List of best-selling albums in Chile

Luis Miguel is both the best-selling artist in Chile and has the most entries, with 9 albums of sales over 100,000 units

The following is an independently list of best-selling albums in Chile. Some of these figures are reported by national newspapers such as El Mercurio and La Tercera, forwarded by entities that includes Feria del Disco and Musimundo (then Chile's largest retailers[1]) or music associations like Asociación de Productores Fonográficos de Chile (APF or IFPI Chile), Chile's record-industry trade group that compiled sales from five multionational labels that make up APF (Sony, BMG, EMI, Warner and Polygram Chile).[2]

Chilean market have seen a decrease in their tallies figures since the late-1990s.[3] Despite this, time to time the country have been included as one of the biggest 50th music markets during multiple reports by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Billboard found that the consumption of music by Chileans have been focused in international artists (Latino and non-Latinos artists), and that their local music represented only 20% share in 1996.[4] Qué Pasa explained that international artists have been the priority by record labels,[5] and at the sum of the year, yearly national best-selling albums have had an average of only 12% from their domestic acts according to La Segunda in a report from 2010.[6]

Los Ramblers is believed to have the best-selling album in Chile, with estimated sales of 600,000 units, while Luis Miguel's Romances tracked sales of over 433,000 copies making it the best-selling album by an international act. In addition, Luis Miguel is the artist with the most entries, with at least 9 albums, followed by Los Prisioneros (3) and Maná (3), as well, five of those Miguel's albums attained sales of over 200,000 copies sold —the most by any other act with those figures.

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Indicates a Chilean artist

Numerous records reached sales of 5,000 copies and above, but this list only include albums with sales of over 70,000 units. Titles reaching the 50,000 mark was a number considered to be a "successful record" in the country according to the author of the book La producción de música popular (1987).[7]

If sales figures were not provided by the source and only show a certification-level obtained in Chile, those are not taken in consideration. This include examples such as Tango by Julio Iglesias (5× Platinum reported by Billboard in 2000[8]) or Chayanne's albums Provócame and Tiempo de Vals (all of them, reported with multiplatinum-levels by El Tiempo in 1994[9]).

All-time best-selling albums

Over 100,000 units

Rel. year Artist Album Claimed sales Ref.
1962 Los Ramblers [es] The Ramblers 600,000 [10]
1991 Luis Miguel Romance 500,000 [11]
1997 Romances 433,000 [12]
1994 Segundo Romance 325,000 [13]
1995 El Concierto 250,000 [14]
1990 Juan Luis Guerra Bachata Rosa 300,000 [15]
1995 Estúpido Cupido Estúpido Cupido 225,000 [16]
1991 Ana Gabriel Mi México 200,000 [16]
1992 Maná ¿Dónde Jugarán los Niños? [17]
1993 Luis Miguel Aries [18]
1990 Los Prisioneros Corazones 180,000 [19][20]
1990 Juan Gabriel Juan Gabriel en el Palacio de Bellas Artes 175,000 [21]
1993 Illapu En estos días [es] 175,000 [22]
1996 Juan Gabriel Bienvenido a Chile 175,000 [21]
1993 Eros Ramazzotti Tutte Storie 160,000 [23]
2003 María José Quintanilla México Lindo y Querido 160,000 [24]
1996 Luis Miguel Nada Es Igual... 150,000 [18]
1996 Sucupira Sucupira 150,000 [25]
1999 Joe Vasconcellos Vivo [26]
2003 31 Minutos 31 Minutos 140,000 [24]
2003 Christell Christell 126,000 [27]
1994 Ricardo Arjona Historias 125,000 [16]
1995 Los Tres MTV Unplugged 125,000 [25]
1996 Ella baila sola Ella baila sola (album) [es] 120,000 [28]
1997 Andrea Bocelli Romanza [29]
1998 Ella Baila Sola E.B.S. [28]
1988 Luis Miguel Busca una Mujer [30]
1990 20 Años 117,000 [30]
1995 Maná Cuando los Ángeles Lloran [17]
1984 Los Prisioneros La voz de los '80 100,000 [31]
1986 Pateando piedras [32]
1988 Myriam Hernández Myriam Hernández [33]
1989 Sexual Democracia Buscando chilenos [es] [34]
1991 La Ley Doble Opuesto [35]
1992 Whitney Houston/various artists The Bodyguard 100,000 [23]
1991 Michael Jackson Dangerous [23]
1997 Alejandro Sanz Más [36]
1998 Shakira ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? [37]
1999 Luis Miguel Amarte Es un Placer [14]
2003 Axé Bahia Tudo bem [38]
2006 La Oreja de Van Gogh Guapa [39]
2010 Los Vásquez Contigo pop y cebolla [es] 100,000 [40]

