List of best-selling albums by year in Italy explained

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.

1980-1989

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
1980	Lucio Dalla	Dalla	Italy	1^[1]
1981	Dire Straits	Making Movies	United Kingdom	1^[2]
1982	Claudio Baglioni	Alè Oò	Italy	1^[3]
1983	Michael Jackson	Thriller	United States	1^[4]
1984	Vasco Rossi	Va bene così	Italy	1
1985	Claudio Baglioni	La vita è adesso	Italy	1^[5]
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^[6] ^[7]
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^[8]
1996	Eros Ramazzotti	Dove c'è musica	Italy	1
1997	Andrea Bocelli	Romanza	Italy	1
1998	Mina & 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^[9]	The Beatles	1	United Kingdom	1 (9 weeks)^[10]
2001^[11]	Vasco Rossi	Stupido hotel	Italy	1 (11 weeks)^[12]
2002^[13]	Vasco Rossi	Tracks	Italy	1 (9 weeks)
2003^[14]	Eros Ramazzotti	9	Italy	1 (14 weeks)^[15]
2004^[16]	Vasco Rossi	Buoni o cattivi	Italy	1 (15 weeks)^[17]
2005^[18]	Biagio Antonacci	Convivendo parte 2	Italy	1 (3 weeks)^[19]
2006^[20]	Laura Pausini	Io canto	Italy	1 (8 weeks)
2007^[21]	Eros Ramazzotti	e²	Italy	1 (3 weeks)^[22]
2008^[23]	Jovanotti	Safari	Italy	1 (7 weeks)^[24]
2009^[25]	Tiziano Ferro	Alla mia età	Italy	1 (3 weeks)

2010–2019

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
2010^[26]	Luciano Ligabue	Arrivederci, mostro!	Italy	1 (9 weeks)^[27]
2011^[28]	Vasco Rossi	Vivere o niente	Italy	1 (19 weeks)^[29]
2012^[30]	Tiziano Ferro	L'amore è una cosa semplice	Italy	1 (5 weeks)
2013^[31]	Luciano Ligabue	Mondovisione	Italy	1 (7 weeks)
2014^[32]	Vasco Rossi	Sono innocente	Italy	1 (1 week)^[33]
2015^[34]	Jovanotti	Lorenzo 2015 CC.	Italy	1 (4 weeks)^[35]
2016^[36]	Mina & Celentano	Le migliori	Italy	1 (5 weeks)
2017^[37]	Ed Sheeran	÷	United Kingdom	1 (2 weeks)^[38]
2018^[39]	Sfera Ebbasta	Rockstar	Italy	1 (4 weeks)^[40]
2019^[41]	Ultimo	Colpa delle favole	Italy	1 (5 weeks)^[42]

2020−present

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality	Peak position
2020^[43]	Marracash	Persona	Italy	1 (6 weeks)
2021^[44]	Rkomi	Taxi Driver	Italy	1 (6 weeks)
2022^[45]	Lazza	Sirio	Italy	1 (18 weeks)^[46]
2023^[47]	Geolier	Il coraggio dei bambini	Italy	1 (6 weeks)^[48]

Vinyl albums

Year	Artist	Album	Nationality
2015^[49]	David Gilmour	Rattle That Lock	United Kingdom
2016	David Bowie	Blackstar	United Kingdom
2017	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2018	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2019	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2020	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2021	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	United Kingdom
2022	Harry Styles	Harry's House	United Kingdom
2023	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.^[50]
• 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.^[51]
• 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.^[52]
• 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.^[53]
• E Luciano Ligabue's Mondovisione spent five weeks atop the Italian Albums Chart in 2013 and two additional weeks at number one in 2014.^[54]
• 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.^[55]
• 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.^[56]
• 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.^[57]

