These musical groups are recognized as the best in the world. These musical groups are recognized as the best in the world The best domestic performers

This collection contains the most popular music bands And foreign performers, whose performance is best heard and seen live. Nowadays special technical devices and voice editors can enhance singers' voices to the point where they are virtually unrecognizable. Therefore, it is the performance in live, the efforts of the performers, dancing, lighting, improvisation and other features make the musical group truly popular. Keep in mind that the list only includes musicians who are currently performing.

U2

The legendary rock band needs no introduction - with the Edge's guitar, Bono's vocals, Adam Clayton's bass and Larry Mullen Jr.'s drums, U2 is one of the world's most popular bands. They released 12 studio albums and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2009, U2 created a special concert platform called “The Claw”, designed in such a way that fans could surround the stage from all sides. The concert tour lasted until 2012, attracting a record number of visitors.

Coldplay

When it comes to live performances, few can compare to by coldplay. The musical group, formed in 1996 with Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland, was complemented by Guy Berryman and Will Champion and achieved international fame in 2000 when they released their single "Yellow". Now this is one of the best groups in the world, whose concert is definitely worth attending.

Lady Gaga

This performer impresses millions not only with her voice, but also with her eccentric videos, outfits and behavior. Lady Gaga is definitely one of the most amazing performers worth attending live in concert. She herself says that she is a perfectionist, detail-oriented and that she is quite bossy.”

Red Hot Chilly Peppers

Frankly, there isn't a person on the planet who hasn't heard a Californication song at least once in their life. One of the most popular music groups in the world, the Red Hot Chilly Peppers are famous for the elements of jamming and improvisation during their live performances. Almost all of their songs are popular hits.

Beyonce

Beyonce began her career as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, and individual work from the album “Dangerously in love” in 2003, after which she was included in the “100 Most Wonderful Women in Music”. Beyonce is incredibly beautiful, she has a wonderful voice and amazing music. Thanks professional musicians and the band, Beyonce's concerts are always distinguished by a special drive.

Katy Perry

As a child, Katy Perry's parents forbade her to listen to any pop music, and this is what came of it. She is the only artist to have spent 69 consecutive weeks in the Top 10 charts. Beautiful, talented and unique, Katy Perry seems to have all the makings of a successful singer. Her concerts are always in demand among fans, so don't miss your chance.

Adele

The list of popular music groups would never be complete without this wonderful singer with a unique voice. Adele entered the Guinness Book of Records by becoming the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK. Adele can conquer any soul with her music, elegant and mysterious.

Pink

In 2013, Pink began her “The Truth About Love” tour, with 100 shows in America, Europe and Australia. The tour kicked off in support of her sixth studio album, appropriately titled. An amazingly talented performer, Pink and her band put on some very impressive shows.

Muse

This popular music group is best known for its extravagant and energetic live shows, as well as its fusion of numerous genres. Muse was founded in 1994 and has released six studio albums. Live show will leave you breathless even if you're not a fan. Be sure to go to one of their concerts if you ever get the chance!

Bon Jovi

Many actually grew up listening to Bon Jovi's music. In 2013, the music group announced a tour in support of their new album “What About Now,” which started in March 2013. The musicians visited Europe, Africa, America and Australia. John Bongiovi always gave his best at his concerts, for which he is appreciated by millions of fans around the world.

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 on the Western public have 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 Music Awards- shows 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 the Western (and this, in a 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, 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 as “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick, “Aliens” by James Cameron and “Caligula” by Tinto Brass.

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" 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

A well-known, sad and beautiful 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.

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. The group, whose songs no one had ever really heard anywhere, became 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 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.

The public's preferences change from year to year. New performers appear, old ones are forgotten. This rating presents the top popular singers 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 fit perfectly 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 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 of the Russian pop stage. 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 blew up radio stations and annual music awards shows.

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 International Union pop artists.

Valeriy Meladze

Date of birth: June 23, 1965
Executor 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 of the Chechen Republic.

Sergei Shnurov

Date of birth: April 13, 1973
The film actor, TV presenter, artist and scandalous leader of the Leningrad group 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 #Caccelentano blew up many radio stations.

The domestic stage began to be replete with the composition of female musical groups since the time of the “Combination” group. Every year there were more and more projects in which attractive girls took part, although not always with outstanding vocal abilities. There were also cases when staff turnover in groups was so frequent that fans did not have time to get used to the new soloists, as a result of which Music band was losing popularity.

We have made a selection of ten famous music groups whose members have a seductive and striking appearance.

1. Reflex- a musical group whose composition has changed several times. The group gained its greatest fame during the tenure of three charming blondes, who stirred up the public’s interest not only with dance hits, but also candid filming in glossy magazines.

2. Group name " Assorted"Speaks for itself. Each member of the team passed a rigorous selection process in the television project “ National artist"and was a unique unit. But nothing in our world lasts forever, and 5 of the 6 members of the group, having said goodbye to the former producer, go to new project called N.A.O.M.I.

3. For their protruding sexual image, the team “ VIA Gra "was constantly criticized. In Belarus, Taiwan and Indonesia, there are still bans on showing the group’s most explicit videos. And in 2004, in Indonesia, girls received permission to perform on the condition that they wear closed trouser suits.

4. " Tattoo" - one of the most successful Russian musical groups, famous all over the world. The image of lesbians exploited at the beginning of the project, performances in underwear, relaxed behavior and constant shocking antics of the soloists made the group the most criticized and scandalous.

5. Group " Factory"appeared during the project "Star Factory - 1". Despite the friendly atmosphere within the group, according to the girls, the group could not avoid a change in composition. It is noteworthy that quite recently in “Factory” appeared new member, who became a finalist in the show “I want to go to VIA Gro.”

6. " VIA Cream" - another musical group that has not avoided personnel changes. One way or another, all the girls who have ever participated in this project have a bright appearance and charisma. The group is the winner of a number of awards, such as “Song of the Year”, “Golden Gramophone” and “Golden Disc”.

7. Group " Hairpins“cannot boast that they are at the peak of fame, but the girls have their own fans. The five attractive members of the group have outstanding choreographic skills and incredible flexibility, which makes them even sexier.

8. Group " Mobile blondes " - another project of producer Igor Matvienko. I didn’t have to think long about the image of the team. Taking five long-legged blond beauties into the cast, the producer made them into typical anecdotal blondes. The girls themselves claim that this is just an image that they have to live up to.

9. History of the group " Shiny» its roots go deep to 1995. Since then, the composition of the women's team has changed several times. The pop group still exists today, but not a single old-timer remains in it. Despite the fact that the producers tried to select participants who looked similar to the girls from the first cast, they failed to regain their former popularity.

10. Group SEREBRO, created by Maxim Fadeev, announced itself by taking 3rd place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. After this event, the girls gained world fame. Several times the producer had to say goodbye to the group members, but no less sexy girls always came to replace them.

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Roman Litvinov, better known as Mujuice, is perhaps the most notable performer electronic music in Russia 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. The St. Petersburgers skillfully combine the features of this genre with modern musical techniques and funny lyrics in Russian, as a result of which 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 variety 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. High-quality R&B and soul are not a very common occurrence in Russian music, and BTSH 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 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 team, which Pitchfork loves to write about. Shoegaze is an alternative rock genre that originated in England in the late 80s. Music of this style is characterized by specific work with guitar effects and the detached behavior of 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 completely un-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.