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Posted by: ThePensmith 27th July 2019, 07:06 AM

Blimey I just saw the opening sales for Now 103. My God. Can't say I'm surprised but still shocking. I think it'd be fair to say they have a massive problem on their hands at this point when it's outsold on it's first week by an artist album/sales not even breaking 100k.

Posted by: BillyH 27th July 2019, 12:14 PM

Now 70 in 2008 sold 383,000 in its opening week (the all-time weekly record for the series, although 1999's Now 44 is the biggest selling overall), and as recently as 2012 Now 83 did really well as there were lots of rumours that it was going to be the https://metro.co.uk/2012/09/28/now-thats-what-i-call-music-albums-to-end-after-now-83-588398/. It's interesting how they remained extremely high sellers in the download era, although I guess £10 for 40 songs was a bargain as opposed to paying 99p for each one.

Spotify has most of the albums in playlist form, but from looking at them recently there's several missing songs and some exist in the wrong version/s, so they're not a great replacement for the original CDs.

Posted by: Hadji 27th July 2019, 12:50 PM

Shame they can never get those opening sales ever again. In other news, it’s not NOW related but I’ve seen that the Hits series are coming up with pointless spin-offs like NOW are doing. If the Hits wanna release any albums, they should just give Hits 1-6 and The Hit Pack the double CD treatment

Posted by: Hadji 9th August 2019, 03:57 PM

Next NOW spin-off due for release is NOW 100 Hits Movies on 20th September. I just hope it includes songs from films of all decades and not mainly this decade

Posted by: Hadji 15th August 2019, 06:32 PM

According to amazon, songs which will be appearing on NOW 100 Hits Movies include

Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On (from "Titanic")
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life (from "Dirty Dancing")
Rocket Man (from "Rocket Man") but not sure which version will appear

I hope they also include songs like this and not just the same old, same old

New Order - True Faith (from "Bright Lights, Big City")
Ramones - Pet Sematary (from "Pet Sematary")
Go West - King Of Wishful Thinking (from "Pretty Woman")
Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power (from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles")
Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire (from "Bram Stoker's Dracula")
Seal - Fly Like An Eagle (from "Space Jam")
Bananarama - Cruel Summer (from "The Karate Kid")
Joe 'Bean' Esposito - You're The Best (from "The Karate Kid")
Peter Cetera - Glory Of Love (from "The Karate Kid II")
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Misirlou (from "Pulp Fiction")
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - If You Leave (from "Pretty In Pink")
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (from "An American Werewolf In London")
Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange (from "The Lost Boys")
Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister (from "The Lost Boys")
Lou Gramm - Lost In The Shadows (from "The Lost Boys")
Mental As Anything - Live It Up (from "Crocodile Dundee")
Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square (from "American Psycho")
Phil Collins - Sussudio (from "American Psycho")
Roxette - Almost Unreal (from "Super Mario Bros")
Bobby Brown - On Our Own (from "Ghostbusters II")
Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again (from "Fast & Furious 7")
Hole - Celebrity Skin (from "American Pie" and "Captain Marvel")
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Face To Face (from "Batman Returns")
Billy Idol - Hot In The City (from "Big")
Smash Mouth - All Star (from "Shrek")
Chase & Status featuring Plan B - End Credits (from "Harry Brown")
Divinyls - I Touch Myself (from "Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery")
The Primitives - Crash (from "Dumb & Dumber")
Boyzone - Picture Of You (from "Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie")
MC Hammer - Addams Groove (from "The Addams Family")
The Belle Stars - Iko Iko (from "Rain Man")
Mel & Kim - That's The Way It Is (from "Coming To America")
Frankie Valli - Grease Is The Word (from "Grease")
Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) (from "Shallow Hal")
Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer (from "There's Something About Mary")
Kula Shaker - Hush (from "I Know What You Did Last Summer")
Carly Simon - Coming Around Again (from "Heartburn")
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (from "The Sure Thing")
Björk & David Arnold - Play Dead (from "The Young Americans")

Posted by: Hadji 21st August 2019, 10:10 PM

NOW 100 Hits Movies tracklist

CD 1

1. Keala Settle - This Is Me
2. Taron Egerton - Rocket Man
3. Berlin - Take My Breath Away
4. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
5. Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
6. Huey Lewis & The News - The Power Of Love
7. Pharrell Williams - Happy
8. Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling!
9. Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
10. Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
11. Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther Theme
12. Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
13. Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On
14. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
15. Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong
16. Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven
17. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around
18. Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
19. Hans Zimmer - Now We Are Free
20. John Williams - Hedwig's Theme

CD 2

1. John Williams - Star Wars
2. Lalo Schifrin - Mission: Impossible
3. Robbie Williams - Have You Met Miss Jones?
4. Fontella Bass - Rescue Me
5. Natalie Cole - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)
6. Kenny Loggins - Footloose
7. ABBA - Does Your Mother Know
8. Irene Cara - Flashdance...What A Feeling
9. Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams
10. Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
11. Wilson Phillips - Hold On
12. Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
13. Blondie - Call Me
14. Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia
15. Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
16. Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All
17. Lana Del Rey - Young And Beautiful
18. Anne Hathaway - I Dreamed A Dream
19. Leonard Bernstein - Act I: Maria
20. John Williams - Theme From Schindler's List

CD 3

1. Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
2. Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions
3. Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
4. Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
5. Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World
6. James Horner - For The Love Of A Princess
7. John Williams - Theme From Jaws
8. Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire
9. Dido - Thank You
10. All Saints - Pure Shores
11. Sia - Elastic Heart
12. A-Ha - The Living Daylights
13. Irene Cara - Fame
14. Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova
15. Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle
16. The Four Tops - Loco In Acapulco
17. Los Lobos - La Bamba
18. John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air
19. Chuck Berry - You Can Never Tell
20. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

CD 4

1. John Parr - St Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
2. Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
3. Wings - Live And Let Die
4. Maurice Jarre - Lara's Theme
5. Sam Smith - Writing's On The Wall
6. Ellie Goulding - Still Falling For You
7. P!nk - Just Like Fire
8. The Cardigans - Lovefool
9. Dido - Here With Me
10. Dua Lipa - Swan Song
11. Hugh Jackman - The Greatest Show
12. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
13. The Proclaimers - I'm On My Way
14. Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
15. Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams
16. Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
17. Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
18. The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)
19. Bernard Herrmann - Main Title From Taxi Driver
20. Maurice Jarre - Overature

CD 5

1. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - The Grease Megamix
2. Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
3. Salt-N-Pepa - Shoop
4. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
5. Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
6. Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
7. Himesh Patel - Yesterday
8. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
9. Johnny Mandel - Suicide Is Painless
10. Doris Day - Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
11. Cher & Andy García - Fernando
12. Nat King Cole - Stardust
13. Ben E King - Stand By Me
14. Michael Bublé - Love At First Sight
15. Matt Monro - From Russia With Love
16. Henry Mancini - Moon River
17. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
18. John Barry - Theme From Dances With Wolves
19. John Williams - Bicycle Chase & End Credits
20. Howard Shore - A Lord Of The Rings Suite

Posted by: lewistgreen 21st August 2019, 10:13 PM

Ooh ok that’s quite decent

Posted by: gooddelta 21st August 2019, 10:18 PM

Yeah it’s good, I’ll buy it.

Nice mix of old, new and scores as well as hits and some inspired choices. On the whole I’ve been enjoying this 100 Hits format, it’s been way better so far than their increasingly bland spin-offs from the prior three or four years.

Posted by: Jonjo 21st August 2019, 11:42 PM

My only criticism...

Celine so low! She should be top 3 Disc 1!!! </3

Posted by: T Boy 22nd August 2019, 11:18 AM

Omg TWO Dido tracks *.*

Posted by: awardinary 23rd August 2019, 12:16 AM

I noticed the spin off series taking off under the “100 Hits” name that is gaining some publicity so I decided to make a playlist of 100 songs that were sadly overlooked for the main Now series during the 90’s. I intend to do the same for the 00’s and shortly the 10’s by the end of 2019.

This playlist is made up mostly of #1 singles, songs on end of year charts, and other noteworthy and recognised songs from that decade coupled with a few novelty hits too.

What’s your thoughts, would you buy a compilation like this with songs that you didn’t have in your Now cassettes, vinyls and CD’s from that era?

The Unofficial Now 100 Hits - 90’s Omissions
A playlist by awardinary

Disc 1
1. Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You {1}
2. Michael Bolton – How Am I Supposed To Live Without You {3}
3. Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On {1}
4. Mariah Carey – Without You {1}
5. Take That – Never Forget {1}
6. Spice Girls – 2 Become 1 {1}
7. Annie Lennox – No More “I Love You’s” {2}
8. Boyzone – I Love The Way You Love Me {2}
9. Westlife – Swear It Again {1}
10. The Corrs – Runaway {2}
11. S Club 7 – Two In A Million {2}
12. Peter Andre – I Feel You {1}
13. Boyz II Men – End Of The Road {1}
14. Toni Braxton – Unbreak My Heart {2}
15. Robson & Jerome – I Believe {1}
16. Elton John – Something About The Way You Look Tonight {1}
17. Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You {1}
18. Michael Jackson – Earth Song {1}

Disc 2
1. Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy {1}
2. Urban Cookie Collective – The Key, The Secret {2}
3. Grace – Not Over Yet {6}
4. Olive – You’re Not Alone {1}
5. Crystal Waters – Gyspy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da) {2}
6. Dannii Minogue – All I Wanna Do {4}
7. Tori Amos – Professional Widow {1}
8. Scatman John – Scatman {3}
9. My Blobby – Mr Blobby {1}
10. Pérez Prado – Guaglione {2}
11. Snap! – The Power {1}
12. Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy {2}
13. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby {1}
14. Will Smith – Men In Black {1}
15. Pras Michel feat. Ol’ Dirty bast*rd & Mya – Ghetto Superstar (That Is What You Are) {2}
16. Busta Rhymes – Turn It Up / Fire It Up {2}
17. Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing) {3}
18. Jay-Z – Hard Knock Life {2}
19. 2Pac & Talent – Changes {3}
20. Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans, 112 & The Lox – I’ll Be Missing You {1}
21. Prince – The Most Beautiful Girl In The World {1}

Disc 3
1. Fugees – Killing Me Softly {1}
2. TLC – Waterfalls {4}
3. Christina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle {1}
4. Jennifer Lopez – If You Had My Love {4}
5. Usher – You Make Me Wanna {1}
6. Another Level – Freak Me {1}
7. Five – Everybody Get Up {2}
8. Backstreet Boys – We’ve Got It Goin’ On {3}
9. A1 – Be The First To Believe {6}
10. 911 – Bodyshakin’ {3}
11. B*Witched – Rollercoaster {1}
12. Cleopatra – Cleopatra’s Theme {3}
13. Britney Spears – Sometimes {3}
14. Steps – One For Sorrow {2}
15. *Nsync – I Want You Back {5}
16. Ricky Martin – Livin’ La Vida Loca {1}
17. Los Del Rio – Macarena {2}
18. Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart {2}
19. B-52’s – Love Shack {2}
20. The Simpsons – Do The Bartman {1}

Disc 4
1. Bon Jovi – Always {2}
2. Aerosmith – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing {4}
3. Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next {1}
4. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit {7}
5. Oasis – All Around The World {1}
6. Blur – Song 2 {2}
7. Kula Shaker – Hush {2}
8. Stereophonics – The Bartender And The Thief {3}
9. The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) {1}
10. Eminem – My Name Is {2}
11. Garbage – Stupid Girl {4}
12. Savage Garden – To The Moon And Back {3}
13. Blondie – Maria {1}
14. Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do {4}
15. Extreme – More Than Words {2}
16. Alanis Morissette – Ironic {11}
17. Björk – It’s Oh So Quiet {4}
18. Cher – Strong Enough {5}
19. Billie – She Wants You {3}
20. Undercover – Baker Street {2}

Disc 5
1. Madonna – Vogue {1}
2. Michael Jackson – Black Or White {1}
3. The Rembrandts – I’ll Be There For You {3}
4. EMF – Unbelievable {3}
5. Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground {1}
6. The Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun {1}
7. The Prodigy – Everybody In The Place {2}
8. Mario Più – Communication (Somebody Answer The Phone) {5}
9. Paul Johnson – Get Get Down {5}
10. Spacedust – Gym And Tonic {1}
11. Sash! feat. Tina Cousins – Mysterious Times {2}
12. Vengaboys – Kiss (When The Sun Don’t Shine) {3}
13. Basement Jaxx – Rendez-Vu {4}
14. Chef – Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You) {1}
15. TLC – No Scrubs {3}
16. Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine {2}
17. George Michael – Outside {2}
18. Take That feat. Lulu – Relight My Fire {1}
19. Five – Keep On Movin’ {1}
20. Bryan Adams feat. Melanie C – When You’re Gone {3}
21. Kylie Minogue – Better The Devil You Know {2}

Posted by: Hadji 16th September 2019, 12:44 PM

If they’re gonna include TMBTL by Ed on 104, they should include the remix on there

Posted by: gavindeejay 17th September 2019, 07:22 AM

I can't see any Ed Sheeran on Now 104 as he doesn't seem to licence his Number 1 hits to Now any longer.

Posted by: Hadji 17th September 2019, 09:22 AM

The only hit single from his new album which didn’t reach #1 was CM which is already on 103. If he won’t give them TMBTL for 104, I hope he gives them BP seeing as that was only #1 for a week

Posted by: Hadji 19th September 2019, 01:59 PM

NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 90s due for release on 25th October. All we need now is NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 00s, NOW 100 Hits Trance and NOW 100 Hits Christmas

Posted by: gooddelta 22nd September 2019, 03:37 PM

Excited to see the Forgotten 90s tracklist. So much I’d love to see on there.

Now 100 Hits: Christmas would be a big seller for them, will be a shame if they just restock the 2015 release again this year, five years for one edition seems excessive.

Posted by: Hadji 22nd September 2019, 06:25 PM

If they do a NOW 100 Hits Christmas, I expect it to be Queen track 1, Mariah track 2 and for them to include the Darlene Love song from Home Alone 2 as we never see that on a Xmas compilation. And question is, which Tiësto song will we be getting for NOW 104? I hope we get both of them

Posted by: gmat12 24th September 2019, 07:30 PM

It’s early yet but the poll on the dance forum got me thinking:

Ritual AND God is a Dancer on Now 104?

Posted by: Hadji 24th September 2019, 07:52 PM

I hope we get both but I reckon we’ll get GIAD and they’ll miss out Ritual

Posted by: Hadji 25th September 2019, 12:13 PM

NOW 100 Hits Sing-a-long due for release on 22nd November. I imagine that’s when they’ll also release NOW 104 and I hope it’s a mixture of old and new and not just the same old same old

Posted by: Hadji 27th September 2019, 12:06 PM

NOW 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 80s due for release on 15th November

Posted by: Dexton 27th September 2019, 12:14 PM

Out of curiosity (since every time I check this forum/thread I see another Now album being released) how many spin offs have been released this year/how many overall will have been released by the end of the year?

Posted by: Hadji 27th September 2019, 12:18 PM

They usually release a lot of spin-offs in November on the run up to Christmas. I’m just waiting for them to announce NOW 104

Posted by: gooddelta 27th September 2019, 12:47 PM

Interesting, though not surprising, they do love to milk a successful concept. Will be interesting to see what they dig up for this one.

Posted by: gavindeejay 28th September 2019, 12:19 PM

Why do we need even more forgotten 80's when they could do perhaps 70's instead?

Posted by: Hadji 28th September 2019, 01:42 PM

Or a forgotten 00s as we don’t get many 00s compilations

Posted by: gooddelta 28th September 2019, 04:52 PM

Do 00s compilations generally sell well? I notice the recent Ministry of Sound one tumbled down the compilations chart quite quickly. Not sure how the Now one did a couple of years back.

80s compilations still seem to be easy money for record labels and the Forgotten 80s album was No.1 for a few weeks so to tap into that willing audience again for the Xmas market makes sense, even if it is an uninspired move to do it so soon.

Posted by: Hadji 28th September 2019, 05:12 PM

They would sell well if they included forgotten songs from 2000-2004 and not common songs ie. "I Gotta Feeling" and "Poker Face" etc. We never get Fragma or forgotten trance anthems on there. They could do with including Fragma's other hits, I know they won’t license "Toca's Miracle" but they could at least include any of the others

Posted by: Spiral 1st October 2019, 03:16 PM

So Amazon have put up the link for NOW 104 and NOW 4! So we're getting another re-issue, which is great. Another one for the CD shelf.

Also, I'm so excited to see the Forgotten 90's album. It may not contain actual "forgotten" songs, but it'll be nice to see songs you don't usually see. Plus, NOW 100 Christmas and NOW 100 Party are also on Amazon. I'm hoping Britney makes an apperance with My Only Wish (This Year).

Posted by: danG 1st October 2019, 03:57 PM

Which NOW 4 songs will end up on NOW 104 then do we think seeing as that seems to be the new tradition?

Together In Electric Dreams
The Never Ending Story [with it having been used in Stranger Things recently]
Hello
Jump (For My Love)

seem likely.

they could go for one of Ghostbusters/Somebody's Watching Me too even with a November release date.

Posted by: Common Sense 1st October 2019, 04:40 PM

Link please. Can't see them.

Posted by: gooddelta 1st October 2019, 06:56 PM

The Forgotten 90s tracklist is out:

1 Remember Me - Blue Boy
2 Your Woman - White Town
3 2 Times - Ann Lee
4 Doop - Doop
5 Reach Up (Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag) - Perfecto Allstarz
6 Where Are You Baby? - Betty Boo
7 Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) - Backstreet Boys
8 Confide In Me - Kylie Minogue
9 Bootie Call - All Saints
10 No, No, No Pt. 2 - Destiny's Child feat. Wyclef Jean
11 You Might Need Somebody - Shola Ama
12 Sometimes - Britney Spears
13 Always There - Incognito feat. Jocelyn Brown
14 I'm Free - The Soup Dragons
15 Groovy Train - The Farm
16 Ain't No Doubt - Jimmy Nail
17 Sunshine On A Rainy Day - Zoë
18 I Am, I Feel - Alisha's Attic
19 Rollercoaster - B*Witched
20 Miami Hit Mix - Gloria Estefan
21 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
22 Northern Star - Melanie C
23 Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
24 What I Am - Tin Tin Out feat. Emma Bunton
25 Sweetness - Michelle Gayle
26 Honey To The Bee - Billie
27 Big Big World - Emilia
28 S Club Party - S Club 7
29 I Can Make You Feel Good - Kavana
30 I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat
31 Sweet Harmony - The Beloved
32 Steal My Sunshine - Len
33 I Touch Myself - Divinyls
34 Word Up - Gun
35 Lucky You - The Lightning Seeds
36 Strawberry Fields Forever - Candy Flip
37 Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn & Spandau Ballet
38 Addams Groove - M.C. Hammer
39 Jump - Kris Kross
40 Shout (It Out) - Louchie Lou & Michie One
41 The River of Dreams - Billy Joel
42 Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri
43 Perfect 10 - The Beautiful South
44 Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
45 Tattva - Kula Shaker
46 Queer - Garbage
47 Return To Innocence - Enigma
48 7 Seconds - Youssou N'Dour feat. Neneh Cherry
49 Only You (Laker Boy Mix) - Praise
50 Give Me A Little More Time - Gabrielle
51 Got the Feelin' - Five
52 I've Got a Little Something for You - MN8
53 I Want You Back - *NSYNC
54 Turtle Power - Partners In Kryme
55 Got To Get - Rob 'n' Raz feat. Leila K.
56 Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) - Scatman John
57 Doctor Jones - Aqua
58 La La La Hey Hey - The Outhere Brothers
59 Life - Haddaway
60 U R The Best Thing (Perfecto Radio Mix) - D:Ream
61 Good Enough - Dodgy
62 Lovestruck - Madness
63 Tequila - Terrorvision
64 Guaglione - Pérez Prado y Su Orquesta
65 Would You...? - Touch & Go
66 Sex On The Beach- T-Spoon
67 (Mucho Mambo) Sway - Shaft
68 Feel It - The Tamperer feat. Maya
69 La Primavera - Sash!
70 Tetris - Doctor Spin
71 Cleopatra's Theme - Cleopatra
72 Monsters And Angels - Voice Of The Beehive
73 Hillbilly Rock, Hillbilly Roll - The Woolpackers
74 Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Meat Loaf
75 Walkaway - Cast
76 Disappointed - Electronic
77 Tell Me When - The Human League
78 Happenin’ All Over Again - Lonnie Gordon
79 Arms Around The World - Louise
80 Forever Love - Gary Barlow
81 Don't Be A Stranger - Dina Carroll
82 Lily Was Here - David A. Stewart feat. Candy Dulfer
83 Just Another Day - Jon Secada
84 Ain’t That Just The Way - Lutricia McNeal
85 Woman - Neneh Cherry
86 Gone Till November - Wyclef Jean
87 Freak Me - Another Level
88 How Bizarre - OMC
89 Saltwater - Julian Lennon
90 Isn't It A Wonder - Boyzone
91 This Is How It Feels - The Inspiral Carpets
92 Inbetweener - Sleeper
93 Slam Jam - The WWF Superstars
94 The Love I Lost - West End feat. Sybil
95 After The Love Has Gone - Steps
96 Sunshine After The Rain - Berri
97 Get-A-Way - Maxx
98 I'll Be Back - Arnee And The Terminaters
99 Ooh La La - Wiseguys
100 Wonderwall - The Mike Flowers Pops

Granted loads of these aren't forgotten and are rather 'lesser hits', a lot of them from acts who had much bigger hits that populate the usual compilations, but it's a great tracklist! After years of releasing the same old thing over and over again, the Now team have finally been turning out fantastic compilations this year, I've bought nearly all of the 100 Hits series.

Absolutely fantastic to see a few songs that were left off the original Now albums, like Sometimes, Bootie Call, Rollercoaster, Got The Feelin', I Want You Back and After The Love Has Gone! Yasss at the likes of 2 Times, Big Big World, U R The Best Thing, Sunshine After The Rain and La Primavera too <3 Can't wait to listen to this.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 1st October 2019, 07:00 PM

Is S Club Party really forgotten?

'There ain't no party like an S Club party' is pretty iconic

Posted by: Hadji 1st October 2019, 07:23 PM

Shame there’s no Roxette on there or size of a cow

Posted by: T Boy 1st October 2019, 07:47 PM

Loving that tracklist! I’ll definitely get that one!

