The public's preferences change from year to year. New performers appear, old ones are forgotten. This rating presents the top popular singers in Russia 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 audience.
Sergey Lazarev
Date of birth: April 1, 1983
Another popular, successful, stylish and very talented performer. It is becoming more and more popular from year to year. In addition to annual successes and breakthroughs, we 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. Nowadays the singer can often be found on various panels of judges music competitions. Well, the star’s creativity does not stand still. Bright videos 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 has perfectly integrated into Russian show business. The performer has a lot of duet works 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, television and radio presenter, actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Creative pseudonyms - Basta, Noggano. This person has many achievements in his piggy bank that cannot be ignored.
Timati
Date of birth: August 15, 1983
He is better known as a rap artist. But this top could not do without this artist, who has many musical and business projects behind him. Its popularity is gaining more and more momentum.
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.
Dzhigan
Date of birth: August 2, 1985
He is better known as a rap artist. The family and at the same time media artist continues to occupy places on the popular charts.
Philip Kirkorov
Date of birth: April 30, 1967
The real king Russian pop music. Since 2008 - People's Artist Russian Federation. You can listen to the achievements of this artist day and night, which is why 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 took radio stations and annual music awards by storm.
Grigory Leps
Date of birth: July 16, 1962
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. The artist has an endless number of awards and achievements, starting with 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 Pop Artists.
Valery Meladze
Date of birth: June 23, 1965
Performer of Georgian origin. His voice and timbre cannot be confused with anyone else's. Multiple winner music awards. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and People's Artist Chechen Republic.
Sergey Shnurov
Date of birth: April 13, 1973
The film actor, TV presenter, artist and scandalous leader of the Leningrad group all rolled into one is also included in the ranking of the most popular singers.
Sergey Zhukov
Date of birth: May 22, 1976
The leader of the group “Hands Up” continued his work under own name. In the early 2000s, the Hands Up group was definitely on the list of the most popular projects. But even now this performer could not be ignored by the real rating.
Arthur Pirozhkov
Date of birth: September 10, 1974
An artist with a humorous beginning, who went into music show business and is starting to gain momentum. The highly successful composition #Caccellentano blew up many radio stations.
Usually the job of a popular performer is to entertain the audience and nothing more. However, in the history of the global music industry there were people who managed not only to win millions of fans around the world, but also to change fashion, and sometimes the course of history, as well as the thinking of a generation. Such performers will be discussed in this article.
Millions believe that Elvis Presley is the most famous singer. But at the beginning of his career, no one could have thought that an ordinary American boy, who had worked as a truck driver for a long time, could gain worldwide fame. Presley's first compositions were not particularly popular, and producers almost gave up on him, believing that the singer's destiny was to perform country songs in local bars. However, the composition “Heatbreak hotel”, recorded in 1956, overnight made young man famous. Young people in America in the early 60s dreamed of being like Elvis, and girls dreamed of touching their idol at least once.
Elvis was not like the others. His relaxed movements and revealing outfits seemed unacceptable to the older generation. After all, at that time, popular singers performed in strict, elegant suits and calmly walked around the stage with a microphone in their hands... But the king of rock and roll wanted to be himself and did not hide his sexuality. Maybe without Presley the sexual revolution would not have taken place, which changed everything forever world culture.
It is interesting that, being extremely popular, Elvis Presley did not refuse military service, although his fans even wrote petitions to the US government asking them to return their beloved singer to the stage. However, it was a mutually beneficial deal. The prestige of military service increased, as even the King of Rock and Roll himself tried on the uniform and submitted to strict routines, and Elvis's popularity skyrocketed.
Presley's fate turned out to be sad. He died at 42. He failed to pass the test of fame, and at the end of his life he became a real drug addict. However, his playful, energetic compositions are still very popular, and numerous Presley look-alike competitions are held around the world every year. And this means only one thing: Elvis is alive!
If Elvis Presley was the king of rock and roll, then John Lennon can rightfully be given the title of king of the hippies - a few strange and naive young people who dreamed of peace and life according to the laws of love.
It is interesting that John Lennon was born at a time when German planes were raiding his native Liverpool. Perhaps it was a kind of sign of fate, and the boy, born in such unusual circumstances, had the goal of his life to carry a message of peace to all humanity.
Everyone knows Lennon was a leader The Beatles, the popularity of which doesn’t even make sense to mention. Once in an interview, Lennon arrogantly said that the Fab Four are more popular than Jesus Christ himself, and he does not know what will disappear first - rock and roll or Christianity. These words caused a real storm of criticism, but Lennon fully substantiated his point of view in the anthem “Imagine” he wrote. The singer assumed that if there were no religions in the world, people would simply have nothing to argue about among themselves.
