List of Italian artists in the US charts
This list includes Italian artists who have made it into the US album and single charts . Significant contributions by Italian interpreters to multinational albums and singles are also taken into account. The basis of the chart data for the albums is the Billboard 200 from 1956 and for the singles the Billboard Hot 100 from 1958 and their predecessor charts .
With 41 albums and five singles (as of April 23, 2019), the orchestra leader Annunzio Mantovani is by far the most represented Italian musician in the US charts. In addition to such light symphonies , the album charts are still clearly dominated by the genres of opera and operatic pop , represented primarily by Luciano Pavarotti , Andrea Bocelli and the trio Il Volo . In the single charts are the predominant genres, especially in the 80s and 90s, disco and dance , from Giorgio Moroder to Baltimora , Change and Black Box to Eiffel 65 . In the 2000s, Lacuna Coil finally brought Italian metal to the Billboard 200. Two Italian albums, Annunzio Mantovani's film Encores (1957) and Andrea Bocelli's Sì (2018), and an Italian single, Domenico Modugno's world hit Nel blu, have topped the charts dipinto di blu (1958).
See also: Section “Reception outside Italy” in Italian Popular Music
Notes on the table
- Artist: The name of the artist follows the source (Whitburn or Billboard.com), additional brackets are occasionally used to clarify multiple mentions.
- Album / Single: The title follows the source.
- Top ranking: Placements at the top of the chart are linked to the annual list of number one hits . The coloring of the lines refers to the top 10 or number one placement.
- Weeks: The number of weeks that a title was represented in the charts is given.
- Chart entry: The date shown is the exact date on which a title was first represented in the charts.
- Sales: Sales figures refer exclusively to the RIAA awarded gold and platinum awards .
Albums (Billboard 200)
Interpreter | number |
---|---|
Mantovani | 41 |
Luciano Pavarotti | 18 A (13 + 5) |
Andrea Bocelli | 16 |
Il Volo | 8th |
Lacuna coil | 7th |
Giorgio Moroder | 7 B (6 + 1) |
Sergio Franchi | 6th |
Change | 5 |
Premiata Forneria Marconi | 2 |
So far (as of November 1, 2019) 98 albums by Italian artists have entered the American album charts. 22 reached the top 10, two of which also reached the top of the chart: Film Encores by Annunzio Mantovani in 1957 and Sì by Andrea Bocelli in 2018. Film Encores also had the longest chart stay at 231 weeks, followed by Gems Forever ... (1958, also by Mantovani) with 104 weeks and the multinational album In Concert by the three tenors Luciano Pavarotti , José Carreras and Plácido Domingo (1990) with 100 weeks. The latter and Romanza by Andrea Bocelli are the greatest sales successes of albums with Italian participation in the USA, each with over 3 million records sold. Other successful Italian albums (with more than 2 million sales) are Sogno and My Christmas by Andrea Bocelli and Europop by Eiffel 65 .
The record for the most placed albums is by far held by Annunzio Mantovani, who was in the US charts with 41 albums between 1956 and 1972. This is followed by Luciano Pavarotti, who from 1979 was able to place himself 13 times as a soloist and another five times together with other singers. Andrea Bocelli closes the top three with 16 placed albums since 1997.