It would have been nice to see Two In A Million feature for S Club 7-it’s more ‘forgotten’ and didn’t appear in the main series.

I also would have liked I Will Come To You by Hanson.

Posted by: gooddelta 1st October 2019, 08:15 PM

I was thinking the same for S Club 7. I’d have been inclined to switch out Ain’t That Just The Way for Stranded too. Love both but Stranded is more forgotten despite peaking higher.

Some of these were definitely expected inclusions, like Sleeping Satellite, gorgeous and one of my favourite No.1s of the 90s, shame it’s mostly forgotten now.

Posted by: Hadji 1st October 2019, 08:37 PM

Same. I’ve searched and can’t find them

Posted by: Jonjo 1st October 2019, 08:59 PM

Emilia making the list is amazing to see

Posted by: Spiral 1st October 2019, 09:18 PM

Link for https://www.amazon.co.uk/NOW-Thats-What-Call-Music/dp/B07YBXVXCB/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=NOW+That%27s+What+I+Call+Music%21+4&qid=1569964562&sr=8-8

That track listing is very good! So many songs you don't usually see on compilations now-a-days. These 100 Hits albums they're doing are such good volumes, and gives life to concepts/themes they've already done.

Posted by: Hadji 1st October 2019, 09:30 PM

NOW 100 Hits Christmas due for release on 8th November, NOW 100 Hits Party doesn’t have a release date neither does NOW 4 and NOW 104 but I imagine the release date for 4 and 104 will be 22nd November

Posted by: Jonjo 1st October 2019, 10:11 PM

Ooh. Intrigued by Now 100 Hits Christmas. I usually only muster up about 30 tracks I actually like for my playlist each year

Posted by: gavindeejay 1st October 2019, 10:19 PM

I’d love it if Now 100 Christmas could include a Killers track!

Not a bad track list for 90’s forgotten hits. I expected a couple of we’ll known tracks but to be fair they went for tracks that aren’t often played on Radio and I don’t think any of the songs on there would be signature hits. Maybe S Club at a push but I’d say ‘Reach’ and ‘Never Had A Dream’ would come out on top If I asked people to name me an S Club track.

Posted by: Jonjo 1st October 2019, 10:32 PM

Cowboys Christmas Ball to be The Killers track, if they included one. So underrated and it's not to be found on streaming </3

Posted by: Hadji 1st October 2019, 10:44 PM

All Alone On Christmas from Home Alone 2 deserves to be on the album too

Posted by: gooddelta 2nd October 2019, 11:17 AM

I've always thought S Club 7 are a rare pop band who could lay claim to having a number of signature tracks. Reach is definitely the big one I'd say but Don't Stop Movin' is the other one that usually gets rinsed on compilations.

Bring It All Back, Never Had A Dream Come True and S Club Party are all very recognisable too though.

Posted by: gavindeejay 2nd October 2019, 04:16 PM

I didn't think about DSM when I wrote that but yeah they do have some great songs once you start delving into them.

Meanwhile Now have teased a blurred image of the cover artwork to Now 104. Looks like a brown, yellow cover this time. Looks a similar colour scheme to Now 37 to me.

Posted by: Hadji 2nd October 2019, 04:22 PM

I’m just glad that NOW 104 will have at least one #1. Seeing as Ed is selfish with his #1s, then we should get SOTB to compensate as long as that doesn’t hit #1. Also, when they re-release NOW 4 on CD, I hope they put the special dance mix of No More Lonely Nights like they did on the vinyl version. I also reckon that "Passengers" will be one of the throwback tracks on NOW 104 due to the success of Elton John's biopic. It’s also a shame that "Drive" by The Cars never appeared on NOW 4 otherwise they could’ve included it on 104 as one of the throwback tracks as a tribute to the lead singer who died

Posted by: Ken A. 3rd October 2019, 03:10 PM

Attention everyone: NOW 104's front cover art and release date has just been revealed. It is set for release on Friday, 08 November 2019, just about 5 weeks from today.

Personal note: Quite surprising to be an early November release, considering that historically, the last numbered NOW of the year is usually released on the 3rd or 4th Friday (or back in the day, Monday) of November.

And the cover art... it's "made of gold".

Posted by: gooddelta 3rd October 2019, 03:19 PM

That is early! Guess they want to try and maximise the festive sales market by having two extra weeks of pre-Xmas sales.

Posted by: 365 3rd October 2019, 03:33 PM

I really like that molten gold splash artwork!

Posted by: Stewie 3rd October 2019, 03:41 PM

Me too.

Shame they are looking to ignore releasing on vinyl again... Think they could be big sellers in that format at the right price.

Posted by: Hadji 3rd October 2019, 04:25 PM

I’m surprised NOW 104 is being released on 8th November. Earlier than expected. I was expecting it to be released on 22nd November

Posted by: gavindeejay 3rd October 2019, 04:33 PM

Wow! Looks like we'll get the tracklist within the next 2 weeks then if it's out the 8th!

Posted by: Hadji 3rd October 2019, 04:41 PM

Now we have the artwork, I thought i'd do a prediction

CD 1

1. Tones & I – Dance Monkey 3:29
2. Kygo & Whitney Houston – Higher Love 3:48
3. Regard – Ride It 2:37
4. AJ Tracey – Ladbroke Grove 3:10
5. Aitch – Taste (Make It Shake) 3:33
6. Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey – Don't Call Me Angel 3:10
7. Ed Sheeran featuring Camila Cabello & Cardi B – South Of The Border 3:24
8. Sam Smith – How Do You Sleep? 3:22
9. Lewis Capaldi – Bruises 3:40
10. Dermot Kennedy – Outnumbered 4:05
11. Freya Ridings – Castles 3:31
12. Ariana Grande & Social House – Boyfriend 3:06
13. Joel Corry – Sorry 3:08
14. Stormzy – Crown 3:33
15. Young T & Bugsey featuring Aitch – Strike A Pose 3:34
16. Post Malone featuring Young Thug – Goodbyes 2:54
17. Tiësto & Mabel – God Is A Dancer 2:48
18. Jax Jones & Ella Henderson – This Is Real 3:19
19. Normani – Motivation 3:13
20. Lizzo – Good As Hell 2:39
21. Miley Cyrus – Slide Away 3:53
22. Lauv & Anne-Marie – I'm Lonely 3:18
23. Riton & Oliver Heldens featuring Vula – Turn Me On 3:28
24. Sam Feldt featuring RANI – Post Malone 2:54

Total running time: 79:36

CD 2

1. Travis Scott – Highest In The Room 2:55
2. Jorja Smith featuring Burna Boy – Be Honest 3:27
3. Lil Nas X – Panini 1:54
4. Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber – 10,000 Hours 2:47
5. Maroon 5 – Memories 3:09
6. Ellie Goulding & Juice WRLD – Hate Me 3:06
7. MIST featuring Fredo – So High 2:43
8. Camila Cabello – Liar 3:27
9. Jax Jones & Bebe Rexha – Harder 2:40
10. Diplo & Jonas Brothers – Lonely 2:19
11. Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora – Ritual 3:18
12. Halsey – Graveyard 3:01
13. Harry Styles – Lights Up 2:52
14. Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya 2:38
15. Lana Del Rey – Doin' Time 3:22
16. Mark Ronson featuring YEBBA – Don't Leave Me Lonely 3:36
17. The Script – The Last Time 3:16
18. Liam Gallagher – One Of Us 3:25
19. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – This Is The Place 4:17
20. Westlife – Dynamite 3:32
21. Sam Fender – Will We Talk? 2:42

NOW 4 Throwback

22. Elton John – Passengers 3:23
23. Limahl – Never Ending Story 3:30
24. Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey – Together In Electric Dreams 3:51
25. John Waite – Missing You 3:30

Total running time 78:40

Posted by: Hiyaluv 3rd October 2019, 07:51 PM

This seems very early. But the chart moves so slowly now the tracklist probably wouldn't be that different even if they released a few weeks later. Already started work on my Alternative Now 104, listening to the provisional version right now and will replace the weaker tracks with vastly stronger bangers if/when they are unleashed. Hope they continue to venture out of the Top 40 a bit on the official one. Something tells me Dirty Laundry by Danny Brown won't be on theirs.

Posted by: Common Sense 3rd October 2019, 08:00 PM

Maybe to try and get more Xmas sales.

Posted by: Hadji 3rd October 2019, 09:34 PM

NOW 100 Hits Party now has a release date of 29th November

Posted by: lewistgreen 6th October 2019, 03:44 PM

And yet no one has posted the artwork yet

Posted by: Hadji 6th October 2019, 03:44 PM

Another NOW spin-off will be released on the same day as NOW 100 Hits Party titled NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 70s. If they did a NOW 100 Hits 50s and NOW 100 Hits 60s, they could reduce them both down to 4 discs with 25 tracks on each disc seeing as how short songs were back in those decades

Posted by: gavindeejay 6th October 2019, 08:21 PM

Think they’re really going abit mad with the spinoffs. I get the feeling some won’t sell well or get lost in the Christmas rush.

Posted by: Hadji 6th October 2019, 08:29 PM

They always go overboard with the spin-offs when it’s near Christmas

Posted by: Ken A. 8th October 2019, 02:40 PM

Warning: Spoliers ahead.

Over on the other side of the pond, they've just announced the details for the upcoming NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 72, which will be out on Friday, 25 October 2019, just about two weeks away. The front cover art is also quite "golden", just like its UK counterpart, NOW 104.

The track list has also been released, but they've devised a clever way to release it: you have to unlock it through one of their Tweets. If you are not bothered to do that, I did it for you, and here it is (hope I don't get consequences for this lol):

01. Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - "Señorita"
02. Ariana Grande & Social House - "Boyfriend"
03. Taylor Swift - "You Need to Calm Down"
04. Jonas Brothers - "Only Human"
05. Post Malone feat. Young Thug - "Goodbyes"
06. Lil Tecca - "Ransom"
07. DaBaby - "Suge"
08. Lil Nas X - "Panini"
09. Khalid feat. John Mayer - "Outta My Head"
10. Sam Smith - "How Do You Sleep?"
11. Normani - "Motivation"
12. MAX & Quinn XCII - "Love Me Less"
13. Panic! at the Disco - "Hey Look Ma, I Made It"
14. Ellie Goulding & Juice WRLD - "Hate Me"
15. Zara Larsson - "All the Time"
16. Marshmello & Kane Brown - "One Thing Right"
NOW What's Next Bonus Tracks
17. Emma Charles - "Vertigo"
18. Lolo Zouaï - "Caffeine"
19. Frawley - "Easy"
20. John Lihndal - "All Day"
21. Polo G & Tjayi - "Pop Out"

So, it's still 21 songs.

Already knew that "Señorita" could make it after Shawn's previous hit "If I Can't Have You" appeared in the previous album. Also, it is the only song in here by far that appeared on a previous UK NOW album - in this case, NOW 103. That being said, I am eyeing several, if not most, of the main tracks to appear on the upcoming NOW 104 as well.

Good to have Ari's "Boyfriend" in it, as it is still quite fresh amid the fresher release, "Don't Call Me Angel" (w/ Billie Eilish & Lana Del Rey) from the soundtrack of the upcoming Charlie's Angels film.

Oh, and the ever-so elusive T-Swift is back with her sophomore single from her latest album in here - very nice of that! Sad they skipped over "ME!" (feat. P!ATD's Brendon Urie), which was Lover's lead single, in the same manner as skipping reputation's lead single "Look What You Made Me Do", in the US (and even UK) NOWs, getting its follow-up single, "...Ready for It?", instead.

I personally prefer "Only Human" to "Cool" from the JoBros, so nice inclusion, too.

Not particularly liking Post Malone's "Goodbyes", but an okay inclusion nonetheless. Same goes with the only, and perhaps compulsory, (pseudo-)country track, "One Thing Right". I've observed that the album's quite urban-heavy, too.

I also have a particular liking for Sam Smith's "How Do You Sleep?" as well as the debut single from Fifth Harmony's Normani (finally, after lots of featured appearances), though I haven't really heard of "Motivation" in full yet - I just heard it partially in a fan-made mashup with Kelly Rowland's song of the same name from 2011, after Normani's song reminded me of Kelly's.

Surprised to see P!ATD's "Hey Look Ma, I Made It" in here, considering that it's a year old now, from their 2018 album Pray for the Wicked. Glad they made it (no pun intended) in what I believe is their first-ever appearance in a numbered US NOW album, which is in my opinion a long time coming after a remarkably long career over the past decade or so. It's sad, though, that they skipped on "High Hopes" (which I loooove so much), where its appearance in UK's NOW 101 (2018) is also their first UK NOW appearance.

The rest, well, I am yet to hear them. Yet again, I do not know more than half of the songs here, including all of this album's What's Next lineup.

What do y'all think?

Posted by: Hadji 8th October 2019, 06:07 PM

At least the Americans aren’t anti-urban with their NOWs like the British are starting to be. I just hope they aren’t anti-urban with NOW 104

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 8th October 2019, 06:17 PM

They're less anti-urban and more pro-what their buyers want to hear

Posted by: Hadji 8th October 2019, 06:25 PM

At least include urban only on the condition that it went top 10 or #1. Other than that, then leave it off. At least they included Stormzy on 103

Posted by: Hadji 10th October 2019, 01:05 PM

Just seen the cover for the CD version of NOW 4 on amazon and judging by it, it doesn’t look like any songs have been removed

Posted by: gavindeejay 11th October 2019, 06:36 PM

Tracklist for Now 100 Hits Christmas is out

https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-100-hits-christmas/

But if a strange tracklist really imo with quite a few odd emissions. Think I’ll stick with the previous volumes.

Posted by: darrens94 11th October 2019, 06:52 PM

Am I right in saying it doesn’t have All I Want For Christmas Is You, Fairytale Of New York wnd Last Christmas on it or am I missing them on that track list? Bit strange if they are. I thought they would also have a Cliff Richard song and The Darkness as well. Also I see it has a new Robbie Williams Christmas song from his new Christmas album.

Posted by: Jonjo 11th October 2019, 06:58 PM

LMAO. Not being able to have the 3 biggest xmas songs of all time on the CD will hinder it a lot. Like, WTAF?! 😂😂

Im literally STUNNED they havent got those 3!

Also Darkness but they seem to always get paid dust ugh.

Posted by: gavindeejay 11th October 2019, 07:08 PM

Looks like the Robbie song is a new track from his new Christmas album but a massive disappointment. If I were in charge I wouldn’t of bothered releasing it and held out to next year to try and get those three tracks. I know that LC has a film coming out and AIWFC is celebrating 25 years which is probably stopping the rights to getting those tracks this year. I don’t know why FONY has been denied the rights?

Posted by: darrens94 11th October 2019, 07:17 PM

They must not be able to get the right to those 3 now and that would explain why they have never updated Now Christmas for the past couple of years. In fact I’ve not seen a Christmas compilation released with The Pogues on it for the past couple of years.

Posted by: gooddelta 11th October 2019, 07:24 PM

I expect it’s more that to release a multi-label 100 track album and keep it to an affordable price, they had to make some sacrifices. Not having any of the big three is very odd indeed though.

Also I guess it will ensure the standard Now Christmas still has a reason to exist, retailing at the same price but with 30-odd fewer tracks.

Posted by: darrens94 11th October 2019, 08:00 PM

I think the majority will only really listen to CD 1 of this. I would imagine not many want to listen to Engelbert Humperdinck singing Winter World Of Love or Susan Boyle’s tear jerking version of Auld Lang Syne. So the normal Now Christmas is just fine even if this has 30 extra tracks,they are mostly just filler that no one really wants to listen to.

Posted by: George.keh 11th October 2019, 08:00 PM

Aside from the 3 big omissions no Santa’s Coming For Us

Posted by: gavindeejay 11th October 2019, 08:32 PM

Also noticed ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ isn’t on here either

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 11th October 2019, 08:34 PM

I still find it very interesting how Driving Home for Christmas became a hit years after release, and seems to still be getting bigger every year.

Posted by: George.keh 11th October 2019, 08:49 PM

Did I kiss it as well or was there no Leona?

Posted by: Jonjo 11th October 2019, 08:55 PM

One of the blandest Christmas songs. Vom. Really don't get the hype.

You missed it. I think she's track 6 or something.

Posted by: Common Sense 11th October 2019, 08:59 PM

I wouldn't buy a 5 CD collection of Christmas songs anyway. Have a Now Christmas 3 CD set with the Cliff songs so all I need really.

Posted by: T Boy 12th October 2019, 09:01 AM

No Wizard either? The 3 disc version is already overkill so this new one is just ridiculous with the omissions.

Posted by: danG 12th October 2019, 09:20 AM

As if they included the Girls Aloud version of I Wish over Wizzard's too.

I'll stick to my own compilation.

Posted by: Steve201 12th October 2019, 08:01 PM

I usually have 100 but that me trying to branch out from the classics!

Posted by: Steve201 12th October 2019, 08:45 PM

Sounds like a bit of an American market release.

When's Robbie releasing an Xmas album? Haven't heard anything about it?

Posted by: gavindeejay 16th October 2019, 07:07 PM

The tracklist for Now 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 80’s has been announced:- https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-even-more-forgotten-80s/

Posted by: George.keh 16th October 2019, 07:45 PM

Buzzed for House Arrest by Krush! getting some relevancy

Posted by: Hadji 16th October 2019, 08:28 PM

It also appeared on the millennium version of NOW 1987 as well as NOW 11

Posted by: Steve201 16th October 2019, 10:23 PM

Great tune, was on totp on bbc4 a few months back!

Posted by: Hadji 17th October 2019, 09:54 AM

Katy Perry's new single Harleys In Hawaii was released yesterday. Seeing as her previous single flopped, I hope they include HIH on NOW 104. Appearing on there will also give the song notability

Posted by: Hadji 17th October 2019, 07:10 PM

According to amazon and the NOW website, the release date for NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 90s has been pushed back a week to 1st November

Posted by: Hadji 19th October 2019, 04:37 PM

NOW 100 Hits Sing-A-Long tracklist

1. Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
2. George Ezra - Budapest
3. Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
4. Elton John - Tiny Dancer
5. Tom Walker - Leave A Light On
6. The Killers - Mr Brightside
7. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
8. MIKA - Grace Kelly
9. Jess Glynne - Hold My Hand
10. OutKast - Hey Ya!
11. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
12. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)
13. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
14. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
15. Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
16. Spice Girls - Stop
17. Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling!
18. S Club 7 - Reach
19. Pharrell Williams - Happy
20. Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
21. Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be
22. Avicii featuring Aloe Blacc - Wake Me Up
23. David Guetta featuring Sia - Titanium
24. Zara Larsson - Lush Life
25. TLC - No Scrubs
26. Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
27. Kelly Clarkson - Heartbeat Song
28. Sugababes - About You Now
29. Hanson - MMMBop
30. Blondie - Sunday Girl
31. Steps - Tragedy
32. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
33. Aqua - Barbie Girl
34. The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
35. Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
36. Kenny Loggins - Footloose
37. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
38. The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
39. Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance
40. DNCE - Cake By The Ocean
41. Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
42. Little Mix - Shout Out To My Ex
43. Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha
44. Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
45. Sigala & Ella Eyre - Came Here For Love
46. Timbaland featuring Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again
47. Olly Murs featuring Demi Lovato - Up
48. KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
49. James - Sit Down
50. Sara Bareilles - Love Song
51. Scouting For Girls - She's So Lovely
52. The Kooks - Naïve
53. Avril Lavigne - Complicated
54. Ella Henderson - Ghost
55. American Authors - Best Day Of My Life
56. Maroon 5 - Payphone
57. JP Cooper - September Song
58. Alan Walker - Faded
59. Years & Years - King
60. Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye
61. Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
62. Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith - La La La
63. Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus - Old Town Road
64. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On
65. Nelly Furtado - I'm Like A Bird
66. Lorde - Royals
67. P!nk featuring Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason
68. Robbie Williams - She's The One
69. T'Pau - China In Your Hand
70. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
71. James Arthur - Impossible
72. John Legend - All Of Me
73. Calum Scott - Dancing On My Own
74. Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One
75. Fugees - Killing Me Softly
76. UB40 - Red Red Wine
77. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
78. ABBA - Mamma Mia
79. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
80. Don McLean - American Pie
81. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
82. Dua Lipa - New Rules
83. Justin Bieber - Sorry
84. Jonas Blue featuring JP Cooper - Perfect Strangers
85. Anne-Marie - Ciao Adios
86. Taio Cruz - Dynamite
87. Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway
88. Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss
89. Cher - Believe
90. Sia featuring Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills
91. Fifth Harmony featuring Ty Dolla $ign - Work From Home
92. Sigrid - Don't Kill My Vibe
93. Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
94. One Direction - Story Of My Life
95. Take That - Back For Good
96. Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
97. MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
98. George Ezra - Shotgun
99. Human League - Don't You Want Me
100. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Shame this album hasn't given us a taster of what's on NOW 104

Posted by: lewistgreen 19th October 2019, 04:43 PM

Why would it when it’s a hits compilation?

Posted by: Hadji 19th October 2019, 04:52 PM

They’ve done it loads of times where a song has appeared on a spin-off before the main series

Posted by: Freddie Kruger 19th October 2019, 06:38 PM

How come the links to the Now website tracklists always cause my PC to freeze?

Posted by: Freddie Kruger 21st October 2019, 04:31 PM

Now.. Forgotten 70's is coming 29th Nov too.

Posted by: Hadji 21st October 2019, 05:02 PM

I knew that as well. The only good thing about NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 90s being pushed back a week is that there will be a NOW album released every Friday next month

Posted by: gavindeejay 22nd October 2019, 01:52 PM

The Now 104 tracklist is here!

Give me 10 mins and I'll get it typed up

Posted by: Jonjo 22nd October 2019, 02:03 PM

Yep. 5 Now 4 tracks on there.

f*** OFF.

Also... SO many tracks I don't know/weren't even aware existed lmao. I'm officially too old for these I guess. 😭🙃

I KNEW they'd put Camila and Normani next to each other lmao. But YYYYYYAAAAASSSSSS for Will We Talk?