John Lennon was not only a singer and leader of the Beatles. He drew, wrote wonderful poems and studied the world spiritual heritage. However, the latter played with him cruel joke. On his path to knowledge, he became seriously interested in drugs. However, this did not prevent him from engaging in active political activities. In the 70s, Lennon became a real hippie idol, as he promoted his views on politics, social life and freedom throughout the world.
On December 8, 1980, Lennon was killed by Mark Chapman, who had taken his autograph a few minutes earlier. Blood loss turned out to be incompatible with life, and the world lost one of the most talented people twentieth century, which tried to make humanity a little kinder and more peaceful.
Frank Albert Sinatra was a true trendsetter in American musical fashion. Many generations of US citizens were brought up on his songs, and his songs are included in the golden fund of the world stage. Velvet voice, constant elegance, white-toothed smile and intelligent manners - all this is about Sinatra, the true American king of pop music.
From the age of 13, Sinatra, the son of Italian immigrants, was interested in music. He earned money singing funny songs in bars hometown, accompanying himself on the ukulele. In the mid-30s, Sinatra and his friends put together a small music group, which quickly gained some popularity. However, fame did not come immediately. Only in the early 40s did major producers pay attention to the talented performer, after which the path to real success began. Hits were released one after another. It seemed that nothing could stop the performer from achieving worldwide fame. However, problems began in the 1950s. Divorce, loss of voice, despair, depression, and later, thoughts of suicide.
But Sinatra did not give up. The loss of his voice was the reason that the singer decided to try his hand at cinema and... received an Oscar for his first role in the film “From Here to Eternity.” This helped him gain confidence in himself. His voice gradually returned, and by the mid-60s, Sinatra not only released more than two dozen super-popular albums, but also starred in twelve films.
Frank Sinatra can be called a unique performer. He didn't leave musical Olympus from the very beginning of his career until his old age. Sinatra lived long life, having died in 1998 from heart attack. On the day of the performer's death, national mourning was declared in the United States. Entertainment programs were canceled and flags were lowered.
Frank Sinatra was not involved in high-profile scandals, did not put forward his own political ideas and did not shock the public with his extravagant outfits. But he became the true voice of a generation, and not all performers receive this honor.
Russian stars
Which singer is the most popular in Russia? One cannot help but recall Fyodor Chaliapin. Famous opera singer became famous throughout the world for its bright, powerful bass. Recordings with his performance - romances, opera arias, Russians folk songs- forever entered the history of music. With his unique style of performance, Chaliapin influenced the entire world opera.
Viktor Tsoi became the hero of his era. During his 12 years of performing, he won millions of fans in Russia. His songs - “A Star Called the Sun”, “Blood Type on Your Sleeve”, “We Are Waiting for Change”, “Cuckoo” - are not just words set to music. This is a manifesto younger generation striving for better life. In Moscow, on Krivoarbatsky Lane, there is a Wall in Memory of Viktor Tsoi.
Vladimir Vysotsky is no less famous person. He is an outstanding bard of the 70s of the last century. His hoarse voice, either singing or talking about love, loyalty, meanness, courage and fear, were immediately recognized. And today there are millions of fans of Vysotsky’s brilliant talent living in Russia.
I would like to remember Muslim Magomayev, Igor Talkov, Eduard Khil, Mikhail Krug.
Modern pop stars are Dima Bilan, Joseph Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko, Alexander Rosenbaum, Philip Kirkorov, Alexander Serov.
Modern domestic show business is a special and in some way separated from the rest of civilization world, in which slightly different people live, with their own worries, affairs and quirks. Russian performers are in most cases persons, albeit without a world name, but quite famous in the vastness of their land and within their native state, and perhaps within the neighboring countries too. This article will tell you about popular and sought-after last decade Russian performers.
First echelon
So, let's get started, then we will describe Russian performers. The list is opened by old-timers of the national stage. Leonid Agutin, Nikolai Baskov, Oleg Gazmanov, Valery Leontiev, Alexander Rosenbaum, singer Slava, Lolita, the groups “Para Normalnykh”, “Mumiy Troll” were quite popular at the beginning of the 2000s and were famous for their armies of devoted fans, but with the onset of the second decade of the century they the fame has faded a little. Today these artists can only be seen at the most traditional concerts and musical evenings. The same cannot be said about Philip Kirkorov, Valery Meladze, singers Natalie and Anita Tsoi, and the groups “Zveri” and “Splin”. These artists are in demand and loved by audiences 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 discs are selling faster than others, their tours are scheduled five to seven years in advance. There are a lot of young Russian pop singers. Their list includes several hundred names and pseudonyms, the most famous are Dima Bilan, Sergey Lazarev, rapper Timati, his protégé - Yegor Creed, Andrey Grizzly, Alexey 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", quartet "Heroes", "China", trio "VIA GRA" and many others.
