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.
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 five of which have sold over 100 million records.
Artist by estimated sales
100 and more million estimated copies
50 million to 99 million estimated copies
20 million to 49 million estimated sales
5 million to 19 million estimated sales
Other artists with indefinite over 5 million estimated records sold
A
Salvatore Adamo
Biagio Antonacci
Renzo Arbore
B
Aleandro Baldi
Luca Barbarossa
Alex Baroni
Franco Battiato
Marcella Bella
Edoardo Bennato
Pierangelo Bertoli
Fred Bongusto
Angelo Branduardi
Alex Britti
Fred Buscaglione
C
Luca Carboni
Renato Carosone
Raffaella Carrà
Enrico Caruso
Caterina Caselli
Riccardo Cocciante
D
Tony Dallara
Pino Daniele
Fabrizio De André
Francesco De Gregori
Riccardo Del Turco
Nicola Di Bari
Dik Dik
Pino Donaggio
Johnny Dorelli
E
Elisa
Sergio Endrigo
Equipe 84
F
Nino Ferrer
Nico Fidenco
Piero Focaccia
Jimmy Fontana
Ivano Fossati
G
Giorgio Gaber
Rino Gaetano
Peppino Gagliardi
Gemelli Diversi
Giuliano e i Notturni
Loretta Goggi
Wilma Goich
Irene Grandi
Ivan Graziani
Gianluca Grignani
Francesco Guccini
I
I Cugini di Campagna
Il Giardino dei Semplici
J
J-Ax / Articolo 31
Enzo Jannacci
L
Gino Latilla
Bruno Lauzi
Fausto Leali
Luciano Ligabue
M
Mal
Fiorella Mannoia
Mia Martini
Matia Bazar
Mario Merola
Michele
Mietta
Amedeo Minghi
N
Nada
New Trolls
O
Anna Oxa
P
Paola & Chiara
Gino Paoli
Gianni Pettenati
Nilla Pizzi
R
Raf
Tony Renis
Teddy Reno
Renato Rascel
Enrico Ruggeri
S
Bobby Solo
Alan Sorrenti
Stadio
T
The Rokes
Luigi Tenco
Mario Tessuto
V
Ornella Vanoni
Z
Iva Zanicchi
Michele Zarrillo
Other commercially and media successful artists
Successful artists from Italian talent shows
See also
List of best-selling music artists
List of best-selling Latin music artists
List of best-selling albums in Italy
List of best-selling singles in Italy
List of best-selling singles
List of best-selling music artists in the United States
List of best-selling music artists in Finland
List of best-selling Swedish music artists
Italian music awards
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.