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List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists

List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists

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This is the chart of Italian music artists listed by estimated sales according to the most important Italian newspapers, national television channels and music magazines. As the compilation of official data of sale of records in Italy it began to have departed only since 1995, thanks to the Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana, some corporate body of musical survey, as for instance Hit Parade Italy have tried to put order to the preceding respects furnished by Musica e dischi, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, Ciao 2001, and Doxa. From 1990 to 1995 any corporate body has furnished official data or estime of sale of the singers.

Mina and Adriano Celentano are the best-selling artists in Italy.

Reliable sources of estimated sales are most important Italian newspapers and magazines, like Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Giornale, Il Messaggero, and national radio and TV channels, like Rai, Mediaset, MTV, and Radio Italia TV.

To date, national sources attest 145 Italian music artists have surpassed five million records sold, twelve of which have sold between 50 and 100 million copies and seven of which have sold over 100 million records.

Artist by estimated sales

100 and more million estimated copies

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50 million to 99 million estimated copies

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20 million to 49 million estimated sales

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5 million to 19 million estimated sales

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Other artists with indefinite over 5 million estimated records sold

Other commercially and media successful artists

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Successful artists from Italian talent shows

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See also

Notes

This list is not compiled by certified sales but by estimated sales.
Sales sources are the most reliable Italian newspapers, music magazines and national TV channels.


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