Posted by: gavindeejay 22nd October 2019, 02:07 PM

Now 104 Official Tracklist

1. Tones and I - Dance Monkey
2. Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love
3. Regard - Ride It
4. Ed Sheeran feat. Stormzy - Take Me Back To London
5. Post Malone - Circles
6. Joel Corry - Sorry
7. Sigala & Ella Henderson - We Got Love
8. AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove
9. Jorja Smith feat. Burna Boy - Be Honest
10. Sam Feldt feat. RANI - Post Malone
11. Ariana Grande & Social House - Boyfriend
12. Billie Eilish - All The Good Girls Go To Hell
13. Lil Tecca - Ransom
14. Lil Nas X - Panini
15. Tiesto & Mabel - God Is A Dancer
16. Jax Jones & Bebe Rexha - Harder
17. Riton x Oliver Heldans feat. Vula - Turn Me On
18. Becky Hill & WEISS - I Could Get Used To This
19. Tiesto & Rita Ora - Ritual
20. Stormzy - Crown
21. Lizzo - Good As Hell
22. MIST feat. Fredo - So High
23. Young T & Bugsey feat. Aitch - Strike A Pose
24. Y2K & bbno$ - Lalala
25. Aitch - Taste (Make It Shake)
26. Lewis Capaldi - Bruises
27. Dermot Kennedy - Outnumbered
28. Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep?
29. Tom Walker - Better Half Of Me
30. Dan & Shay feat. Justin Bieber - 10,000 Hours
31. Camila Cabello - Liar
32. Nomarni - Motivation
33. Diplo & Jonas Brothers - Lonely
34. Lana Del Ray - Doin' Time
35. Miley Cyrus - Slide Away
36. Sam Fender - Will We Talk?
37. HAIM - Summer Girl
38. Maroon 5 - Memories
39. DJ Spoony feat. Paloma Faith - Movin' Too Fast
40. Westlife - Dynamite
41. Celine Dion - Lying Down
42. Colin Thankery - The Wind Beneath My Wings
Now 4 Throwbacks
43. Phil Oakley & Giorgia Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
44. The Style Council - Shout To The Top
45. UB40 - If It Happens Again
46. Level 42 - Hot Water
47. Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

Posted by: Jonjo 22nd October 2019, 02:09 PM

I missed Colin Thackery :')

WTAF

But great for Celine!!

A shame they didn't add The Script onto it

Posted by: gavindeejay 22nd October 2019, 02:12 PM

Surprised to see Ed make it with one of his Number 1's. They haven't had an Ed Number 1 on a Now since 'Thinking Out Loud' so that's nice to see.

Happy to see Riton & Oliver Heldans, Becky Hill, double Tiesto and Sigala make it. I'm surpried not to see the new Jonas Blue track make it and would of liked to see Meduza, but I guess that can wait until 105.

Posted by: gooddelta 22nd October 2019, 02:17 PM

Yass at I Could Get Used To This <3

Good to see Ed commissioning a No.1 single. Also glad to see they've settled into including the biggest grime hits, rather than just ignoring the genre altogether like on 102. The ones that go top ten have definitely crossed over enough to warrant a place on here.

Lmao at Colin Thackery...! A classic winter Now random ultra-MOR inclusion.

Nice to see DJ Spoony too but I'd have preferred Flowers.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 22nd October 2019, 02:21 PM

To be fair, Colin Thackery has an album out on December 6th which I can see doing quite well.

Posted by: George.keh 22nd October 2019, 02:25 PM

Slide Away, Doin’ Time, Summer Girl and I Would Get Used to This woooo

Posted by: Hadji 22nd October 2019, 02:25 PM

I’d have preferred if they included the remix of TMBTL as that was what took the song to #1

Posted by: darrens94 22nd October 2019, 02:26 PM

Happy Colin Thackery is included. He has to be one of the best new artists to come out this year if not this decade. The Wind Beneath My Wings is an absolute banger.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 22nd October 2019, 02:33 PM

Yeah but it was never the more popular version, more people will know the original.

Posted by: gavindeejay 22nd October 2019, 02:34 PM

I presume Lewis Capaldi will be track 1 on Disc 2.

Posted by: Hadji 22nd October 2019, 02:40 PM

Unusual choice of TB tracks too apart from TIED. I was expecting Elton John to be one of the TB tracks due to Rocketman

Posted by: danG 22nd October 2019, 03:14 PM

That looks like a promising tracklist, it's an improvement over the last few having more actual hits (I count six that didn't go top 100, and only a few of those are WTF additions (Colin Thackery really? and Movin Too Fast over Flowers is odd but I guess Now will use any excuse to put Paloma Faith on)).
Good to see a fair few dance and hip hop tracks this time as I was worrying they'd go further into the MOR market. Becky Hill is a welcome surprise particularly.
Not impressed with the throwbacks again, I don't even know of the UB40 or Level 42 tracks - but at least they included Together In Electric Dreams. I suppose they're not exactly detracting from the main compilation though seeing as they can fit 42 current songs on as well.

Posted by: gmat12 22nd October 2019, 03:40 PM

Great to see Ritual and I Could Get Used To This make it as I had my doubts

Omissions include: Goodbyes, Hate Me and the new one from Harry Styles

Castles too - but Lost Without You should have been on 101 and was included late on 102. Slim chance on 105?

This Is Real - hopefully saved for 105 although interestingly Ella is included on the Sigala track which isn't even out yet

Don't Call Me Angel - film soundtracks are a bit difficult to license so makes sense. All three are included anyway.


I won't be buying it. I stopped earlier this year at 102, very soon after joining this site! I don't like the Disc 2 set up. Instead, I take the years' tracklists and squash into two albums - feels like a proper NOW album then.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd October 2019, 06:05 PM

LMAO at Camila and Normani being together

Posted by: Hadji 22nd October 2019, 06:46 PM

No Lauv considering he licenses his tracks to compilations

Posted by: Hadji 22nd October 2019, 07:22 PM

He is. They tweeted it on their twitter

Posted by: Hadji 22nd October 2019, 07:22 PM

He is. They tweeted it on their twitter

Posted by: SevenSeize 22nd October 2019, 07:37 PM

HAIM Lana the Now team serving up some taste

much as the throwback songs are pointless filler, Shout To The Top is a great pick <3

Posted by: Bloodjerdling 22nd October 2019, 07:43 PM

Is Colin Thackery the oldest person to ever appear on a Now album? he's 89!

Posted by: T Boy 23rd October 2019, 05:58 PM

Not Celine Dion getting that second ever appearance!

Was still holding out for Dido though. Oh well.

Posted by: Jonjo 23rd October 2019, 06:05 PM

Wait... WHAT?! This is only her 2nd appearance!? WTH

Posted by: M4NG0 23rd October 2019, 06:30 PM

I wonder what the Now 104 throwback tracks will be on Now 204? Maybe Dance Monkey, Higher Love, Take Me Back To London and How Do You Sleep? Seriously, there's hardly anything on there which screams out future classic.

Posted by: Hadji 23rd October 2019, 07:20 PM

Hopefully the throwbacks will stop after NOW 109 as I don’t see NOW 10 getting re-released on CD

Posted by: gavindeejay 23rd October 2019, 10:01 PM

Why not?

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 23rd October 2019, 10:13 PM

Will Now even make it to 109?

Posted by: Hadji 23rd October 2019, 11:12 PM

Because it’s already had a double CD release. I don’t see the point of doing it again. The reason they’re releasing 2-9 is because that’s what the collectors want

Posted by: gavindeejay 24th October 2019, 06:02 AM

Well I bet there's more who don't own it than do so I hope they do re-release Now 10 on CD. If they can do up to 20 I'll be happy! Maybe wishful thinking but there's no harm in having hope.

Posted by: Hadji 25th October 2019, 12:38 AM

According to iTunes, the version of No More Lonely Nights which is appearing on the CD version of NOW 4 will be the special dance mix

Posted by: George.keh 27th October 2019, 02:24 PM

Bit of a niche question but did anyone get the download-only Now album based around years because I had Now 2012 and I remember it having If You Could See Me Now by The Script- anyone know why because I think of that as a really really bizarre inclusion

Posted by: lewistgreen 27th October 2019, 02:29 PM

It is considering it was released in 2013 it did go Top 20 though

Posted by: George.keh 27th October 2019, 03:58 PM

Just checked thinking I’d got the wrong year but yes it was 2012. Seems really weird next to only top 5 hits

Posted by: Hadji 27th October 2019, 04:31 PM

Speaking of NOW years, as the decade is coming to an end, they should release double disc spin offs of each NOW year from 1980-2019 like they did in 1999 when they released each year from 1980-1999 and they did it for NOWs 10th anniversary by releasing each year between 1983 and 1995

Posted by: Hadji 29th October 2019, 01:06 PM

And also, any explanation why NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 90s has been removed from download format?

Posted by: Spiral 30th October 2019, 06:03 PM

The NOW 100 Party Hits track listing has been announced. Macarena finally makes a NOW album!

Posted by: Hadji 31st October 2019, 12:18 AM

And I was expecting the tracklist for NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 70s too as that’s released on the same day

Posted by: gooddelta 2nd November 2019, 12:13 PM

Bit weird on the Forgotten 90s album.

Straight From The Heart by Doolally appears on the digital edition and is listed on the back of the CD too but when you play it there is no sign of that track and CD 3 instead includes Queer by Garbage, as per the original tracklist they posted a month ago. Crap quality control...wonder what the last minute replacement was all about?

Would have preferred Doolally too tbh

Also Ooh La La by Wiseguys on CD 5 instead of Utah Saints’ Something Good, as listed on the CD case.

Lots of mixes were not the UK hit versions too including Doop, Feel It, Tequila and Big Big World...

Posted by: Freddie Kruger 2nd November 2019, 12:22 PM

I'm awaiting that too as am a 70's man. Doubt there'll be anything I haven't already got though.

Posted by: Freddie Kruger 2nd November 2019, 12:34 PM

Just pre-ordered Now 4 from Amazon, £7.99.

Posted by: T Boy 2nd November 2019, 01:27 PM

I prefer Garbage at any rate but it really is poor. Would have preferred I Think I’m Paranoid or When I Grow Up over Queer.

I’ve never known them to actually print the wrong track names before.

Posted by: Hadji 2nd November 2019, 04:25 PM

The tracklist is exactly the same on the inside of the sleeve and there’s a sticker on the back with the incorrect tracklist. The correct tracklist is there if you peel off the sticker

Posted by: Hadji 3rd November 2019, 09:36 PM

Instead of replacing Doolally with Garbage, it would have made more sense to replace Rob 'N' Raz with Garbage as GTG was released and entered the charts in 1989

Posted by: lewistgreen 3rd November 2019, 09:41 PM

But actually Got To Get went Top 10 and peaked in 1990 which is the pinnacle thing here x

Posted by: Hadji 3rd November 2019, 10:10 PM

I know that. It went top 40 in 1989 but reached its peak position in 1990. Like Brass In Pocket for example, entered the top 40 in 1979 but reached its peak position in 1980

Posted by: Freddie Kruger 4th November 2019, 05:52 PM

Just listening to my new Now Forgotten 80's which was £8 from Amazon. They come down in price after a while! A few re-recordings have sneaked in there including Use It Up And Wear It Out. Not very good for Now really.

When you've lived through that era and bought it as a single you can recognise a later re-record. It's very close to the 1980 original but I can still tell. The beginning for a start.

Posted by: gavindeejay 5th November 2019, 04:47 PM

Now That's What I Call Music revenues down in declining compilations market

https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/now-that-s-what-i-call-music-revenues-down-in-declining-compilations-market/077967

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 5th November 2019, 04:49 PM

Not unexpected at all, I'll be surprised if the Now albums are still going in 5 years time.

Posted by: T Boy 5th November 2019, 06:33 PM

It’s sad but they’re not what they used to be. A lot of that is down to the fact that chart music and people who buy compilations don’t go hand in hand.

Posted by: Spiral 5th November 2019, 07:41 PM

This is why I think they should focus more on Pop and more established artists and less on the flash in the pan R&B and Dance hits. The Radio 2 demographic certainly would buy it more often if more artists like Celine, Bryan Adams, and acts like that took up a bit more space. Along with some new and fresh pop that doesn't get much radio play.

Posted by: Hadji 5th November 2019, 08:54 PM

On the poster for NOW 104, it only says NOW 4 throwback instead of 35th anniversary which implies that we could get NOW 5 on CD in Spring instead of Summer. It also means if we get 6 with 106, 7 with 107, 8 with 108 and 9 with 109, it means we will get 9 on CD in Summer 2021 which is actually 34 years since it first got released

Posted by: gooddelta 5th November 2019, 09:08 PM

The 2015 Now Christmas has been removed from iTunes. I guess to push sales of the 100 Hits one but that means there are no comprehensive Xmas compilations with all the major classics left on sale

Posted by: Spiral 6th November 2019, 09:59 AM

I'm still waiting for a UK Xmas album to include AQUA's Christmas song.

Posted by: gavindeejay 6th November 2019, 06:37 PM

Tracklisting for Now 100 Hits Forgotten 70’s is out:- https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-100-hits-forgotten-70s/

Posted by: Freddie Kruger 6th November 2019, 07:36 PM

Good tracklist but not many are really forgotten if you lived through the 70's.

Hate the Now site too as it always freezes my PC.

Posted by: awardinary 7th November 2019, 11:29 AM

Hadji, would you mind having a go at making a Now 100 Hits - “Even More” Forgotten 90’s for when they come to it probably by next year, I wanted to make a track list taking into account songs already used from Now Forgotten 90’s and the overused 90’s hits used on the majority of other Now spin off compilations. I’d like to see what we come up with!

Posted by: Freddie Kruger 8th November 2019, 09:31 AM

Anyone building a complete Now CD collection? The original Now 4 single CD is on Ebay starting at £102. They usually go for about £500 in good condition.

Posted by: Hadji 9th November 2019, 12:06 AM

They could’ve easily squeezed another song onto discs 1 and 2 with the amount of leftover space on NOW 104 instead of leaving a 3 min gap on each disc. There was enough space for Meduza on disc 1 and Katy Perry on disc 2 and replace one of the throwbacks with Freya Ridings, The Script or This Is Real

Posted by: ThePensmith 16th November 2019, 11:16 PM

Terrible opening sales for 104 this week. I do wonder really how much longer it's got as a series if it carries on this way.

(That said, I'd quite like Forgotten 90s for Christmas).

Posted by: Hadji 17th November 2019, 01:30 PM

I hope we at least get to NOW 109 so we can get NOW 9 on double CD

Posted by: awardinary 20th November 2019, 11:55 AM

Seeing the recent spin off releases of Now Forgotten 90’s and Now “Even More” Forgotten 80’s made me want to create an unofficial track list for a future expected release of Now “Even More” Forgotten 90’s. I made a playlist using mostly songs that were omitted from the original series to add more value along with some tracks that were previously included.

Here it is, what are your thoughts...

Unofficial Now 100 Hits “Even More” Forgotten 90’s

Disc 1
1. Seal – Crazy
2. Aqua – Turn Back Time
3. M People – Search For The Hero
4. Lighthouse Family – High
5. Bee Gees – Secret Love
6. UB40 – Higher Ground
7. TLC – Creep
8. LL Cool J – Loungin (Who Do Ya Luv)
9. Will Smith – Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It
10. Cleopatra – I Want You Back
11. Michelle Gayle – Happy Just To Be With You
12. Janet Jackson – Together Again
13. Billie – She Wants You
14. 911 – Bodyshakin’
15. Backstreet Boys – We’ve Got It Goin’ On
16. Britney Spears – (You Drive Me Crazy)
17. Texas – Summer Son
18. Garbage – Stupid Girl
19. Lightning Seeds – Sugar Coated Iceberg
20. Björk – It’s Oh So Quiet

Disc 2
1. Spice Girls – Say You’ll Be There
2. Gary Barlow – Love Won’t Wait
3. George Michael – Outside
4. Pet Shop Boys – So Hard
5. Nightcrawlers – Surrender Your Love
6. Adamski feat. Ricardo Da Force – Space Jungle
7. Cher – Strong Enough
8. Jamiroquai – Alright
9. Daft Punk – Da Funk
10. The Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun
11. The Prodigy – Everybody In The Place
12. Bizarre Inc. – Playing With Knives
13. Molella feat. Outhere Brothers – If You Wanna Party
14. Black Box – I Don’t Know Anybody Else
15. Clock – Everybody
16. 2 Unlimited – Tribal Dance
17. Snap! – Welcome To Tomorrow
18. Sash! feat. Tina Cousins – Mysterious Times
19. Robert Miles – Fable
20. DJ Dado – X-Files

Disc 3
1. Oasis – All Around The World
2. Radiohead – Paranoid Android
3. Supergrass – Moving
4. Ocean Colour Scene – Traveller’s Tune
5. Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro
6. Sleeper – Sale Of The Century
7. The Cardigans – My Favourite Game
8. Kula Shaker – Hush
9. Pulp – Disco 2000
10. Suede – Stay Together
11. Space – Female Of The Species
12. Catatonia – Dead From The Waist Down
13. Wet Wet Wet – Somewhere Somehow
14. Simply Red – Angel
15. Take That – A Million Love Songs
16. S Club 7 – Two In A Million
17. Eternal – I Am Blessed
18. Boyzone – I Love The Way You Love Me
19. Westlife – If I Let You Go
20. B*Witched – To You I Belong

Disc 4
1. The Tamperer feat. Maya – If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better
2. Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da)
3. Grace – Not Over Yet
4. Emmie – More Than This
5. Dannii Minogue – All I Wanna Do
6. Dario G – Carnaval De Paris
7. Mr President – Coco Jambo
8. Coolio – Too Hot
9. Shaggy feat. Marsha – Piece Of My Heart
10. Fugees – Ready Or Not
11. Mark Morrison – Trippin’
12. Peter Andre – I Feel You
13. East 17 – Around The World
14. Another Level – I Want You For Myself
15. Steps – One For Sorrow
16. Lutricia McNeal – Stranded
17. Roxette – Joyride
18. Blue Pearl – Naked In The Rain
19. Massive Attack – Risingson
20. Urban Hype – A Trip To Trumpton

Disc 5
1. Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do
2. Bryan Adams feat. Melanie C – When You’re Gone
3. Bon Jovi – Keep The Faith
4. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Pandora’s Box
5. Annie Lennox – Walking On Broken Glass
6. Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet
7. Natalie Imbruglia – Big Mistake
8. Republica – Drop Dead Gorgeous
9. Five – Everybody Get Up
10. Fatboy Slim – Gangster Trippin’
11. Wildchild – Renegade Master ‘98
12. Vengaboys – Kiss (When The Sun Don’t Shine)
13. N-Joi – Anthem
14. Kylie Minogue – Better The Devil You Know
15. Atomic Kitten – Right Now
16. Tom Jones – If I Only Knew
17. Shania Twain – From This Moment On
18. Celine Dion – Because You Loved Me
19. Whitney Houston – I Have Nothing
20. Robson & Jerome – I Believe

Maybe not all of them are technically “forgotten” but they all charted high and I hope we can have a collection of hits like this on a future spin off compilation in the future!

Posted by: Hadji 20th November 2019, 02:26 PM

Joyride is Roxette's most memorable 90s song along with It Must Have Been Love. I would have replaced Joyride with either Fading Like A Flower, Church Of Your Heart or Almost Unreal

Posted by: Jonjo 20th November 2019, 06:08 PM

I believe our hmv is still selling it. Not prominently (i.e. one in the pocket at a time). I'll have a check when I'm next at work on Friday and see if they were just on the side as a return or something.

Posted by: Hadji 22nd November 2019, 01:24 AM

If ZieZie's new song featuring Aitch becomes a hit, then it could potentially appear on NOW 105 along with Buss Down which means it will be the second instant since Mabel and Not3s both appearing on NOW 99 where two of the same artists have two songs together with the credits flipped

Posted by: common sense 28th November 2019, 07:40 PM

Should have my Now 100 Hits Forgotten 70's tomorrow as it's shipped from Amazon. Looking forward to it as I'm a 70's man.

Posted by: Hadji 1st December 2019, 11:33 PM

If "Buss Down" and "French Kisses" both appear on NOW 105, it will the second time where two artists have both their collaborations on the same NOW but with switched crediting, the first being Mabel and Not3s where both of their collaborations appeared on NOW 99

Posted by: awardinary 5th December 2019, 11:45 PM

Plenty of early contenders for the next instalment of the series, but with the run up to Christmas and new year some songs get forgotten and left behind, so I’m just posting them here. Some are yet to peak so maybe some of them will make the cut when Spring arrives;

Dua Lipa – Don’t Stop Now
Ed Sheeran feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B – South Of The Border
Jax Jones & Ella Henderson – This Is Real
Meduza, Becky Hill & Goodboys – Lose Control
Selena Gomez – Lose You To Love Me
Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted
Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go
Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya
Harry Styles – Lights Up
Sam Smith – I Feel Love
Coldplay – Orphans
The Script – The Last Time
James Blunt – Monsters
Bastille feat. London Contemporary Orchestra – Can’t Fight This Feeling
Arizona Zervas – ROXANNE
J Hus – Must Be
Aitch feat. ZieZie – Buss Down
Stormzy feat. Ed Sheeran – Burna Boy
KSI feat. Rick Ross, Lil Baby & S-X – Down Like That
AJ Tracey feat. Mostack And Not3s – Floss
The Weeknd – Heartless
Endor – Pump It Up
CamelPhat & Jen Cooke – Rabbit Hole
Sigma feat. Jack Savoretti – You And Me As One

Some of these will get airtime on Top Of The Pops on Christmas Day and New Years Day which might affect how well they do.

Posted by: Hadji 8th December 2019, 04:22 PM

They should put Hate Me on NOW 105 for two reasons

1. Because it never made it onto NOW 104
2. To honour Juice WRLD

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 8th December 2019, 10:03 PM

I'd second that

Posted by: Hadji 8th December 2019, 11:04 PM

He has a more recent song out so they could include it to honour him

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 8th December 2019, 11:07 PM

It may also take off following the tragedy!

Posted by: Crazy Chris-tmas 9th December 2019, 09:35 PM

Now 104's sales are still awful aren't they? Surely they'll pick up the next 2-3 weeks.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 9th December 2019, 11:52 PM

Maybe just a little but can't see it getting much more than 60knnext week then after that the Q4 ends!

Posted by: Hadji 10th December 2019, 10:38 PM

If they include Roxette on NOW 105 as a tribute to Marie, they should include Listen To Your Heart it Almost Unreal

Posted by: awardinary 10th December 2019, 10:42 PM

No disrespect to Juice WRLD but Roxette’s legacy is more noteworthy and compared with the likes of David Bowie and George Michael who each received a posthumous feature in the Now series following their death, Roxette ought to have one too for all they brought to the music industry. Their signature hit It Must Have Been Love is almost certain to be the chosen one.

