How to get tested on Workzilla for knowledge of the rules? What is it for? Top popular singers.
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Nobody in the world knows Soviet and Russian pop musicians. Especially in the West. Nevertheless, musicians from Russia hit the Western charts at various times.
All attempts to promote and impose our popular music on the Western public have failed. Russian pop music is very secondary and backward - both technologically and stylistically.
But it has already become a good tradition to hang noodles to the Russian public about the success of certain performers in the West. Comes generally to the ridiculous.
Kirkorov went to Monte Carlo to The World Music Awards - the show of the best-selling performers in their countries, while finding a person in Russia who has Kirkorov's album is quite difficult. Pugacheva, as you know, in 1997 took only 15 a place out of 25 at the Eurovision Song Contest that nobody needs.
For some reason, Sergei Lazarev sings in English, this is generally the human brain is not able to master. Joseph Prigogine, whose obsession with pushing Valeria to the West, once said in a paid article in a British newspaper that his wife had sold 100 million albums in Russia.
The rapper Timati had the greatest success when Swiss DJ Antoine made a remix of Timati's song Welcome to St. Tropez. The song reached the top of the charts in the world, except for the UK and the USA. In Switzerland, the song took sixth place at the end of the year. This is the peak for our pop performers lately.
Which of our musicians really achieved high places in the Western (and this, in a musical sense, primarily the USA and Great Britain) charts and in general is more or less known in the West.
1. Composer Aram Khachaturian-1972
One of the recordings of the music of his ballet "Spartacus" entitled Spartacus, which Khachaturian made together with the London Symphony Orchestra, entered the British album chart in 1972, reached the 16th position and stayed there for 15 weeks.
By the way, his music is so popular in the world that it was even used in such famous films as "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick, "Aliens" by James Cameron and "Caligula" by Tinto Brass.
2. Boris Grebenshchikov-1989
His album Radio Silence, which was released in England and the USA, peaked at # 198 on Billboard200, despite the fact that it was recorded with the then superpolar group Eurythmics. The video shows BG's performance on the popular TV show by David Letterman.
3. Gorky Park-1990
The success of Gorky Park in the United States cannot be overstated. They did not conquer America. Just look at their chart achievements. On the Billboard Hot 100, they were noted only with the single Try To Find Me (81st place and 6 weeks in the chart), and in the Billboard 200 - with the album Gorky Park (80th place and 21 weeks in the chart).
But Gorky Park was on the whole selling well - 300 thousand copies sold in America alone - this is a very good result. The group achieved much more success in Scandinavia. Gorky Park in Norway came in at # 9 and the single Bang at # 5. In Denmark album Moscow Calling even went platinum.
4. Alsou-2000
With the song Before You Love Me "under Britney Spears" she got to 27th place for just a week, during the period when they tried to promote it in Europe after the 2nd place at Eurovision.
5. PPK-2001
The Rostov trans-project PPK with the release of a separate single ResuRection (the melody of Eduard Artemiev from the film "Siberiade" by Andrei Konchalovsky with the voice of Yuri Gagarin), debuted in the UK at once in third place!
The song became the first track from Russia to hit the hot airing of BBC Radio One. Then ResuRection was published in other countries, where it also successfully entered the charts - 5th in the Netherlands, 9th in Belgium, and 15th in France and 36th in Australia.
6. Tattoo-2003
In 2002, the English version of their album “200 in the opposite direction” was released, and Tatu became the most popular Russian group in the world. The girls did not become stars of the first magnitude, and their success was not so long, but they sold about 10 million of their records abroad. This is a result unattainable for Russian performers.
The English-language album now has gold status in four countries and platinum in Europe as a whole, the song "All the Things She Said" took the first place in the UK charts for several weeks, and a cover of The Smiths in 2009 sounded on the TV series "Gossip Girl".
7. Leonid Agutin-2007
The author of "Barefoot Boy" and husband of Angelica Varum graduated from the Moscow Jazz School and from his youth was fond of not only pop music, but also a variety of acoustic guitar music - from jazz to flamenco. In the early 2000s, Agutin began to play concerts, and then recorded the album "Cosmopolitan Life" with Al di Meola, an American virtuoso of the genre. In Germany, the album had more than good sales.
8.Eduard Gil-2009
A well-known, sad and wonderful story, as a result of which the great pop singer is known in the world as "Mr. Trololo". On November 26, 2009, a RealPapaPit user posted on YouTube the vocal "I am very glad, because I am finally returning home" - today this video has 19 million 700 thousand views.
They say that the singer was even offered an international tour - but he refused. Both Gawker and The New York Times wrote about Gil's death.
