List of best-selling albums in Italy

The following is an independently list of the best-selling albums in Italy. Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) or related publishers does not provide an official list but news and mainstream media usually have provided albums sales claims.

Claudio Baglioni in 1985

The best-selling album of all time in Italy is La vita è adesso (1985) by Claudio Baglioni which remained for 27 consecutive weeks in first place in Superclassifica TV Sorrisi e Canzoni,^[1] from 16 June 1985 to 12 January 1986 (a record that still stands today) and a total of 90 weeks (18 months) in the top ten with more than 4,500,000 copies sold.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

The best-selling album in the world by an Italian is Andrea Bocelli's Romanza, with over 20 million copies (800,000 in Italy).^[7] The best selling foreign album in Italy is estimated to be True Blue by Madonna with 1.5 million copies.^[8][9]

Best-selling albums of all-time in Italy

1 million or more copies

Year	Artist	Album	Sales	Notes
1985	Claudio Baglioni	La vita è adesso	4,500,000	[10]
1989	Zucchero Fornaciari	Oro Incenso & Birra	2,025,000	[11][12]
1998	Mina, Adriano Celentano	Mina Celentano	2,000,000	[13]
1973	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	1,900,000	[14]
1981	Claudio Baglioni	Strada facendo	1,850,000	[14][15][16]
1999	Adriano Celentano	Io non so parlar d'amore	1,825,000	[17][12]
1996	Lucio Dalla	Canzoni	1,800,000	[18]
1999	Lunapop	...Squérez?	1,625,000	[19][12]
1995	Claudio Baglioni	Io sono qui	1,500,000	[14]
1979	Julio Iglesias	Innamorarsi Alla Mia Età	1,500,000	[20]
1986	Madonna	True Blue	1,500,000	[9][8]
1972	Claudio Baglioni	Questo piccolo grande amore	1,500,000	[21]
1987	Zucchero Fornaciari	Blue's	1,500,000	[22]
1988	Antonello Venditti	In questo mondo di ladri	1,500,000	[23]
1990	Lucio Dalla	Cambio	1,500,000	[24]
1996	Eros Ramazzotti	Dove c'è musica	1,500,000	[25]
2000	Adriano Celentano	Esco di rado e parlo ancora meno	1,500,000	[17]
1991	Antonello Venditti	Benvenuti in paradiso	1,400,000	[26]
1992	Zucchero Fornaciari	Miserere	1,400,000	[27]
1993	883	Nord Sud Ovest Est	1,300,000	[28]
1995	Zucchero Fornaciari	Spirito DiVino	1,300,000	[29]
1986	Eros Ramazzotti	Nuovi eroi	1,300,000	[30]
1981	Renato Zero	Artide Antartide	1,300,000	[31]
2004	Vasco Rossi	Buoni o cattivi	1,250,000	[32][12]
1998	Renato Zero	Amore Dopo Amore	1,200,000	[33]
1980	Renato Zero	Tregua	1,200,000	[34]
2005	Eros Ramazzotti	Calma apparente	1,200,000	[35]
1987	Michael Jackson	Bad	1,100,000	[36][12]
1996	Zucchero Fornaciari	The Best of Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari's Greatest Hits	1,100,000	[37]
2000	The Beatles	1	1,100,000	[38][12]
2003	Eros Ramazzotti	9	1,100,000	[39]
1997	Ligabue	Su e giù da un palco	1,060,000	[40][12]
1982	Franco Battiato	La voce del padrone	1,050,000	[41][12]
1986	Lucio Dalla	DallAmeriCaruso	1,030,000	[42][12]
1986	Claudio Baglioni	Assolo	1,030,000	[43]
1992	Whitney Houston / Various artists	The Bodyguard	1,025,000	[44][12]
1993	Vasco Rossi	Gli spari sopra	1,025,000	[45][12]
1995	Ligabue	Buon Compleanno Elvis	1,025,000	[46][12]
1977	Amanda Lear	I Am a Photograph	1,000,000	[47]
1977	Bee Gees	Saturday Night Fever	1,000,000	[48]
1984	Bruce Springsteen	Born in the U.S.A.	1,000,000	[49]
1982	Claudio Baglioni	Alé Oó	1,000,000	[50]
1984	Madonna	Like a Virgin	1,000,000[a]	[52]
1988	Lucio Dalla	Dalla/Morandi	1,000,000	[53]
1990	Eros Ramazzotti	In ogni senso	1,000,000	[54]
1991	Marco Masini	Malinconoia	1,000,000	[55]
1992	Luca Carboni	Carboni	1,000,000	[56]
1993	Eros Ramazzotti	Tutte storie	1,000,000	[57]
1995	Antonello Venditti	Prendilo tu questo frutto amaro	1,000,000	[58]
1997	Pino Daniele	Dimmi cosa succede sulla terra	1,000,000	[59]
1998	Pino Daniele	Yes I know my way	1,000,000	[59]
1998	Vasco Rossi	Canzoni per me	1,000,000	[60]
1998	Zucchero Fornaciari	BlueSugar	1,000,000	[61]
1979	Rockets	Galaxy	1,000,000	[62]

See also

• List of certified albums in Italy (best selling albums in Italy since 2009)
• List of best-selling singles in Italy
• List of best-selling albums
• Italian estimated best-selling music artists

Notes

1. In Italy, Like a Virgin received a platinum award for the sales of 500,000 copies in 1986.^[51] The following year, it received an additional platinum with the same level-requeriments (making a total of 1 million certified units) despite that for new releases, a platinum was equivalent to 200,000 copies at that time.