A video posted by the famous American actor, Will Smith, on his Instagram page contains Russian music on the background. Due to this factor, it faced the condemnation of English-speaking users and the support of Russians. The video shows the process of shooting a scene from a movie with a car driving through fog. The
This year, many Russian companies have decided to skip the idea of having New Year’s parties, as experts interviewed by the Izvestia newspaper told. Earlier, the question was discussed whether it is reasonable celebrating New Year’s holidays en masse while many Russians are mobilized and are out of their homes. Nevertheless, there is still a
The experts of the Platforma company, which develops solutions for business, have created five musical compositions with the help of a neural network that reflect the sound of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Arkhangelsk, and Kazan. The project was created as part of the promotion of a new service to assess the tourist attractiveness of
A Swedish folk band, Södra Bergens Balalaikor, was banned from performing at a concert organized in support of Ukraine because they play a Russian musical instrument. Some critics even claimed the balalaika was as bad as a Nazi swastika. The music band, first formed in 1969, had been scheduled to play a charity concert
The album of ethnic electronic music “Welcome to the Arctic” based on folk songs of the peoples who live in the north, was released in Russia, which is reported on the website of the project office for the development of the Arctic. It is noted that the album is based on the musical accompaniment of
Specialists of the Rabota.ru and Sberzvuk services found out what kind of music Russians listened to went they returned to work after the New Year holidays. According to the survey results, the return was given to residents of the country quite easily (63 per cent). The survey results showed that pop, hip-hop, and rock more
Manizha was the first Russian singer to join a series of exclusive studio recordings of Spotify Singles. Manizha presented an acoustic version of her English-language track Now or Never, and also recorded a cover of the song See-Line Woman by Nina Simone. Manizha became the first Russian singer to record a track for Spotify Singles
The famous American rapper Kanye West decided to visit Russia, where he would like to hold a Sunday service in a Moscow church, get acquainted with the country’s President Vladimir Putin and businessman Araz Agalarov. A representative of the artist, Ameer Sudan, said that the rapper plans to make Russia a “second home” for himself
30 years after the collapse of the USSR, the most popular Soviet film among Russians remains “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”, the top song is still “Katyusha”, and the most favourite book is “How the Steel Was Tempered”, which follows from a survey conducted by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre as part of
Users of the Yandex.Music streaming service in 2021 most often listened to the singer Mari Kraymbrery and rapper Morgenshtern. According to the number of auditions, Mari Kraymbrery became the most popular artist, and Morgenstern became the main artist, just like last year. The most listened song of the year was the track “Bird” by the
Russian rap artist Sqwoz Bab has released a provocative video clip about the modern tendencies of the world community to change traditional values and the global shakiness of world perception. In his song, he warns that world power, including media influence, is rapidly passing into the hands of a minority, which provokes disregard for the
Specialists of the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre, in partnership with the ‘Mark No. 1 in Russia’ Award, conducted a study during which they found out who Russians consider the best singers of the country. It turned out that Russians consider Oleg Gazmanov to be the best Russian male pop singer of 2021 (19 per
Specialists of the Rabota.ru job search service conducted a joint study with Sberzvuk and found out whether Russians are interested in professions related to music. In the course of the study, it turned out that the majority of Russians (84 per cent) have never thought about working in the music field. According to the
