The first hit parade in the USSR was the ZD hit parade. Since the creation of the hit parade to the present day, it has identified the most popular artists, as well as popular albums and singles in Russia and other countries of the former USSR.[6]
Modern-day mainstream Russian-language pop music is very diverse and has many ways to spread through the audience. The most famous pop stars can be seen on general television in music or talk shows, and also on music TV channels such as Music Box, MTV and Muz-TV.[2] So, the Music Box channel presents its prize to popular artists in Russia and the CIS.[7]
Since the mid-1970s and 1980s, Russian-language pop music has experienced development. Many musical compositions, such as “Lavender”[15] and “Moon”[16] (Sofia Rotaru), “Million Roses”,[17] “Iceberg”[18] and “Ferryman”[19] (Alla Pugacheva), “I Want Change”[20] (Kino), created during this period, will become signature a card of Soviet and then Russian pop music in the world. Russian music is becoming popular in Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Scandinavia and Central Asia.[2][21] In 1990, the song “Moscow Calling” by Gorky Park became an international hit.[22][23]
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