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Mina and Adriano Celentano are the best-selling artists in Italy. 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 ...
The best-selling album in the world by an Italian is Andrea Bocelli's Romanza, with over 20 million copies (800,000 in Italy). [2] The best selling foreign album in Italy is estimated to be True Blue by Madonna with 1.5 million copies. [3] [4]
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.
In the 1990s, Italian avant-garde, alternative rock and metal bands gained international notoriety, at least among critics. In general, the sonic model was a mixture of Big Black, Sonic Youth and Fugazi, while the themes coined a sort of neo-existentialism, very much concerned with the psychodramas of ordinary kids.
In 2012, the Italian F.O.A.D. Records started reprinting all of the classic albums of Raw Power, starting with the first demo tape printed for the first time on vinyl, entitled Birth, passing through the first four records, and adding for the first time totally new audio material, including the discovery of a totally unknown demo dating back to ...
The album (the singer's first), released in November 1971, is considered one of the best works ever made by an Italian female artist, as well as one of her best works. [12] Oltre la collina is also one of the first Italian concept albums , addressing young despair and loneliness, religion, illness and suicide. [ 12 ]
They asked Dutch composer Michiel van der Kuy (of the spacesynth band Laserdance, best known for their 1986 hit single "Humanoid Invasion") to follow the steps of Maiola and Cundari. In 1989, he presented the first full-length Koto album Masterpieces , containing remakes of previous Koto songs, and his own compositions, including "Time ...
This is a list of the number-one hits of 2020 on Italy's Singles and Albums Charts, ranked by the Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI). Chart history