The following is a list of the best-selling singles in Italy.
Depends on the measurement, list is divided by claimed sales and official certifications from FIMI, which online base operates since 2009.
According to a 1969 report from SEDRIM (from Società per l'Esercizio dei Diritti di Riproduzione Meccanica), then Italian mechanical rights society, Italy was a singles-market with songs accounting 85.8 percent of total record sales in the country.
A "top hit" single in Italy at that time was grouped between 500,000 and 700,000 copies.
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