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53 albums · 1958–2021

Music of Italy, from Sanremo to the cantautori, prog, rock and rap

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The front of the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo
Mina in a studio portrait of 1963Lucio Dalla on stage in the 1980s
The Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, home of the festival since 1977. Photo: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Mina in 1963. Photo: Mondadori Publishers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. · Lucio Dalla on stage in the eighties. Photo: Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Italy's popular music has a stage of its own, the Festival di Sanremo, and a word of its own, the cantautore, the singer who writes: Fabrizio De André, Lucio Battisti, Francesco Guccini, Paolo Conte, Lucio Dalla and Rino Gaetano, and around them Modugno's Nel blu dipinto di blu, Mina and Celentano, the prog of PFM and Area, Giorgio Moroder's disco, Pino Daniele's Naples, Battiato, the rock of Vasco Rossi, Litfiba and CCCP, Eros Ramazzotti and Laura Pausini for the world, Jovanotti, Afterhours, Carmen Consoli and Subsonica, the rap of Fabri Fibra, Caparezza and Sfera Ebbasta, the indie of Calcutta and Colapesce Dimartino, Mahmood and Måneskin, who won Eurovision in 2021. The list has 53 records from 1958 to 2021, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made; opera, film music and the regions' own songs would each need a list of their own. About 41 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

World 52%Rock 17%Pop 13%Other 18%
  • World 52%
  • Rock 17%
  • Pop 13%
  • Other 18%

The genres named most: italian, pop, cantautore, rock, hip hop, alternative rock.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Italy 53. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

The 1950s

The 1960s

The 1970s

The 1980s

The 1990s

The 2000s

The 2010s

The 2020s

More lists

Lists of Countries first, then others; all of them on the blog. The blog.