Posted by: WhoChristmasssy 10th December 2019, 10:46 PM

Roxette will also be far more well known to the typical Now buyer than juice Wrld.

Posted by: Hadji 11th December 2019, 12:09 AM

We had It Must Have Been Love on NOW 18 and Joyride on NOW 20 so I’d prefer if they included Listen To Your Heart, Fading Like A Flower or Almost Unreal as they never had an appearance on a NOW

Posted by: Hadji 28th December 2019, 01:57 PM

As we had "Good As Hell" on NOW 104 instead of "Truth Hurts", we might get "Truth Hurts" on NOW 105 as they in the past have included the predecessor on the next volume.

Prime examples

"Dog Days Are Over" which is on NOW 75 succeeded "You Got The Dirtee Love" which is on NOW 76
"Grace (We All Try)" which is on NOW 98 succeeded "As You Are" which is on NOW 99
"Stop" is on NOW 39, "Viva Forever" is on NOW 40 and "Too Much" is on NOW 41 whereas it should have been "Too Much" on NOW 39, "Stop" on NOW 40 and "Viva Forever" on NOW 41
"You Take Me Up" which is on NOW 3 succeeded "Doctor! Doctor!" which is on NOW 4

Posted by: T Boy 29th December 2019, 01:51 PM

Got Now 4 for Christmas and really enjoying it. I’m loving these older Nows!

Also picked up Now 104 the other day. It’s not too bad but I’m finding myself increasingly enjoying the second CD much more with these releases. Disc 1 I feel has too many tracks and interchangeable ones at that so I get bored after the first half of it.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 29th December 2019, 11:04 PM

I have only brought the old Now Xmas album from 1985/6 but wish I'd started to collect the vinyls as I watch the old totps and most of the tracks I would now know.

Posted by: Hadji 30th December 2019, 12:38 AM

If you buy NOW 3 and 4 from Asda, it’s 2 for £12 which is basically £6 each

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 30th December 2019, 09:16 AM

Are they available in vinyl for Hadji?

Posted by: Hadji 30th December 2019, 03:56 PM

eBay

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 30th December 2019, 10:57 PM

Cool, thanks!

Posted by: Hadji 30th December 2019, 11:16 PM

NOW 4 is also on sale in HMV for £4.99

Posted by: gavindeejay 2nd January 2020, 08:12 AM

What's your 'Now' predictions for 2020 then?

I think sales will sadly continue to fall for the main volumes with first week sales dropping to around 30k by the time Now 107 gets released in November
They'll re-issue Now 5, 6 and 7
Another 'forgotten 80's' album will get released along with 'Even More forgotten 70's' getting a release but 'forgotten 90's' won't get a follow up
Another Summer Party Hits album will get released in July
They'll try to capitalise on the success of MOS Love Island spin offs with a 'Now That's What I Call A Love Island' getting a release
A few baffling titles spin offs will get a release
Jenny Fisher will leave Now!

Posted by: Hadji 2nd January 2020, 11:01 AM

Here are some NOW albums I’m hoping to see get released this year

NOW 100 Hits 50s
NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 50s
NOW 100 Hits 60s
NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 60s
NOW 100 Hits 70s
NOW 100 Hits 90s
NOW 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 90s
NOW 100 Hits 00s
NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 00s
NOW 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 00s
NOW 100 Hits 10s
NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 10s
NOW 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 10s
NOW 100 Hits Dance
NOW 100 Hits Grime
NOW 100 Hits Garage
NOW 100 Hits House
NOW 100 Hits R&B
NOW 100 Hits Reggae
NOW 100 Hits Trance
NOW 100 Hits 80s Dance
NOW 100 Hits 90s Dance
NOW 100 Hits 00s Dance
NOW 100 Hits 10s Dance
NOW 100 Hits One Hit Wonders
NOW 100 Hits No.1
NOW 100 Hits No.2
NOW 100 Hits UK
NOW 100 Hits USA
NOW 100 Hits Europe
NOW 100 Hits Rock
NOW 100 Hits Rock 'N' Roll
NOW 100 Hits Love
NOW 100 Hits Million
NOW 100 Hits Motown
NOW 100 Hits Summer
NOW 100 Hits Disco
NOW 100 Hits New Wave
NOW 100 Hits Festival Anthems
NOW 100 Hits Alternative
NOW 100 Hits Electronic

NOW 5, 6 and 7 on CD

And each NOW year between 1980 and 2019

Posted by: awardinary 2nd January 2020, 11:10 AM

More than likely.
This would be good to see of course.
I think they will leave the 70’s and 80’s this year and I would imagine and hope that they release an “Even More Forgotten 90’s” and I think it’s the right time to be releasing another Forgotten 00’s album too (this would only be the second they’ve released so far)
Usually this is a certainty but I think they may go for a Now Holiday album instead.
No thanks
Thinking of main sporting events for this year with the Olympics and Euro’s happening in the summer. Not much else to plan for that a spin off compilation would be made for, so high probability of revamping other spin offs.
Yes please.

They will continue to push their own streaming service this year too.

I can’t see anything else noteworthy happening but it would be nice to be surprised.

Just 3 years longer and the series will be 40 years old!

Posted by: awardinary 2nd January 2020, 11:11 AM

Just some Hadji...

Posted by: Hadji 2nd January 2020, 12:07 PM

But if they could only release one of my ideas, then it’s gotta be NOW 100 Hits Trance

Posted by: gavindeejay 2nd January 2020, 08:43 PM

You don’t want much then

Posted by: Spiral 2nd January 2020, 08:58 PM

I'd love to see a 100 Hits Disney album.

Posted by: Ken A. 7th January 2020, 05:45 AM

Happy new year, NOW Music Buzzjack community!

New year, new NOW albums on the way. The US will start their run on this year's NOW albums with their Q1 2020 release, NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 73, which will be released on Friday, 24 January 2020 (quite early, IMHO, just like its predecessor). Its cover art is space-themed, similar to UK's NOW 101 (2018), and of course, their very own NOW 39 (2011), which I both own on CD.

No tricks up their sleeve for its track list this time around, as music news site https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/now-call-music-vol-73/, and here it is:

01. Maroon 5 - "Memories"
02. Taylor Swift feat. Shawn Mendes - "Lover"
03. Halsey - "Graveyard"
04. SHAED & ZAYN - "Trampoline"
05. Selena Gomez - "Lose You to Love Me"
06. P!nk feat. Chris Stapleton - "Love Me Anyway" (Edit: Typo error, I previously typed this as "Love You Anyway". My sincere apologies.)
07. Post Malone - "Circles"
08. Travis Scott - "Highest in the Room"
09. NF - "Time"
10. Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber - "10,000 Hours"
11. Camila Cabello - "Liar"
12. Dua Lipa - "Don't Start Now"
13. Billie Eilish - "all the good girls go to hell"
14. Diplo & Jonas Brothers - "Lonely"
15. Niall Horan - "Nice to Meet Ya"
16. Luke Combs - "Even Though I'm Leaving"
NOW What's Next Bonus Tracks
17. Tate McRae - "All My Friends Are Fake"
18. New Dialogue - "Pilgrims"
19. Tiana Major9 & Earthgang - "Collide" (from the movie "Queen & Slim")
20. Iann Dior feat. Trippie Redd - "Gone Girl"
21. Y2K & bbno$ - "LALALA"
22. Alexander 23 - "See You Later"

It's back to 22 tracks, the first since NOW 65 (2018). Hooray, more value for money!

Edit: I just put all 22 songs in a Spotify playlist, and it only totalled up to 68:31, which leaves 11 minutes worth of space remaining. That's kind of a waste of space, despite having that many tracks, when you compare it to something like NOW 64 (2017), which also has 22 songs, but is 2 seconds behind the maximum CD capacity (i.e. 79:55).

Unpopular opinion: I think it's high time (for hypersonic missiles? ) for them to go with 17 or 18 main tracks (or more, perhaps?), and maybe reserve 3 or more songs for the What's Next section, especially if songs nowadays remain very short. They could even model the 24 or 25-track discs that the UK NOWs are currently experimenting!


Seven of the songs here, including the What's Next track "LALALA", were previously included in UK's NOW 104 (2019).

I kind of expected "Lover" to be included, since its album version (i.e. without Shawn Mendes) is due to appear on the https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191216005607/en/Recording-Academy%C2%AE-Warner-Records-Reveal-2020-GRAMMY%C2%AE compilation album, which will be out a week earlier (17 January).

Here's to hoping that any of T-Swift's singles from "Lover", as well as the likes of "Lose You to Love Me" and "Don't Start Now" will appear on UK's NOW 105, which should be out before Easter, so that's either 27 March or 03 April, as Easter Sunday this year is on 12 April.

What do you guys think of NOW 73's track list?

Posted by: Spiral 9th January 2020, 05:22 AM

It's a shame there's no Lizzo on it, but that's probably because she's on the Grammy Nominees album instead

Posted by: gavindeejay 11th January 2020, 10:17 PM

Now That’s What I Call Music club nights are launching in London and Manchester

https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/10/now-thats-what-i-call-music-club-nights-are-launching-in-london-and-manchester-12035798/?ito=twitter

Posted by: awardinary 17th January 2020, 09:50 AM

Always hate this time of year as it’s so long to wait until the next instalment of the Now series. I’m expecting another April release around Easter. Likely the artwork will get revealed beginning of March and tracklist a few weeks later.

Maybe a spin off release will come sooner though.

Posted by: gavindeejay 17th January 2020, 10:06 AM

Well at least the longer we wait for it to come out the more likely chance there will be a good selection of actual hits on it.

Posted by: Hadji 17th January 2020, 09:28 PM

I’m just hoping that we get NOWs 5-7 on CD this year

Posted by: Spiral 17th January 2020, 09:41 PM

I wonder if we'll see something from Frozen 2 on NOW 105. They've been relying heavily on soundtrack songs at the moment for Disc 2.

Posted by: Hadji 17th January 2020, 09:44 PM

When we get NOW 105 in April, I’m hoping they’ll release NOW 5 on CD on that day too but I’m doubtful about it as NOW 5 was released in Summer 1985, not spring 1985

Posted by: Hadji 4th February 2020, 06:32 PM

Surprised no new spin-offs have been announced yet. This time last year, we already had announcements of new spin-offs. At this rate, the next NOW release will be NOW 105 on 3rd April

Posted by: Crazy Chris 4th February 2020, 07:01 PM

People on the Now Muic Facebook group have complained that there are just too many spin-offs though.

Posted by: Hadji 4th February 2020, 10:30 PM

The reason why people complained is because they re-use the same songs. If they expanded on the spin-offs by including songs which hardly get used or hardly/never appear on other compilations, it would make them worth buying

Posted by: Crazy Chris 4th February 2020, 11:15 PM

Yes I agree.

Posted by: gavindeejay 5th February 2020, 03:25 PM

I don't think a break in the spin off will do them any harm tbh. Sales will be very low at this time of year so probably doesn't make commercial sense to put anything out. They've already got albums targeted at Valentines Day and Mothers Day, which are the two main events of Q1.

The only release I'd like to see would be a Welsh one for St. David's Day with Welsh artists on such as Stereophonics, Manics, Tom Jones, Catatonia, etc...but will most likely be a playlist on their App than a CD release.

I did make a Six Nations playtlist on my Apple Music with tracks from all the countries taking part in the tournament, which I can play as a warm up if I have anyone over to watch the game or enjoy on myn own. This could also be a good release if they wanted to try and capitalise on the Rugby fever, but I'm probably helping them scrape the barrel with spin offs at the same time.

Posted by: Hadji 5th February 2020, 04:08 PM

I spoke too soon about there being hardly any spin-offs. NOW 100 Hits Country will be released on 13th March. As long as it has the songs from the country radio station on GTA San Andreas, I’ll be happy

Posted by: Hadji 7th February 2020, 02:36 PM

NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 60s is due for release on 27th March according to amazon and it’s gonna be on 5 discs. With how short songs in the 60s were, they could’ve reduced it to 4 discs and squeezed them onto 4 discs. NOW 105 also has a release date of 3rd April but no sign of NOW 5, perhaps they’ll release that in July along with NOW 106 as NOW 5 was originally released in summer 1985

Posted by: Hadji 10th February 2020, 04:07 PM

They’ve unveiled the artwork for NOW 105

https://scontent.flhr3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/84673631_10157940516016624_2417407000930418688_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=8o415Wh1_L4AX8ixrrP&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-1.fna&oh=cc2b0d0190e2855544771bb2c9ea3a8c&oe=5EBC116A

Posted by: Spiral 10th February 2020, 08:19 PM

I love it. Never seen a NOW with a white background (apart from a NOW Dance album maybe?)

Posted by: gavindeejay 10th February 2020, 09:57 PM

Now 52?

Posted by: awardinary 11th February 2020, 01:13 AM

Seems fitting at this stage to do an early tracklist prediction that will be all sorts of wrong by the time of release, especially if the release is coupled with a release of Now 5 on CD also (with 5 sounds at the close of Disc 2 as per the last few volumes).

Now 105 prediction 11/02/2020.

Disc 1
1. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
2. Dua Lipa – Physical
3. The Pussycat Dolls – React
4. Billie Eilish – everything i wanted
5. Selena Gomez – Lose You To Love Me
6. Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go
7. Dermot Kennedy – Power Over Me
8. The Script – The Last Time
9. Coldplay – Orphans
10. Halsey – You Should Be Sad
11. Camila Cabello feat. DaBaby – My Oh My
12. Ed Sheeran feat. Camilla Cabello & Cardi B – South Of The Border
13. Justin Bieber – Yummy
14. Harry Styles – Adore You
15. Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya
16. Trevor Daniel – Falling
17. J Hus – Must Be
18. Future feat. Drake – Life Is Good
19. Aitch feat. ZieZie – Buss Down
20. Fredo – Netflix & Chill
21. Young T & Bugsey feat. Headie One – Don’t Rush
22. The Weeknd – Heartless

Disc 2
1. Stormzy feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy – Own It
2. Eminem feat. Juice WRLD – Godzilla
3. Roddy Ricch – The Box
4. Arizona Zervas – Roxanne
5. Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
6. Becky Hill feat. Shift K3Y – Better Off Without You
7. Jax Jones feat. Ella Henderson – This Is Real
8. Joel Corry – Lonely
9. Endor – Pump It Up
10. Meduza, Becky Hill & Goodboys – Lose Control
11. MK & Sonny Fodera feat. Raphaella – One Night
12. SAINt JHN – Roses (Imanbek Remix)
13. CamelPhat & Jen Cooke – Rabbit Hole
14. Love Regenerator – Hypnagogic (I Can Wait)
15. Jax Jones feat. RAYE – Tequila
16. Sean Paul & Tove Lo – Calling On Me
17. Anne-Marie – Birthday
18. Jonas Brothers – What A Man Gotta Do
19. The 1975 – Me And You Together Song
20. Tones & I – Never Seen The Rain
21. Celeste – Stop This Flame

Posted by: Hadji 11th February 2020, 03:50 PM

Here's my NOW 105 prediction

CD 1

1. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights 3:20
2. Billie Eilish – No Time To Die 4:01
3. Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go 3:35
4. Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy – Own It 3:36
5. SAINt JHN – Roses 2:56
6. Lady Gaga – Stupid Love 3:13
7. Dua Lipa – Physical 3:13
8. Selena Gomez – Lose You To Love Me 3:25
9. Justin Bieber – Yummy 3:29
10. Joel Corry – Lonely 3:09
11. Ed Sheeran featuring Camila Cabello & Cardi B – South Of The Border 3:23
12. Sam Smith – To Die For 3:13
13. Halsey – You Should Be Sad 3:25
14. Jonas Brothers – What A Man Gotta Do 3:00
15. Harry Styles – Adore You 3:25
16. Aitch & AJ Tracey featuring Tay Keith – Rain 3:03
17. Arizona Zervas – Roxanne 2:43
18. Khalid & Disclosure – Know Your Worth 3:00
19. Endor – Pump It Up 2:28
20. Jax Jones & Ella Henderson – This Is Real 3:07
21. Europa featuring RAYE – Tequila 3:31
22. CamelPhat & Jem Cooke – Rabbit Hole 3:07
23. Becky Hill & Shift K3Y – Better Off Without You 3:17
24. Anne-Marie – Birthday 3:00
25. Dua Lipa – Don't Start Now 3:03

Total running time: 79:52

CD 2

1. Roddy Ricch – The Box 3:16
2. Travis Scott – Highest In The Room 2:55
3. Future featuring Drake – Life Is Good 3:57
4. J Hus – Must Be 3:27
5. Mabel – Boyfriend 3:45
6. Young T & Bugsey featuring Headie One – Don't Rush 3:27
7. Blackbear – Hot Girl Bummer 3:05
8. KSI featuring Trippie Redd – Wake Up Call 2:55
9. Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya 2:38
10. DigDat featuring Aitch – Ei8ht Mile 2:56
11. Camila Cabello featuring DaBaby – My Oh My 2:51
12. Dermot Kennedy – Power Over Me 3:26
13. Doja Cat – Say So 3:57
14. Trevor Daniel – Falling 2:39
15. Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted 4:03
16. Meduza, Becky Hill & GOODBOYS – Lose Control 2:47
17. ZieZie featuring Aitch – French Kisses 2:55
18. Coldplay – Orphans 3:17
19. The 1975 – Me & You Together Song 3:29
20. Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey – Don't Call Me Angel 3:07

NOW 5 throwback

21. Harold Faltermeyer – Axel F 3:00
22. Simple Minds – Don't You (Forget About Me) 4:19
23. Mai Tai – History 3:50
24. Katrina & The Waves – Walking On Sunshine 3:49

Total running time: 79:50

Posted by: Hadji 14th February 2020, 10:52 AM

If they decide to include No Time To Die on the album and they include A View To A Kill as a throwback track, we would have two Bond themes on the same NOW album

Posted by: awardinary 14th February 2020, 10:59 AM

They won’t.

Posted by: lewistgreen 14th February 2020, 11:00 AM

Y’all being very optimistic not including any Radio 2 faves when you know it’s going to happen

Posted by: Hadji 14th February 2020, 11:09 AM

Why won’t they? Writing’s on the Wall appeared on NOW 92 and other Bond themes have appeared on NOWs

Posted by: Hadji 14th February 2020, 11:10 AM

I’d class the 1975 as a radio 2 fave as they get played on there and they’ve had lower charting songs appear on the series

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 14th February 2020, 11:19 AM

They're played far more on Radio 1 - they headlined Big Weekend last year. Their fanbase is also young.

Posted by: Hadji 14th February 2020, 11:23 AM

Besides with the R2 faves, most of their songs are too long which take up too much disc space. Even some of the TBs take up too much disc space. Let’s just hope they’re not anti-urban like they were on 102. If they wanna be anti-urban, at least include the urban songs which are major hits ie. Own It, The Box etc

Posted by: lewistgreen 14th February 2020, 03:31 PM

Yeah The 1975 have barely been playlisted on R2, especially with the current and recent eras

Posted by: Hadji 14th February 2020, 04:09 PM

Anyway changing the subject, I don’t see any reason why NTTD won’t appear on NOW 105

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th February 2020, 12:20 AM

I doubt it. everything i wanted is the more likely contender. Now 105 is out the same week as Bond releases and I reckon they’ll want to capitalise on the push of the single itself so won’t have it on a compilation that will detract from sales.

Posted by: Hadji 15th February 2020, 01:38 AM

It will most likely hit #1 way before then so it won’t matter as much. They still included WOTW on NOW 92 and that was after it hit #1. If NTTD ain’t included on 105, they might save it for 106

Posted by: awardinary 15th February 2020, 08:35 AM

Sam Smith aside, they haven’t featured a Bond track in the series since 1997 when Sheryl Crow recorded the theme for Tomorrow Never Dies. I was surprised to learn that Writing’s On The Wall was the first and only ever #1 Bond song, even if this was common knowledge to anyone else.

Billie Eilish May score her first UK #1 single with her Bond theme, but I wouldn’t say this assures her of a place on the next edition of the Now series, I believe the rights to Bond music are quite expensive too and if it gets to #1 that might make it even harder to secure for the compilation.

Besides, as Lewis said, they will not want to overlook everything i wanted which has stuck around the Top 20 for a couple of months now.