9. Pussy Riot-2012
This is the only group here that has not made it to the Western charts, but it cannot be ignored. From the point of view of music, this is a comic story. The group, a single song of which no one has really heard anywhere, has become the most famous musical group from Russia in recent years. Suffice it to say that in the West, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is known as the Pussy Riot Church.
Soon after the arrest of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, musicians around the world began to carry out actions in their support - ranging from Madonna and Paul McCartney to Mike Patton and The Knife and Die Antwoord.
10. Anna Netrebko-2007-present
The opera singer was able to achieve real world fame, including the United States. She enjoys particular success in Austria, where she received citizenship. Also lives in New York. Her recordings are constantly on the charts of classical music, but in some countries they also fall into the general music charts. Especially in Austria and Germany. This is how 15 Netrebko albums got into the Austrian chart .
Bonus: The world's most famous Russian music video
The bloody viral hit "Bad Motherfucker" from the Russian group Biting Elbows, filmed in the first person and therefore more reminiscent of an action video game than a music video. The clip was publicly featured by Samuel L. Jackson and Darren Aronofsky. 24.6 million views on Youtube.
, .Roman Litvinov, better known as Mujuice, is perhaps the most prominent electronic music performer in Russia over the past decade. The artist has more than a dozen full-length releases, the smaller part of which was recorded with live vocals.
The last such album was Amore e morte, released last year. The release got lost in the stream of new music and did not become as successful as, for example, Cool Cool Death !, released ten years ago. Despite this, Mujuice is popular even now, musicians such as Zemfira Ramazanova do not hesitate to collaborate with him, and the performer himself is a welcome participant in major Russian and foreign festivals.
2. Antokha MC
"Antokha MC" is a musician from Moscow, who started with studying at a music school in the class "Trumpet", and now is one of the most promising Russian hip-hop artists.
You can find echoes of 5'nizza and Micah in Anton's work, but on the whole it is quite original - this is not hip-hop in the classical sense of the term. The music is influenced by funk and reggae, and an additional highlight is the accompaniment, which is played by the trumpet in some songs.
3. Medzhikul
The absence of the St. Petersburg group "Medzhikul" in the rotation of radio and TV is quite possibly a temporary phenomenon. Their debut album "All About Martha" has everything to please almost any listener: to the songs of "Medzhikul" you can dance both incendiary and slow dances, they want to sing along, while the music itself is very far from the sore pop pop music ...
"Medzhikul" is perhaps the first group in Russia to perform music in the rhythm and blues genre of the 70s - the so-called Motown Sound. Petersburgers skillfully combine the features of this genre with modern musical techniques and funny texts in Russian, as a result, their compositions sound fresh and familiar at the same time.
4. Harajiev Smokes Virginia!
A group from Kazan, which started in 2009 with downhole mat-rock, now performing indie rock with elements of pop music. The group has six full-fledged releases, each of which, probably, forever settled in the memory of my smartphone.
There are only three members in the group, the main instrumental backbone is drums, bass, guitar and vocals. Other instruments are used in HSV recordings, but this minimum set is sufficient for performing songs at concerts. If you love perky and romantic guitar music, do not understand English-language lyrics and have no prejudices about high male vocals, then Harajiev Smokes Virginia! you will like it.
5. Motorama
Rostov-on-Don gave the hip-hop lovers "Casta", and the fans of modern independent music - the couple Vlad and Irina Parshin, who were at the origins of the projects Motorama, "Morning" and "Bergen Kremer" ("Summer in the City"). The main project of the musicians is considered to be Motorama: the discography of the group includes four full-length and two mini-albums, and the tour map extends far beyond the borders of Russia.
Motorama's work is usually classified as post-punk and twi-pop. Unpretentious progressions and melodies, 4/4 time signature and minimalistic accompaniment make Motorama music simple and enjoyable.
6. Thanks
"Musical group from Moscow" - this is the full text of the annotation in the community "Thank you" "VKontakte". Participants do not try to trump the variety of style tags and do not compare themselves with the hegemon of genres. The band's style is really hard to describe without resorting to boring musical terms. In simple terms, "Thank you" is a perky and sometimes experimental guitar rock with clever lyrics in your native language.
7. BCH
BCH is a project of the Moscow musician Viktor Isaev. It all started with the album "Mignon", released in 2014, unusual both in form and content. High-quality R&B and soul are not very common in Russian music, and BCH has not only become a good alternative to James Blake, but also released an original experimental release. Mignon is the album where very non-Russian music is combined with the most Russian lyrics - the poems of the Silver Age poets.
The latest release of the BCH "Hellenic Secret" has already been recorded with the author's texts. The music itself has also undergone changes: the songs are unlike each other and combine echoes of many directions - from trip-hop to retro wave.
