What do they listen to in Russia this summer? 10 main hits of domestic streaming

"Chocolate", "Mother", "Godzilla" (and Makan)

In the spring of 2022, Western labels left the Russian market-this is how the catalogs of domestic streaming have lost most foreign artists . The venues under the pressure of new repressive laws introduced censorship - more recently, the song “Childfri” Noize MC and coins (however, the new songs of Lisa Girdimova continue to fly into the tops). Now the upper lines of the charts began to occupy previously little -known Russian artists, yesterday's newcomers. Medusa studied the tops of Russian streams and talks about ten tracks that they listened and discussed in Russia this summer.

Minaeva "Chocolate"

8th place in the chart "Yandex.Musics"

In 2015, the seventeen -year -old Crimean Ksenia Minaeva left for Russia, where she began to play on the street on the guitar and record a video with the Caves. The Russian television was a springboard for her: in 2019, she participated in the show “Songs” on TNT, where she was noticed by the mentor of the Basta project, after which Minaeva became the artist of his Libe Gazagolder.

In the confessional texts of Minaeva, from a literary point of view, there was nothing new - the music of the invited producer Nikolai Moroz did not save (his work for another Russian artist Yegor Kesarev sounded much more witty). The coincidence or not-the Gazagolder sponed Minaev only after the Russian streams were empty in 2022.

A year later, her debut album “Disco Shar” (2023) was released - the same parody of disco and funk, which cannot be called serious retrospective musical work. At the same time, in the single of 2024, Minaev’s “Chocolate” is absolutely harmonious -the beloved acoustic guitar of Basta and reghetton -they came up to the lyrics about the “perfect pair” without awkward attempts to philosophize and use poetic cliches. At the same time, “chocolate” resembles and literally quotes what IWA did the IWA group almost ten years ago - but it is unlikely that young listeners have a matter of this.

Blizkey "mountains" (Remix)

7th place in the chart "MTS Music"

Often it is artists who speak two languages ​​that manage to get away from pathos, look at Russian -speaking music differently and use original phonetic constructions. At the beginning of the zero, the Ukrainian group 5'nizza deftly played with assonance and alliterations, in the 2010s the time came from the rappers from the North Caucasus.

Three years ago, a close rapper (Valery Mayromyan) declared himself a track “each”, singing his native Abkhazian coast in it. In 2023, Russian propaganda joyfully announced his first performance in the partially recognized Republic of Abkhazia (before that, the artist built his career in Russia and never performed at home).

In the hit of 2024, the loved one devotes all his attention to the mountains, but even without a wheelbarrow in the video, it was not possible again. True, the background for the heroes of the video changes so often that it is difficult to discern, in fact, the mountains are difficult .

Xolidayboy "Fires"

17th place in the chart "MTS Music"

Warning. In this part of the text there is one obscene word.

Another Crimean, and also Minaev - Ivan, aka Xovichboy, became known in Russia thanks to Tiktok as the performer of the song “Marmalade House” with the refrain “Fucked powder with the swallow / bitch sucking desserts”.

The bright Androgynic image of Minaev caused a lot of heit in social networks, while in the comments under the interview of Holydiboy there were enough and those who admired the timbre of voice, the harmony of his speech and thoughts. In 2023, he was reached by a professional scammer Ekaterina Mizulina, recalling the artist the past statements about his native Crimea, which are contrary to the theses of the Kremlin. The artist was awarded the agenda in the army, and then they began to cancel concerts after other denunciations-for example, for “breaking the system of spiritual and moral education of citizens and youth”. As a result, Minaev recorded a video in which he called himself a patriot and stated that "he certainly supports absolutely all the actions of our commander in chief, President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin."

Although even before this video, Holydiboy headed for conformity in style and music. Outwardly, it turned out to be a censored version of Måneskin, and musically- inept imitation of the Western patterns of the 1970-80s. The song “Fires”, which has been in the tops of Russian streams since spring, deliberately or not, summarizes everything that was happening in today's Russia: “They set fire to themselves, tore off the ovation / fires of love / This is evacuation.” In the video on the neck of the singer there is a pendant with the sign "Anarchy".

Big Baby Tape and Aarne "Supersonic"

2nd place in the charts "Yandex.Musics" and TOP-100: Russia Apple Music

“Medusa” has already told about the new album of the rapper Big Baby Tape and Bitmaker Aarne “Peekaboo”. Several tracks flew into the tops of Russian streaming, including Supersonic. The sound “Peekaboo” refers to the old hip-hop, and the text of the track “I think they won’t catch up with us”-as if written on behalf of the hero of the old video game, who remembered the line from the song “Tattoo”.

The absolute isolation of the album “Peekaboo” from reality and its deprived acute texts did not prevent the track “Supersonic” in the tops of the Ukrainian Spotify.