Over 70,000 units

Rel. year Artist Album Claimed sales Ref.
1999 A-Teens The ABBA Generation 95,000 [1]
1995 Ricardo Arjona Animal Nocturno 94,000 [41]
2000 Andre Rieu Valses 92,000 [3]
2000 Gondwana Alabanza (Por la Fuerza de la Razón) 90,000 [42]
2003 La Oreja de Van Gogh Lo Que te Conté Mientras te Hacías la Dormida 88,000 [43]
1995 Julio Iglesias La Carretera 80,000 [44]
1997 Tiro de Gracia Ser humano!! 80,000 [45]
2003 Marco Antonio Solís La Historia Continúa... 80,000 [43]
2003 Rojo Emociones & canciones [es] 80,000 [46]
2003 Rojo Rojo 2, en vivo [es] 80,000 [46]
2015 Maluma Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy 80,000 [47]
1994 Nicole Esperando nada 75,000 [48]
1995 La Ley Invisible 75,000 [49]
1997 Chichí Peralta Pa' Otro La'o 75,000 [50]
1998 El Símbolo [es] No Pares 75,000 [51]
1998 Los Nocheros Nocheros 75,000 [28]
1999 Los Nocheros Signos 75,000 [28]
1999 Cristian Castro Mi Vida Sin Tu Amor 75,000 [52]
1999 Maná MTV Unplugged 75,000 [28]
1999 Vengaboys The Party Album 73,911 [3]
1992 Los Pericos Big Yuyo [es] 70,000 [23]
1995 La Sociedad Dulce y Fatal 70,000 [53]
1997 Thalía Amor a la Mexicana 70,000 [54]

Best-selling albums by year

Year Album Artist Sales Ref.
2000 Valses Andre Rieu 92,000 [3]
2001 Chocolate Chocalate — [55]
2004 Vuelo Kudai 60,000 [56]
2005 Vuelo Kudai 42,000 [57]
2008 Cómplices Luis Miguel 21,400 [27]
2010 A morir Américo — [6]
2011 Contigo pop y cebolla Los Vásquez 20,000 [58]

Best-selling international artists in Chile

In 1999, Luis Miguel was awarded with 3 special Diamond Award ("Disco de Diamante" from Spanish) recognizing "exceptional sales" of 1,750,000 units across the nation during his career. This award was later presented to Ricardo Arjona in 2006, when his total record sales reached the one million mark in the country.[14][59] In comparison, Américo became the first Chilean artist to receive this recognition (2010) but lacked of support from IFPI Chile. While his record label, Feria Music (a label that shared 30% of the national sales value) awarded him as their best-selling artist, Karina Ruiz from IFPI Chile said that award from Feria Music isn't an official award from the industry.[59] The next artist with sales reported close to the one million mark, is Juan Gabriel which reached the sum of 700,000 in 1999,[60] and 950,000 units as of 2010.[61] Luis Miguel remains the best-selling artist in Chile, with sales of over 2,500,000 units as of 2012,[62] a sum that could be easily 3 million units according to La Tercera because his first records don't have scanned sales report.[61]

Over 100,000 in sales
Artist Sales (as of date) Image
Luis Miguel 2,500,000 (as of 2012)[62]
Ricardo Arjona 1,000,000 (as of 2006)[59]
Juan Gabriel 950,000 (as of 2010)[61]
Ana Gabriel 400,000 (as of 1994)[9]
Madonna 400,000 (as of 2012)[62]
Nana Mouskouri 300,000 (as of 1994)[23]
U2 250,000 (as of 1994)[23]
Chayanne 250,000 (as of 2012)[62]
Metallica 200,000 (as of 1994)[23]
Sting 150,000 (as of 1994)[23]
RBD 120,000 (as of 2008)[63]

See also

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