List of awards and nominations received by Andrea Bocelli
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Andrea Bocelli
is a multiple Classical Brit-winning and Grammy
and Emmy
nominated, Italian
pop
tenor
and crossover
artist. Since winning the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival, in 1994, he has sold over 70 million albums worldwide, making him the biggest-selling singer in the history of Classical music
.
In 1998, he was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People
. In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards marked the first time a classical artist had been nominated in the category, since Leontyne Price
, in 1961. The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion
for the animated film, The Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song
and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category
. With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the No. 1, 2 and 3 positions on the U.S. Classical albums
charts. The next three-and-a-half years followed with Bocelli holding permanent residency at the No. 1 spot. Five of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200
, and a record-setting 7, have topped the Classical albums charts, in the United States.
With over 5 million units sold worldwide, Sacred Arias became the biggest-selling classical album by a solo artist of all time, and with just under 20 million units sold worldwide, his 1997 pop album, Romanza
, became the best-selling album by an Italian artist
ever, as well as the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Canada, and a number of other countries in Europe and Latin America. The album's first single, Time to say goodbye
, topped charts all over Europe, breaking the all-time sales record in Belgium, and in Germany, with over 3 million copies sold in the country. He is widely regarded as the most popular Italian
and Classical
singer in the world.
In 2006, Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
, and on March 2, 2010, he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
.
, including the Outstanding Contribution to Music award in 2002, and has received 10 nominations.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"| 2000 || style="text-align:left;"| Andrea Bocelli
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|style="text-align:left;"| Aria: The Opera Album || Album of the year ||
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|style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Sacred Arias || Album of the year ||
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|| Best selling classical album ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2001 || style="text-align:left;"| Verdi
|| Rover Album of the Year ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2002 || style="text-align:left;"| Andrea Bocelli || Best selling classical album ||
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| 2003 || style="text-align:left;"| Andrea Bocelli || Male Artist of the Year ||
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|style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Sentimento
|| Album of the year ||
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|| Outstanding Contribution to Music ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2009 || style="text-align:left;"| Incanto
|| NS&I Album of the Year ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1997 || style="text-align:left;"| "Time to Say Goodbye
" || Single of the Year ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1997 || style="text-align:left;"| Viaggio Italiano
|| Best seller of the year ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1998 || style="text-align:left;"| Aria: The Opera Album || Best selling classical album ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2000 || style="text-align:left;"| Sacred Arias || Best seller of the year ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1999 ||style="text-align:left;"| Andrea Bocelli || Best New Artist
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|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2000 ||style="text-align:left;"| "Sogno
" || Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
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|style="text-align:left;"| "The Prayer" || Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
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, and has received numerous nominations.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 1998 || style="text-align:left;" rowspan="7"| Andrea Bocelli || Best-selling Classical Artist
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| Best-selling Italian Singer
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2002 || Best-selling Classical Artist
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| Best-selling Italian Singer ||
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2006 || Best-selling Classical Artist ||
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| Best-selling Italian Singer
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2010 || Best-selling Classical Artist
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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....
is a multiple Classical Brit-winning and Grammy
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
and Emmy
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
nominated, Italian
Italian people
The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
and crossover
Crossover (music)
Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical tastes, or genres...
artist. Since winning the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival, in 1994, he has sold over 70 million albums worldwide, making him the biggest-selling singer in the history of Classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
.
In 1998, he was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People
People (magazine)
In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
. In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards marked the first time a classical artist had been nominated in the category, since Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price
Mary Violet Leontyne Price is an American soprano. Born and raised in the Deep South, she rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera.One critic characterized Price's voice as "vibrant",...
, in 1961. The Prayer, his duet with 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...
for the animated film, The Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:...
and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
. With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the No. 1, 2 and 3 positions on the U.S. Classical albums
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
charts. The next three-and-a-half years followed with Bocelli holding permanent residency at the No. 1 spot. Five of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
, and a record-setting 7, have topped the Classical albums charts, in the United States.
With over 5 million units sold worldwide, Sacred Arias became the biggest-selling classical album by a solo artist of all time, and with just under 20 million units sold worldwide, his 1997 pop album, Romanza
Romanza
-Commercial performance:First in Europe, then charts around the world, the album amassed a multitude of platinum and multi-platinum awards, outselling even Bocelli's 1995 album, Bocelli, with worldwide sales in excess of 20 million copies to date....
