List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists

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 seven of which have sold over 100 million records.

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