List of best-selling CDs (Brazil) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Best selling national artists

Artists	Period	Sales
Roberto Carlos Roberto Carlos (singer) Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....	60s-00s	120 million
Nelson Gonçalves Nelson Gonçalves Nelson Gonçalves was a Brazilian singer and songwriter.Born Antônio Gonçalves Sobral in Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul, he was raised in São Paulo...	40s-90s	70 million
Xuxa Xuxa Xuxa , Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel, born March 27, 1963 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host...	80s-00s	60 million
Chitãozinho e Xororó	70s-00s	35 million
Maria Bethânia Maria Bethânia Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Bethânia , is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião"...	60s-00s	30 million
Amado Batista	70s-00s	27 million
Leonardo/Leandro e Leonardo Leandro e Leonardo Leandro e Leonardo were a Brazilian sertanejo duo. The two brothers, Leandro and Leonardo , were from Goianápolis.-History:...	90s-00s	25.5 million
Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano are Brazil's most famous sertanejo/country duo and brothers. They were born in Pirenópolis, Goiás. Zezé is the artistic name for Mirosmar José de Camargo and Luciano the artistic name for Welson David de Camargo....	90s-00s	25 million
Raça Negra Raça Negra Raça Negra or also The Black Race, in english, is a Brazilian pagode group from São Paulo.The ensemble formed in 1983, but did not release their first album until 1991, after a demo tape got them signed to RGE. The album spawned numerous hits in Brazil, and over the next decade the group went on to...	90s-00s	20.0 million
Sandy & Júnior Sandy & Junior Sandy & Junior was a Brazilian pop music duo consisting of siblings Sandy Leah Lima and her brother Durval de Lima Junior . They have one of the 10 best-selling albums ever in Brazil...	90s-00s	17 million
Roberta Miranda Roberta Miranda Roberta Miranda, artistic name of Maria Albuquerque Miranda, from João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil is a Brazilian singer. She is the third best-selling female artist in Brazil behind Xuxa and Maria Bethania , with 14.2 million discs sold so far. She got her start in the music industry singing in the...	90s-00s	16.5 million
Daniela Mercury Daniela Mercury Daniela Mercury , is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian axé, samba-reggae and MPB singer, songwriter and record producer. Since her breakthrough, Mercury has become one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide...	90s-00s	12.0 million
Ivete Sangalo Ivete Sangalo Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host...	90s-00s	10.0 million
Marisa Monte Marisa Monte Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.- Biography :...	80s-00s	10.0 million

Best selling international artists in Brazil

Artists	Period	Sales
Julio Iglesias Julio Iglesias Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva , better known simply as Julio Iglesias, is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best selling music artists in history,...	60s-10s	12.4 million
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...	80s-10s	Over 3.9 million
Madonna Madonna (entertainer) Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...	80s-10s	3.2 million
Enya Enya Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...	80s-10s	2.1 million
U2 U2 U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...	70s-10s	1.9 million
Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys The Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The band originally consisted of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson. They rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys...	90s-10s	1.6 million
Shakira Shakira Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...	90s-10s	1.5 million
Phil Collins Phil Collins Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....	80s-10s	1.2 million}
Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....	90s-10s	1.01 million
Queen	70s-90s	1 million
a-ha A-ha A-ha were a Norwegian pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. The band was founded by Morten Harket , Magne Furuholmen , and Pål Waaktaar...	80s-00s	1 million
Spice Girls Spice Girls The Spice Girls were a British pop girl group formed in 1994. The group consisted of Victoria Beckham , Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell. They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe" in 1996, which hit number-one in more than 30...	90s-00s	880 thousand
Rod Stewart Rod Stewart Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....	60s-10s	830 thousand
Mariah Carey Mariah Carey Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...	90s-10s	820 thousand
Elton John Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...	60s-10	685 thousand
Rihanna Rihanna Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...	00s-10s	655 thousand
Aerosmith Aerosmith Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...	70s-10s	600 thousand
The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...	60s-70s	550 thousand
Celine Dion Celine Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...	80s-10s	505 thousand

Best Selling Albums

3,328,468 copies sold: Father Marcelo Rossi
Marcelo Rossi
Marcelo Mendonça Rossi is a Brazilian Catholic priest widely known and popular in the country for his novel approaches to ministering to the faithful...

's Músicas para Louvar ao Senhor (1998)
3,216,000 copies sold: Xuxa
Xuxa
Xuxa , Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel, born March 27, 1963 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host...

's Xou da Xuxa 3 (1988)
3,145,814 copies sold: Leandro & Leonardo's Leandro & Leonardo (Pense em Mim) (1990)
2,984,384 copies sold: Só Pra Contrariar
Só Pra Contrariar
Só Pra Contrariar was a Brazilian musical group formed in 1989. The band is more known for its frontman, Alexandre Pires, who has launched a successful solo career after the band's break-up.-Band history:...

's Só pra Contrariar (Depois do Prazer) (1997)
2,920,000 copies sold: Xuxa's 4º Xou da Xuxa (1989)
2,754,000 copies sold: Xuxa's Xegundo Xou da Xuxa (1987)
2,732,735 copies sold: Leandro & Leonardo's Leandro & Leonardo (Um Sonhador) (1998)
2,689,000 copies sold: Xuxa's Xou da Xuxa (1986)
2,468,830 copies sold: Mamonas Assassinas
Mamonas Assassinas
Mamonas Assassinas was a satirical Brazilian rock band. Their lyrics, music and live performances were as famous as their tragical end: on March 2, 1996, the plane in which they were crashed into the Cantareira mountain range, near São Paulo, killing all band members.The band's name carries a...

's Mamonas Assassinas
Mamonas Assassinas (album)
Mamonas Assassinas is the only studio album released by the Brazilian rock band of same name. It was released in 1995, and in only eight months , it sold more than 2 million copies.- Track listing :-1406:...

(1995)
2,450,411 copies sold: Terra Samba's Terra Samba ao Vivo e a Cores (1998)

Other albums to exceed 2 million copies sold:

Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos may refer to:*Roberto Carlos , Brazilian singer**Roberto Carlos *Roberto Carlos , Brazilian footballer*Roberto Carlos , Spanish footballer...

's Roberto Carlos (1977), (1979), (1981), Acústico MTV (2001)
Sandy & Junior
Sandy & Junior
Sandy & Junior was a Brazilian pop music duo consisting of siblings Sandy Leah Lima and her brother Durval de Lima Junior . They have one of the 10 best-selling albums ever in Brazil...

's As Quatro Estações Ao Vivo (2000), As Quatro Estações (1999) and Era Uma Vez... Ao Vivo (1998)
Zezé Di Camargo e Luciano's É o Amor (1991), Saudade Bandida (1993) and Pão de Mel (1995)
RPM's Radio Pirata (1986)
É o Tchan
É o Tchan
É o Tchan! is a popular pagode band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil that started in 1992.- History :Originally called Gera Samba, they exploded onto the scene with their hit single Segura o Tchan...

's Na Cabeça Na Cintura (1997) and É o Tchan do Brasil (1998)

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