Voice
Russian performers today also come from many popular television shows. Project with the most high ratings on domestic television - the show “The Voice”. This platform has produced wonderful singers such as Gela Guralia, Elina Chaga, Nargiz Zakirova and many others.
Russian show business is replenishing itself and Victoria Petrik can be called a prominent representative of this separate group of the domestic stage. The girl is the winner of the world famous festival "Children's New Wave". This is certainly a worthy replacement for the old-timers Russian show business. Now you know which Russian performers are most in demand at the moment.
Not far away, an authoritative and foreign, namely British, magazine New Musical Express conducted a survey in which twenty outstanding musical performers in the history of music. Over 10 million people took part in the survey, which indicates a relatively large audience reach. However, like everything like this, the results of this action are very, very controversial. But that’s why they are statistics, so that they have nothing to do with life. For example, for some reason my interests constantly do not coincide, so to speak, with the people's jury in the Miss Bikini competition and similar ones.
The leader in the poll is the now deceased Michael Jackson, with the result in 9.2
points from 10
possibly recognized as the best performer in the same history of music. Without wishing to slander this wonderful “singer,” however, for me his victory is more likely a big misunderstanding than a pattern. A performer is first and foremost a vocalist, and what kind of vocalist is Jackson? If you compare him with Kirkorov, then he is incomparable, but when such names appear next to each other 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 performer of songs. This is what it means to leave on time. Where is the world heading?
In general, all polls, ratings and other unknown measures of pathos are called differently, but they carry one question as old as the world - who (what) is more popular. And what does this have to do with the best performers, the best guitarists, best songs and so on? All these things are very subjective.
The band's frontman took second place in the top Queen - Freddie Mercury, with their 8.39 points. He has not yet matured to the glory Michael's, needless to say. To make sure of this, you can listen to their song together for comparison. State Of Shock, recently brought to public attention from dark corners recording studios, Where Freddie completely fades against the background of the wonderful moans and squeals of his colleague.
Lennon ranked fifth Plant, McCartney, Cobain and even lower.
Almost half of the chosen ones, namely nine people, are no longer present in the world, but comparatively young talent Matthew Bellamy from popular to lately groups 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 that's all!
So, the list itself best performers of all times and peoples from New Musical 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, screw you. One good thing is that the ubiquitous Lady Kwa-Kwa and Britney, who is Spears, for some reason did not penetrate here, and old Madonna is not visible.
1. Michael JacksonSeveral performers received the greatest recognition and fame, but still the greatest, the real king of pop music was Michael Jackson. His compositions have been listened to for decades, they will probably sound forever. Even the performer remains with him large number loyal fans.
During his not very long life, Michael Jackson became the owner of the most prestigious award 15 times. musical world Grammy Award, has sold approximately 1 billion albums and has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records 13 times. He deservedly received the title of the best of all times.
On June 25, 2009, the pop idol left the stage forever. He died of an overdose medicinal product propofol. After this, his albums began to be sold out with even greater fanaticism.
The best singers of all time
Michael Jackson became the most popular singer world and the best pop performer. But, as far as rock is concerned, one of the greatest musicians This direction is Freddie Mercury.
The lead singer of Queen had a rare gift - a unique voice that was in perfect harmony with his appearance. He was irresistible on stage, so the group quickly became famous throughout the world.
Freddie Mercury passed away on November 24, 1991. He died in London from bronchial pneumonia, which he developed due to AIDS. In 1992, a grand concert was held in his honor with the participation of many rock stars.
Forever won love and calling huge amount people also British singer, musician, and producer Sir James Paul McCartney. He is one of the founders of the group The Beatles. Paul McCartney has been awarded a Grammy Award 16 times and has been included in the Guinness Book of Records more than once. His duet with John Lennon - another greatest singer of all times and peoples, became one of the most successful copyright unions of music.
Became a legend of world music Italian singer, composer, and comedian Adriano Celentano. He has his own unique style, special facial expressions and gait. His albums have always sold out in huge numbers. Now Adriano is near Milan and repairs watches.
Joe Cocker is considered one of the best blues and rock performers. His blues ballads are sung in a low, hoarse baritone, making them unique in their own way. Joe Cocker is also an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Sir Elton John became one of the most successful singers, pianists and composers in the style British pop, rock, rock and glam rock. During his 40-year career as a musician, Elton John has sold more than 550 million copies of his albums. On the list of the 100 greatest musicians in history, he ranks 49th.
