List of best-selling albums by year in Italy

This is a list of best-selling albums by year in Italy. The Federation of the Italian Music Industry began publishing year-end lists for album sales in 2000. The charts are based on the cumulative total sales collected during the year from January to December.

The only albums by foreign artists to top the Italian year-end chart were 1 by The Beatles in 2000, and ÷ by Ed Sheeran in 2017. Vasco Rossi achieved five annual best-selling albums in Italy with the records Stupido hotel in 2001, Tracks in 2002, Buoni o cattivi in 2004, Vivere o niente in 2011 and Sono innocente in 2014. Other multiple toppers of the year-end chart were Eros Ramazzotti, whose albums 9 and e² were the best-selling records of 2003 and 2007, respectively, and Tiziano Ferro, which achieved the first position on the annual chart in 2009 with Alla mia età and in 2012 with L'amore è una cosa semplice. More recently, Luciano Ligabue had two annual best-selling albums in Italy, with Arrivederci, mostro! and Mondovisione being the best-selling album in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and Jovanotti achieved the same result with Safari (2008) and Lorenzo 2015 CC. (2015). The only album by a female solo artist to top the Italian annual albums chart was Laura Pausini's Io canto in 2007, while Mina achieved this result in duo with Adriano Celentano for their record Le migliori in 2016.

1950-1959

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
1959	Domenico Modugno	Domenico Modugno	Italy	1

1960-1969

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
1960	Fred Buscaglione	16 successi di Fred Buscaglione	Italy	1
1961	Frank Sinatra	The Best Of Frank Sinatra	United States	1
1962	Nico Fidenco	Nico Fidenco	Italy	1
1963	Rita Pavone	Rita Pavone	Italy	1
1964	Mina	Mina	Italy	1
1965	Mina	Studio Uno	Italy	1
1966	The Beatles	Rubber Soul	United Kingdom	1
1967	Gianni Morandi	Gianni Tre	Italy	2
1968	Fabrizio De André	Volume 1	Italy	1
1969	Fabrizio De André	Tutti morimmo a stento	Italy	3

1970-1979

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
1970	Mina	...bugiardo più che mai... più incosciente che mai...	Italy	1[1]
1971	Mina	Del mio meglio	Italy	1[2]
1972	Lucio Battisti	Umanamente uomo: il sogno	Italy	1[3]
1973	Lucio Battisti	Il mio canto libero	Italy	1[4]
1974	Soundtrack	Jesus Christ Superstar	United Kingdom	1[5]
1975	Francesco De Gregori	Rimmel	Italy	1
1976	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	United Kingdom	1
1977	Edoardo Bennato	Burattino senza fili	Italy	1
1978	Soundtrack	Saturday Night Fever	United States	1
1979	Lucio Dalla	Lucio Dalla	Italy	2

1980-1989

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
1980	Lucio Dalla	Dalla	Italy	1[6]
1981	Dire Straits	Making Movies	United Kingdom	1[7]
1982	Claudio Baglioni	Alè Oò	Italy	1[8]
1983	Michael Jackson	Thriller	United States	1[9]
1984	Vasco Rossi	Va bene, va bene così	Italy	1
1985	Claudio Baglioni	La vita è adesso	Italy	1[10]
1986	Madonna	True Blue	United States	1
1987	Zucchero	Blue's	Italy	1
1988	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	United States	1
1989	Zucchero	Oro Incenso & Birra	Italy	1

1990-1999

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
1990	Claudio Baglioni	Oltre	Italy	1[11][12]
1991	Antonello Venditti	Benvenuti in paradiso	Italy	1
1992	Luca Carboni	Carboni	Italy	1
1993	883	Nord Sud Ovest Est	Italy	1
1994	Pink Floyd	The Division Bell	United Kingdom	1
1995	Claudio Baglioni	Io sono qui	Italy	1[13]
1996	Eros Ramazzotti	Dove c'è musica	Italy	1
1997	Andrea Bocelli	Romanza	Italy	1
1998	Mina and Adriano Celentano	Mina Celentano	Italy	1
1999	Adriano Celentano	Io non so parlar d'amore	Italy	1

