In 1987 he participated in making of eponymous album by that group, which in 1989 was published by monopolist Soviet record company Melodiya.

Also, he, together with Vitaly Lvov and Yekaterina Trotsenko, participated in creation of orchestrations for Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" musical, staged in USSR for the first time in Kyiv and Sevastopol.

In 1992, together with Aleksei Mikhailusev and Sergey Bogdan, he created professional recording studio called "Zurbagan", the first in Sevastopol.

In 1999 Igor Kraev left Crimea and began to work in Moscow as PR manager and later PR director of recording studio "ARS Records" of the holding company "ARS" headed by prominent Russian composer Igor Krutoy.

Among them Andrey Gubin, Ruki Vverh, Nikolai Trubach, Yuri Shatunov, Dima Bilan, Valeriy Meladze, Boris Moiseev, Diskoteka Avariya, VIA Gra, Valeriya, Premyer-Ministr, Danko, A'Studio, Laima Vaikule, Igor Krutoy, Philipp Kirkorov, Igor Nikolayev, Blestyashchiye, and many others.

He was allegedly killed for preventing one of the ethnic criminal groups from establishing control over royalties to performers and record labels for the use of their phonograms in the public sphere.

In different years they were joined by Nyusha, Dmitry Koldun, Eva Polna, Burrito, DJ Smash, Anita Tsoi, Filatov & Karas as the hosts of the radio show.

Currently, the young artists: Vanya Dmitrienko, Lyusya Chebotina, Habib Sharipov, members of the Dabro band, are among the chart hosts.

[18] Since 2016, Igor Kraev has given a series of lectures in Moscow and Kyiv on using the Internet to promote new artists and their music.

In 2018-2019, Igor Kraev and Pavel Balashov founded several international companies to expand the platform's operations in the European, U.S. and Latin American markets.