[1][2] This is the successor to popular "variety"[3][2] Soviet music with its pop idols such as Alla Pugacheva[4] or Valery Leontiev.
[6] Modern-day mainstream Russian-language pop music is very diverse and has many ways to spread through the audience.
[7] In the 1990s and 2000, Alla Pugacheva[8] and Valery Leontyev[9] retained their popularity in Russia and Eastern European countries.
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.
[22][23] From the mid-1980s, into the 1990s and 2000s, in addition to Russian performers in Russia, performers from other countries in Europe, Asia and America became popular, including Marylya Rodowicz from Poland,[24] Army of Lovers and Roxette from Sweden, Gloria Gaynor from USA, Ricky Martin from Puerto Rico, In-Grid from Italy, Natalia Oreiro from Uruguay, Dan Balan from Moldova, Patricia Kaas from France, Laima Vaikule from Latvia, Thomas N'evergreen from Denmark,[25] Svetlana Loboda and[26][27] Verka Serduchka from Ukraine, A-Studio from Kazakhstan, Tarkan from Turkey, Arash from Iran,[28] Avraam Russo from Syria[29] and others.