2000–2009

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
2000[14]	The Beatles	1	United Kingdom	1 (9 weeks)[15]
2001[16]	Vasco Rossi	Stupido hotel	Italy	1 (11 weeks)[17]
2002[18]	Vasco Rossi	Tracks	Italy	1 (9 weeks)[A]
2003[19]	Eros Ramazzotti	9	Italy	1 (14 weeks)[20]
2004[21]	Vasco Rossi	Buoni o cattivi	Italy	1 (15 weeks)[22]
2005[23]	Biagio Antonacci	Convivendo parte 2	Italy	1 (3 weeks)[24]
2006[25]	Laura Pausini	Io canto	Italy	1 (8 weeks)[B]
2007[26]	Eros Ramazzotti	e²	Italy	1 (3 weeks)[27]
2008[28]	Jovanotti	Safari	Italy	1 (7 weeks)[29]
2009[30]	Tiziano Ferro	Alla mia età	Italy	1 (3 weeks)[C]

2010–2019

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
2010[31]	Luciano Ligabue	Arrivederci, mostro!	Italy	1 (9 weeks)[32]
2011[33]	Vasco Rossi	Vivere o niente	Italy	1 (19 weeks)[34]
2012[35]	Tiziano Ferro	L'amore è una cosa semplice	Italy	1 (5 weeks)[D]
2013[36]	Luciano Ligabue	Mondovisione	Italy	1 (7 weeks)[E]
2014[37]	Vasco Rossi	Sono innocente	Italy	1 (1 week)[38]
2015[39]	Jovanotti	Lorenzo 2015 CC.	Italy	1 (4 weeks)[40]
2016[41]	Mina and Celentano	Le migliori	Italy	1 (5 weeks)[F]
2017[42]	Ed Sheeran	÷	United Kingdom	1 (2 weeks)[43]
2018[44]	Sfera Ebbasta	Rockstar	Italy	1 (4 weeks)[45]
2019[46]	Ultimo	Colpa delle favole	Italy	1 (5 weeks)[47]

2020−present

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
2020[48]	Marracash	Persona	Italy	1 (6 weeks)[G]
2021[49]	Rkomi	Taxi Driver	Italy	1 (6 weeks)[H]
2022[50]	Lazza	Sirio	Italy	1 (18 weeks)[51]
2023[52]	Geolier	Il coraggio dei bambini	Italy	1 (6 weeks)[53]

Vinyl albums

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon was the best-selling vinyl album in Italy for five consecutive years, between 2017 and 2021, and for a sixth year in 2023.

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality
2015[54]	David Gilmour	Rattle That Lock	United Kingdom
2016[41]	David Bowie	Blackstar	United Kingdom
2017[42]	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2018[44]	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2019[46]	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2020[55]	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2021[49]	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2022[50]	Harry Styles	Harry's House	United Kingdom
2023[52]	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom

Notes

• A ^ Vasco Rossi's Tracks spent five weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2002 and four additional weeks at number one in 2003.^[56]
• B ^ Laura Pausini's Io canto spent six weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2006 and two additional weeks at number one in 2007.^[57]
• C ^ Tiziano Ferro's Alla mia età spent two weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2009, but it also reached number one in its debut week in 2008.^[58]
• D ^ Tiziano Ferro's L'amore è una cosa semplice spent three weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2012, but it also reached number one for two weeks in 2011.^[59]
• E ^ Luciano Ligabue's Mondovisione spent five weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2013 and two additional weeks at number one in 2014.^[60]
• F ^ Mina & Celentano's Le migliori spent three weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2016 and two additional weeks at number one in 2017.^[61]
• G ^ Persona by Marracash spent four weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2020, but it also reached number one for two weeks in 2019.^[55]
• H ^ Taxi Driver by Rkomi spent four weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2021, but it also reached number one for two weeks in 2022.^[62]