number | |
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first place | 2 |
Top 10 | 22nd |
All in all | 98 |
Interpreter | album | maximum placement |
Weeks | Chart entry | Sales |
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Mantovani | Waltzes of Irving Berlin | 12 | 7th | 05/26/1956 | |
Mantovani | Film encores | 1 | 231 | 05/27/1957 | gold 500,000+ |
Mantovani | Christmas Carols | 3 | 21st | December 09, 1957 | gold 500,000+ |
Mantovani | Mantovani Plays Tangos | 22nd | 1 | March 24, 1958 | |
Mantovani | Gems Forever ... | 5 | 104 | 05/19/1958 | gold 500,000+ |
Domenico Modugno | Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare) and Other Italian Favorites | 8th | 6th | 09/15/1958 | |
Mantovani | Strauss Waltzes | 7th | 68 | 11/24/1958 | gold 500,000+ |
Mantovani | Continental Encores | 13 | 46 | 02/16/1959 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani Stereo Showcase | 6th | 11 | 06/01/1959 | |
Mantovani | Film Encores, Vol. 2 | 14th | 26th | 06/15/1959 | |
Mantovani | All-American Showcase | 8th | 18th | 04/01/1960 | |
Mantovani | The American Scene | 11 | 30th | 03/28/1960 | |
Mantovani | Songs to Remember | 21st | 53 | July 25, 1960 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani Plays Music from Exodus and Other Great Themes | 2 | 71 | 05.12.1960 | gold 500,000+ |
Mantovani | Operetta Memories | 22nd | 12 | 02/20/1961 | |
Mantovani | Italia mia | 8th | 50 | 05/29/1961 | |
Mantovani | Themes from Broadway | 29 | 10 | 08/14/1961 | |
Mantovani | Songs of Praise | 83 | 8th | 01/13/1962 | |
Mantovani | American Waltzes | 8th | 26th | 06/09/1962 | |
Mantovani | Moon River and Other Great Film Themes | 24 | 15th | 10/27/1962 | |
Sergio Franchi | Romantic Italian Songs | 17th | 18th | 11/24/1962 | |
Robertino | The Young Italian Singing Sensation | 96 | 6th | December 01, 1962 | |
Mantovani | Stop the World - I Want to Get Off / Oliver! | 136 | 4th | 01/05/1963 | |
Sergio Franchi | Our Man from Italy | 66 | 21st | 02/09/1963 | |
Mantovani | Latin rendezvous | 10 | 18th | 06/01/1963 | |
Mantovani | Classical Encores | 41 | 12 | 06/08/1963 | |
Sergio Franchi | Broadway ... I love you | 103 | 5 | 07/06/1963 | |
Pope John XXIII | Pope John XXIII | 126 | 3 | 08/03/1963 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani / Manhattan | 51 | 22nd | 11/9/1963 | |
Anna Moffo & Sergio Franchi | The Dream Duet | 97 | 7th | 01/25/1964 | |
Mantovani | Kismet | 134 | 3 | 03/14/1964 | |
Mantovani | Folk Songs Around the World | 135 | 6th | 04/18/1964 | |
Rita Pavone | Rita Pavone | 60 | 14th | 06/20/1964 | |
Mantovani | The Incomparable Mantovani | 37 | 43 | 07/11/1964 | |
Mantovani | The Mantovani Sound - Big Hits from Broadway and Hollywood | 26th | 31 | 03/20/1965 | |
Sergio Franchi | Live at the Cocoanut Grove | 114 | 4th | 03/27/1965 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani olé | 41 | 21st | 10/23/1965 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani Magic | 23 | 26th | 05.03.1966 | |
Mantovani | Mr. Music ... Mantovani | 27 | 35 | 10/08/1966 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani's Golden Hits | 53 | 33 | 03/11/1967 | gold 500,000+ |
Mantovani | Mantovani / Hollywood | 49 | 22nd | 09/23/1967 | |
Mantovani | The Mantovani Touch | 64 | 25th | 03/02/1968 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani / Tango | 148 | 7th | 06/15/1968 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani… memories | 143 | 7th | 11/09/1968 | |
Mantovani | The Mantovani Scene | 73 | 17th | 04/05/1969 | |
