In first days of the New Year we work out the totals for last year.
The Orange Revolution, the "Eurovision" song contest as well as other events influenced our sales in 2005. The top sellers were CDs dedicated to these events.
30 of the most popular CDs in 2005.
In the second half of the year the most popular discs were fresh pop and rock releases. Autograph sessions with Ruslana, Mad Heads XL, TNMK and Haydamaky made some CDs even more popular.
25 of the most popular CDs of the second half in 2005.
A pleasant feature of many new pop and rock releases is musicians turning to folk music. With every new album this interest becomes deeper and deeper. Now it is not only and not so much the performance of known songs which assuredly bring popularity to the performer – performers search for less known works, thus reviving almost forgotten folk songs. We would like to draw your attention to such CDs as "Korali", "Zelene" ("Green"), Vinky, Haydamaky "Perversia", Tartak and Huljajhorod and others.
The most popular pop-music CDs of 2005.
The most popular rock-music CDs of 2005.
Especially noteworthy is the series of discs "Golden Collection" which is presented by the company "Astra" and National Tele-Radio Company of Ukraine. The best Ukrainian music from the archives of National Radioñompany of Ukraine is presented in this series. These editions are not only very interesting musically, but we would like to also point out the quality of the execution of the discs – their design and sound quality.
The most popular variety art music CDs of 2005.
The most popular folk music CDs of 2005.
MP3 Records Company has presented a series of MP3 anthologies of popular musicians such as Maria Burmaka, Skryabin, Viy and others. Publishers promise to present even more CDs of popular artists in the future.
MP3 section of our web site.
Classic Company presented several Ukrainian movies in VideoCD and DVD formats. Unfortunately most of them are completely sold out at the moment. You may leave your e-mail address on our web site so that we can inform you when these CDs are available again.
The most popular video discs of 2005.
Please have a look at the most popular CDs for children.
Last year we delivered orders to our customers in 48 countries. This is our "rating" of the countries by the number of orders:
1. Ukraine
2. USA
3. Canada
4. United Kingdom
5. Russia
6. Australia
7. Germany
8. Japan
9. France
10. Italy
In 2006 we are going to increase our activity in the area of popularization of Ukrainian music. We plan to publish several albums of Ukrainian performers. The first one will be the album "Respublika" of the group, The Ukrainians. Not a single album of this legendary rock-group has been ever published in Ukraine.
Information about the group, The Ukrainians.
Of course we will continuously fill our catalogue, offering you all of the most interesting Ukrainian releases. We plan to organise joint orders with popular Ukrainian artists. Some new services for our visitors will be presented too. Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive all news from Umka.