

AT musical circles different ratings are often compiled. Each musical transmission, radio station, television channel, print publication and website considers it its duty to compile a list of the most popular musicians.

So today popular singers Russia - the following representatives of the musical world:

• Ani Lorak;

  Elena Vaenga;

  Polina Gagarina;

  Anna Netrebko;

  Vera Brezhneva;

The most scandalous singers

Russian singers do not earn their popularity with singles alone. Often, information from their personal lives leaks into the press at the suggestion of the artists themselves. So that the listener does not forget about the artist, even when he has a sabbatical, you need to make sure that they talk about him. Here the stars go to various tricks to raise at least a little hype around their name.

Nyusha's outfits always arouse interest and long discussions. Fashion critics and reporters go to her concerts with curiosity to express their opinion about scandalous and revealing costumes.

Masha Rasputina was famous for her spectacular introductions from the first years on the stage. Her appearance on stage and in the hall attracted the eyes of viewers, who watched the eccentric singer with surprise and a smile.

The viewer did not know what to see when Lolita Milyavskaya sings on stage. She always brought a spark to the concert program.

The plastic surgery of the singer Sasha Project has also become a scandalous topic.

The press informs the fans about the illness stories of the artists with lightning speed. Not so long ago, everyone was worried about Zhanna Friske and was horrified at how the fate of Tamara Miansarova turned out.

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 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 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, the human brain is generally unable to master it. Iosif Prigogine, 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 per recent times.

Which of our musicians really achieved high places in the western (and this, in musical sense, primarily the US and UK) charts and 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. Much more success the group has achieved 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 Artemyev'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, due to 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 coming 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.

Shortly after the arrest of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina 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 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.

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

The last such album was Amore e morte, released last year. Release lost in the stream new music and did not become 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" - a musician from Moscow, who began with training in music school in the "Pipe" 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 the accompaniment is an additional highlight, which in some songs is played by a trumpet.

3. Medzhikul

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

"Medzhikul" is perhaps the first band in Russia that performs music in the rhythm and blues genre of the 70s - the so-called Motown Sound. 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 downhole mat-rock, now performing indie rock with elements of pop music. The group has six full-fledged releases, each of which, probably, forever settled in the memory of my smartphone.

There are only three people in the group, the main instrumental backbone is drums, bass, guitar and vocals. Other instruments are used in HSV recordings, but this minimum set is enough to perform songs at concerts. If you like perky and romantic guitar music, don't understand English lyrics and have no prejudices about high male vocals, then Harajiev Smokes Virginia! you will like it.

5 Motorama

Rostov-on-Don gave fans of hip-hop "Casta", and fans of modern independent music - a couple of Vlad and Irina Parshin, who stood at the origins of the Motorama projects, "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 twi-pop. Simple progressions and melodies, 4/4 time signature and minimalist 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 members don't try to trump with a variety of style tags and don't compare themselves to genre hegemons. The band's style is really hard to describe without resorting to boring musical terms. talking in simple words, "Thank you" - perky and sometimes experimental guitar rock with intelligent lyrics in their native language.

7. BCH

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

The latest release of the BCC "Hellenic Secret" was already recorded with the author's texts. 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. The music of this style is characterized specific work with guitar effects and the detached behavior of musicians on stage, absorbed in this work.

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

9. On-The-Go

A group from Tolyatti, which started in hometown from downhole dance rock and later changed both genre and place of residence. After moving to the capital of Togliatti, he took Xuman Records under his wing, and the very first release of In The Wind marked the beginning of the group's work in a new style. Now On-The-Go is a Moscow-based indie-pop band that doesn't sound Russian at all.

10. Sirotkin

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

Modern domestic show business- this is a special and in some way separated from the rest of civilization world, in which slightly different people live, with their own worries, deeds and quirks. Russian performers are, in most cases, persons, albeit without a world name, but quite famous in the expanses of their land and within their native state, and perhaps within the borders of the near abroad too. This article will tell you about popular and in-demand Russian performers over the past decade.

First echelon

So, let's start, further will be described Russian performers. The list is opened by old-timers domestic stage. Leonid Agutin, Nikolai Baskov, Oleg Gazmanov, Valery Leontiev, Alexander Rosenbaum, singer Slava, Lolita, the Pair of Normals, Mumiy Troll groups were quite popular at the beginning of the 2000s and were famous for their armies of loyal fans, but with the advent of the second decade of the century they fame has faded a bit. Today, these artists can be seen only at the most traditional concerts and musical evenings. What can not be said about Philip Kirkorov, Valeria Meladze, singers Natalie and Anita Tsoi, the groups "Beasts", "Splin". These artists are in demand and loved by the audience even today. Their concerts still attract millions of fans. And all this despite the fact that they also have the right to call themselves "old-timers of the stage."

Youth

Russian performers are also representatives of a new generation. Their popularity today is at its peak, their CDs are sold faster than others, their tours are scheduled for five to seven years in advance. Young Russian pop singers are very numerous. Their list includes several hundred names and pseudonyms, the most famous are Dima Bilan, Sergey Lazarev, rapper Timati, his protégés are Yegor Creed, Andrei Grizzly, Alexei Vorobyov, Dan Balan, Dominic Joker, Irakli, Max Korzh, Denis Maidanov, Tamerlan, Vyacheslav Basyul, Ani Lorak, Ivan Dorn, Nyusha, Pelageya, Yulia Savicheva, Anna Sedakova, Vera Brezhneva, Tati, Elena Temnikova, Polina Gagarina, Elvira T, Maxim, Loya, Svetlana Loboda, Stas Kostyushkin, Noise MC, Yuliana Karaulova, "Pizza ", "Silver", M-Band, "23:45", "Banderos", "30.02", Quest Pistols, "Degrees", the quartet "Heroes", "China", the trio "VIA GRA" and many others.

Voice

Russian performers today are also from many popular television shows. The project with the most high ratings on the domestic television- show "Voice". This platform has released wonderful singers such as Gela Guraliya, Elina Chaga, Nargiz Zakirova and many others.

Russian show business is replenishing and Viktoria Petrik can be called a bright representative of this separate group of domestic stage. The girl is the winner of the world famous festival "Children's New wave". This is, of course, a worthy replacement for the old-timers Russian show business. Now you know which Russian performers are most in demand at the moment.