Mantovani | The World of Mantovani | 92 | 17th | 11/01/1969 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani Today | 77 | 24 | 04/04/1970 | |
Mantovani | Mantovani in concert | 167 | 3 | 07/11/1970 | |
Mantovani | To Lovers Everywhere USA | 150 | 9 | 10/30/1971 | |
Mantovani | Annunzio Paolo Mantovani | 156 | 12 | May 27, 1972 | |
Premiata Forneria Marconi | Photos of Ghosts | 180 | 6th | 10/20/1973 | |
Premiata Forneria Marconi (as PFM) | PFM 'Cook' | 151 | 8th | 12/28/1974 | |
Reverberi | Reverberi & Schumann, Chopin, Liszt | 169 | 7th | 02/21/1976 | |
Giorgio Moroder (as Giorgio) | From Here to Eternity | 130 | 7th | October 29, 1977 | |
Munich Machine B. | A Whiter Shade of Pale | 190 | 3 | 07/01/1978 | |
Giorgio Moroder | Midnight Express EAST | 59 | 26th | 11/25/1978 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs | 77 | 21st | 11/24/1979 | gold 500,000+ |
Giorgio Moroder | American Gigolo OST | 7th | 25th | 03/01/1980 | gold 500,000+ |
Change | The glow of love | 29 | 25th | May 10, 1980 | gold 500,000+ |
Luciano Pavarotti | Pavarotti's Greatest Hits | 85 | 26th | 06/07/1980 | |
Change | Miracles | 46 | 22nd | 04/18/1981 | |
Kano | New York Cake | 189 | 4th | 01/09/1982 | |
Giorgio Moroder | Cat People OST | 47 | 14th | 04/17/1982 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | Luciano | 141 | 7th | 04/24/1982 | |
Change | Sharing your love | 66 | 9 | 05/15/1982 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | Yes, Giorgio | 158 | 3 | 11/06/1982 | |
Change | This is your time | 161 | 7th | 04/02/1983 | |
Change | Change of Heart | 102 | 15th | 04/28/1984 | |
Giorgio Moroder | Metropolis EAST | 110 | 13 | 08/25/1984 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | Mom | 103 | 14th | 09/08/1984 | |
Baltimora | Living in the background | 49 | 17th | 01/18/1986 | |
Black box | Dreamland | 56 | 61 | 08/11/1990 | gold 500,000+ |
Luciano Pavarotti (with José Carreras , Plácido Domingo & Zubin Mehta ) | Carreras / Domingo / Pavarotti in concert | 35 | 100 | 10/06/1990 | × 3Triple platinum 3,000,000+ |
Luciano Pavarotti | Pavarotti Songbook | 173 | 1 | 01/04/1992 | |
The Three Tenors A. | Christmas Favorites from the World's Favorite Tenors | 127 | 4th | 12/11/1993 | gold 500,000+ |
The Three Tenors A. | The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 | 4th | 33 | 09/17/1994 | platinum 1,000,000+ |
corona | The rhythm of the night | 154 | 7th | 06/17/1995 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | Pavarotti & Friends 2 | 185 | 1 | 07/01/1995 | |
Robert Miles | Dreamland | 54 | 23 | 08/17/1996 | gold 500,000+ |
Giovanni | Romance | 170 | 2 | 03/01/1997 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Romanza | 35 | 91 | 12/20/1997 | × 3Triple platinum 3,000,000+ |
Andrea Bocelli | Viaggio Italiano | 153 | 21st | 03/28/1998 | gold 500,000+ |
Andrea Bocelli | Aria: The Opera Album | 59 | 69 | 04/25/1998 | platinum 1,000,000+ |
The Three Tenors A. | The 3 Tenors - Paris 1998 | 83 | 10 | 09/05/1998 | gold 500,000+ |
Sergio Franchi | Romantic Italian Songs | 167 | 1 | 09/05/1998 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Sogno | 4th | 72 | 04/17/1999 | × 2Double platinum 2,000,000+ |
Andrea Bocelli | Sueño | 163 | 2 | 05/08/1999 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Sacred Arias (Aria sacre) | 22nd | 30th | 11/27/1999 | platinum 1,000,000+ |
Eiffel 65 | Europop | 4th | 42 | 12/18/1999 | × 2Double platinum 2,000,000+ |
Andrea Bocelli | Verdi | 23 | 23 | 09/30/2000 | gold 500,000+ |
The Three Tenors A. | The Three Tenors Christmas | 54 | 8th | 11/25/2000 | gold 500,000+ |
