''Bato, Bato'' is the third studio album by Yugoslav pop-folk singer

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and her band Slatki Greh. It was released 5 January 1984 through the record label

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and with over a million copies sold it is the best-selling album in Yugoslavia and made Lepa Brena a superstar outside of her home-country, especially in

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and

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. This was her fourth of twelve albums with Slatki Greh.

Background

This album marked the end of Brena's cooperation with her former manager (Milutin Popović Zachar) and saw her usher in a new level of popularity with Zachar's replacement Raka Đokić. For the new record's promotion, Brena found herself acting again next to Nikola Simić in the film ''Nema problema''. The film and the new album ''Bato, Bato'' were highly successful. The film won the "Oscars of Popularity" that year. The album sold 1,100,000 copies and thus became the best-selling album in Yugoslavia's history. At the signing of the album in Belgrade, over 5,000 people came, which caused massive crowding and traffic jams. Thanks to this album, Brena became one of the most popular singers in Yugoslavia, becoming a mega star in

and

. In

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, Romania, on August 10, 1985, 65,000 people attended their concert at the Stadionul Dan Păltinișanu.

Title

The album name comes from a male nickname, ''Bato'', very common in

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. Although there is also an English version of this name (also ''Bato''), which means 'son of the farmer'. It is a form of the name ''Bartholomew''.

Track listing

Release history

References

{{Authority control 1984 albums Lepa Brena albums PGP-RTB albums Serbo-Croatian language albums