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 ''El Mercurio'' (known online as ''El Mercurio On-Line'', ''EMOL'') is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's newspaper of record and it is considered the oldest daily in t ...

'' and ''

La Tercera ''La Tercera'' ( es, The Third One), formerly known as ''La Tercera de la Hora'' ('the third of the hour'), is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is ''El Mercurio''s closest competitor. ''La Tercera'' is part o ...

'', forwarded by entities that includes Feria del Disco and Musimundo (then Chile's largest retailers) 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). Chilean market have seen a decrease in their tallies figures since the late-1990s. Despite this, time to time the country have been included as one of the biggest 50th music markets during multiple reports by the

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(IFPI). ''

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'' 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. '' Qué Pasa'' explained that international artists have been the priority by record labels, 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 ''La Segunda'' ( es, The second one) is a Chilean afternoon daily newspaper, owned by El Mercurio SAP. Their tendency is conservative, is the first Chilean newspaper to disclose information that occurred in the morning because it is evening. Its ...

'' in a report from 2010. 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 Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born 19 April 1970) is a Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer, often referred to as ''El Sol de México'' (The Sun of Mexico), which is the nickname his mother gave him as a child—"mi sol". Luis Miguel has sung in mu ...

is the artist with the most entries, with at least 9 albums, followed by

Los Prisioneros Los Prisioneros ("The Prisoners") were a Chilean Rock music, rock/synth-pop, pop band formed in San Miguel, Chile, San Miguel, Santiago Province, Chile, Santiago, in 1983. They are considered one of the most important Chilean bands, and arguably ...

(3) and

Maná Maná () is a Mexican pop rock band. The band is considered one of the best-selling Latin music artists and the most successful Latin American band of all time with over 40 million records sold worldwide. The group's current lineup consists o ...

(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.

Definitions

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). 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) or

Chayanne Elmer Figueroa Arce (born June 28, 1968), better known under the stage name Chayanne, is a Puerto Rican Latin pop singer and actor. As a solo artist, Chayanne has released 21 albums and sold over 50 million records worldwide, making him one of ...

's albums ''

Provócame ''Provócame'' (''Turn Me On'') is the sixth studio album recorded by Puerto Rican performer Chayanne. The album was released by CBS Columbia on August 14, 1992 (see 1992 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in ...

'' and ''

Tiempo de Vals ''Tiempo de Vals'' ( en, Waltz Time) is the fifth studio album recorded by Puerto Rican performer Chayanne, It was released by CBS Discos on August 7, 1990 (see 1990 in music). The album was the third released on the Sony Music label, and feature ...

'' (all of them, reported with multiplatinum-levels by '' El Tiempo'' in 1994).

All-time best-selling albums

Over 100,000 units

Over 70,000 units

Best-selling albums by year

Best-selling international artists in Chile

In 1999,

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 Edgar Ricardo Arjona Algadeoro (born 19 January 1964), known as Ricardo Arjona (), is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter. Arjona is one of the most successful and best-selling Latin American artists of all time, with more than 80 million records so ...

in 2006, when his total

record sales Record sales or music sales are activities related to selling music recordings (albums, single (music), singles, or music video#Commercial release, music videos) through physical record shops or digital music store. Record sales reached the peak ...

reached the one million mark in the country. In comparison,

Américo Domingo Jhonny Vega Urzúa (born December 24, 1977, in Arica, Chile), commonly known as Américo, is a Chilean singer. He became known as the lead artist of Américo y la Nueva Alegría. He is the son of a locally known boleros singer, Melvin ...

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. The next artist with sales reported close to the one million mark, is

Juan Gabriel Alberto Aguilera Valadez (; January 7, 1950 – August 28, 2016), known professionally as Juan Gabriel (), was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. Colloquially nicknamed as Juanga () and El Divo de Juárez, Juan Gabriel was known for his f ...

which reached the sum of 700,000 in 1999, and 950,000 units as of 2010. Luis Miguel remains the best-selling artist in Chile, with sales of over 2,500,000 units as of 2012, a sum that could be easily 3 million units according to ''

'' because his first records don't have scanned sales report.

References

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External links

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