List of best-selling albums in Colombia

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The following is a list of some of the best-selling albums in Colombia, one of the largest music markets in Latin America.

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The list include album sales of over 100,000 units. According to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo , Carlos Vives' Clásicos de la Provincia became the first million-seller album in country's history. [1]

National music dominate the list, with artists such as Carlos Vives, Diomedes Díaz, Juancho Rois, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Juanes and Shakira appearing more than once in the list. Some international acts such as Michael Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Eros Ramazzotti, Gloria Estefan and Julio Iglesias also appeared on the list.

List of best-selling albums

Carlos Vives has at least five albums with claimed sales of over 100,000 units Carlos Vives - World Economic Forum on Latin America 2010.jpg
Carlos Vives has at least five albums with claimed sales of over 100,000 units
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Juanes has at least five albums with claimed sales of over 100,000 units
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Diomedes Díaz has at least four albums with claimed sales of over 100,000 units
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Shakira has at least four albums with claimed sales of over 100,000 units
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Michael Jackson, is the only foreign artist with two albums
Color
Indicates a non-Colombian artist
Over 500,000
YearTitleArtist(s)Claimed sales
1990 Cielo de Tambores Grupo Niche 1,600,000 [2]
1993 Clásicos de la Provincia Carlos Vives 1,500,000 [3]
1998Mi biografía Diomedes Díaz 1,200,000 [4]
199030 Grandes Éxitos Diomedes Díaz 1,000,000 [5]
1995 Sentimientos Charlie Zaa 1,000,000 [6]
1996 Pies Descalzos Shakira 1,000,000 [7]
1995 La Tierra del Olvido Carlos Vives 880,000 [8]
1997 Backstreet's Back Backstreet Boys 800,000 [9]
1993Título de AmorDiomedes Díaz & Juancho Rois 600,000 [5]
Over 100,000
YearTitleArtist(s)Claimed sales
2014De Ida y VueltaFelipe Peláez450,000 [10]
199426 de MayoDiomedes Díaz & Juancho Rois450,000 [5]
1995 El Dorado Aterciopelados 400,000 [11]
1997 Tengo Fe Carlos Vives 360,000 [12]
1994El santo cachónLos Embajadores Vallenatos350,000 [13]
1995Un Canto Celestial Diomedes Díaz 341,317 [13]
1994 Café, Con Aroma de Mujer Margarita Rosa de Francisco 340,000 [14]
1980 De caché Binomio de Oro de América 300,000 [15]
1983Muy NuestroOtto Serge & Rafael Ricardo300,000 [16]
1996Collar de Perlas Marbelle 300,000 [17]
1982 Thriller Michael Jackson 300,000 [18]
2009 Clásicos de la Provincia II Carlos Vives 300,000 [19]
2010 Sale el Sol Shakira300,000 [20]
1975Corazon Corazon ( A México ) Julio Iglesias 250,000 [21]
1995 Abriendo Puertas Gloria Estefan 250,000 [22]
2012 MTV Unplugged Juanes 250,000 [23]
2014 Loco de Amor Juanes 250,000 [23]
240,000 [24]
2004 Mi Sangre Juanes 200,000 [25]
2014 Tigo Music Sessions (DVD) Juanes 200,000 [26]
2014 Shakira Shakira200,000 [27]
1994 Tratar de Estar Mejor Diego Torres 170,000 [28]
1993Tiempo perfectoFelipe Peláez160,000 [29]
1993 Tutte storie (Todo historias) Eros Ramazzotti 150,000 [30]
1996Mar Adentro Donato y Estefano 150,000 [31]
2007 La Vida... Es Un Ratico Juanes 150,000 [32]
1994Café Con Aroma de Mujer, Vol. 2 Margarita Rosa de Francisco 120,000 [3]
1994 Segundo Romance Luis Miguel 120,000 [33]
1995 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Michael Jackson120,000 [34]
2013 Corazón Profundo Carlos Vives 120,000 [35]
2005 Pasión de Gavilanes Various100,000 [36]
2005 Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 Shakira 100,000 [37]
1994Pa' Que ChupenKaramelo100,000 [38]
2011 No Me Compares Con Nadie Silvestre Dangond 100,000 [39] [40]
2011 Ilusión Fonseca 100,000 [41] [42]
2013 La Familia J Balvin 100,000 [43]
2015 PB.DB The Mixtape Maluma 100,000 [44]


Best-selling artists in Colombia

According to some media publications, Diomedes Díaz sold about 20 million copies in Colombia. [45] [46] Mexican singer, Vicente Fernandez is believed to have sold 5 million. [47] Although figures lack of reliability.