Posted by: Hadji 15th February 2020, 10:44 AM

How they’ll include her, they will either include both songs on 105 or EIW on 105 and NTTD on 106

Posted by: awardinary 18th February 2020, 06:32 PM

Full tracklist has been posted on the official website for this one;

1. Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers – Islands In The Stream
2. John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy
4. Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
5. The Mavericks – Dance The Night Away
6. The Bellamy Brothers – Let Your Love Flow
7. Shania Twain – That Don’t Impress Me Much
8. Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
9. Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats
10. Lonestar – Amazed
11. Patsy Cline feat. The Jordanaires – Crazy
12. Crystal Gayle – Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
13. Willie Nelson – Always On My Mind
14. Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man
15. Josh Turner – Your Man
16. Billy Ray Cyrus – Achy Breaky Heart
17. Kenny Rogers – The Gambler
18. Bob Dylan – I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
19. Darius Rucker – Wagon Wheel
20. The Charlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down To Georgia
21. Dr. Hook – When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman
22. The Highwaymen – Highwaymen
23. Dolly Parton – Jolene
24. Johnny Cash – I Walk The Line
25. Glen Campbell – Galveston
26. Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden
27. Joe South – Games People Play
28. Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
29. Elvis Presley – Green, Green Grass Of Home
30. Hank Williams Jr. – Your Cheatin’ Heart
31. Jim Reeves – I Love You Because
32. Squeeze – Labelled With Love
33. The Shires – Nashville Grey Skies
34. Ward Thomas – Guilty Flowers
35. Lee Ann Womack – I Hope You Dance
36. John Mayer – In The Blood
37. Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow
38. Little Big Town – Girl Crush
39. Jessie Buckley – Country Girl
40. Rascal Flatts – Life Is A Highway
41. Dolly Parton – 9 To 5
42. Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett – It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
43. Hank Williams with his Drifting Cowboys – Hey, Good Lookin’
44. Willie Nelson – On The Road Again
45. Don Williams – I Recall A Gypsy Woman
46. Dr. Hook – A Little Bit More
47. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Good Year For The Roses
48. Charlie Rich – The Most Beautiful Girl
49. Roger Miller – King Of The Road
50. Lorne Greene – Ringo
51. C.W. McCall – Convoy
52. Smokie – Living Next Door To Alice
53. Paul McCartney & Wings – Sally G
54. Billie Jo Spears – Blanket On The Ground
55. Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe
56. Kenny Rogers – Lucille
57. George Hamilton IV – Abilene
58. Roy Orbison – Blue Bayou
59. Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Okie From Muskogee
60. Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter
61. Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do
62. Shania Twain – You’re Still The One
63. LeAnn Rimes – How Do I Live
64. Rascal Flatts – Bless The Broken Road
65. Luke Bryan – Play It Again
66. Luke Combs – Even Though I’m Leaving
67. Maren Morris – My Church
68. Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss – Whiskey Lullaby
69. Miranda Lambert – The House That Built Me
70. Ward Thomas – Cartwheels
71. Cam – Burning House
72. Patty Griffin feat. Regina McCrary & Mike Farris – Wade In The Water
73. Shelby Lynne – Willie And Lauramae Jones
74. Dr. Hook – Sharing The Night Together
75. Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
76. Rosanne Cash – Seven Year Ache
77. Jace Everett – Bad Things
78. Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
79. Gretchen Wilson – Redneck Woman
80. Luke Bryan – Country Girl (Shake It For Me)
81. Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
82. Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend
83. Kenny Rogers – Coward Of The County
84. Indigo Girls – Closer To Fine
85. Tammy Wynette – D-I-V-O-R-C-E
86. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band feat. Mother Maybelle Carter – Will The Circle Be Unbroken
87. Kris Kristofferson – Help Me Make It Through The Night
88. The Byrds – You Ain’t Going Nowhere
89. The Soggy Bottom Boys feat. Dan Tyminski – I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
90. Bobbie Gentry – Fancy
91. Elvis Presley – Burning Love
92. Alan Jackson – Chattahoochee
93. Janis Joplin – Me And Bobby McGee
94. Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show – Sylvia’s Mother
95. George Jones – Stopped Loving Her Today
96. Juice Newton – Angel Of The Morning
97. Crystal Gayle – Talking In Your Sleep
98. Glen Campbell – By The Time I Get To Phoenix
99. Jim Reeves – Distant Drums
100. Hank Williams – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

Posted by: Dexton 19th February 2020, 12:58 AM

Body Like A Back Road robbed

Posted by: Jonjo 19th February 2020, 01:36 AM

Truly.

I'd have preferred 'Take Your Time' this time though as BLABR was on the last Country album they did iirc!

Posted by: awardinary 19th February 2020, 09:28 AM

Which Brits performances do you hope will make it onto Now 105 then?

My hope would be to see Lizzo (with Juice), Stormzy (with Own It) and Celeste. Dave would be welcomed of course with Black, but if he were to feature it would probably be with his more successful charting singles of 2019 Location or Disaster. I still think Billie Eilish is unlikely with No Time To Die, but if included would be welcomed. Also Harry Styles’ amazing performance last night of Falling would likely be saved for the following volume in favour of Adore You, but he’s not a consistent feature in the series as a solo artist, only making one single appearance so far with his debut single in 2017.

Posted by: Hadji 19th February 2020, 09:39 AM

Rod Stewart may appear on NOW 105 if they decide on including R2 artists as he also had a #1 album

Posted by: awardinary 19th February 2020, 09:46 AM

You may be forgiven for forgetting that he was included as recent as Now 102!

Posted by: Hadji 19th February 2020, 09:49 AM

I knew he appeared on 102 that’s why he has a chance of appearing on 105 if they decide on including BRIT performances and R2 artists. They also included Oasis on 99 following their BRITs performance despite the song previously appeared on 33

Posted by: Hadji 26th February 2020, 10:57 PM

According to amazon, NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 60s has now been reduced to 4 discs instead of 5. If that’s true, then it’s better doing it like that as they could easily squeeze 25 songs onto each disc with how short songs were back in the 60s

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 26th February 2020, 11:04 PM

If only Oasis reformed for the Brits

Posted by: Hadji 28th February 2020, 09:28 PM

NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 60s tracklist

1. Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
2. Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
3. The Overlanders - Michelle
4. Shirley Bassey - As Long As He Needs Me
5. Tom Jones - I'm Coming Home
6. Twinkle - Terry
7. Love Affair - Rainbow Valley
8. The Isley Brothers - I Guess I'll Always Love You
9. The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy
10. Joe South - Games People Play
11. Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign
12. Sandy Nelson - Let There Be Drums
13. Kenny Ball - Midnight In Moscow
14. Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra - African Waltz
15. Joe Loss & His Orchestra - Wheels (Cha Cha)
16. Jet Haris & Tony Meehan - Diamonds
17. Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine
18. Duane Eddy - Pepe
19. Frank Ifield - Lovesick Blues
20. Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
21. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Bend It
22. The Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby
23. The Sorrows - Take A Heart
24. The Showstoppers - Ain't Nothing But A House Party
25. Johnny Nash - Cupid
26. Engelbert Humperdinck - The Last Waltz
27. Jacky - White Horses
28. Jimmie Rodgers - English Country Garden
29. Johnny Keating & The Z-Men - Theme From Z Cars
30. The New Vaudeville Band - Winchester Cathedral
31. Horst Jankowski - A Walk In The Black Forest
32. The Johnny Mann Singers - Up-Up And Away
33. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Rag Doll
34. Max Harris - Gurney Slade
35. Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Wooly Bully
36. Georgie Fame - The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde
37. The Alan Price Set - Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear
38. The Avons - Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat
39. Floyd Cramer - On The Rebound
40. Bobby Darin - Lazy River
41. The Four Pennies - Juliet
42. Julie Rogers - The Wedding
43. Kaye Sisters - Paper Roses
44. Peter & Gordon - True Love Ways
45. Paul & Paula - Hey Paula
46. John Rowles - If I Only Had Time
47. PJ Proby - Hold Me
48. Heinz - Just Like Eddie
49. OC Smith - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
50. Dean Martin - Gentle On My Mind
51. Crispian St Peters - You Were On My Mind
52. Family Dogg - A Way Of Life
53. Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson And Clover
54. Francoise Hardy - Et Meme...
55. Anita Harris - Just Loving You
56. Andy Williams - Almost There
57. Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
58. Helmut Zacharias - Tokyo Melody
59. Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - How Soon
60. Ketty Lester - Love Letters
61. Ken Dodd - Tears
62. Vicki Carr - It Must Be Him
63. The Merseys - Sorrow
64. Kathy Kirby - Let Me Go Lover
65. Dave Berry - Little Things
66. Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover
67. The Pretty Things - Don't Bring Me Down
68. Clodagh Rodgers - Come Back And Shake Me
69. Plastic Penny - Everything I Am
70. The Walker Brothers - My Ship Is Coming In
71. Amen Corner - Gin House Blues
72. The Ivy League - Funny How Love Can Be
73. Marmalade - Lovin' Things
74. Sandie Shaw - Monsieur Dupont
75. Marv Johnson - I'll Pick A Rose For My Rose
76. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Nine Times Out Of Ten
77. Gene Vincent - She She Little Sheila
78. Jerry Lee Lewis - What'd I Say
79. Connie Francis - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
80. Frankie Vaughan - Tower Of Strength
81. Petula Clark - Sailor
82. Ernie K-Doe - Mother-In-Law
83. The Herd - From The Underworld
84. The Foundations - In The Bad, Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)
85. Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon - Breakin' Down The Walls Of Heartache
86. Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
87. Esther & Abi Ofarim - Cinderella Rockefella
88. The Caravelles - You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry
89. Los Indios Tabajaras - Maria Elena
90. Eddy Arnold - Make The World Go Away
91. Robin Gibb - Saved By The Bell
92. Jimmy Jones - Good Timin'
93. Johnny Preston - Running Bear
94. Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
95. Ferrante & Teicher - Exodus
96. Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue
97. Mason Williams - Classical Gas
98. Whistling Jack Smith - I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman
99. Marcello Minerbi - Zorba's Dance
100. The Scaffold - Lily The Pink

Posted by: Crazy Chris 28th February 2020, 09:32 PM

Elusive Butterfly and Terry are my two faves there.

Posted by: Jade 28th February 2020, 09:48 PM

Some great songs there, I think my favourite is 'Diamonds'

Posted by: Crazy Chris 28th February 2020, 10:25 PM

It's a good tracklist actually.

Posted by: HiyaLuv 29th February 2020, 10:33 PM

These spin-off Nows seem to have improved. It's almost as if some research, thought and passion have gone into them.

Posted by: Crazy Chris 1st March 2020, 05:16 PM

Cinderella Rockefella. No.1 in early 1968. One of the few 45's that my parents had and played to death.

Posted by: Crazy Chris 1st March 2020, 05:17 PM

Some on this 60's one aren't forgotten though. Honey for example, was a hit in 1975 too. In fact reached No.2 in both 1968 and 1975.

Posted by: Hadji 1st March 2020, 06:45 PM

By the looks of things, I don’t think were gonna get a NOW 5 CD next month with NOW 105. If we do, we’ll get it in the summer with NOW 106 which doesn’t make sense really

Posted by: awardinary 1st March 2020, 06:54 PM

It wasn’t posted previously in the thread so I’m sharing the artwork for Now 105 now.

Posted by: HiyaLuv 4th March 2020, 09:44 PM

Tracklisting can't be far off. I've already done my Alternative Now 105 so anything coming in the next couple of weeks will have to absolutely blinding to warrant inclusion. Opens with Blinding Lights and I wouldn't be surprised if the real one does too. Can't see them also going for Dance Anthems favourite Braindead (Heroin Kills) off of Piero Pirupa, mind. I spend loads of time listening to all sorts of new music and in the end I just end up mainly opting for what's all over daytime Radio 1 as those songs just tend to be the most anthemic, season-defining and accessible even if they miss the Top 40. I might leave my own tastes at the door and do one of those tracklist predictions soon.

Posted by: Hadji 4th March 2020, 09:47 PM

17th March we should get the tracklist. I don’t wanna see a NOW 5 throwback on NOW 105 if they’re not gonna release NOW 5 on CD along with it

Posted by: HiyaLuv 4th March 2020, 09:51 PM

I want them to re-issue the editions from my golden Now era (late 80s/early 90s) as quickly as possible so any delays are very much unwelcome. Even if it's not that hard or expensive to obtain the originals.

Posted by: Hadji 4th March 2020, 09:54 PM

Even if they have to release NOW 5 with missing tracks like they did with NOW 3 then so be it

Posted by: awardinary 4th March 2020, 09:55 PM

I mean, I would definitely hope for a reissue of the fifth volume, especially as it seems odd to stop after just four volumes, but is there actually a market for those retro CD’s in supermarkets and high street chains like HMV? It might not be a profitable decision to re-release any further volumes in the future if sales for the previous four reissued volumes were low.

Posted by: Hadji 4th March 2020, 09:59 PM

If they have to stop them, at least stop at NOW 9

Posted by: HiyaLuv 4th March 2020, 10:13 PM

I have Now 4 on CD and must admit I've spent much more time looking at it than actually listening to it but can these really cost them that much to produce considering how many 100 Hits CDs for you see going for a fiver? Lots of them are absolutely brimming with huge songs. I don't know that much about this but I might just snap up all the re-issues including the ones I've already missed if they keep going.

Posted by: HiyaLuv 4th March 2020, 10:13 PM

Also, I'm not one of these people who cares about the odd missing track or ever-so-slightly different versions of songs being included. What I really don't get is the throwback songs on the main Nows. I understand why they might draw attention to the re-issues but surely just a single bonus track would do. A wealth of 35-year-old songs at the end just seems to defeat the object of modern Nows. Plus, they could easily fill both CDs with radio hits even without dipping into Radio 2 veteran fodder.

Plus, I suppose we can also attribute the decline of the brand to people doing what I do - making their own 2hr 40min playlists of tracks that have defined recent months. And yet, I still see it as a hugely valuable institution that really needs to be kept alive.

Posted by: Crazy Chris 9th March 2020, 08:19 PM

Does anyone watch the Now TV Channels? Now 70's is now on Freeview Ch78 and am really enjoying it so far. Closes down at 10pm though but continues on Sky and other platforms.

Posted by: Hadji 11th March 2020, 01:52 PM

Looks like NOW 5 on CD is happening https://www.amazon.co.uk/NOW-Thats-What-Call-Music/dp/B085KHLK7T

Posted by: Crazy Chris 11th March 2020, 07:18 PM

Discussion on the Now Facebook page as to whether N..N..Nineteen Not Out by The Commentators will be on it. Never been on CD before.

Posted by: Hadji 11th March 2020, 07:32 PM

If it’s not, you could always download the track individually and add it to the album like most people did when Bob Marley and Gary Glitter were removed from NOW 3. If they don’t include the Commentators, they could always replace it with the original Paul Hardcastle version

Posted by: Crazy Chris 11th March 2020, 07:40 PM

Hopefully they'll be able to license it.

Posted by: Hadji 11th March 2020, 07:45 PM

According to amazon, the tracklist is exactly as it is on vinyl

Posted by: Crazy Chris 12th March 2020, 08:39 AM

Yes, just seen. All tracks correct and present.

Posted by: Hadji 12th March 2020, 10:53 PM

I just hope that when NOW 6 gets released in the Summer, that they use the vinyl version of "Tarzan Boy" instead of the version which is appearing on today’s compilations. And the biggest debate is whether Queen will be on NOW 7 CD or not?

Posted by: Crazy Chris 12th March 2020, 11:57 PM

They've announced that they're releasing up to and including Now 10 then no more re-issues after that. Now 10 will be out for Christmas 2021.

Posted by: Crazy Chris 12th March 2020, 11:57 PM

Why wouldn't Queen be on Now 7 if it was on the original?

Posted by: Hadji 13th March 2020, 12:12 AM

It was only on limited copies of NOW 7 as a bonus track

Posted by: Crazy Chris 13th March 2020, 08:17 AM

Oh I see. Thanks.

Posted by: Everton 13th March 2020, 10:13 PM

Just case no one spot yet David Bowie this is not America is not on now 5 update agin today

Posted by: Hadji 14th March 2020, 02:19 AM

It might be an error on the amazon site as on their official site, it’s still on there. Even if it ain’t, just download the track and add it to the file like people did when Bob Marley and Gary Glitter were removed from NOW 3

Posted by: Hadji 14th March 2020, 02:23 AM

Where did you hear about NOW 10 re-issue?

Posted by: awardinary 15th March 2020, 08:18 PM

Full Tracklist;

1. Duran Duran – A View To A Kill
2. Scritti Politti – The Word Girl
3. Harold Faltermeyer – Axel F
4. Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home
5. Dead Or Alive – In Too Deep
6. Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy – Icing On The Cake
7. Kool & The Gang – Cherish
8. Paul Young – Every Time You Go Away
9. Marillion – Kayleigh
10. Bryan Ferry – Slave To Love
11. David Bowie & The Pat Metheny Group – This Is Not America
12. Simple Minds – Don't You (Forget About Me)
13. The Power Station – Get It On (Bang A Gong)
14. China Crisis – Black Man Ray
15. Phil Collins – One More Night
16. Sister Sledge – Frankie
17. Mai Tai – History
18. Simply Red – Money's Too Tight (To Mention)
19. Steve Arrington – Feel So Real
20. Jaki Graham – Round And Around
21. The Conway Brothers – Turn It Up
22. Loose Ends – Magic Touch
23. The Commentators – N-N-Nineteen Not Out
24. U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
25. The Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down
26. Katrina & The Wave – Walking On Sunshine
27. Gary Moore And Phillip Lynott – Out In The Fields
28. The Damned – The Shadow Of Love
29. Howard Jones – Life In One Day
30. Jimmy Nail – Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th March 2020, 09:19 PM

Will we get the 105 tracklist this week??

Posted by: Hadji 15th March 2020, 09:43 PM

We should get it on Tuesday as every NOW since NOW 100 has has the tracklist revealed on Tuesday. We’ll get the tracklist Tuesday and it will be available to pre-order on iTunes from Friday

Posted by: Hadji 17th March 2020, 08:10 PM

I don’t think we’ll get the NOW 105 tracklist today as we’d have had it by now. I just hope we get it tomorrow morning. Even if we don’t get it tomorrow or Thursday, we’ll more likely see it on Friday on iTunes

Posted by: gavindeejay 18th March 2020, 04:23 PM

I wouldn't be surprised to see Now 105 release postponed due to the coronavirus.

Posted by: Hadji 18th March 2020, 04:25 PM

They haven’t postponed NOW 5 CD release or their spin-offs. Let’s just hope they reveal it tomorrow at midnight on iTunes. If they’re gonna postpone it, at least give us notice

Posted by: gooddelta 18th March 2020, 04:28 PM

I was thinking this too, the shops probably won't even be open for people to buy it.

Posted by: Hadji 18th March 2020, 04:30 PM

People can still download it from sites like iTunes or stream it on the NOW website. And also, artists aren’t postponing their albums due to the outbreak

Posted by: T Boy 18th March 2020, 05:16 PM

They usually announce the tracklist on the day they finalise the CD, right? This means they could actually delay Now 105.

Posted by: Everton 18th March 2020, 05:47 PM

I piss of if now 105 does get push back had another this year

Posted by: Jonjo 18th March 2020, 07:41 PM

Delayed.

Posted by: -SCOTT- 18th March 2020, 07:42 PM

Now 105 and Now 5 postponed confirmed

Posted by: IdentFan101 18th March 2020, 07:43 PM

Now 105 and Now 5 have been postponed until a further date.
https://twitter.com/NOWMusic/status/1240361745321005056?s=19

Posted by: Hadji 18th March 2020, 07:47 PM

Which means they’ll most likely postpone it to July and have only two editions this year like we did in 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990 and 1991

Posted by: gooddelta 18th March 2020, 08:04 PM

Eurovision, Now and Eastenders on the same day.

Posted by: Everton 18th March 2020, 08:19 PM

I hate 2020

Posted by: Hadji 18th March 2020, 10:37 PM

I seen on someone’s insta post for the postponement saying that they saw from a source that the release date has been pushed back to 8th May

Posted by: Hadji 19th March 2020, 12:15 PM

According to amazon, both albums have been postponed to May Day Bank Holiday 8th May. I wonder if this means that they’ll include hits from April on there or if it will be the same tracklist as it would’ve been today?

Posted by: IdentFan101 20th March 2020, 09:01 AM

Amazon has labelled the CD 'TBC' despite showing the cover for it.

Posted by: Hadji 20th March 2020, 12:03 PM

Amazon has also shown NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 60s as unavailable but the download is still going ahead

Posted by: awardinary 20th March 2020, 08:40 PM

Posted by: Hadji 21st March 2020, 01:43 PM

Now that NOW 105 has been postponed to May, I wonder if they’ll keep the tracklist as it would’ve been today or if they’ll edit it to include songs from next month?

Posted by: lewistgreen 21st March 2020, 08:46 PM

If they edit it then Now 106 is going to be lacking in tracks to choose from (from a larger perspective) or they push 106 back a few weeks too and so on.
I just feel like it’ll remain unchanged

Posted by: Dexton 24th March 2020, 09:24 AM

I'm sure releasing an album of songs from November- early March will sell very well when it's released in late May

Posted by: gavindeejay 24th March 2020, 09:44 AM

I'd be happy for them to only release 2 albums this year. 105 in May and 106 in October. I think putting 106 out in July is too soon tbh and it'll strengthen 106 to have more hits rather than the flop fillers they have to add in these days.

Posted by: T Boy 24th March 2020, 09:46 AM

If they weren’t going to edit the track list they’d have revealed it by now.

Posted by: Hadji 24th March 2020, 02:09 PM

They should. It was originally planned for April so keep the tracklist the same. Don’t edit it to accommodate the new release date

Posted by: Crazy Chris 25th March 2020, 11:35 PM

My guess is that it would already be pressed, same with Now 5 and Now 100 Hits Forgotten 60's, and in warehouses, so the tracklist will be exactly the same.

Posted by: Crazy Chris 26th March 2020, 05:44 PM

Hey guys my Now 100 Hits Forgotten 60's has shipped from Amazon so it is out!

Posted by: Hadji 28th March 2020, 09:20 PM

I’m hoping that songs which came out yesterday such as Break Up Song and Break My Heart don’t get edited into the 105 tracklist and get saved for 106 for instance

Posted by: lewistgreen 29th March 2020, 03:47 PM

They might have already been on there? NOW isn't advserse to including new tracks and even songs from release week of the compilation.

I can't see double Dua being on there though

Posted by: Crazy Chris 29th March 2020, 03:50 PM

Have read most of this thread but may have missed it. Do you know what Now 5 has a track missing that apparently his record company wouldn't license? David Bowie - This Is Not America.

Posted by: Hadji 29th March 2020, 04:13 PM

I can see her having a double appearance with Physical and DSN. Also, it is the first time since 1990 that a spring NOW has been released after Easter

Posted by: lewistgreen 1st April 2020, 07:22 PM

And there was me thinking Don't Start Now was on 104 oop. Then yeah a double appearance is likely

Posted by: Dexton 2nd April 2020, 10:15 AM

If Break My Heart becomes as big a hit it looks like its going to be, I can see them skipping DSN all together and having both songs in at least the first 4 of both discs

Posted by: Hadji 2nd April 2020, 11:29 AM

They’ll wanna spread it out so I think BMH will be saved for 106

Posted by: gavindeejay 2nd April 2020, 11:48 AM

They'll be mad to miss out DSN unless there's a licence issue with the track.

Posted by: awardinlockdown 3rd April 2020, 09:07 PM

I know it’s pointless posting in this thread at the moment while we await whatever future the compilation series has, but they could have used this time to promote their digital platform by making Now 105 a digital release for now and then release the CD at a later time. Personally I’m not a fan of only having potentially one or two releases in a calendar year for the amount of new music we are still receiving at present. If new music releases had slowed I would understand the reasons more, but how can other artists still be releasing new albums on streaming platforms while the Now series sits back and does nothing.

Just think how many people would be playing Now 105 in their homes during this lockdown if it was made available online. Not many will care for the songs intended for the volume by the time it gets its release as many artists have continued to release newer singles. Dua Lipa for example now has 3 qualifying Top 10 singles from her new era waiting to be put on a volume.

Perhaps BuzzJack will need to compile its own Now 105 tracklist.

Posted by: Hadji 3rd April 2020, 09:16 PM

And also, other budget compilations such as It Takes Two, You Raise Me Up etc have still gone ahead with their releases

Posted by: IdentFan101 8th April 2020, 08:23 AM

That's what I thought when they announced Now 105 will postponed.