, became the best-selling album by an Italian artist
Music of Italy
The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music and a body of popular music drawn from both native and imported sources. Music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in...
ever, as well as the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Canada, and a number of other countries in Europe and Latin America. The album's first single, Time to say goodbye
Con te Partiró
- History :The song's original single release by Polydor Records was not commercially successful in Italy, and received little radio airplay there. Elsewhere, however, it was a massive hit. In France and Switzerland, the single topped the charts for 6 weeks, earning a triple Gold sales award. In...
, topped charts all over Europe, breaking the all-time sales record in Belgium, and in Germany, with over 3 million copies sold in the country. He is widely regarded as the most popular Italian
Music of Italy
The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music and a body of popular music drawn from both native and imported sources. Music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in...
and Classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
singer in the world.
In 2006, Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic was founded as the senior order of knighthood by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi in 1951...
, and on March 2, 2010, he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
.
Honorifics
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicOrder of Merit of the Italian RepublicThe Order of Merit of the Italian Republic was founded as the senior order of knighthood by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi in 1951...
(Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) awarded in Rome, on March 4, 2006.
- Made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and MellaOrder of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and MellaThe Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella is the principal order of the Dominican Republic. It was established on 24 February 1931 as the Juan Pablo Duarte Order of Merit and renamed on 9 September 1954...
by the President of the Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
, Leonel FernándezLeonel FernándezLeonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and the current President of the Dominican Republic since 2004. He held the same office from 1996 to 2000...
in 2009, for his contributions to International art and culture.
- Honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of FameHollywood Walk of FameThe Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
, for his contribution to live theaterTheatreTheatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, at 7000 Hollywood BoulevardHollywood Boulevard-Revitalization:In recent years successful efforts have been made at cleaning up Hollywood Blvd., as the street had gained a reputation for crime and seediness. Central to these efforts was the construction of the Hollywood and Highland shopping center and adjacent Kodak Theatre in 2001...
, in 2010.
Classical BRIT Awards
Bocelli has won 5 Classical BRITSClassical Brit Awards
The Classic BRIT Awards are an annual awards ceremony held in the United Kingdom covering aspects of classical music, and are the classical equivalent of pop music's BRIT Awards....
, including the Outstanding Contribution to Music award in 2002, and has received 10 nominations.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"| 2000 || style="text-align:left;"| 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....
|| Male Artist of the Year ||
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|style="text-align:left;"| Aria: The Opera Album || Album of the year ||
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|style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Sacred Arias || Album of the year ||
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|| Best selling classical album ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2001 || style="text-align:left;"| Verdi
Verdi (album)
Verdi is Andrea Bocelli's seventh studio album and fourth classical album, of Verdi's most famous arias, released in 2000. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta, accompanied Bocelli for the album...
|| Rover Album of the Year ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2002 || style="text-align:left;"| Andrea Bocelli || Best selling classical album ||
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| 2003 || style="text-align:left;"| Andrea Bocelli || Male Artist of the Year ||
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|style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Sentimento
Sentimento
Sentimento is the ninth studio album released by Andrea Bocelli. It was recorded on September 30, 2002 – October 7, 2002 and released on November 5, 2002....
|| Album of the year ||
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|| Outstanding Contribution to Music ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2009 || style="text-align:left;"| Incanto
Incanto
Incanto is the twelfth studio album by Classical Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, released November 4, 2008, coinciding with his 50th birthday. The album, a personal tribute to the musical traditions of his homeland, features mainly Neapolitan love songs from Bocelli's childhood.The two disc set also...
|| NS&I Album of the Year ||
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ECHO Awards
Bocelli received an ECHO music award for in 1997.|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1997 || style="text-align:left;"| "Time to Say Goodbye
Con te Partiró
- History :The song's original single release by Polydor Records was not commercially successful in Italy, and received little radio airplay there. Elsewhere, however, it was a massive hit. In France and Switzerland, the single topped the charts for 6 weeks, earning a triple Gold sales award. In...
" || Single of the Year ||
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ECHO Klassik Awards
- Bocelli has won a total of 3 ECHO Klassik awards.
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1997 || style="text-align:left;"| Viaggio Italiano
Viaggio Italiano
Viaggio Italiano is Andrea Bocelli's third studio album and first classical album.The album features some of the most popular opera arias and Neapolitan songs of all time, such as Nessun Dorma, O Sole Mio and la Donna è Mobile. Although released only in Italy in 1996, it sold close to 300,000 copies...
|| Best seller of the year ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1998 || style="text-align:left;"| Aria: The Opera Album || Best selling classical album ||
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2000 || style="text-align:left;"| Sacred Arias || Best seller of the year ||
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Emmy Awards
- Emmy AwardEmmy AwardAn Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
nomination for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program for the 2000 Great PerformancesGreat PerformancesGreat Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on Public Broadcasting Service public television since 1972...
program, Andrea Bocelli: Sacred AriasSacred Arias: The Home VideoSacred Arias: The Home Video is the second DVD released by Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli.It was filmed in the Roman church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, in Rome, in 1999, where he gave a concert conducted by Myung-whun Chung, singing the arias of his previous album, Sacred Arias.The Great...
in 2000.
