After the death of Ilham Shakirov, the interest in his personality on the Internet grew 22 times

March 13, 2019

After the death of the national artist of Tatarstan, the legendary singer Ilham Shakirov, interest in his songs and his personality    has increased. This is confirmed by the Yandex.Wordstat data service, which keeps statistics of search queries on the Internet.

Ilgam Shakirov died on January 16, 2019 after a long illness. He was 84 years old.

So, in February 2017, Internet users applied 750 times for a request for “the song of Ilgam Shakirov”. In February 2018, this figure was 1062, and in February 2019, that is, after the singer’s death, people searched his songs 2406 times.

At the request of “Ilgam Shakirov songs” , the figures are 100, 144 and 267 times, respectively.

The most frequently requested song from Ilham Shakirov’s repertoire, according to Yandex.Wordstat, was the song Kara Urman. On the second place – “Sin Sazynna Uynadyn”, on the third – “Sandugach”.

Increased public attention to the personality of Ilgam Shakirov as a whole. As the statistics show, the number of requests for an artist has increased by 22 times. If in 2018, at the request of “Ilham Shakirov”, users applied 3989 times, in January 2019 this figure was 86917 times.

Alsou Ismagilova