Posted by: gavindeejay 8th April 2020, 08:34 AM

They’re still very reliant on physical sales. If they released now I’d dread to think how bad the sales would be.

Posted by: Hadji 8th April 2020, 09:01 AM

I'd love it if this got sent to NOW and they published this as their tracklist

CD 1

1. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights 3:20
2. SAINt JHN – Roses 2:56
3. Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go 3:35
4. Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy – Own It 3:36
5. Dua Lipa – Physical 3:13
6. Billie Eilish – No Time To Die 4:01
7. Selena Gomez – Lose You To Love Me 3:25
8. Lady Gaga – Stupid Love 3:13
9. Justin Bieber – Yummy 3:29
10. Joel Corry – Lonely 3:09
11. Ed Sheeran featuring Camila Cabello & Cardi B – South Of The Border 3:23
12. Sam Smith – To Die For 3:13
13. Halsey – You Should Be Sad 3:25
14. Jonas Brothers – What A Man Gotta Do 3:00
15. Harry Styles – Adore You 3:25
16. Aitch & AJ Tracey featuring Tay Keith – Rain 3:03
17. Arizona Zervas – Roxanne 2:43
18. Khalid & Disclosure – Know Your Worth 3:00
19. Endor – Pump It Up 2:28
20. Jax Jones & Ella Henderson – This Is Real 3:07
21. Europa featuring RAYE – Tequila 3:31
22. CamelPhat & Jem Cooke – Rabbit Hole 3:07
23. Becky Hill & Shift K3Y – Better Off Without You 3:17
24. Anne-Marie – Birthday 3:00
25. Dua Lipa – Don't Start Now 3:03

Total running time: 79:52

CD 2

1. Roddy Ricch – The Box 3:16
2. Travis Scott – Highest In The Room 2:55
3. Future featuring Drake – Life Is Good 3:57
4. J Hus – Must Be 3:27
5. Mabel – Boyfriend 3:45
6. Young T & Bugsey featuring Headie One – Don't Rush 3:27
7. Blackbear – Hot Girl Bummer 3:05
8. KSI featuring Trippie Redd – Wake Up Call 2:55
9. Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya 2:38
10. DigDat featuring Aitch – Ei8ht Mile 2:56
11. Camila Cabello featuring DaBaby – My Oh My 2:51
12. Dermot Kennedy – Power Over Me 3:26
13. Doja Cat – Say So 3:57
14. Trevor Daniel – Falling 2:39
15. Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted 4:03
16. Meduza, Becky Hill & GOODBOYS – Lose Control 2:47
17. ZieZie featuring Aitch – French Kisses 2:55
18. Coldplay – Orphans 3:17
19. The 1975 – Me & You Together Song 3:29
20. Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey – Don't Call Me Angel 3:07

NOW 5 throwback

21. Harold Faltermeyer – Axel F 3:00
22. Simple Minds – Don't You (Forget About Me) 4:19
23. Mai Tai – History 3:50
24. Katrina & The Waves – Walking On Sunshine 3:49

Total running time: 79:50

Posted by: IdentFan101 8th April 2020, 02:57 PM

The Now Music YouTube channel is set to made for kids thanks to YouTube COPPA, I can't recieve notifications from the channel anymore.

Posted by: Ken A. 14th April 2020, 03:20 PM

Like most of us here, I am personally saddened by the postponement of the release of NOW 105 and the re-release of NOW 5 because of the current global health issue, and its effect on the entertainment industry. If its new release date of Friday, 08 May 2020, is confirmed, it will be the first numbered UK NOW album to be released in the month of May. NOW 105's track list will probably be available by next week, which is two weeks before its release.

I do agree with what awardinlockdown stated about making NOW 105 a digital-only release for the time being, with the CD release coming later. Though I have to admit, gavindeejay's point (i.e. the NOW team still relying on physical sales for the NOW albums) is also valid.

Meanwhile, over in the States, here are some of the details for their upcoming Q2 release, NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 74.

The album's cover is very similar to UK's NOW 103 (2019), with some differences, including the text colour and the addition of trees in the middleground.

Its track list has also been made available on https://music.apple.com/us/album/now-thats-what-i-call-music-vol-74/1506689872?fbclid=IwAR3zoyXi7O8IcCXEBhv_MROF_QptClIdXqmycOBjXf_5dLezaQWka9DOuAs, where it is also revealed that it will be out on Friday, 01 May 2020. Here is the track list:

01. Lizzo - "Good as Hell"
02. Tones and I - "Dance Monkey"
03. The Weeknd - "Blinding Lights"
04. Arizona Zervas - "ROXANNE"
05. DaBaby - "BOP"
06. Justin Bieber - "Yummy"
07. Khalid & Disclosure - "Know Your Worth"
08. Ed Sheeran feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B - "South of the Border"
09. Billie Eilish - "everything i wanted"
10. blackbear - "Hot Girl Bummer"
11. Selena Gomez - "Rare"
12. Camila Cabello feat. DaBaby - "My Oh My"
13. Doja Cat - "Say So"
14. Trevor Daniel - "Falling"
15. H.E.R. - "Sometimes"
16. Maren Morris - "The Bones"
NOW What's Next Bonus Tracks
17. Brett James - "True Believer"
18. PUBLIC - "Make You Mine"
19. Isaac Dunbar - "Makeup Drawer"
20. Evie Irie - "Over Him"
21. Little Hurt - "Alaska"
22. Surfaces - "Sunday Best"

Album's total running time is 1:10:04, which leaves 9:53 of empty space. Maybe it's just me, but it has slowly become a pet peeve of mine that they are leaving some precious empty space in the CD when it could've been easily filled up with more songs.

Shoutout to Spiral, as Lizzo is finally in a US numbered NOW album! "Good as Hell", along with "Dance Monkey", previously appeared in UK's NOW 104 (2019). I could see that most of the main tracks could also appear in the upcoming NOW 105.

I have heard most of the songs here, including "Sunday Best", though I am yet to grow on that; same goes with "Falling". Based on that alone, I think it's gonna be a very good summer NOW album, if the exclusions of the likes of Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, and 5 Seconds of Summer are not a problem.

What do you guys think of NOW 74's track list? Do you think it provides a taste of what's to come on NOW 105?

Posted by: Nancy 🍾 14th April 2020, 03:39 PM

I never understood why US version never bothered with 2 CD's!!!

Posted by: Hadji 14th April 2020, 03:52 PM

If the US can go ahead with their NOWs, so can the UK

Posted by: Ken A. 14th April 2020, 05:03 PM

The UK NOW team's just confirmed the 8 May 2020 release date of NOW 105, making it the first numbered UK NOW album to be released in the month of May.

Track list not out yet, though. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Infludexton* 14th April 2020, 05:05 PM

Do the 1's always look like that? It looks squashed

Posted by: Hadji 14th April 2020, 05:06 PM

They’ve looked like that since NOW 101

Posted by: Hadji 14th April 2020, 05:07 PM

It is the first NOW to be released in May and the second Spring NOW to be released after Easter, the first being NOW 17 in 1990

Posted by: Fisher 🐠 15th April 2020, 12:28 AM

Very impressed with that tracklist! 13 of those are top 40 hits on Billboard, likely to be 14 if 'Sunday Best' takes off...usually we're lucky to get 8 or 9!

You must have forgot that 'Juice' was on NOW 71

Posted by: Ken A. 15th April 2020, 04:30 AM

Pardon my mistake. While its cover art is quite colourful, I kinda find NOW 71 forgettable, but I admit, it does have some great tunes at the time of its release that matches its attractive cover art. I even said this when I posted its track list in Buzzjack's NOW 4.0 forum.

Posted by: gavindeejay 15th April 2020, 01:15 PM

Now 105 tracklist announced. I'll type it up

Posted by: Infludexton* 15th April 2020, 01:19 PM

Jesus that second disc is shocking in every possible way

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 15th April 2020, 01:21 PM

Really good tracklist! Nothing really I didn't expect other than John Legend.

Posted by: Infludexton* 15th April 2020, 01:23 PM

I wonder why Run Through Walls is on here but The Last Time wasn't on 104 despite being an actual charting song?

Posted by: gavindeejay 15th April 2020, 01:27 PM

Now 105 Official Tracklist:- https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-105/

1. The Weeknd - Blinding Lights
2. Joel Corry - Lonely
3. Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
4. Harry Styles - Adore You
5. Juston Bieber & Quavo - Intentions
6. Little Mix - Break Up Song
7. SAINt JHN - Roses ((Imanbek Remix)
8. Doja Cat - Say So
9. Ed Sheeran feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B - South Of The Boarder
10. Arizona Zervas - Roxanne
11. BENEE feat. Gus Dapperton - Supalonely
12. Lady GaGa - Stupid Love
13. Meduza feat. Becky Hill - Lose Control
14. Jax Jones & Ella Henderson - This Is Real
15. Rita Ora - How To Be Lonely
16. Mabel - Boyfriend
17. Anne-Marie - Birthday
18. Jonas Blue & Paloma Faith - Mistakes
19. Jonas Brothers - What A Man Gotta Do
20. Khalid x Disclosure - Know Your Worth
21. Becky Hill & Shift K3Y - Better Off Without You
22. Endor - Pump It Up
23. Stormzy feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy - Own It
24. Aitch, AJ Tracey & Tay Keith - Rain
25. Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted
26. Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go
27. Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me
28. Sam Smith - To Die For
29. Dermot Kennedy - Power Over Me
30. Justin Bieber - Yummy
31. Alicia Keys - Time Machine
32. Dua Lipa - Physical
33. Celeste - Stop This Flame
34. James Blunt feat. Ward Thomas - Halfway
35. Sam Fischer - This City
36. The Script - Run Through Walls
37. Louis Tomlinson - Walls
38. Liam Gallagher - Once
39. Tom Grennan - This Is The Place
40. The 1975 - You & Me Together Song
41. MK x Sonny Fodera feat. Raphaella - One Night
42. Jax Jones, Martin Solveig, RAYE & Europa - Tequila
43. CamelPhat & Jem Cooke - Rabbit Hole
44. Selena Gomez - Rare
45. John Legend - Conversations In The Dark
46. Matt Lucas - Thank You Baked Potato

Looks like they've scrapped the Throwbacks.

Posted by: Jade 🐠 15th April 2020, 01:32 PM

Dua's double impact, 'Rabbit Hole' and 'Thank You Baked Potato'

Posted by: gavindeejay 15th April 2020, 01:32 PM

All in all I think a very strong tracklist with some great tracks from the past 5-6 months. A couple I didn't expect like John Legend and Alicia Keys, but all in all it's a thumbs up from me!

Posted by: Hadji 15th April 2020, 03:03 PM

As much as I don’t like TB’s, I wasn’t expecting them to be scrapped. And gutted that Nathan Dawe ain’t on there

Posted by: HospitalWard* 15th April 2020, 03:14 PM

I mean, yeah it’s decent, with some glaring additions, but some of these omissions were slightly disappointing to see;

Billie Eilish – No Time To Die
Roddy Ricch – The Box
The Weeknd – Heartless
The Pussycat Dolls – React
The Script – The Last Time
Coldplay – Orphans
Halsey – You Should Be Sad
Harry Styles – Falling
Camila Cabello feat. DaBaby – My Oh My
Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya
Eminem feat. Juice WRLD – Godzilla
Trevor Daniel – Falling
J Hus – Must Be
Future feat. Drake – Life Is Good
Travis Scott – Highest In The Room
Aitch feat. ZieZie – Buss Down
Fredo – Netflix & Chill
Blackbear – Hot Girl Bummer
DigDat featuring Aitch – Ei8ht Mile
KSI feat. Rick Ross, Lil Baby & S-X – Down Like That
KSI feat. Trippie Redd – Wake Up Call
Young T & Bugsey feat. Headed One – Don’t Rush
Bastille feat. London Contemporary Orchestra – Can’t Fight This Feeling
Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey – Don’t Call Me Angel
Love Regenerator – Hypnagogic (I Can Wait)
LadBaby – I Love Sausage Rolls

Posted by: George.keh 15th April 2020, 03:18 PM

actually pretty decent tracklist

Posted by: IdentFan101 15th April 2020, 03:35 PM

The tracklist has been revealed!

https://twitter.com/NOWMusic/status/1250438879821180935?s=19

Edit: Never mind.

Posted by: HospitalWard* 15th April 2020, 03:39 PM

Oh and technically the one week 2019 Christmas #1 by LadBaby is another omission nobody was expecting to see either so no surprises there.

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th April 2020, 04:03 PM

Joel Corry track 2 *.*

Posted by: Hadji 15th April 2020, 06:19 PM

There’s hardly any urban on the album

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th April 2020, 07:23 PM

One is assuming Matt Lucas was the only change to the album really being added last minute. A shame that Powfu didn't make it, but I guess it's only really taken off in the past couple of weeks

Posted by: HospitalWard* 15th April 2020, 07:39 PM

In the event that we actually get a Now 106 this year, these few current Top 40 hits may qualify for inclusion;

Dua Lipa – Break My Heart
Harry Styles – Falling
The Weeknd – In Your Eyes
Nathan Dawe feat. Jaykae – Flowers
Powfu feat. beabadoobee – death bed
Lil Mosey – Blueberry Faygo
Drake – Toosie Slide

Posted by: Hadji 15th April 2020, 08:53 PM

I bet there’s a lot of space on NOW 105 which could’ve been filled. I hate when they do that

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th April 2020, 10:35 PM

Space where?! There’s 46 tracks

Posted by: Hadji 15th April 2020, 10:48 PM

There’s bound to be space for two or three more on disc 2 what with Matt Lucas being only 1:04 long and the majority of songs on the album being under 4mins long

Posted by: HospitalWard* 15th April 2020, 10:57 PM

Surely that Matt Lucas song must become the shortest song ever to feature on a Now CD? I believe the shortest song to hold the record before was Panini by Lil Nas X on Now 103 at just shy of 2 minutes at 1:55.

Posted by: Ken A. 16th April 2020, 05:22 AM

So, the UK NOW team responded to their mates in the US by immediately releasing NOW 105's track list a day after the US NOW 74, and a week earlier than I expected. It's become the first all-chart hits NOW album since NOW 101 (2018), and the first 46-track NOW since NOW 102 (2019).

I just put all NOW 105 songs in a Spotify playlist, and my prediction is that the distribution will be 24-22. The total running time of both discs, will be roughly the following:

CD 1: 24 tracks (i.e. from "Blinding Lights" to "Rain")
Total running time: 1:17:10 (2:47 remaining space)

CD 2: 22 tracks (i.e. from "everything i wanted" to "Thank You Baked Potato")
Total running time: 1:14:13 (5:44 remaining space)

So yes, there is still some space for about 1 song on CD 1, and 1 or 2 songs on CD 2. But based on this, the distribution could also be 23-23 (i.e. "Rain" will start Disc 2), just like NOW 101. Who knows?

On first glance, it appears that NOW 105 was indeed fit for its original release date of 03 April 2020, given that some of the latest songs in here were released in late March (e.g. Little Mix's "Break Up Song"). Well, the NOW team sometimes gets the rights in advance to some songs which are yet to be released, but they know will chart well, for inclusion in the NOW albums. Take NOW 104 (2019), for instance, which was the last time this happened. The song "We Got Love" by Sigala and Ella Henderson wasn't released yet when it was announced as part of NOW 104's track list; it was only out the week before 104's release.

That is, until some of you have pointed out the last-minute addition of the Matt Lucas NHS charity single, which was only released on the aforementioned date. Sure enough, they couldn't get the rights to it immediately enough had 105 been released this month, even if Mr Lucas announced his song's release date the week prior, given that it is for charity. I observed that charity singles tend to be left out the NOW albums for quite a while before placing it in one to serve its purpose: to have the profits from the song's purchase being donated to charity.

Speaking of Ella Henderson, my most favourite track in 105's tracklist is her collab with Jax Jones, "This is Real". I fell in love with "This is Real" when it first came out late last year. Or maybe because I own her first (and so far, only) album on CD?

Oh, and HospitalWard, you are quite right about the new record for shortest song in a numbered NOW album. But "Panini" was actually on 104. The Lil Nas X song on 103 was his massive chart-topper, "Old Town Road" feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, which also opened the album.

Something to add: Shame there's also no 5SOS here (excuse my pun, if you know what I mean), but I do understand that despite the fact that their latest album "Calm" reached No. 1 in the UK, the album's singles didn't get a Top 40 placing, except for last year's "Easier", which was also featured on last year's NOW 103. Same goes for BTS, but I don't know if any songs from their UK No. 1 album "Map of the Soul: 7" charted that well anyway. About time we have the second Korean act on the NOW albums. (Remember PSY? He was on NOW 83 and 85 with "Gangnam Style" and "Gentleman", respectively.)

Posted by: Hadji 16th April 2020, 08:22 PM

I think NOW 105 is laid out like this

CD 1

1. The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 3:20
2. Joel Corry - Lonely 3:10
3. Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now 3:03
4. Harry Styles - Adore You 3:27
5. Justin Bieber featuring Quavo - Intentions 3:32
6. Little Mix - Break Up Song 3:20
7. SAINt JHN - Roses 2:56
8. Doja Cat - Say So 3:57
9. Ed Sheeran featuring Camila Cabello & Cardi B - South Of The Border 3:24
10. Arizona Zervas - Roxanne 2:43
11. BENEE featuring Gus Dapperton - Supalonely 3:43
12. Lady Gaga - Stupid Love 3:13
13. Meduza, Becky Hill & GOODBOYS - Lose Control 2:48
14. Jax Jones & Ella Henderson - This Is Real 3:19
15. Rita Ora - How To Be Lonely 2:55
16. Mabel - Boyfriend 3:45
17. Anne-Marie - Birthday 3:01
18. Jonas Blue & Paloma Faith - Mistakes 3:06
19. Jonas Brothers - What A Man Gotta Do 3:00
20. Khalid & Disclosure - Know Your Worth 3:01
21. Becky Hill & Shift K3Y - Better Off Without You 3:18
22. Endor - Pump It Up 2:30
23. Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy - Own It 3:36
24. Aitch & AJ Tracey featuring Tay Keith - Rain 3:03

Total running time 77:10

CD 2

1. Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted 4:05
2. Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go 3:36
3. Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me 3:26
4. Sam Smith - To Die For 3:13
5. Dermot Kennedy - Power Over Me 3:26
6. Justin Bieber - Yummy 3:28
7. Alicia Keys - Time Machine 4:30
8. Dua Lipa - Physical 3:13
9. Celeste - Stop This Flame 3:29
10. James Blunt featuring Ward Thomas - Halfway 3:11
11. Sam Fischer - This City 3:14
12. The Script - Run Through Walls 3:26
13. Louis Tomlinson - Walls 3:50
14. Liam Gallagher - Once 3:33
15. Tom Grennan - This Is The Place 3:05
16. The 1975 - Me & You Together Song 3:27
17. MK & Sonny Fodera featuring Raphaella - One Night 2:41
18. Europa featuring RAYE - Tequila 3:31
19. CamelPhat & Jem Cooke - Rabbit Hole 3:09
20. Selena Gomez - Rare 3:40
21. John Legend - Conversations In The Dark 3:57
22. Matt Lucas - Thank You Baked Potato 1:04

Total running time 72:14

If it is laid out like that, what a waste of disc space

Posted by: HospitalWard* 16th April 2020, 09:12 PM

I’m a little amused about the back to back “Jonas” tracks and songs about “Walls” too.

Posted by: Hadji 16th April 2020, 09:19 PM

I think they did that deliberately and as for the TB's, I think the reason they stopped is because people complained about them

Posted by: HospitalWard* 16th April 2020, 09:26 PM

What’s TB’s?

Posted by: gavindeejay 16th April 2020, 09:30 PM

Throwbacks

Posted by: HospitalWard* 16th April 2020, 09:31 PM

Thanks Gavin!

Posted by: HospitalWard* 16th April 2020, 09:34 PM

Also in case anyone was wondering, Now 5’s CD release date has also been changed to 8th May according to Amazon.

Posted by: Hadji 16th April 2020, 10:17 PM

It’s been that release date for ages way before NOW announced the postponement of NOW 105

Posted by: Hadji 20th April 2020, 01:50 PM

According to amazon, disc 1 has 24 tracks and disc 2 has 22 tracks

Posted by: gavindeejay 20th April 2020, 02:05 PM

David Bowie's 'This Is Not America' will not appear on the reissue of Now 5 as they can't get the rights according to the Now Collectors group on Facebook.

Posted by: Hadji 20th April 2020, 02:11 PM

Some sources say it’s on there and some say it’s not. We’ll have to wait till Friday to see when it goes up for pre-order on iTunes if it’s on there

Posted by: gavindeejay 20th April 2020, 02:39 PM

Now have confirmed on their facebook that it's not on there. Read in the comments on their post on the 18th April at 8pm.

Now have commented:- "Hey guys, apologies for any confusion. Unfortunately we haven't been able to secure rights for Bowie on this album so he sadly won't feature. Amazon will be updating the tracklist on their site shortly."

Posted by: Hadji 20th April 2020, 06:03 PM

It might bother a few people but it doesn’t bother me as all I’d have to do is download the song and paste it into a NOW 5 folder on a computer and I’d still have a complete album

Posted by: Hadji 24th April 2020, 07:46 PM

I’m guessing that all UK supermarkets have removed entertainment products from sale. I know the Asda by mine has removed all entertainment products so that means at the moment, you can only buy NOW 5 and NOW 105 from amazon or the HMV website. And in other news according to iTunes, some songs have had 10 or more seconds each shaved off. But pointless really. If they were gonna do that, they could have easily filled those gaps

Posted by: ___∆___ 2nd May 2020, 10:19 AM

The official now site are offering 10% off Now 105 with the code Now10 and if you pre-order the album you get 3 months free access to the Now Music app.

Will be interesting to see what their first week sales will be like with the absence of HMV and possibly supermarkets not pushing the title as much as they normally would.

https://www.nowmusicstore.com/*/Now-Music-Terms/

Posted by: awardinary 4th May 2020, 12:05 PM

Hadji do you want to have a go at compiling your own version of a potential spin off compilation someday called “Now That’s What I Call A Charity Single” and see what songs you come up with. The choice is vast but I wonder how they would look on a 5 CD “100 Hits” compilation someday.

