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''Romanza'' is the first compilation album by Italian singer Andrea Bocelli, released internationally in 1997. Although a compilation, ''Romanza'' is considered Bocelli's breakthrough album and remains his most commercially successful to date, topping charts all across Europe and Latin America. With over 17 million copies sold worldwide, it is the best-selling Italian album of all-time, and also one of the best-selling albums by a recording artist in the 1990s.


Background

The album is a compilation of Bocelli's two previous
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Il Mare Calmo della Sera ''Il mare calmo della sera'' is the debut album by Italian tenor singer Andrea Bocelli, following his win of the Sanremo Festival in 1994, singing his first single and the leading single of the album of the same name. It was certified Gold in the ...
'', released in 1994, and ''
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'', released in 1995.


Promotion


North America

Being Bocelli's first album released in the United States and Canada, the album and Bocelli himself, were heavily
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. This included Bocelli being featured in Hotel Bellagio's commercials in
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, as well as his voice being heard on its Fountain show. PBS also played a big part in Bocelli' early success in the States, with the airing of ''
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'', Bocelli's first '' Great Performances'' special, of a concert filmed in 1997, in his native Tuscany.


Europe

In August, Bocelli first appeared at the
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in Torre del Lago, Italy, and then at the World Youth Festiva, in Paris, where he sang, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, to an audience of 800,000 people. In 1997, Bocelli won three major awards in Germany. On March 3, Bocelli appeared in Hamburg, with
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to receive the ECHO music award for " Best Single of the Year", for "
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",Andrea Bocelli Chronicle: 1995 - 1997
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on September 14, he received an ECHO Klassik, in Munich, for "Best seller of the year", for his previous album, ''
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'', and finally, on October 25, Bocelli received a Bambi award, an annual television and media prize awarded by the German media company
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, in Cologne. All three ceremonies were broadcast live in Germany. The album was also supported in Germany, by a series of concerts, including 22 open-air concerts in the country, as well as an indoor concert in
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. The German Tour, started in Locarno, Switzerland, on June 6, and ended in Berlin, on August 30, with other venues including, Hannover, Hamburg, Münster, Rügen,
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, Wiesbaden, Kiel,
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, Aschaffenburg, Nuremberg. In the United Kingdom, Bocelli held a concert with
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, at the
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, in London, in the fall. Back in Italy, on September 27, Bocelli sang again before the Pope at the International Eucharistic Congress, in Bologna. On October 19, he sang at the
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benefit concert held in Vatican City, and organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization to raise awareness about world hunger. On December 15 and 20, 1997, Bocelli held a concert in Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, in Paris, France, and a concert in
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, Austria. Bocelli also performed the French version of " Vivo per lei" with French singer, Hélène Ségara, on television programmes in France and Belgium, the Spanish version of song with Spanish singer, Marta Sánchez, on television programmes in Spain, and the
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version of the song with German singer,
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, on television programmes in Germany and Switzerland. A music video for each of those three versions was released in those countries. In addition, a music video of the Portuguese version of the song, sang with Brazilian singer
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, was also released in Brazil and Portugal, contributing to ''Romanza''s success in the two countries.


''Romanza (20th Anniversary Edition)''

In 2016, a new special edition of the album was released worldwide to celebrate 20 years since the album's original release. The original album has been remastered and including also three bonus tracks.


Track listing


Commercial performance

First in Europe, then
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around the world, the album amassed a multitude of platinum and
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awards, outselling even Bocelli's 1995 album, ''
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'', with worldwide sales in excess of 17 million copies. With more than 350,000 units sold in Switzerland, it is the second best-selling album in history there, and with over two million copies sold in France, it is among the top 10 best-selling albums ever in the country. It also received triple platinum status in the United States with 4.2 million copies sold,Boyle's 'Dream' Continues At No. 1 On Billboard 200
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being Bocelli's first album released in the States, and Diamond status in Canada. Actual sales stand at 1,133,000 copies across Canada according to Nielsen, making ''Romanza'' the best-selling album by a foreign artist of the
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era, and the fourth best-selling overall, in Canada.TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA (since 1995)
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To date, the album remains Bocelli's most commercially successful, and is considered his breakthrough album, launching his career worldwide.


Charts


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Sales and certifications


PBS Special

''A Night in Tuscany'', Bocelli's first PBS '' Great Performances'' special, filmed in 1997, was designed to promote the album. The concert held in his native Tuscany, at the
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, saw Bocelli perform two opera duets with
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Nuccia Focile Nuccia Focile (born 25 November 1961) is an Italian operatic soprano. Nuccia Focile was born in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily, studied in Turin under Elio Battaglia, and made her opera debut in 1983 as Serpina in ''La Serva Padrona'' by ...
, sing "Miserere" with
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star
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, who discovered him in 1992, and finally "
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" with English soprano
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. The DVD of the full program was internationally released on November 10, 1998.


See also

* List of best-selling albums *
List of best-selling albums in Argentina This is a list of the best-selling albums in Argentina based on CAPIF certification. Albums are listed in order of certification (highest to lowest), and order of release date (earliest to most recent). This list contains any type of album, includ ...
*
List of best-selling albums in Brazil The following is an independently list of best-selling albums in Brazil. This list can contain any types of album, including studio albums, extended plays, greatest hits, compilations, various artists, soundtracks and remixes. The list is divid ...
*
List of best-selling albums in Canada This is a list of the best-selling albums in Canada that have been certified by Music Canada, formerly known as Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Album certifications Music Canada provides "certifications" for album sales, similar ...
* List of best-selling albums in Italy *
List of best-selling albums in France This is a list of the best-selling albums in France that have been certified by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (french: Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) ...
*
List of diamond-certified albums in Canada The following diamond-certified albums in Canada have sold at least one million units (individual CDs, tapes or LPs) as determined by Canadian Recording Industry Association, the national music recording sales certification agency. The first ...
* List of European number-one hits of 1997


References


External links

* Romanza on the Billboard charts(United States and Canada)
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on Ultratop.be {{DEFAULTSORT:Romanza (Album) Andrea Bocelli compilation albums 1997 compilation albums Albums produced by Frank Peterson