8. Pinkshinyultrablast
Pinkshinyultrablast is a shoegaze band from St. Petersburg and the only Russian band that Pitchfork likes to write about. Shoegaze is an alternative rock genre that originated in England in the late 80s. The music of this style is characterized by a specific work with guitar effects and the detached behavior of musicians on stage, absorbed in this work.
In Russia, the boom of shoegaze music in the 80s and 90s went unnoticed, so this genre is still not popular with a wide audience. Pinkshinyultrablast do not count on success with the Russian audience: they give concerts abroad much more often than in Russia.
9. On-The-Go
A group from Togliatti, which started in their hometown with a down-the-road dance-rock and later changed both genre and place of residence. After moving to the capital of Togliatti, he took Xuman Records under his wing, and the very first release In The Wind marked the beginning of the band's creativity in a new style. Now On-The-Go is a Moscow band working in the indie-pop genre and sounding not at all in Russian.
10. Sirotkin
Moscow bard Sergei Sirotkin proves year after year that in Russia you can become a popular performer simply by playing beautiful music. The pursuit of fashion, the desire to turn creativity into, bold experiments - this is not about Sirotkin. Here - only a guitar and a young man with a beautiful voice.
The singer did what no one else could. got into the "daughter" of the main US chart with a song in Russian. In 2007, the track peaked at number 41 on Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks. "I Will" had a chance to hit the Billboard Hot 100, if not for the rule according to which songs not released in the United States fly past the "hot hundred" cradle of show business.
Valeria - Wild!
In 2009, the singer's single very unexpectedly hit the Billboard Hot Dance Club. The chart shows the popularity of the songs in American nightclubs.
The track debuted at # 48 on a nationwide event. Almost all Russian publications wrote about the stunning success of the not most popular singer in Russia. To make it clear what kind of musical Chomolungma Valeria conquered, the publications clarified that Britney Spears' "American Dream" single was then ranked 45th. Over time, the track managed to reach the 25th position and stay on the chart for more than 10 weeks.
Serebro
The group has several tracks at once, which flashed in various international charts. "Mama Lover" peaked at No. 49 on the Japan Hot 100 (Japan's national chart). And Mi Mi Mi - up to 88th line. The English version of "Mama Luba" also appeared in Mexico, reaching the 19th place in Mexico Airplay (radio chart). The residents of the Netherlands liked Mi Mi Mi more: in the Netherlands Digital Songs (download chart), the single's peak was at number 8. But most of all, Serebro is loved in Italy. Four songs of the group appeared in the download charts: Mama Lover, Mi Mi Mi, Kiss and Gun.
Julia Kova
Singer Yulia Kova made her debut on the international market quite successfully. In 2008, her single Beep Beep peaked at number 27 on Hot Dance Club Songs. And Sorry hit the Japan Hot 100, peaking at # 88. In Japan, the singer was so successful that it was even planned to release a specialized version of the album "This is Me". But due to disagreements with the record company, the release was canceled.
Timati - Welcome to St. Tropez (feat DJ Antoine)
The 2009 single peaked at # 1 on Billboard Luxembourg Digital Songs, # 2 on the German chart (the clip was in hot rotation on local MTV), to # 7 in Austria and France, and to # 9 on Billboard Global Dance Songs. 145 million views on YouTube!
PPK - Resurrection
The Russian electronic collective first conquered the Internet, and then the national hit parade of Great Britain.
In 2001, the track "Resurrection" hit the BBC Radio One rotation. Perhaps thanks to this, the single soon reached number three on the UK Singles Charts. The track was based on a tune from the soundtrack of the Soviet film "Sibiriada", written by Eduard Artemiev.
Gorky Park - Try to Find Me
Now let's remember the artifact of ancient times that burst out from behind the iron curtain right after it rusted. The band's self-titled debut disc sold 300,000 copies in the United States. It was 1989. In the "hot" numbers, it peaked at # 80 and for two weeks overall on the Billboard 200. Only one song was able to hit the Billboard Hot 100. Try To Find Me reached 81st line. The group was relatively successful in Norway and Denmark.
In the wake of interest in Russia, then many producers tried to find someone and promote, but it did not work out very well. One can only remember the group "Aquarium", whose longplay Radio Silence was on the 198th place on the Billboard in the same 1989.
Alsou - Before You Love Me
After a successful performance at Eurovision, the singer was promoted as the Russian Britney Spears. But the singer's PR management team did something wrong, and her single Before You Love Me was able to debut in 2001 in the UK Singles Chart only at number 27 and stay on the hit parade for three weeks. Although we must admit that the track was no different from the endless pop-gum, which then stormed the American and British charts.