See also

Notes

References

  1. ↑ Martinez, Liliana Angelica; Londoño, Juan Guillermo (September 9, 2001). "El disco en aprietos" . El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved March 24, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Cielo de tambores: 32 años del disco más exitoso del Grupo Niche" (in Spanish). Shock. December 22, 2022. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Claimed sales: "Notas musicales en cifras". El Tiempo (in Spanish). January 18, 1995. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Cuál fue el álbum de Diomedes Díaz que más copias vendió". www.pulzo.com. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
  5. 1 2 3 "¿Cuáles son los discos más vendidos de Diomedes Díaz?" (in Spanish). La Vallenata. March 10, 2014. Archived from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Charlie Zaa". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). Retrieved December 10, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Shakira celebra 25 años del lanzamiento de su icónico álbum 'Pies descalzos'". El País . October 6, 2020. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Cifras y Números" . Cromos (in Spanish). No. 4183–4186. 1998. p. 65. Retrieved August 9, 2023. Carlos Vives Clásicos de la provincia : 1.200.000 copias vendidas en Colombia. 3.000.000 copias vendidas en Argentina, Chile, España, EE.UU. y México. Y ! Tierra del olvido 880.000 copias vendidas en Colombia
  9. ↑ "Backstreet Boys. El Grupo Juvenil Número 1 del Mundo". El Tiempo (in Spanish). October 10, 1998. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Doble disco de diamante para Chabuco y su 'bulería vallenata". El Tiempo (in Spanish). April 24, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  11. ↑ Ortegón Munevar, Camilo Andrés (June 20, 2019). "Breve historia del rock en Colombia desde los años 60 hasta la actualidad (parte2)". Estudios Artísticos (in Spanish). 5 (7). Francisco José de Caldas District University: 258–277. doi: 10.14483/25009311.14993 . S2CID   241869360 . Retrieved December 10, 2021.
  12. ↑ "¡Arrasador!" . La Nación (in Spanish). August 30, 1997. Retrieved January 14, 2023. Disco de platino en Colombia son 60.000 unidades, pero, en el primer día de ventas, Carlos salió con séxtuple disco de platino
  13. 1 2 "Sono-Vives". Semana (in Spanish). September 3, 1995. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
  14. ↑ "Cifras y números". Cromos (in Spanish). 1998. p. 65. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  15. ↑ Romo Mendoza, Nilson (May 30, 2017). "De las letras de los juglares a las grandes ventas en vinilo". El Heraldo (in Spanish). Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  16. ↑ "¿Qué será lo que quiere el Negro?". Semana (in Spanish). November 3, 1984. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
  17. ↑ "Las 10 Canciones de Fin de Siglo" (in Spanish). En Colombia. 2000. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Jackson, De Vuelta Al Futuro". El Tiempo. June 10, 1995. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  19. ↑ "En Breve: Vives To release Deluxe Edition of 'Clasicos'". Billboard. April 3, 2010. p. 12. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  20. ↑ Garcés, Yoselin (October 18, 2023). "Shakira estrena 'Monotonía' el mismo día que su álbum 'Sale el Sol' doce años después" (in Spanish). Publimetro . Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Exporter" (PDF). Billboard . August 6, 1977. p. LA-64. Retrieved 8 January 2022– via World Radio History.
  22. ↑ "Latin Notas". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 27 January 1996. p.  35–. ISSN   0006-2510.
  23. 1 2 Arango Holguín, Claudia (14 March 2014). "JJuanes recibió 12 discos de platino por su álbum Loco de amor". El Colombiano . Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  24. ↑ ""El proceso de paz con las Farc es históricamente necesario": Juanes" (in Spanish). RCN Radio. March 15, 2014. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
  25. ↑ "Más conciertos para el Mi Sangre Tour de Juanes" (in Spanish). La Higuera. 11 January 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  26. ↑ "Juanes recibe doble disco de diamante". El Tiempo. September 19, 2014. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
  27. ↑ "Shakira becomes the most popular person ever on Facebook". The Telegraph. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  28. ↑ "Diego Torres está mejor". Cromos . 1995. p. 91. Retrieved April 5, 2025. Recibió disco doble de platino por 170 mil unidades vendidas (en Colombia se otorga el disco de oro por 30 mil copias). El tema central de su segundo album, Tratar de estar mejor, ha logrado meterse en la programación de las emisoras colombianas
  29. ↑ Martínez Polo, Liliana (27 July 2015). "Así se gestó el álbum de duetos de Felipe Peláez". El Tiempo. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  30. ↑ "Attenti a quei tre, su e giu per l'Italia". La Stampa . 7 June 1994. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  31. ↑ García M., Victor Manuel (April 30, 1996). "Un éxito para dos". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  32. ↑ "Bogotá recibe a Juanes". El Espectador (in Spanish). December 9, 2008. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
  33. ↑ "Entre los villancicos y la música caliente". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 23 December 1994. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  34. ↑ "Michael Jackson, Rey De Reyes". El Tiempo. June 17, 1996. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  35. ↑ "Carlos Vives, número 1 en Billbard". El Nuevo Siglo (in Spanish). May 2, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
  36. ↑ "Localia recupera 'Pasión de Gavilanes'" (in Spanish). Europa Press . Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  37. ↑ Notimex (June 11, 2005). "'Tortura' Shakira a fans". El Siglo de Durango (in Spanish). Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  38. ↑ "Notas musicales en cifras". El Tiempo. March 10, 1995. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  39. ↑ "Silvestre y su 'gringa'". El Tiempo . December 18, 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2023.
  40. ↑ "Dangond lidera los cantantes de vallenato que más ganan". La República. June 13, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2023.
  41. ↑ Baldera, Emelyn (June 19, 2012). "'El merengue está en su mejor momento'". Listín Diario . Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  42. ↑ ""El Concierto de Fonseca, Un concierto que hace muchos años, no se ve en Cúcuta" Diego Yañez Gerente del Centro Comercial Ventura Plaza". Area Cucuta. November 28, 2013. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  43. ↑ Arango Holguín, Claudia (December 23, 2014). "J Balvin consigue quíntuple disco de platino en Colombia". El Colombiano (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 29, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  44. ↑ "Maluma rompe récord en ventas con su disco 'PBDB Mixtape'" (in Spanish). Kien y Ke FM. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
  45. ↑ ""Vengo en son de paz": Diomedes". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 2005. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  46. ↑ "Diomedes Díaz: las cifras y ventas del "cacique de la Junta"" (in Spanish). Tropicana FM. May 26, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  47. ↑ "Vicente Fernández llegó a ser el artista internacional más exitoso en Colombia" (in Spanish). Radio Nacional de Colombia. December 12, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
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