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54 albums · 1972–2022

Music of Ukraine, from Ivasyuk's songs and Okean Elzy to DakhaBrakha and today

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Two bandura players singing in a street of Lviv
Jamala singing 1944 alone on the Eurovision stage in StockholmVopli Vidopliassova on stage at night, Oleh Skrypka holding up a trumpet
Two bandurists playing in a street of Lviv, 2018. Photo: Yedmitry, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Jamala rehearsing 1944 at the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, 2016. Photo: Albin Olsson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Vopli Vidopliassova with Oleh Skrypka at the MRPL City festival in Mariupol, 2018. Photo: Ivasykus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ukraine's popular music has a song at its start for most listeners, Volodymyr Ivasyuk's Chervona ruta, sung in the seventies by Sofia Rotaru, Smerichka and Nazariy Yaremchuk while Nina Matviyenko kept the village songs; the Chervona Ruta festival of 1989 brought the rock of Braty Hadiukiny and Vopli Vidopliassova, Lviv's Skryabin and Taras Chubay followed, Okean Elzy filled the stadiums, Kyiv and Kharkiv added Tartak, TNMK and Boombox, Ruslana and Verka Serduchka went to Eurovision and Jamala and Kalush Orchestra won it, DakhaBrakha, Onuka and Go_A took the old songs into theatres and clubs, Ivan Dorn, Monatik and alyona alyona made its pop and rap, Jinjer its metal, and Zhadan i Sobaky its indie. The list has 54 records from 1972 to 2022, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made; Plach Yeremii is missing because its records are not on Deezer, and the kobzars' old recordings, the choirs and the classical music beyond a nod to Silvestrov, and the singers of the diaspora would each need a list of their own. About 43 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Pop 14%Rock 14%Folk & Country 13%Other 59%
  • Pop 14%
  • Rock 14%
  • Folk & Country 13%
  • Other 59%

The genres named most: ukrainian, pop, folk, rock, hip hop, metal.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Ukraine 54. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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