Danila Vyacheslavovich Milokhin (); born 6 December 2001, Orenburg, Russia), better known as Danya Milokhin () is a Russian TikToker, rapper, musician, vlogger and actor.
In October 2020, the Russian version of Forbes placed Milokhin in sixth place on their inaugural list of highest paid TikTokers.
Personal life Danila Milokhin was born in Orenburg on 6 December 2001. His childhood was not easy; his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was divorced. For three years, Danila and his older brother were in a foster home, where the director was the adoptive mother of Yuri Shatunov and .
When Danila was 13 years old, he and his brother Ilya was adopted by a foster family.
At 16 years old he was addicted to narcotics, but later managed to overcome the addiction.
In October 2022, a former enforcer wrote a denunciation against Milokhin because he sang the Ukrainian anthem on a stream with a Ukrainian blogger. After which he flew to Dubai for a vacation, and then went to Los Angeles, US, but he denied rumors of his emigration to the United States, later (September 8, 2023) returning to Russia. On September 11, 2023, he left Russia for Dubai again after Ekaterina Mizulina demand to the Ministry of Defense to call Milokhin for compulsory service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Career In 2019, he opened an account on TikTok, where he started to record and upload videos. During this time he lived in Anapa and worked as a waiter, later deciding to move to Moscow. At this time he gained the attention of Yaroslav Andreev, the founder of the agency WildJam, and invited Milokhin to participate in sponsorship events. The agency took over the work with other advertisers.
On 10 March 2020, he started a TikTok-team (commonly called TikTok house) under the name Dream Team House.
On 17 September 2020 he released a music video for the song Дико тусим, which Milokhin wrote with Nikolay Baskov.
On 21 April 2021, he released his debut album Бум, which came with eight songs.
In 2021, he took part in Sber's advertising campaign, starring in a number of clips and commercials. On May 17, Milokhin's clip for Sber and Visa's advertising campaign was released.
In 2021, he became one of the speakers of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, as well as its youth face. He was later criticized by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova for "clowning" at the forum.
As of mid-July 2021, Danya Milokhin has more than 14 million subscribers on TikTok, over 3 million on Instagram.
In 2022, he was a member of the ice show Ice Age where he was paired with two time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva, but after some time, they were featured only four times, and right before filming a new episode he left the show after a scandal on Channel One, having fought with Ilia Averbukh and Medvedeva.
Discography Album NameInformationБУМ Release: 21 April 2021 Label: Dream Team Family Format: digital distribution
Singles YearTitleChartsAlbumTop Radio & YouTube HitsДля «Хавчика»:Для остальных песен:Top Radio & YouTube Russian HitsДля «Хавчика»:Top YouTube Russian HitsДля «Хавчика»:Для остальных песен:2020Я дома — — — Khavchik(with Timati & GeeGun)23112Транзит(album of Timati)Подонок — —— rowspan="11" Потанцуй со мной — ——Лав — ——Дико тусим(with Nikolay Baskov) 190 —46Детство(with Artur Babich) (cover of the song by Rauf & Faik) — ——Есть только миг(with Maruv) — ——Обращение к 2020 году — —Чётко(with Artur Babich) — —Новый год(with Artur Babich, Oleg Liquidator & Klymtok) — ——2021Выдыхаю боль — — —Among Us(with Nikita Levinsky) — ——Единорог — ——БУМВезде топ — —— rowspan="7" Мама(with Sorry Jesus) — ——so low(with escape) — ——Башня(with Mumiy Troll) — ——Дико влюблены(with Nikolay Baskov) — ——2022Без капли мыслей — ——Выпускной — ——
Ratings Highest paid TikTokers according to Forbes — 6th place Most popular TikTokers in Russia according to MTV — 10th place Top-5 singing stars on TikTok — 1st place In 2022, he placed 7th in the ratings of influential blogger Romir Influence Ranking.
Awards and nominations +YearAwardCategoryResultNotes2020GQ Man of the Year 2020Breakthrough of the year End of year awards for 2020 according to the TV channel ТНТ MusicTikToker of the year 5th place2021Influencers Awards#PROMUSICCosmopolitan Man Awards
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