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So Fresh is an Australian compilation album series. It began in 2000, as a joint venture from Sony, BMG (later merged into Sony) and Universal,[3] replacing the prior Hit Machine series, which ran from 1993 to 2000. From 2000 until 2023, So Fresh albums were released four times per year, named after each season (Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring), consisting of current hit songs from artists signed to Sony, BMG or Universal. In March 2024, So Fresh announced that the series would change to a single annual edition;[4] So Fresh: Best of 2024 was released in November 2024.

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So Fresh: The Hits of Spring 2000 was the first album in the So Fresh series. The first track is "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi.[1]
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So Fresh: The Hits of Summer 2003 + The Biggest Hits of 2002 is the highest certified So Fresh album, having shipped six-times platinum (over 420,000 copies) within two months of its release.[2]

So Fresh albums have been highly successful in Australia. Every edition from Spring 2000 to Winter 2016 was certified at least platinum (for over 70,000 copies shipped or sold),[a] and every year from 2001–2011, 2014–2015 and 2017–2024, the year's highest selling compilation in Australia has been a So Fresh album.[5] As of Summer 2024, all 94 seasonal So Fresh albums have reached number one on the ARIA Compilations Chart.[a]

Various other So Fresh spin-off albums have also been released, including an annual Christmas compilation each year from 2002 to 2019, and several DVD releases. From September 2003[6] until approximately November 2006,[7] So Fresh also ran a weekly TV show on the Nine Network, featuring "music clips, interviews [and] the ARIA top 10", hosted by Jules Lund (replaced by David Whitehill circa early 2004[8]) and Elysia Pratt.[6]

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Typically, So Fresh's Autumn, Winter and Spring releases are a single CD, while the Summer releases are a two-CD set, mixing current hits with the "biggest hits" or "best" of the past year. From Autumn 2008[9] to Autumn 2016,[10] the Autumn, Winter and Spring releases included a "bonus DVD" with music videos for selected songs from the CD (from Winter 2014 onwards, separate CD-only versions were also released[11]). Since Summer 2015, the Summer albums have been released in both double-disc versions, and single-disc versions without the "best of".[12]

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  1. See discography section for citations.
  2. Peak position on the ARIA Compilations Chart (various-artists compilations are not eligible for the regular albums chart).
  3. Certification by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
  4. The double-disc So Fresh: The Hits of Summer 2015 + The Best of 2014 and single-disc So Fresh: The Hits of Summer 2015 charted separately on the ARIA Compilations Chart in their first week, with the former debuting at number one and the latter at number two. Only one entry for them appeared on the chart from the following week[140] onwards, suggesting their sales were likely combined thereafter.
  5. Peak position on the ARIA Dance Albums Chart (which does allow various-artists compilations).
  6. The first So Fresh: Dance was not included on the ARIA Dance Albums Chart.
  7. Peak position on the ARIA Music DVD Chart.
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