Goldene Kamera Awards
- Goldene KameraVerleihung der Goldenen KameraThe GOLDENE KAMERA is an annual German film and television award, awarded by the television magazine HÖRZU. The gold-plated silver award model was created by Berlin artist Wolfram Beck...
award in the "Music & Entertainment" category 2002.
Grammy Awards
Bocelli has been nominated three times for a Grammy AwardGrammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1999 ||style="text-align:left;"| Andrea Bocelli || Best New Artist
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for records released in the previous year. The award was not presented in 1967...
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|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2000 ||style="text-align:left;"| "Sogno
Sogno
Sogno is the fifth studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, released on April 6, 1999. In 1999, Bocelli was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys, which marked the first time a classical artist had been nominated in the category in 38 years...
" || Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance was awarded between 1966 and 2011...
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|style="text-align:left;"| "The Prayer" || Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate...
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Telegatto Awards
- Telegatto awardTelegattoTelegatto is an Italian television award first given out in 1971 following the contest "Gran Premio internazionale dello Spettacolo", sponsored by the weekly magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and aired on Canale 5...
for the soundtrack of the series CuoreHeart (novel)Heart is a children's novel by the Italian author Edmondo De Amicis who was a novelist, journalist, short story writer, and poet. The novel is known to be his best known work to this day, having been inspired by his own children Furio and Ugo who had been schoolboys at the time. It is set during...
in 2002. - Telegatto awardTelegattoTelegatto is an Italian television award first given out in 1971 following the contest "Gran Premio internazionale dello Spettacolo", sponsored by the weekly magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and aired on Canale 5...
in platinum for Italian music in the world in 2008.
World Music Awards
Bocelli has won 7 World Music AwardsWorld Music Awards
The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . John Martinotti is an executive producer and co-founder of the show...
, and has received numerous nominations.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 1998 || style="text-align:left;" rowspan="7"| Andrea Bocelli || Best-selling Classical Artist
World Music Awards
The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . John Martinotti is an executive producer and co-founder of the show...
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| Best-selling Italian Singer
World Music Awards
The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . John Martinotti is an executive producer and co-founder of the show...
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2002 || Best-selling Classical Artist
World Music Awards
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2006 || Best-selling Classical Artist ||
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| Best-selling Italian Singer
World Music Awards
The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . John Martinotti is an executive producer and co-founder of the show...
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2010 || Best-selling Classical Artist
2010 World Music Awards
The 2010 World Music Awards were held in Monte Carlo, Monaco and hosted by Michelle Rodriguez and Hayden Panettiere on May 18, 2010.-Performers:In order of appearance, shown on television....
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Other Awards
- Winner of the 1994 Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival.
- Special award for more than 40 million album sales worldwide in 2000.
- Platinum Europe Award for 1 million sales of the album Cieli di ToscanaCieli di ToscanaCieli di Toscana is Andrea Bocelli's eighth studio album, released in 2001.Released only a month after the September 11 attacks, the album spent a total of two weeks at No...
in 2001. - "Favourite Specialist Performer" award at the ITVITVITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
National Music Awards in 2003. - "Diamond CD" for more than 50 millions albums sold worldwide, in 2004.
- Premio Barocco for his "extraordinary career" awarded in GallipoliGallipoliThe Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace , the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. Gallipoli derives its name from the Greek "Καλλίπολις" , meaning "Beautiful City"...
, in 2007. - Four times Diamond disc for IncantoIncantoIncanto is the twelfth studio album by Classical Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, released November 4, 2008, coinciding with his 50th birthday. The album, a personal tribute to the musical traditions of his homeland, features mainly Neapolitan love songs from Bocelli's childhood.The two disc set also...
, at the Italian talk show Che tempo che faChe tempo che faChe tempo che fa is a popular Italian television talk show hosted by the Italian television host Fabio Fazio and is broadcast live on Saturdays and Sundays on the Italian State TV Channel Rai Tre in Milan since 2003....
, for selling in excess to 1.5 million copies within 4 month, in 2009.