Bravo hits

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The Bravo Hits are a series of music samplers with current titles from the music charts and have been published regularly since 1992 on music CDs. The series emerged from the youth magazine Bravo . In addition to the main series of Bravo Hits with so far 110 episodes ( as of August 2, 2020 ), Bravo: The Hits (formerly: Bravo: Best Of ) and Bravo Black Hits will also appear in the series . 35 episodes of this side series have appeared. In 2017 a unique Best Of Black Hits 2017/18 was released. From 1994 to 2003 there was also a third offshoot, Bravo: Super Show . In 2015 there was a unique offshoot with Bravo Dance .

history

The first Bravo Hits came on April 21, 1992 as a single CD, MC and vinyl LP with the 16 most popular songs of the readers of the youth magazine Bravo on the market and was produced by Warner Special Marketing GmbH . The then managing director Thomas Schenk had the idea for this. He is therefore considered the inventor of the series in the industry and was honored with the Bravo Platinum Otto by Bauer Verlag .

From Bravo Hits 2 the compilation was released exclusively as a double CD and double cassette. In addition, the label BMG Media ( Sony BMG ) brought out some annual best-of CDs and the Bravo Black Hits , which appeared for the first time on April 16, 1999.

In the Swiss compilation charts, the Bravo Hits have regularly been in the top 25 for at least ten weeks since their third release, and every issue since Bravo Hits 12 has made it to number 1 (excluding Black Hits or Annual Review). In Germany, all Bravo Hits editions since Bravo Hits 3 have reached first place in the compilation charts . In 2018, Bravo Hits 102, the hundredth album in this sampler series, reached first place, more than any other sampler series. In addition, the compilations held first place for over 600 weeks, also a record.

There was also a Bravo Hits Interactive on CD-ROM , u. a. with music videos, photo love stories and small PC games.

The first two CDs in the series have achieved a high collector's value over the years. In 1998 the Bravo Hits 1 was reissued in a limited edition. This new edition differs in the first title. For legal reasons "America" ​​by The KLF has been replaced by "Don't Be Aggressive" by Sandra .

In 1996 there was no official Bravo Hits Best of with the top hits of the year, only a sampler by EMI with the title Best of 96, however, the addition Bravo is missing in the sampler name.

On November 6, 2015, a fourth branch called Bravo Dance was released , but there was only one episode.

For the Bravo Hits 100 release, fans were asked to sort through the 100 greatest hits since the first compilation was released. The two-hour countdown ran on February 17, 2018 on RTL and produced the international hit … Baby One More Time by pop icon Britney Spears as the winner.

Cover

The Bravo lettering on the front cover was originally based on that of the magazine. With the third edition, however, the lettering was given the diagonal alignment that has been preserved to this day, with letters of different sizes, some of which are concealed. The letters stepped into the foreground one after the other, so that each letter superimposed the previous one. In the fourth edition, the layering of the letters was adjusted: instead of covering the lower part of the A, the V slipped behind the A. This layout has since been adopted on every new edition and still shapes the appearance of the front cover today. The only exception is the R, which appears before the A on some covers.

Since the issue of BRAVO Hits 44 (published 2004) the company DNSfactory from Hamburg has been creating the BRAVO covers and the corresponding booklets. TV advertising is also always based on the artwork on the cover. Current trends such as B. at BRAVO Hits 83 the topic of cupcakes or at BRAVO Hits 81 the topic of Holi festivals. Big or well-known cinema successes are also discussed in part. Example Alice in Wonderland (BRAVO Hits 68), Twilight (BRAVO Hits 64) or Star Wars (BRAVO Hits 91). When designing the cover, it is generally important to address the largest possible target group with pleasant topics without being political or opinion-forming. Jerry Naujoks and Marc Simon of the company DNSfactory from Hamburg have been responsible for the cover design since 2004 and supply the record companies Universal Music, Sony Music, since 2014 also the Warner Music Group , and of course the Bauer Media Group with various ideas and layouts for every BRAVO hits. This also happens with every BRAVO The Hits, which appears at the end of each year and shows the biggest hits of the year, as well as with BRAVO Black Hits.

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  1. ↑ gfk Entertainment: Top 30 compilation charts. officialcharts.de, accessed on July 9, 2020 .