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Mon Amour marked the beginning of a long period in which almost all released singles were big hits. The repertoire of the Rock-period was discarded and new work was written and produced. The hard work was rewarded handsomely: less than twenty singles followed in the 10 years after "Mon amour"; seventeen of these were top ten hits. In 1980 BZN scored only in the Dutch Top 40 his second number-one hit with the song Pearlydumm. In the National Hit Parade it did not go beyond the third. Also BZN albums sold well at that time. The huge popularity of the band in early 80s showed, among other things translate into a platinum cassette music for the album Greatest Hits of 1980, accounting for 100,000 copies sold. That was the only music cassette which platinum is ever given in the Dutch music history. The same album was on lp sold more than 280,000 times. It was a Christmas album released in 1981. The sales surpassed all expectations: it was sold almost 300,000 times. In 1982 the group first Dutch band presented a compilation on CD, instead of the hitherto usual lp. Anny Schilder became the first singer in the world, which was to listen to a CD.
In early 1984 Anny Schilder left the group. The band thought this was the end of BZN, but there was a suitable successor found in the person of the then 20-year-old Carola Smit. What other bands in the past had cost the head - a change of lead singer (es). The success of the band to the new singer to be maintained for years.