Andrea Bocelli | Cieli di Toscana | 11 | 39 | 11/03/2001 | platinum 1,000,000+ |
Andrea Bocelli | Sentimento | 12 | 20th | 11/23/2002 | platinum 1,000,000+ |
Luciano Pavarotti | Ti adoro | 135 | 2 | 10/11/2003 | |
Lacuna coil | Comalies | 178 | 4th | 08/07/2004 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Andrea | 16 | 22nd | 11/27/2004 | platinum 1,000,000+ |
Zucchero | Zucchero & Co. | 84 | 7th | 07/30/2005 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Amore | 3 | 59 | 02/18/2006 | platinum 1,000,000+ |
Lacuna coil | Karma code | 28 | 9 | 04/22/2006 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | The Best | 76 | 1 | 09/22/2007 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | The Greatest Tenor of All Time | 150 | 1 | 09/22/2007 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | Forever | 137 | 6th | 10/27/2007 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Incanto | 8th | 22nd | 11/22/2008 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | The Duets | 153 | 2 | 11/29/2008 | |
Andrea Bocelli | My Christmas | 2 | 52 | 11/21/2009 | × 2Double platinum 2,000,000+ |
Lacuna coil | Shallow life | 16 | 6th | 05/09/2009 | |
Luciano Pavarotti | 75th Birthday: Limited Edition | 76 | 1 | 05/08/2010 | |
Il Volo | Il Volo | 10 | 25th | 06/04/2011 | Gold (Latin) 30,000+ |
Lacuna coil | Dark adrenaline | 15th | 3 | 02/11/2012 | |
Il Volo | … Takes Flight - Live from the Detroit Opera House | 85 | 4th | March 24, 2012 | |
Il Volo | We are love | 100 | 5 | December 08, 2012 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Passione | 2 | 21st | 02/16/2013 | gold 500,000+ |
Il Volo | Más que amor | 112 | 5 | 04/27/2013 | |
Il Volo | We Are Love: Special Edition | 111 | 4th | 06/15/2013 | |
Il Volo | Buon Natale - The Christmas Album | 39 | 10 | 11/09/2013 | |
Lacuna coil | Broken Crown Halo | 27 | 2 | 04/19/2014 | |
Giorgio Moroder | Déjà-vu | 72 | 1 | 04/07/2015 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Cinema | 10 | 10 | 11/14/2015 | |
Il Volo | Grande amore: International version | 188 | 1 | 10/17/2015 | |
Lacuna coil | delirium | 33 | 2 | 06/18/2016 | |
Il Volo | Notte Magica - A Tribute to the Three Tenors | 186 | 1 | 10/22/2016 | |
Andrea Bocelli | Sì | 1 | 10 | 11/10/2018 | |
Lacuna coil | Black anima | 87 | 1 | 10/26/2019 |
Singles (Billboard Hot 100)
Interpreter | number |
---|---|
Mantovani and His Orchestra | 5 |
Change | 4th |
Baltimora | 3 |
Black box | 3 |
Giorgio Moroder | 3 |
corona | 2 |
Livin 'Joy | 2 |
Robert Miles | 2 |
Domenico Modugno | 2 |
Taking into account the Hot 100 predecessor charts from 1954, 50 singles by Italian performers entered the single charts (as of April 23, 2019) . Annunzio Mantovani succeeded for the first time in 1954 , who, together with David Whitfield, entered the top 10 of the bestseller charts. Domenico Modugno was able to reach the top of the Hot 100 chart in 1958 with Nel blu dipinto di blu , which no other song by an Italian artist has achieved since then. Another four performers reached the top 10, namely Caterina Valente in 1955 (in the DJ charts), Emilio Pericoli in 1962, Black Box in 1990 and 1991 and Eiffel 65 in 1999. The most successful featuring an Italian performer in the US singles charts in 2011 was DJ Benny Benassi with the participation in Chris Brown's song Beautiful People , which went to a platinum record.
Both the record for the longest chart stay (32 weeks with Around the World , 1957 in the DJ charts) and the record for the most placed singles (five) goes to Annunzio Mantovani (as with the albums).
