Hit Machine was an Australian compilation album series produced and skewed by Festival Records, Mushroom Records (both labels folded today with Warner Bros. Records) BMG and Columbia Records (both labels folded today with Sony Music Australia), available in only Australia. It competed with 100% Hits, which started two years before, during its existence. It was released every three months and are mainly the biggest Top 40 hits of the season. It commenced in 1993 and ran 28 versions until 2000, where it was replaced by the So Fresh series. [1] [2] The replaced series uses the season-named format and includes songs from artists under Universal Music, which was previously included in 100% Hits series. Festival Records was folded to Warner Bros. Records, which managed the 100% Hits and NOW series with EMI. Sony Music Australia and Warner Bros. Records released digitally remastered versions of the entire Hit Machine series from 2015.
Every Hit Machine album since 1993 has gone to No. 1 on the ARIA Chart Compilation Albums chart. 10 of the Hit Machine compilations released have sold well over 140,000 copies (Double Platinum in Australia). [3] They are the second most successful compilation albums in Australian music history apart from So Fresh.
Hit Machine '93 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 5 July 1993 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [4] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 2 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 27 September 1993 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [5] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 3 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 29 November 1993 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Festival |
Hit Machine 4 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | March 1994 [6] |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [7] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 5 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1994 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [8] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 6 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1994 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Festival |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [9] | Gold | 35,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 7 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1994 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [10] | Gold | 35,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 8 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1995 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [11] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 9 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1995 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Festival |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [12] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 10 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1995 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Note: An entry form was included for a chance to win 1 of 5 prize packs, including a PlayStation and 3 video games.
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [13] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 11 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1995 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [14] | 2× Platinum | 140,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 12 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1996 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Festival |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [15] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 13 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1996 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [16] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 14 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1996 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [17] | 2× Platinum | 140,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 15 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1996 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Festival |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [18] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 16 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1997 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [19] | 2× Platinum | 140,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 17 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1997 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [20] | Gold | 35,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 18 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1997 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Note: Only CD to have 2 discs.
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [21] | 2× Platinum | 140,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 19 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1998 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Sony |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [22] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 20 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1998 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [23] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 21 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1998 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Hit Machine 22 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1998 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [24] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 23 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1999 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Festival |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [25] | Gold | 35,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 24 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1999 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [26] | Gold | 35,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 25 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1999 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [27] | 2× Platinum | 140,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 26 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 1999 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Mushroom |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [28] |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [29] | 2× Platinum | 140,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 27 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 2000 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | Columbia |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [30] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Hit Machine 28 | |
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Compilation album by Various artists | |
Released | 2000 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | BMG |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [31] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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