Alla Pugacheva — Любовь, похожая на сон

A three-decade-old ballad from the reigning diva of Soviet and post-Soviet pop is back across the charts today, tracked on 61 country and platform charts after a six-week absence. Alla Pugacheva is less a singer than an institution — the best-selling recording artist in Russian history, whose career spans from the 1970s through her outspoken emigration in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. Love Like a Dream sits among her mid-90s torch songs: a slow, string-swept meditation built entirely around her vibrato, the vocal instrument that carried Russian-language pop for a generation. The track's durability owes to that voice and to Pugacheva's continued cultural weight far beyond Russia's borders. Its broad presence today marks a clear return to rotation.