Hit Machine

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 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.

Sony Music Australia and Warner Bros. Records released digitally remastered versions of the entire Hit Machine series from 2015.

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.