Jakone and Kiliana "Asphalt"

1st place in the charts "Yandex.Musics", "MTS music" and TOP-100: Russia Apple Music

The laurels of the ARTIK & ASTI duet hack the hookah-raep apologists. But beginners are not brought to beginners, but what is called "copying with deterioration." Two black wheelbarrows are chasing at night Moscow, as if symbolizing the tense relations of the heroes of the song. But the only thing you think about while watching - Jakone, brother, do not get distracted on the camera, hold the steering wheel and look at the road!

Macan and AVG "getting used"

3rd place in the TOP-100 Chart: Russia Apple Music

Note. In this part of the text there are two obscene words.

Each new Macan track resembles the previous one: guitar or keyboard on sample, most often Edm and text about expensive cars, random relationships and injustice in the world with hackneyed allegories. A characteristic detail: on the new album, Macan seduces a character of a character from the series “Gangster Petersburg” (1999), a criminal authority of the antibiotic. And he accompanies her with his own comment: "He was fucked up by the gangster, and I fucked up as I fell in love." Another confirmation is that the kid for 22-year-old Andrei Kosolapov is primarily aesthetics.

Therefore, Macan can read “My homeland is on the rollback, then on the machine”, and after a couple of minutes to say : “Glory of Russia” to the subsided hall, talk about “traditional values” and at the same time not to notice the problems of their peers of the last two years behind these values.

Bearwolf "Godzilla"

2nd place in the chart "MTS Music"

The blogger Valery Vasilevskaya is not the first and, for sure, not the last to attract the audience with installation, but only then made out the artist. At the end of 2023 - early 2024, she released debut tracks under the pseudonym Bearwolf - either with a claim to Russian folk aesthetics, or to European medieval (both of them did not really fit in its public way).

Then Vasilevskaya came to the musical producer Harutyun Tamanyan (DJ Fargo). In the mid-2010s, this HSE graduate tried to the role of the host of the Rain television channel and even read the rap about the war in Ukraine and censorship, but ultimately made a career in pop music-for example, became the co-author of the Life song by the singer Zivert.

According to Tamanyan, Vasilevskaya brought him several options for the text - he chose the most “viral”, about Godzilla, and wrote music to him. Now Vasilevskaya does not get tired of writing the realgs under her main hit and continues his career - then she released the pseudo -foam track “One in the Warrior field” , on the cover of which the artist appeared in medieval armor.

Zhenya Trofimov and the "Room of Culture" "Train"

7th place in the charts "Yandex.Music" and TOP-100: Russia Apple Music

In 2017, Barnahlets Zhenya Trofimov participated in the “new stars factory” at Muz-TV: he was remembered by a duet with Leonid Agutin and reached the final. Then he published the texts of his songs in social networks for several years, one of them eventually formed the basis of the “Bird” (2021) duo Hammali & Navai.

In the spring of 2022, Trofimov gathered the Group “Culture Room”-she debuted alive at the bottom of Russia in Barnaul. Since then, the team has played music that could once appear on our Radio. From the same series, the track “Train”: a steady verse, a breakthrough in the chorus and a classic story about farewell. Almost “Zhenya, I'm sorry, but I have to run”, but with a higher degree of drama.

nkeeei, uniqe, artem shilovetz and WIPO Glamor

9th place in the chart "Yandex.Musics"

In June, the Belarusian trio of the Nkeeei rapers (Nikita Koroboko), Uniqe (Egor UNITSIC), Artem Shilovets, along with the Wipo Bitmaker (Ilya Demchuk) released the Glamour album. In it, the musicians tried to ironically rethink the aesthetics of the zero-here is the sound under the thymbaland, and the absurd panchi in the style of Russian pop-rams stars of those years.

Sometimes the texts look cardboard, as if the authors are passing an exam on the club history of the 2000s, but the authors can make a discount, because they found the hails of the zero in kindergarten. In general, the real Queen of Glamor Fergi, who herself creatively rethought the principles of hedonism, is better not to show the glamor clip.

Tatyana Kurtukova "Mother"

5th place in the charts "Yandex.Musics" and "MTS music"

Back in the 2010s, Tatyana Kurtukova participated in small contests of folk songs, but the general public appreciated her work at the moment when patriotism finally merged with Putin's propaganda. The clip “Mother” appeared in Yetube back in March 2022, in July Kurtukova performed on the air of Andrei Malakhov’s program “Songs with all my heart”, the shaman performed in the same issue.

The “mother” was encouraged only in 2024-and now Sergey Zverev sings her. “Mother” is white-blue-red ruffles, a set of art cliches about Russia and repeated mention of enemies. To clarify what kind of enemies, the author did not become, it’s just “others”: “Mother Earth / oh, white birch / for me Holy Rus' / for other nasopodos.” In 2024, Kurtukova performed “Mother” at the Moscow Graduation concert, where hundreds of teenagers jumped under the song.

Alexander Shakirov