number | |
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first place | 1 |
Top 10 | 6th |
All in all | 50 |
Interpreter | single | maximum placement |
Weeks | Chart entry | Sales |
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Mantovani and His Orchestra with David Whitfield | Cara mia | 10 C | 13 | 08/14/1954 | |
Caterina Valente , Werner Müller & the RIAS dance orchestra | The Breeze and I (Andalucia) | 8 D | 14th | 04/09/1955 | |
Mantovani and His Orchestra with David Whitfield | When You Lose the One You Love | 62 E. | 8th | 02/04/1956 | |
Mantovani and His Orchestra | Around the world | 12 D | 32 | 06/10/1957 | |
Renato Carosone | Torero | 18 D | 13 | 05/05/1958 | |
Domenico Modugno | Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare) | 1 | 16 | 08/09/1958 | |
Tony Dallara | Come on great | 60 | 7th | December 8, 1958 | |
Domenico Modugno | Piove (ciao ciao bambina) | 97 | 1 | 03/14/1959 | |
Rocco Granata and the International Quintet | Marina | 31 | 11 | 11/09/1959 | |
Mantovani and His Orchestra | Theme from 'The Sundowners' | 93 | 1 | 07/11/1960 | |
Mantovani and His Orchestra | Main Theme from Exodus (Ari's Theme) | 31 | 13 | 11/21/1960 | |
Piero Soffici | That's the way with love | 59 | 7th | 04/24/1961 | |
Mina | This World We Love In (Il cielo in una stanza) | 90 | 1 | 05/08/1961 | |
Emilio Pericoli | Al di là | 6th | 14th | 05/19/1962 | |
Rita Pavone | Remember me | 26th | 9 | 06/06/1964 | |
Piero Umiliani | Mah-ná-mah-ná | 55 | 6th | 09/06/1969 | |
Giorgio Moroder (as Giorgio) | Son of My Father | 46 | 8th | 03/04/1972 | |
Carlo Savina | Love Theme from 'The Godfather' | 66 | 9 | 04/22/1972 | |
Drupi | Vado via | 88 | 4th | 03/11/1973 | |
Richard Cocciante | When Love Has Gone Away | 41 | 6th | 04/10/1976 | |
Giorgio Moroder | Chase | 33 | 12 | 01/20/1979 | |
Change | A lover's holiday | 40 | 13 | 05/17/1980 | |
Change | Paradise | 80 | 4th | 06/06/1981 | |
Change | Hold tight | 89 | 2 | 08/08/1981 | |
Kano | Can't Hold Back (Your Loving) | 89 | 5 | December 26, 1981 | |
Change | The very best in you | 84 | 5 | 05/29/1982 | |
Club house | Do It Again / Billie Jean | 75 | 5 | 08/20/1983 | |
Giorgio Moroder feat. Paul Engemann | Reach out | 81 | 4th | 07/21/1984 | |
Baltimora | Tarzan boy | 13 | 26th | October 19, 1985 | |
Nocera | Summertime, Summertime | 84 | 7th | 01/17/1987 | |
Baltimora | Living in the background | 87 | 4th | 04/12/1986 | |
49ers | Don't you love me | 78 | 9 | 06/16/1990 | |
Black box | Everybody Everybody | 8th | 19th | 08/04/1990 | |
Black box | I Don't Know Anybody Else | 23 | 14th | December 8, 1990 | |
Black box | Strike It Up | 8th | 18th | 04/06/1991 | |
Jinny | Keep warm | 97 | 2 | 09/14/1991 | |
Rapination & Kym Mazelle | Love Me the Right Way | 97 | 4th | 03/20/1993 | |
Baltimora | Tarzan Boy (Remix) | 51 | 12 | 03/27/1993 | |
DJ Miko | What's up | 58 | 20th | 06/18/1994 | |
corona | The rhythm of the night | 11 | 27 | 11/12/1994 | |
Livin 'Joy | Dreamer | 72 | 19th | 01/28/1995 | |
corona | Baby baby | 57 | 17th | 05/13/1995 | |
Robert Miles | Children | 21st | 20th | 05/11/1996 | |
Robert Miles | One and One | 54 | 19th | 05/10/1996 | |
Livin 'Joy | Don't stop movin ' | 67 | 20th | 01/25/1997 | |
Eiffel 65 | Blue (Da Ba Dee) | 6th | 20th | 12/11/1999 | |
Gigi D'Agostino | I'll Fly with You (L'amour toujours) | 78 | 13 | 08/04/2001 | |
Mary J. Blige feat. Andrea Bocelli | Bridge over Troubled Water | 75 | 1 | 02/20/2010 | |
Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi | Beautiful people | 43 | 4th | 09/17/2011 | platinum 1,000,000+ |
literature
- Joel Whitburn : The Billboard Albums. Record Research, 6th Edition, 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
- Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 .
Web links
- Billboard.com (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f Mantovani. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA , accessed May 5, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Pavarotti. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 5, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ American Gigolo. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 6, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Change. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 20, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Black Box. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 20, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ a b c d e The Three Tenors. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 20, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Robert Miles. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 20, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Andrea Bocelli. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 20, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Eiffel 65. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 20, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Il Volo. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 20, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Beautiful People. In: Gold & Platinum. RIAA, accessed May 6, 2019 (American English).