List of best-selling albums in Chile
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File:Luis Miguel.jpg 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 {{lang|es|El Mercurio}} and La Tercera, 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).{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28|title=Indie Labels Thrive In Chile, Often With Support From Multinationals|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 13, 2021|date=July 20, 1996|page=28|volume=108|issue=29|first=Pablo|last=Márquez}}
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 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.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zA4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Latinos+and+Non-Latinos+Chile+Market&pg=PA45-IA11|title=Chilean Market Improves Slowly But Surely|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 14, 2021|date=February 1, 1997|page=LMQ-3, LMQ-8|volume=109|issue=5|first=Pablo|last=Márquez}} Qué Pasa explained that international artists have been the priority by record labels,{{cite magazine|magazine=Qué Pasa|date=2001|page=122|issue=1570–1577|title=Industria en Chile|language=es|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AoKo2JtMcXAC&q=Thal%C3%ADa+unidades+vendidas+Chile|quote=supone se trata la industria en Chile: Los músicos chilenos. Normalmente y más aún en tiempos difíciles, la prioridad para los sellos son los artistas internacionales. Según Sanfuentes, "ningún disco se financia hoy con ventas inferiores a 12 mil unidades".}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.lasegunda.com/Noticias/CulturaEspectaculos/2010/12/613274/Americo-se-quedo-con-el-Top-1-y-2-en-las-ventas-de-discos-en-Chile|title=Américo se quedó con el Top 1 y 2 en las ventas de discos en Chile|work=La Segunda|language=es|date=December 30, 2010|access-date=December 12, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211212203712/http://www.lasegunda.com/Noticias/CulturaEspectaculos/2010/12/613274/Americo-se-quedo-con-el-Top-1-y-2-en-las-ventas-de-discos-en-Chile|archive-date=December 12, 2021}}
Luis Miguel's Romance is believed to be the best-selling album in Chile, with tracked sales of 500,000 units. 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.
However, the best-selling record of Chilean music history is "El Rock del Mundial" by The Ramblers, with estimated sales of 600,000 units.{{cite book|url= https://es.scribd.com/document/588993104/Gonzalo-Planet-Se-oyen-los-pasos|title=Se oyen los pasos|publisher=|isbn=978-9562991001|first=Gonzalo|last=Planet|language=es|date=2004|access-date=April 16, 2025|quote=Es el disco más vendido de la historia de Chile", dice el productor. "Debe haber superado las seiscientas mil copias vendidas.|page=21}}
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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).{{cite web|url=https://libros.uchile.cl/files/presses/1/monographs/1022/submission/proof/102/|title=Sergio Pirincho Cárcamo|publisher=University of Chile|language=es|access-date=December 12, 2021|date=1987|first=Valerio|last=Fuenzalida|page=101}}
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){{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQ8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA108|title=Julio Iglesias 30th Anniversary |magazine=Billboard|access-date=September 24, 2024|date=May 27, 2000|page=108|volume=112|issue=22}} or Chayanne's albums Provócame and Tiempo de Vals (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, 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.{{cite news|url=http://wvw.nacion.com/viva/1999/noviembre/20/espec6.html|title=Luis Miguel en Chile|language=es|newspaper=La Nación|date=20 November 1999|access-date=27 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027144619/http://wvw.nacion.com/viva/1999/noviembre/20/espec6.html|archive-date=27 October 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Américo: Disco de Diamante que recibió es simbólico y no está validado por la industria|url=https://www.latercera.com/noticia/americo-disco-de-diamante-que-recibio-es-simbolico-y-no-esta-validado-por-la-industria/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402105024/https://www.latercera.com/noticia/americo-disco-de-diamante-que-recibio-es-simbolico-y-no-esta-validado-por-la-industria/|archive-date=April 2, 2018|work=La Tercera|language=es|date=October 27, 2010|access-date=December 10, 2021|first=Claudio|last=Vergara}} 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. The next artist with sales reported close to the one million mark, is Juan Gabriel whom reached the sum of 700,000 in 1999,{{cite news|title=Estrenará canción dedicada a la Virgen de Guadalupe|url=http://h.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Search&Key=EDT/1999/12/01/35/Ar03503.xml&CollName=EDT_1990_1999&DOCID=2384630&PageLabelPrint=35&skin=%45%6c%53%69%67%6c%6f&sLanguage=%45%6e%67%6c%69%73%68&Content=%41%4c%4c&selLanguage=&sPublication=%45%44%54&sQuery=%63%6f%70%69%61%73%2b%76%65%6e%64%69%64%61%73%2b%65%6e%2b%43%68%69%6c%65&sScopeID=%44%52&sDateFrom=%30%32%25%32%46%32%36%25%32%46%31%39%32%32&sDateTo=%31%32%25%32%46%33%31%25%32%46%32%30%30%30&x=%31%37&y=%35&RefineQueryView=&StartFrom=%32%30&ViewMode=HTML|access-date=December 10, 2021|work=El Siglo de Torreón|language=es|date=December 1, 1999}} and 950,000 units as of 2010. Luis Miguel remains the best-selling artist in Chile, with sales of over 2.5 million units as of 2012, a sum that could be easily 3 million copies according to La Tercera because his first records don't have scanned sales report.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200205174848/https://www.profovi.cl/galardones.html Streaming awards in Chile] by PROFOVI
- [https://www.latercera.com/diario-impreso/ventas-de-discos-en-chile-alcanzan-las-cifras-mas-bajas-en-diez-anos/ "Ventas de discos en Chile alcanzan las cifras más bajas en diez años"] by La Tercera