Posted by: Hadji 4th May 2020, 11:37 PM

That would be a good idea although I do think NOW spin-offs are put on hold this year and they’re just focusing on the numbered series for now

Posted by: IdentFan101 5th May 2020, 05:03 PM

The ASDA where I live still has the entertainment products.

Posted by: Hadji 7th May 2020, 01:07 PM

Well some then. I also reckon that NOW 105’s tracklist should have been compiled to coincide with the original release date and not the new one as it would’ve given a wider spread of chart hits

Posted by: andeeeeyhart 7th May 2020, 11:18 PM

I think it has coincided with the original release date. The tracklisting would have probably been exactly the same had it come out a month ago.

Posted by: Hadji 8th May 2020, 01:21 AM

I don’t think BENEE, Little Mix and Matt Lucas would have been on there if they stuck with the original release date

Posted by: lewistgreen 8th May 2020, 07:39 AM

We’ve already said Matt Lucas was a late addition.

Little Mix was out March 27th so a week before the original planned release.
BENEE has been gaining traction for a long time so I don’t see why it wouldn’t have been on there either.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter and it’s out there now!

Posted by: gooddelta 8th May 2020, 08:17 AM

I’ve ordered both but Amazon not delivering until Tuesday apparently. And no idea what shops will actually have them out on display as I haven’t seen a new release on any supermarket shelves since March! So I’d expect first week sales to be pretty low.

Posted by: T Boy 8th May 2020, 09:24 AM

Yeah I’ve ordered both too and they’re not due until Tuesday. Given our circumstances it was pretty silly to release it on a Bank Holiday but then I guess they have lots of excuses for poor sales this week.

I’ve been listening to all the 00s Nows over the lockdown from Now 45. I’m up to Now 71 today so not many left. I absolutely adore the music of this decade, it’s so nostalgic. Even the 2002/3 Nows that are missing some big hits sound really good.

Posted by: Hadji 8th May 2020, 10:26 AM

My amazon order also said it will arrive by Tuesday. They should’ve released it last week seeing as the tracklist arrived a week earlier than usual

Posted by: gooddelta 8th May 2020, 12:49 PM

I managed to get both with my weekly food shop in the big Tesco near me just now so cancelled my Amazon order as they hadn’t been dispatched yet. Seems like a lot of the supermarkets don’t have them on display yet though.

Posted by: Hadji 8th May 2020, 02:45 PM

I’d go to my local Tesco to get it but it’s on a retail park which also has a KFC and that’s the only KFC in my area which is open and a lot of people in my area have been causing traffic jams for that retail park just for a KFC and if I was to go to Tesco to get the CD, I’d get caught up in the traffic so I think I’ll wait

Posted by: andeeeeyhart 8th May 2020, 03:57 PM

Benee and Little Mix would have definitely been on Now 105 had it been released in April. Like has already been said, only Matt Lucas is a late addition.

My version arrived today, which was a surprise as it was expected on Monday.

Posted by: Hadji 8th May 2020, 03:59 PM

Did you order yours from amazon?

Posted by: lewistgreen 9th May 2020, 07:13 PM

Going to be doing a listen through of 105 on plug on Monday if anyone wants to join!

Posted by: T Boy 9th May 2020, 08:27 PM

Mine actually arrived 6pm this evening so I’ll be giving them a listen Monday. Still in the habit of quarantining my packages for 24 hours.

Posted by: Hadji 9th May 2020, 08:56 PM

I thought people do it for 72 hours as some people I know do it for that long

Posted by: T Boy 9th May 2020, 09:00 PM

Well I’ve been doing 24 and no harm yet.

Posted by: andeeeeyhart 10th May 2020, 11:04 AM

Yes.

Posted by: Hadji 10th May 2020, 12:32 PM

Same. My NOW 105 came today and my NOW 5 came yesterday

Posted by: lewistgreen 11th May 2020, 03:51 PM

8pm for Now 105 tonight. I'll be on from 7ish to play some omissions

https://plug.dj/now-thats-what-i-call-music

Posted by: awardinary 11th May 2020, 09:58 PM

The Now 105 listenthrough got me thinking of some potential songs for the next volume which we don’t know when go expect...

These songs could/should make the cut;

Billie Eilish – No Time To Die {1}
Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore & The Voices of Care Choir – You’ll Never Walk Alone {1}
Live Lounge Allstars – Times Like These {1}
Drake – Toosie Slide {1}
Megan Thee Stallion – Savage {3}
powfu feat. beabadoobee – death bed {4}
Dua Lipa – Break My Heart {6}
DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch – ROCKSTAR {6}
S1mba feat. DTG – Rover {7}
AJ Tracey feat. MoStack – Dinner Guest {8}
The 1975 – If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know) {14}
Harry Styles – Falling {15}
Nathan Dawe feat. Jaykae – Flowers {16}
The Weeknd – In Your Eyes {17}
Sam Smith & Demi Lovato – I’m Ready {20}
220 Kid & Gracey – Don’t Need Love {28}
Ava Max – Kings & Queens {33}
Marshmello & Halsey – Be Kind {45}
Topic & A7S – Breaking Me {50}
HOSH & 1979 feat. Jalja – Midnight (The Hanging Tree) {52}
Robbie Doherty & Keees. – Pour The Milk {55}
Regard & RAYE – Secrets {58}
Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber – Stuck With U {TBC}
Tiësto & Becky Hill – Nothing Really Matters {TBC}

Posted by: gavindeejay 12th May 2020, 03:26 PM

I can't see the 106 coming out until August tbh! I hope there's enough hits by then to fill the majority of it.

Posted by: Hadji 12th May 2020, 03:55 PM

I just hope they’re not anti-urban with 106 like they were with 102 and 105

Posted by: Hadji 13th May 2020, 06:30 PM

Looks like the NOW spin-offs will still continue. The NOW website has had a revamp and the next spin-off is NOW 100 Hits 70s is due for release on 12th June

Posted by: Hadji 14th May 2020, 06:21 PM

NOW 100 Hits 70s tracklist

CD 1

1. Queen - Killer Queen
2. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
3. Blondie - Heart Of Glass
4. Earth, Wind & Fire & The Emotions - Boogie Wonderland
5. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh What A Night)
6. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia
7. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
8. Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary
9. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
10. Sister Sledge - We Are Family
11. The O'Jays - Love Train
12. The Specials - A Message To You Rudy
13. Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
14. Billy Joel - Piano Man
15. John Denver - Annie's Song
16. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
17. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
18. Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything
19. Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
20. 10cc - I'm Not In Love

CD 2

1. John & Yoko - Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
2. Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
3. The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
4. Labelle - Lady Marmalade
5. McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
6. Tina Charles - I Love To Love (But My Baby Loves To Dance)
7. Billy Paul - Me & Mrs Jones
8. The Commodores - Three Times A Lady
9. The Three Degrees - Woman In Love
10. Sly & The Family Stone
11. Harry J Allstars - Liquidator
12. R Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House
13. Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time
14. KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It)
15. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown
16. Chic - Good Times
17. Van McCoy - The Hustle
18. Heatwave - Boogie Nights
19. Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
20. Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You

CD 3

1. ABBA - Fernando
2. Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
3. Paul McCartney - Another Day
4. Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
5. Harry Nilsson - Without You
6. Barry Manilow - Mandy
7. Patti Smith Group - Because The Night
8. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
9. Meat Loaf - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
10. Foreigner - Cold As Ice
11. Edwin Starr - War
12. The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
13. The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
14. Rod Stewart - Handbags & Gladrags
15. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
16. Ralph McTell - Streets Of London
17. Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
18. Nazareth - Love Hurts
19. Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Parisienne Walkways
20. Eric Carmen - All By Myself

CD 4

1. The Cars - My Best Friends Girl
2. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?
3. Roxy Music - Dance Away
4. M - Pop Muzik
5. The Tourists - I Only Want To Be With You
6. Mott The Hoople - Roll Away The Stone
7. Status Quo - Down Down
8. Sweet - Blockbuster
9. The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
10. Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar
11. Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn
12. Python Lee Jackson featuring Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream
13. The Walker Brothers - No Regrets
14. Elkie Brooks - Pearl's A Singer
15. Santana - She's Not There
16. Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
17. Madness - The Prince
18. Sham 69 - Hurry Up Harry
19. Graham Parker & The Rumour - Hold Back The Night
20. Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over)

CD 5

1. Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
2. Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye Baby
3. Showaddywaddy - Under The Moon Of Love
4. The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love
5. Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive
6. Kiki Dee - Amoureuse
7. David Soul - Don't Give Up On Us
8. Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock
9. The New Seekers - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
10. Tony Orlando & Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
11. The Drifters - Kissin' In The Back Row Of The Movies
12. Third World - Now That We've Found Love
13. Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking
14. Sailor - A Glass Of Champagne
15. Racey - Some Girls
16. Alvin Stardust - My Coo Ca Choo
17. Pilot - January
18. David Essex - Hold Me Close
19. The Isley Brothers - Harvest For The World
20. Racing Cars - They Shoot Horses Don't They?

Posted by: IdentFan101 15th May 2020, 07:28 AM

What are you talking about?! There were a few urban tracks on Now 105.

Posted by: gooddelta 15th May 2020, 08:12 AM

Interesting article about Now 105 and the future of the series here:

https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/now-s-peter-duckworth-on-the-physical-future-of-the-compilation-brand/079799

Looks like Now 106 is more likely in August now. Also interesting stuff on licensing issues with some artists, and the recent switch to put older acts on Disc 2.

Posted by: Hadji 15th May 2020, 11:27 AM

Only two compared to NOW 101 and NOW 104

Posted by: Hadji 15th May 2020, 11:33 AM

As for NOW 100 Hits 70s, they finally realised that "Video Killed The Radio Star" and "Pop Muzik" are actually 70s songs and not 80s songs

Posted by: isanka 15th May 2020, 12:47 PM

Thanks

Posted by: -SCOTT- 15th May 2020, 02:02 PM

Interesting that they talk about Steps as being on Disc 2 of Now 105 when of course they are not. I wonder if they were supposed to be on the original version, before covid19 put a halt to both Steps new material and Now 105

Posted by: gooddelta 15th May 2020, 02:49 PM

Very true. Initially I thought that was a mistake but it makes sense that Steps would have been on there with a new single. Hopefully it bodes well for them to make it when they do release it, after Scared of the Dark was never featured.

Posted by: ___∆___ 16th May 2020, 08:59 AM

Interesting Music Week interview with the NOW MD regarding the future of the brand, physicals etc.,

https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/now-s-peter-duckworth-on-the-physical-future-of-the-compilation-brand/079799

Posted by: T Boy 16th May 2020, 09:09 AM

I don’t really see the point of Now continuing if they ever lose the physical. Like it says, people can pretty much make their own playlists for everything now. I hope they still put out CDs for a while for oldies like me.

Posted by: Hadji 17th May 2020, 01:08 AM

NOW 40 in 1998 was the last NOW to get an August release. I just hope that they stick with their usual July release for NOW 106

Posted by: T Boy 17th May 2020, 08:52 AM

Why though? What difference does it really make? He said ‘Early August’ it’s a week or two after the usual release date and it makes sense with a late Now 105 and the fact that the charts are pretty slow these days. I actually expected them to scrap the Summer Now and just wait until November but I’m glad we can get one in August.

Posted by: Hadji 17th May 2020, 12:22 PM

The first Friday in August is the 7th so it would make sense to release it then if they were to go with an August release for this years summer edition. They could easily fill 106 with songs which should’ve been on 105

Posted by: Hadji 18th May 2020, 01:43 PM

NOW 100 Hits Summer due for release on 26th June. I just hope that it’s a mixture of old and new songs and that they include at least one song which will be on NOW 106

Posted by: HiyaLuv 23rd May 2020, 10:50 PM

Quite like my version. They chose the same disc openers as me though I finished mine long before they announced their tracklisting. Seems strange Born To Love wasn't pushed properly, sounded like a hit to me! Now it feels like I put a fecking b-side in.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4rJ0BhhqapGDB6ygsSieJ7?si=5qA3NNUxSlqw8Soo6Xz9yw

Posted by: Hadji 28th May 2020, 05:35 PM

NOW 100 Hits Summer tracklist

1. Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
2. Doja Cat - Say So
3. Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling!
4. Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie
5. Regard - Ride It
6. Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus - Old Town Road
7. Luis Fonsi - Despacito
8. JP Cooper - September Song
9. The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This
10. Pharrell Williams - Happy
11. Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be
12. Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza
13. Jonas Blue featuring Dakota - Fast Car
14. Olly Murs - Dance With Me Tonight
15. Calvin Harris featuring Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean
16. Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais - Summertime Sadness
17. Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor
18. Pitbull featuring Kesha - Timber
19. Maroon 5 - Sugar
20. Nicki Minaj - Starships
21. Bill Withers - Lovely Day
22. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
23. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
24. The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
25. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh What A Night)
26. The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk
27. The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze
28. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)
29. Barry Manilow - Copacabana (At The Copa)
30. Miami Sound Machine - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
31. Gypsy Kings - Bamboleo
32. Santana - Oye Como Va
33. Haircut 100 - Fantastic Day
34. The Style Council - Long Hot Summer
35. Sergio Mendes featuring Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada
36. Bellini - Samba De Janeiro
37. Shaggy featuring Rayvon - In The Summertime
38. Los Lobos - La Bamba
39. Blondie - The Tide Is High
40. Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy
41. Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith - La La La
42. Becky Hill & Shift K3Y - Better Off Without You
43. Jonas Brothers - What A Man Gotta Do
44. Silk City featuring Dua Lipa - Electricity
45. Europa featuring RAYE - Tequila
46. Dua Lipa - Break My Heart
47. George Ezra - Pretty Shining People
48. Justin Bieber - Yummy
49. Mabel - Don't Call Me Up
50. Meduza featuring GOODBOYS - Piece Of Your Heart
51. Mr Probz - Waves
52. Sigala & Ella Eyre - Came Here For Love
53. American Authors - Best Day Of My Life
54. Charli XCX & Troye Sivan - 1999
55. Martin Garrix featuring Macklemore & Patrick Stump - Summer Days
56. Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me
57. NEIKED featuring Dyo - Sexual
58. Swedish House Mafia vs Tinie Tempah - Miami 2 Ibiza
59. DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora - Hot Right Now
60. Demi Lovato - Cool For The Summer
61. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
62. Shawn Mendes - Stitches
63. Zara Larsson - Lush Life
64. Taio Cruz - Dynamite
65. 5 Seconds Of Summer - She Looks So Perfect
66. Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day
67. Dario G - Sunchyme
68. Years & Years - Shine
69. HAIM - Summer Girl
70. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - The Grease Megamix
71. Dr Alban - It's My Life
72. Bob Marley vs Funkstar De Luxe - Sun Is Shining
73. Arrow - Hot Hot Hot
74. Chris Rea - On The Beach
75. Carole King - It Might As Well Rain Until September
76. The Motors - Airport
77. The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream
78. Bobby Darin - Beyond The Sea
79. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Summer Holiday
80. Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
81. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky
82. Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
83. Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
84. Coldplay - Hymn For The Weekend
85. Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
86. Eric Prydz - Call On Me
87. Avicii - Waiting For Love
88. Flo Rida - Good Feeling
89. Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong
90. Miley Cyrus - Malibu
91. All Saints - Pure Shores
92. Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night
93. The Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme
94. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
95. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime
96. Nelly featuring Dani Stevenson - Hot In Herre
97. Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell Williams - Blurred Lines
98. 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday
99. Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy
100. The Beach Boys - California Girls

Posted by: IdentFan101 18th June 2020, 09:07 AM

The NOW Twitter has revealed a blurred image of Now 106.
https://twitter.com/NOWMusic/status/1273541505047834625?s=19

Posted by: Hadji 18th June 2020, 01:45 PM

I’m just more interested on what release date they’ll give for it

Posted by: gavindeejay 19th June 2020, 08:04 AM

Now have put the artwork for 106 up and a release date of 24th July.

Posted by: IdentFan101 19th June 2020, 08:05 AM

Now 106 is coming on the 24th of July! https://twitter.com/NOWMusic/status/1273888916324704256?s=19

Posted by: T Boy 19th June 2020, 08:18 AM

Nice cover and not a bad release date either. I hope Jack Garratt gets a slot on there.

Posted by: awardinary 19th June 2020, 09:01 AM

I don’t know why nobody ever posts the artwork in the thread when they announce it, so here it is. The first underwater cover?



Considering Now 105 was released May 8th that is just over 2 months to scrap together 40+ tracks to fill the album, I think it will be tough to find that many hits, especially as the majority of hits in this time have all been urban which the compilation series tends to shy away from. Perhaps they will revert back to a throwback of hits from the past, Now 6 would be the next one to come. I’ll have a go at making a tracklisting a bit later.

Posted by: T Boy 19th June 2020, 09:17 AM

Now 94 was an underwater cover.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 19th June 2020, 09:28 AM

I think this will have the most "Radio 2 hits" so far

Posted by: awardinary 19th June 2020, 09:29 AM

Indeed it was, thanks for that reminder!

Posted by: awardinary 19th June 2020, 10:05 AM

How’s this then, I’ve gone with this as a potential tracklisting using songs from both Radio 1 & Radio 2 playlists in recent weeks, and any other tracks that may get a mention, although not expecting as much urban as Disc 2 suggests.

Disc 1
1. Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande – Rain On Me
2. Dua Lipa – Break My Heart
3. Regard & RAYE – Secrets
4. 220 KID & GRACEY – Don’t Need Love
5. Topic & A75 – Breaking Me
6. Nathan Dawe feat. Jaykae – Flowers
7. Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
8. Live Lounge Allstars – Times Like These (BBC Radio 1 Stay Home Live Lounge)
9. Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber – Stuck With U
10. JP Saxe feat. Julia Michaels – If The World Was Ending
11. Sam Smith & Demi Lovato – I’m Ready
12. Ava Max – Kings & Queens
13. Ella Henderson – Take Care Of You
14. Kygo & OneRepublic – Lose Somebody
15. PS1 feat. Alex Hosking – Fake Friends
16. Surf Mesa feat. Emilee – ily (i love you baby)
17. Robbie Doherty & Keees. – Pour The Milk
18. HOSH & 1979 feat. Jalja – Midnight (The Hanging Tree)
19. Tiësto & Becky Hill – Nothing Really Matters
20. Marshmello & Halsey – Be Kind
21. Ellie Goulding – Power
22. Katy Perry – Daisies

Disc 2
1. DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch – ROCKSTAR
2. Megan Thee Stallion – Savage
3. AJ Tracey feat. MoStack – Dinner Guest
4. KSI feat. Swarmz & Tion Wayne – Houdini
5. S1mba feat. DTG – Rover
6. Drake – Toosie Slide
7. Doja Cat – Boss Bitch
8. Powfu feat. beabadoobee – death bed
9. Niko B – Who’s That What’s That
10. StaySolidRocky – Party Girl
11. Aitch – 30
12. The Weeknd – In Your Eyes
13. The Killers – Caution
14. The 1975 – If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
15. Jonas Brothers feat. Karol G – X
16. Harry Styles – Falling
17. Sia – Together
18. Jason Mraz – Look For The Good
19. Ronan Keating – Little Thing Called Love
20. Billie Eilish – No Time To Die
21. Amanda Holden – Over The Rainbow
22. Vera Lynn & Katherine Jenkins – We’ll Meet Again

Posted by: Spiral 19th June 2020, 11:17 AM

I'm more than okay with that. Disc 2 is starting to become my favorite disc thanks to it going for more of "established artists" vibe.

Maybe Steps will make this one!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 19th June 2020, 11:23 AM

Oh yeah I'd take Radio 2 hits over the alternative anyday

Posted by: T Boy 19th June 2020, 11:41 AM

When did ‘radio 2 hits’ even become a dismissive term? I’d much rather listen to those over the actual chart hits anyway.

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 11:43 AM

I hope they include songs which missed NOW 105. Wasn’t expecting them to stick with the original release date. I was expecting 31st July or 7th August as a release date

Posted by: awardinary 19th June 2020, 12:19 PM

There really weren’t that many big omissions to miss Now 105 were there though...

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 12:39 PM

My Oh My
Death Bed
Blueberry Faygo
You Should Be Sad

we’re all big omissions

Don't Rush and Flowers were also big omissions but the former looks set to re-peak and the latter has peaked since then

Posted by: T Boy 19th June 2020, 12:44 PM

I have heard of none of those

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 12:47 PM

Camila Cabello featuring DaBaby - My Oh My
Powfu featuring Beabadoobee - Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)
Lil Mosey - Blueberry Faygo
Halsey - You Should Be Sad
Young T & Bugsey featuring Headie One - Don’t Rush
Nathan Dawe featuring Jaykae - Flowers

Posted by: T Boy 19th June 2020, 12:49 PM

Oh the Powfu one I know but I didn’t know what it was called but hasn’t that been top 10 loads over the past few months? So it’s not exactly missed by 105 rather more appropriate for 106?

Can’t even hum the other ones, sorry.

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 12:54 PM

I’m surprised at the 24th July release date. I was expecting 31st July or 7th August but I reckon it would have been 17th July had NOW 105 not been postponed

Posted by: #VoteGarden.keh 19th June 2020, 12:59 PM

These have all been pretty big hits and would like to seek them included- You Should Be Sad in particular

Posted by: IdentFan101 19th June 2020, 01:28 PM

What about The Box by Roddy Ricch? That didn't make a appearance on Now 105.

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 01:49 PM

Oh yeah, forgot that one. That’s another 105 omission which could make 106

Posted by: gmat12 19th June 2020, 03:32 PM

I cannot see Toosie Slide making it on 106 - wasn't it mentioned in a video by the company that they never get Drake (except features ofc)?

I am sceptical about ROCKSTAR appearing also considering The Box and My Oh My (Camila is normally included) were omitted from 105.

Let's hope a few more tracks progress in the chart in the next few weeks as as highlighted, there isn't exactly an abundance of available tracks.

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 04:41 PM

I think Rockstar will appear if they don’t decide to be anti-urban. What they should do to have a good balance of urban is only include urban if it went top 10

Posted by: lewistgreen 19th June 2020, 04:46 PM

Let’s not drag Radio 2 pls, we all know it’s superior in its playlisting choices

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 04:49 PM

Well they can add Ellie Goulding then as she’s heavily supported by R2 and has an album out next month. And also, no one really cares about the R2 artists

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 19th June 2020, 05:02 PM

Clearly they do

Posted by: T Boy 19th June 2020, 05:04 PM

Actually, they do. Now are well aware that most of their buyers are over 30 and will be attracted to big names from yesteryear. You don’t care about them but you’re not everyone, thank goodness for that.

