Billboard

Inside Boney M’s ‘Rasputin’ Resurgence, From Dancefloors to TikTok to Billboard’s Global Charts

Boney M. debuts on the Global Excl. U.S. chart with their 1978 single "Rasputin," powered by a TikTok resurgence. By Eric Frankenberg Among a dozen debuts on the latest Billboard Global Excl. U.S.
The Daily Telegraph

The saga of Rasputin, the Boney M hit that incensed – and seduced – the Soviet Union

Much like the Tsarist sex cult leader it celebrates, Boney M's 1970s disco classic is enjoying an increasingly bizarre afterlife Ed Power writes about music, television and video games. As a ...
Billboard

Boney M.’s ‘Rasputin’ Charts Again on Global Excl. U.S. Thanks to Majestic Remix

Boney M.'s "Rasputin" returns to the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart thanks to a remix by London-based DJ Majestic. By Eric Frankenberg Back in February, Boney M. hit the Billboard Global Excl. U.S.
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Why the internet keeps linking Boney M.’s 'Rasputin' to Vladimir Putin?

Boney M.’s Ra Ra Rasputin has been a dance-floor classic since 1978, but the song has found an unexpected second life in the age of memes. What began as a disco tribute to Grigori Rasputin, the ...
NDTV

How An 18th Century Turkish Folk Song Inspired Boney M's Rasputin, Revived By Dhurandhar 2

The song came from the streets of Ottoman Istanbul. Katibim is an 18th or 19th-century Istanbul urban folk song known as Uskudara Gider Iken The melody spread across Balkans, Middle East, and South ...