France Best Selling Albums Ever:
All-Time Ranking (2015)

Instrumental Albums

01 Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène (1976) : 2 065 000
02 Richard Clayderman – Rêveries (1979) : 1 400 000
03 Jean-Michel Jarre – Equinoxe (1978) : 1 350 000
04 Jean-Philippe Audin & Diego Modena – Ocarina (1991) : 1 290 000
05 André Rieu – Valses (1997) : 1 080 000

Most instrumental artists are one-off, at least on this magnitude of sales. Andre Rieu often sold well of his albums but came nowhere near his Valses album with his remaining records, same for Richard Clayderman who sold tons of albums within’ a few years before disappearing.

The only exception is Jean-Michel Jarre who managed two monster sellers plus various others over half a million units, confirming his status as French electronic godfather.