External links

• Official website of the Federation of the Italian Music Industry

Notes and References

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10. Web site: Italian Charts - The Beatles - 1 (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
11. Web site: Nell'anno della crisi vince Vasco. Corriere della Sera. Andrea Laffranchi. 8 January 2002. 19 January 2013. Italian.
12. Web site: Italian Charts - Vasco Rossi - Stupido hotel (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
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15. Web site: Italian Charts - Eros Ramazzotti - 9 (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
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21. Web site: Classifiche Annuali 2007 FIMI-AC Nielsen: al primo posto Eros Ramazzotti con E2. Federation of the Italian Music Industry. 10 January 2008. 19 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120506002747/http://www.fimi.it/dett_comunicatistampa.php?id=15. 6 May 2012.
22. Web site: Italian Charts - Eros Ramazzotti - e² (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
23. Web site: Classifiche ufficiali degli Album e dei DVD musicali più venduti e dei singoli più scaricati dalla rete nel 2008. Federation of the Italian Music Industry. 13 January 2009. Italian. 19 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120322015645/http://www.fimi.it/dett_ddmercato.php?id=42. 22 March 2012.
24. Web site: Italian Charts - Jovanotti - Safari (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
25. Web site: Tiziano Ferro, il cd più venduto del 2009. corriere della Sera. 19 January 2009. Italian. 19 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120723113901/http://roma.corriere.it/roma/notizie/tempo_libero/10_gennaio_19/musica-tiziano-ferro-disco-piu-venduto-2009-1602311064169.shtml. 23 July 2012.
26. Web site: Classifiche annuali dei dischi più venduti e dei singoli più scaricati. Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Italian. 17 January 2010. 19 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120515102914/http://www.fimi.it/dett_ddmercato.php?id=56. 15 May 2012.
27. Web site: Italian Charts - Ligabue - Arrivederci, mostro!. Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
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29. Web site: Italian Charts - Vasco Rossi - Vivere o niente (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
30. Web site: Ferro è il re degli album più venduti nel 2012 . . . 3 August 2013 . 14 January 2013. Italian. https://web.archive.org/web/20130128074023/http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/1077092/ferro-e-il-re-degli-album-piu-venduti-nel-2012.shtml. 28 January 2013.
31. News: Brighenti. Flavio. "Mondovisione" è il più venduto nel 2013, gli italiani dominano la Top 100 degli album. Italian. 9 February 2014. La Repubblica. 7 January 2014.
32. News: Antonucci. Gabriele. Vasco Rossi: "Sono innocente" è l'album più venduto del 2014. Italian. 12 January 2015. Panorama. 12 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117050434/http://www.panorama.it/musica/vasco-rossi-innocente-lalbum-venduto-2014/. 17 November 2015. dead.
33. Web site: Vasco Rossi - Sono innocente (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 12 January 2015.
34. Web site: Classifiche Top of the Music 2015 FIMI-GfK: La musica italiana in vetta negli album e nei singoli digital. Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Italian. 8 January 2016. 8 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160108141659/http://fimi.it/news/classifiche-top-of-the-music-2015-fimi-gfk-la-musica-italiana-in-vetta-negli-album-e-nei-singoli-digitali. 8 January 2016.
35. Web site: Jovanotti - Lorenzo 2015 CC. (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 8 January 2016.
36. Web site: Musica, Mina e Celentano al top in un mercato italiano local. Il Sole 24 Ore. Italian. Francesco Prisco. 9 January 2017. 9 January 2017.
37. Web site: Top of the Music 2017: l'album più venduto in Italia è Divide "÷" di Ed Sheeran. Italian. Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. 8 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180108233439/http://www.fimi.it/news/top-of-the-music-2017-lalbum-piu-venduto-in-italia-e-divide-%c3%b7-di-ed-sheeran. 8 January 2018. dead.
38. Web site: Ed Sheeran - ÷ (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien . 8 January 2018.
39. Web site: I migliori album e i singoli del 2018 nelle classifiche di vendita. TV Sorrisi e Canzoni. Italian. 7 January 2019. 7 January 2019. Giulia Ciavarelli.
40. Web site: Sfera Ebbasta - Rockstar (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 7 January 2019.
41. Web site: Top of the Music FIMI/GfK 2019: Un anno con la musica italiana. Italian. Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. 15 January 2020. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20200111045420/https://www.fimi.it/news/top-of-the-music-fimi-gfk-2019-un-anno-con-la-musica-italiana.kl. 11 January 2020.
42. Web site: Ultimo - Colpa delle favole (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 15 January 2020.
43. Web site: Persona di Marracash è l'album più venduto del 2020. Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata. it. 7 January 2020. 7 January 2020.
44. Web site: FIMI, classifiche 2021: Taxi Driver di Rkomi è l’album più venduto dell'anno. Billboard. it. 7 January 2022. 7 January 2022.
45. Web site: Sirio di Lazza è l’album più venduto dell’anno. Rolling Stone. it. 9 January 2023. 5 February 2023.
46. Web site: Lazza - Sirio (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 5 February 2023.
47. Web site: Geolier domina tra gli album più venduti nel 2023, cresce la presenza femminile ma sono comunque poche: ecco tutte le classifiche. Il Fatto Quotidiano. 7 January 2024. 14 February 2024. Andrea Conti. it.
48. Web site: Geolier - Il coraggio dei bambini (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 14 February 2024.
49. Web site: Da gennaio 2016 arriva la classifica FIMI/GfK degli album in vinile. Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Italian. 13 January 2016. 12 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160113180724/http://www.fimi.it/news/da-gennaio-2016-arriva-la-classifica-fimigfk-degli-album-in-vinile. 13 January 2016.
50. Web site: Italian Charts - Vasco Rossi - Tracks (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
51. Web site: Italian Charts - Laura Pausini - Io canto (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
52. Web site: Italian Charts - Tiziano Ferro - Alla mia età (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
53. Web site: Italian Charts - Tiziano Ferro - L'amore è una cosa semplice (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 3 August 2013.
54. Web site: Italian Charts - Ligabue - Mondovisione (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 9 February 2014.
55. Web site: Italian Charts - MinaCelentano - Le migliori (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 9 January 2016.
56. Web site: Italian Charts - Marracash - Persona (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 6 January 2021.
57. Web site: Rkomi - Taxi Driver (album). Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. 5 February 2023.