Leonid Rudenko - Everybody
The DJ career began after he, rejected by Russian record companies, began to send his recordings by e-mail to managers of Western labels. He soon signed his first contract.
In 2009, the single Everybody entered the UK National Chart. Debuting in 24th place, he left the hundred after three weeks. The single later peaked at number two on the Upfront Club Chart's 100 Best Tracks of the Year.
t.A.T.u.
Three singles hit the main UK charts: Not Gonna Get Us, All About Us and All the Things She Said, thanks to which it became the first Russian group to reach the top of this chart. The song was in the lead for four weeks.
The group also achieved success in the United States. The debut album in English, for example, peaked at number 13 on the Billboard 200.
But most of all t.A.T.u. fell in love in Japan. Here the record 200 km / h in the Wrong Lane sold 1.8 million copies. At that time, these were record sales among foreign artists. By the way, after the breakup of the group of one of the ex-members, Billboard again submitted. A remix of Lena Katina's single Never Forget managed to reach the top of the magazine's dance chart.
Hello friends! In articles about remote work, I often mentioned workzilla as the easiest exchange for beginners. However, many times I received letters asking for help and advice on how to pass the test for Workzilla when registering, because earlier it was a rather amusing rebus that, without the help of the almighty Google, could not be solved.
In general, I found out that the service in 2015 changed its policy somewhat and simplified the registration process. True, the subscription price was raised to 390 rubles, which caused a lot of indignation and spitting in the spirit of "workzilla is a scam!"
Although, I am sure that my readers are not one of those, and do not shy away like hell from incense from any paid service in. For the latter is destructive.
By the way, I recently found a video about WZ. Silly but funny, rate:
But back to the service!
Everything is extremely simple: we go to the site, we go through a simple registration procedure, activate our account and get to our page. As elsewhere, we drive in the name, password, captcha; we pass activation through the mail. Then the fun begins.
We click on the "Contractor" icon, after which we will be asked to fill out our specialization and will be offered to pass a test for knowledge of the rules, which I would rather call a test for general adequacy and the ability to click the mouse. It looks like a picture.
To get started, go to the "specialization" section. For beginners, I recommend filling in as many fields as possible. At the initial stage, to increase the rating, you can do a couple of tasks of a general nature and do it for "food". Treat it as if it were, without the characteristic snorting and humming.
Rule knowledge test
After filling out the fields with specialization, it's time to get tested. We click the corresponding button (you can clearly see it in the screenshot above).
In my experience, the test questions can change. That in 2016, that at the beginning of 2017 they have changed several times. However, I have never spent more than 2-3 minutes looking for answers. I am sure my readers, if they have already found my blog, then they can easily cope with the answers in Google. As it were, the purpose of such testing is precisely to check whether the applicant knows how to use search engines. And then you never know?
As of September 2016, Workzilla's test was:
The questions may change at times, but you can easily find all the answers on Google.
We press the button "check" and we get the following warning.
Honestly, how many new accounts I tested on workzilla, I got it all the time. I carefully re-read item 3, it turns out, I forgot to put a full stop at the end of the sentence. Corrected - it was successful.
Next step -
Filling out the profile
Approach this point carefully and responsibly. No pseudonyms, nicknames and "left" avatars with the heroes of South Park. You come to the Internet to earn money and your most important asset that you can only have today is the customer's trust. I think there is no need to explain that with an indistinct profile without a real name and a photo, few people will trust you.
After filling out the account, we proceed to the most painful issue - payment of the subscription fee. We don’t bother and make a small investment in our own development.
As you can see, workzilla even offers a discount of 50 rubles. A trifle, but nice. And he promises new tasks every 2 minutes, which, by the way, I confirm from my own experience. Sometimes I do not have time to update the page - it pours like a cornucopia.
Confirming our identity
The next step also caused a lot of controversy and indignation among exchange users - verification of your identity. If you already have a registered WebMoney wallet with an initial certificate, then approx. If not (as it was, for example, with me), then you will need to send scans or photographs of an identity document. Everything would be fine, but they also ask for money for this procedure (about 300 rubles).
To be honest, I was also indignant for some time, but then I still sent a scan of my passport in order to get to work as soon as possible. I paid for the extra costs in half a day, and I managed to get a webmoney certificate only after a month.
Then the most interesting part begins - attempts to take tasks and complete them. For beginners, these processes can often drag on for weeks, especially if the performers have ambitions and do not know how to properly position themselves. If you feel that you are not doing much for weeks or months, I recommend that you pay attention to.
How to quickly start making money on worksilla?
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