Posted by: Spiral 19th June 2020, 05:54 PM

They care more about these artists than the flash in pan urban stuff that you keep moaning about not being on there

Posted by: awardinary 19th June 2020, 06:13 PM

Steps was apparently considered for Now 105, but what song would they have been considering, will it get an official release before Now 106 release date?

Also, Radio 2 artists are always better than Radio 1, their careers usually prove this. So I would definitely not complain about there being what the general population would consider album filler mixed with Top 40 hits.

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 08:06 PM

If they’re gonna go overboard with the R2 artists, I hope they include Boyzlife as their album comes out the week before

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 08:48 PM

My NOW 106 prediction

CD 1

1. DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch – Rockstar 3:01
2. Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande – Rain On Me 3:02
3. Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo – Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) 2:51
4. Dua Lipa – Break My Heart 3:41
5. Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar 2:53
6. Powfu featuring Beabadoobee – Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head) 2:53
7. Megan Thee Stallion – Savage 2:35
8. S1mba featuring DTG – Rover 2:47
9. Regard & RAYE – Secrets 2:56
10. Joel Corry & MNEK – Head & Heart 2:46
11. Nathan Dawe featuring Jaykae – Flowers 3:17
12. Becky Hill & Sigala – Heaven On My Mind 3:12
13. AJ Tracey featuring MoStack – Dinner Guest 3:18
14. Justin Bieber & Ariana Grande – Stuck With U 3:48
15. Anne-Marie featuring Doja Cat – To Be Young ?
16. Katy Perry – Daisies 2:54
17. Lil Mosey – Blueberry Faygo 2:42
18. HOSH & 1979 featuring Jalja – Midnight (The Hanging Tree) 2:58
19. CamelPhat featuring Foals – Hypercolour 3:29
20. Tiësto & Becky Hill – Nothing Really Matters 2:37
21. Sigma featuring John Newman – High On You 3:59
22. Jonas Brothers featuring Karol G – X 3:05
23. Jubel featuring NEIMY – Dancing In The Moonlight 2:44
24. Stormzy featuring Headie One – Audacity 4:05
25. Live Lounge Allstars – Times Like These 4:16

Total running time: ??75:49??

CD 2

1. Billie Eilish – No Time To Die 4:02
2. Surf Mesa featuring Emilee – ILY (I Love You Baby) 2:56
3. Surfaces & Elton John – Learn To Fly 3:29
4. Topic & A7S – Breaking Me 2:46
5. Young T & Bugsey featuring Headie One – Don't Rush 3:27
6. The Weeknd – In Your Eyes 3:57
7. Sam Smith & Demi Lovato – I'm Ready 3:20
8. Marshmello & Halsey – Be Kind 2:52
9. JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels – If The World Was Ending 3:28
10. 220 Kid & Gracey – Don't Need Love 3:15
11. Ava Max – Kings & Queens 2:42
12. Ellie Goulding – Power 3:11
13. Aitch – 30 2:17
14. Dadi Freyr – Think About Things 2:53
15. Tion Wayne featuring Dutchavelli & Stormzy – I Dunno 2:58
16. Niko B – Who's That What's That 4:00
17. Robbie Doherty & Keees – Pour The Milk 2:52
18. 24kGoldn – City Of Angels 1:52
19. Jack Garratt – Better 4:13
20. Kygo & OneRepublic – Lose Somebody 3:19
21. The 1975 – If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) 3:59
22. Ella Henderson – Take Care Of You 3:14
23. Gerry Cinnamon – Head In The Clouds 3:53
24. Captain Tom Moore & Michael Ball – You'll Never Walk Alone 4:10

Total running time: 79:05

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 19th June 2020, 08:50 PM

Wouldn't Where We're Going make more sense for Gerry Cinnamon?

Posted by: Hadji 19th June 2020, 08:54 PM

Yes and no. WWG may have peaked higher but HITC is more recent

Posted by: lewistgreen 19th June 2020, 09:14 PM

R2 haven’t stooped that low (yet )

Posted by: Spiral 22nd June 2020, 01:13 PM

Thankfully there's been a few UK No. 1s between NOW 105 & NOW 106 and I can see at least 3 of them making NOW 106 which will give it some sales.

BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge All Stars - Times Like This
DaBaby - Rockstar
Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me

Drake is probably a nope, but who knows.
You'll Never Walk Alone might be at the end of Disc 2.

Would love to see some "flop" pop on there. Kings & Queens by Ava Max, and Daisies by Katy Perry.

Add in The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, The 1975, and some of the latest Tik Tok songs and they're halfway there to making the album.

Posted by: gmat12 22nd June 2020, 09:22 PM

I was wondering if it was licensing issues over being 'anti-urban'. It was a big hit to be omitted and considering Rain was included and I do consider that urban.

Posted by: T Boy 23rd June 2020, 04:50 PM

It’s probably not all licensing issues or being ‘anti-urban’, it’s just that they want to catch the market for the album. People propelling these tuneless ‘urban’ songs to the top of the charts are streaming them so unlikely to buy a cd of the latest hits.

Posted by: Hadji 23rd June 2020, 05:00 PM

But at the end of the day, it’s about having hits, not flops. When NOW first came out, they only included songs which went top 20. NOW 6 which I hope to see getting the CD treatment next month was the first in the series to include a song which missed the top 40. It’s obviously hard to get hits because of streaming but when it’s a major compilation, people wanna see hits, not flops

Posted by: lewistgreen 23rd June 2020, 05:01 PM

Times are changing though? We can’t compare Nows of yesteryear to Nows being released at the moment. As already said if people want hits they can get them straight away on streaming. Now still cater to that but they’ve had their fair share of flops in the past too

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 23rd June 2020, 05:04 PM

Exactly - something like The Killers' Caution will be much more of a hit to Now's audience than "I Dunno"

Posted by: Hadji 24th June 2020, 11:06 AM

Looks like the NOW 6 CD is happening. I just hope they don’t edit the tracklist like they did with 3 and 5 https://www.amazon.co.uk/NOW-Thats-What-Call-Music/dp/B08BDY61J9

Posted by: T Boy 24th June 2020, 11:13 AM

As long as they have Kate Bush, I’m good.

Posted by: Hadji 24th June 2020, 02:36 PM

She frequently appears on compilations so I don’t see RUTH being removed from the tracklist. The last compilation it appeared on was Ministry Of Sound Chilled Electronic 80s from 2016 which is coincidentally also the last compilation where David Bowie's "This Is Not America" last appeared

Posted by: BillyH 28th June 2020, 08:25 PM

I didn't realise how collectable some of these are! Was having a house clearout and found cassette copies of Now 53 and 58 - both I bought back in the late 2000s for a pound or so each, at a car boot sale and in WHSmith when they were clearing out the last few tapes they had in stock. They just sold for £28 and £41 each on eBay!!

I think it's just the 2000s tapes that are collectable - I've got lots from Now 44 and earlier but they only seem to go for a few pounds each as there's loads of those, they become a lot rarer later on. Similar with 1980s CDs and 1990s vinyl copies.

Posted by: Hadji 28th June 2020, 10:20 PM

I can’t believe that amazon have removed tracklist information for every music album for sale on there ie. artist and compilation albums

Posted by: Hadji 1st July 2020, 12:29 PM

According to amazon, only Bryan Adams has been removed from the NOW 6 CD

Posted by: awardinary 1st July 2020, 07:52 PM

Posted by: Hadji 3rd July 2020, 09:57 PM

According to amazon, it says on the product description for NOW 106 that there will be 40 songs on there. Hope not as there’s plenty of space to be filled

Posted by: gavindeejay 5th July 2020, 06:13 PM

I should think we'll get the tracklist within the next couple of days.

Posted by: T Boy 5th July 2020, 06:16 PM

They might not have much to fill it with. It hasn’t even been two months since the last one yet.

Posted by: Hadji 5th July 2020, 06:16 PM

Tuesday we should get it although we got the NOW 105 tracklist a week earlier than usual. As long as both discs are filled with no gaps, I’ll be happy

Posted by: Hadji 5th July 2020, 06:16 PM

They could easily fill it with R2 artists, random hits, songs which missed NOW 105, songs which have just been released ie. Joel Corry and Mabel and songs which ain’t been released yet ie. Anne-Marie & Doja Cat

Posted by: George.keh 7th July 2020, 10:30 AM

Been reading through my Now That’s What I Call Music book, and the track listening on the NOW 81 pages is all kinds of wrong!!!

Posted by: Hadji 7th July 2020, 05:33 PM

They’re taking a while to reveal the tracklist

Posted by: lewistgreen 7th July 2020, 05:42 PM

It’s on the website already, someone else can do the honours x

LOTS of R&B/Hip Hop which will please some people, a good range of dance tracks and more adult contemporary ones as usual

Posted by: Hadji 7th July 2020, 05:47 PM

No Lady Gaga or DaBaby. This tracklist is weak as there’s a lack of big hits

Posted by: lewistgreen 7th July 2020, 05:47 PM

Give over, it is not a weak tracklist. No pleasing you EVER is there

Posted by: Hadji 7th July 2020, 05:48 PM

I think it is. 41 tracks. Gaps which could’ve been filled

Posted by: George.keh 7th July 2020, 05:50 PM

Who are Rhys Lewis and Natalie Taylor?

Properly disappointing they didn’t get Gaga and DaBaby

Posted by: lewistgreen 7th July 2020, 05:51 PM

Natalie Taylor has had a big impact on TikTok with Surrender

Of this week’s Top 10, 7 tracks are there - I’d say that captures the hits right now quite well?

Rhys Lewis is definitely a WHO moment and I’m definitely doing a �� at Tondo being chosen over ENERGY

Posted by: Hadji 7th July 2020, 05:52 PM

I hope Gaga is on 107. Shame West 10 ain’t on there but I think it would’ve been if Mabel was credited first

Posted by: George.keh 7th July 2020, 05:54 PM

stuck with u and Toosie Slide missed too- a series I used to adore and love is really losing interest from me

Posted by: Bré 7th July 2020, 05:55 PM

Nice to see 'Don't Wanna', 'Save A Kiss' and especially 'Tondo' making it on there out of the non-charting inclusions *.*

Posted by: lewistgreen 7th July 2020, 06:01 PM

Disc 1
1. Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)
2. Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar
3. Dua Lipa - Break My Heart
4. Regard & RAYE - Secrets
5. Nathan Dawe feat. Jaykae - Flowers
6. Topic feat. A7S - Breaking Me
7. Surf Mesa feat. Emilee - ily (i love you)
8. Powfu & beabadoobee - death bed (coffee for your head)
9. Jonas Blue & MAX - Naked
10. HOSH & 1979 feat. Jalja - Midnight (The Hanging Tree)
11. Joel Corry & MNEK - Head & Heart
12. Robbie Doherty & Keees. - Pour The Milk
13. Ellie Goulding - Power
14. The Weeknd - In Your Eyes
15. Sam Smith & Demi Lovato - I'm Ready
16. The 1975 - If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)
17. HAIM - Don't Wanna
18. Katy Perry - Daisies
19. Kygo & OneRepublic - Lose Somebody
20. JP Saxe feat. Julia Michaels - If The World Was Ending
21. Tom Walker - Wait For You

Disc 2
1. AJ Tracey feat. MoStack - Dinner Guest
2. S1mba feat. DTG - Rover
3. 220 KID & GRACEY - Don't Need Love
4. Lil Mosey - Blueberry Fago
5. Doja Cat feat. Gucci Mane - Like That
6. StaySolidRocky - Party Girl
7. Tion Wayne feat. Dutchavelli & Stormzy - I Dunno
8. THE SCOTTS, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi - THE SCOTTS
9. Niko B - Who's That What's That
10. KSI feat. Swarmz & Tion Wayne - Houdini
11. Sean Paul & Tove Lo - Calling Me
12. PS1 feat. Alex Hosking - Fake Friends
13. Disclosure & Eko Roosevelt - Tondo
14. Jessie Ware - Save A Kiss
15. YUNGBLUD - Weird!
16. Ronan Keating - Little Thing Called Love
17. Paul Weller - Village
18. Natalie Taylor - Surrender
19. Rhys Lewis - No Right To Love You
20. Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore & The NHS Voices Of Care Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone

Posted by: IdentFan101 7th July 2020, 06:03 PM

I'm surprised to see THE SCOTTS make the tracklist since HIGHEST IN THE ROOM didn't make the previous entries.

Posted by: gooddelta 7th July 2020, 06:03 PM

Shame Think About Things and Kings & Queens didn't make it, I thought the former had a good shot at being the first Eurovision inclusion since Euphoria.

They did pretty well to get Savage Love so early but it's a shame to see Rockstar and Rain On Me missing/probably not available for licensing yet.

There are some good songs and a good mix of genres on here but I don't really see this volume selling well at all, lots of barely known songs and hardly any top 10 hits on it (not that there have been that many since the last volume...). Maybe it should have been an August release to give them time to get more stuff, rather than having a two and a half month gap followed by a four month gap for Now 107.

Posted by: Jade 7th July 2020, 06:04 PM

YUNGBLUD and Ronan Keating is an interesting back-to-back

Posted by: Hadji 7th July 2020, 06:04 PM

Hope all the major 106 omissions get included on 107

Posted by: gavindeejay 7th July 2020, 06:08 PM

Not a bad job considering it’s not been long since Now 105 and there hasn’t been much out.

Posted by: lewistgreen 7th July 2020, 06:08 PM

Toosie Slide won't appear as it's been mentioned before there's licensing issues with Drake.

No Rain On Me is a shame, couldn't care less about Rockstar though

Posted by: Spiral 7th July 2020, 06:14 PM

Wow. Now that's what I call TikTok. But I guess that's what will sell the album.
Love that HAIM and Jessie Ware made the album though. Talent always wins

Posted by: T Boy 7th July 2020, 06:30 PM

Perhaps you should quit buying them then, it’d save us some grief.

It’s not the best track list but then I’m not one to judge as I know barely anything on it. I’m a little disappointed there’s no Jack Garratt as I thought he really could make it with not much being out.

I don’t mind 41 tracks at all. Seeing 25 tracks to a disc always makes me feel weirdly nauseous.

Posted by: awardinary 7th July 2020, 06:31 PM

The Top 40 Omissions

Billie Eilish – No Time To Die {1}
Live Lounge Allstars – Times Like These {1}
Drake – Toosie Slide {1}
DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch – ROCKSTAR {1}
Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande – Rain On Me {1}
Megan Thee Stallion – Savage {3}
Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber – Stuck With U {4}
6ix9ine – Gooba {6}
6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj – Trollz {12}
Harry Styles – Falling {15}
Ava Max – Kings & Queens {19}
Young T & Bugsey feat. Headie One – Don’t Rush {19}
BLACKPINK – How You Like That {20}
Jübel feat. Neimy – Dancing In The Moonlight {27}
Chris Brown & Young Thug – Go Crazy {30}
D-Block Europe – Free 22 {31}
Bring Me The Horizon – Parasite Eve {28}
Marshmello & Halsey – Be Kind {33}
Daði Freyr – Think About Things {34}
Aitch – 30 {36}
Becky Hill & Sigala – Heaven On My Mind {38}

Future Hits?

Ella Henderson – Take Care Of Me {55}
Rosalia & Travis Scott – TKN {65}
Kanye West feat. Travis Scott – Wash Us In The Blood {69}
CamelPhat feat. Yannis from Foals – Hypercolour {77}
AJ Tracey & Mabel – West 10 {TBA}
Disclosure – ENERGY {TBA}
Franky Wah – Come Together {TBA}
Prospa – Ecstasy (Over & Over) {TBA}

Posted by: Ken A. 7th July 2020, 07:20 PM

It was a quarter to 2 in the morning from where I come from when the track list was revealed, and it's now past 3am here as I submit this. Here is my first outlook on NOW 106:

So, they added one more track in there. I honestly thought that with the initial announcement of only 40 songs, they would bring back the bonus throwback songs (in this case, the ones from NOW 6).

NOW 106 is going to be the first NOW album to contain only 41 songs in total since NOW 49 (2001), which was also a July release - a full 19 years!

Only three songs I heard from among 'em: "Break My Heart" (which is one of my faves right now), "death bed", and "If the World Was Ending". I know of the Gerry and the Pacemakers version of "You'll Never Walk Alone", but I am yet to hear the NHS charity single version that's featured here.

Also, only two number-one songs (so far, at least): "Savage Love" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" (did y'all notice it was from end to end, too?).

I think the 21-20 layout presented by lewistgreen will be most likely here - it's going to be first time that a disc has 21 current chart hits since CD 1 of NOW 96 (2017) - not counting the second discs of both NOW 100 (2018) and NOW 102 (2019) that contained throwbacks - and the first time that a disc has only 20 songs since CD 2 of NOW 69 (2008 - 12 years on!). (Erratum: In my first publication of this post, I erroneously said that CD 1 of NOW 58 from 2004 was the last instance of this.)

I put all songs on a Spotify playlist. If the 21-20 layout will be followed, and the full album versions of "If You're Too Shy" and "Save a Kiss" will be included, then both CDs will just be over an hour in total each (to be precise: 1:05:04 for CD 1, and 1:06:23 for CD 2), the first time the CDs are under 70 minutes in length since NOW 69 (its aforementioned CD 2 has... well, 1:09:32 in total. Coincidence?). It's kind of a shock change for most, if not all of us NOW fans, as we usually see the albums packed with tracks, and if it's not the case, the songs are long enough for the CD to be filled to capacity.

P.S. Allow me to correct myself in one of my earlier posts. Before "Thank You Baked Potato" from NOW 105, the previous record-holder for the shortest song on a NOW album isn't Lil Nas X's "Panini" from NOW 104. It was actually Himesh Patel's cover of "Yesterday" by The Beatles from NOW 103, and from the 2019 Beatles-inspired movie of the same name, after the compilers made the bright idea of putting the 90-second version of the song (1:33 to be precise) instead of the full 2-minute one (aka the "One Man Only" album version); well, to be fair, the shorter version was the one that fit the maximum CD capacity.

Posted by: Hadji 7th July 2020, 09:59 PM

They say artists like Drake, Adele and Rihanna etc. don’t appear on a NOW because they don’t like being on there but then you have artists like Nathan Dawe as I seen on his Facebook that are happy that they’re gonna appear on a NOW

Posted by: awardinary 7th July 2020, 10:12 PM

Are you still complaining? Oh of course you are.

Posted by: Hadji 7th July 2020, 10:19 PM

If I had a hit and it weren’t on there, of course I’d be complaining

Posted by: lewistgreen 7th July 2020, 10:41 PM

What’s wrong with Nathan Dawe celebrating appearing on the album? He’s had a hit single and it’s the first time he’s been on the compilation

I really don’t get what comparison you’re making there with the bigger artists? Their labels do not licence the tracks, simple x

Posted by: Hadji 7th July 2020, 10:45 PM

The point I’m making is that you get some artists who are happy with being on a NOW album then you’ve got some artists who are against being on a NOW and if I was in the same position as Nathan, I’d be happy with being on a NOW and I would celebrate

Posted by: Dexton 7th July 2020, 11:27 PM

Good for you? For some artists getting the added promotion of being featured on a compilation is a blessing as it has the potential to boost their fan base, for UK only acts this is even more exciting for them as Now is (or was) a major force in terms of compilation albums. UK acts will be happier as it extends their reach whereas acts from outside the UK don’t really give a damn. Travis Scott is included but I doubt he is even aware because it’s not important It gets to a certain point where including your singles on a compilation doesn’t actually benefit you and the pure purpose of being included is to sell the album and make money for a company you are not affiliated with. Ari & Bieber / their label could have given Now the use of Stuck With U but it makes a lot of sense why: 1) Neither artist needs more outreach as they are both household names at this point; and 2) All it does by giving the song to Now is reduce the amount of money made from the song

It’s also very very likely that a lot of artists don’t even know they are on these albums because they have no say. The rights to a lot of artists releases ultimately belong to their labels or managers

Posted by: Hadji 8th July 2020, 02:46 PM

There’s hopefully a chance that ROM will be on 107. Shallow which appeared on 102 should’ve been on 101

Posted by: Spiral 8th July 2020, 03:59 PM

I feel like a lot of the bigger songs are going to be saved for 107, probably because they make the most money. This gives me NOW 100 (Disc 1) vibes of licensing and song choices

Posted by: Hadji 8th July 2020, 04:03 PM

I noticed on 101 that most of the songs were released before 100 and would’ve been on 100 had that been 2 discs of current hits

Posted by: Ken A. 9th July 2020, 06:37 AM

Well, this is gonna be a big blow to the UK NOW team:

"Rain on Me" is included in the latest edition of the Australian compilation series, https://www.sanity.com.au/products/2535939/So-Fresh---The-Hits-Of-Winter-2020. Hopefully it will still be up for NOW 107 later this year.

Also surprised that DaBaby's number one song "Rockstar" is omitted in NOW 106, given that he has appeared in the US NOW albums - NOW 72 with "Suge" and a double appearance on NOW 74 with his solo track "Bop" and his collaboration with Camila Cabello, "My Oh My" (the latter, of course, is also quite a miss for NOW 106).

Fingers crossed now for what's in store in the stateside NOW 75...

Posted by: Spiral 9th July 2020, 02:50 PM

Speaking of other countries chart albums, here's Bravo Hits 110's track listing

Disk 1 von 2
1 Robin Schulz & Wes - Alane
2 Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat)
3 Ava Max - Kings & Queens
4 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me
5 Phil The Beat - Heart To Heart
6 VIZE & Tom Gregory - Never Let Me Down
7 Georg Stengel - Mars
8 LA Vision & Gigi D'Agostino - Hollywood
9 Purple Disco Machine & Sophie and The Giants - Hypnotized
10 Joel Corry x MNEK - Head & Heart
11 Regard & Raye - Secrets
12 twocolors - Lovefool
13 Becky Hill & Sigala - Heaven On My Mind
14 Tujamo & VIZE feat. MAJAN - Lonely
15 Kygo Feat. OneRepublic - Lose Somebody
16 Sam Feldt & VIZE feat. Leony - Far Away From Home
17 Jonas Brothers feat. Karol G. - X
18 Tones And I - Ur So f***InG cOoL
19 Dua Lipa - Break My Heart
20 SIA - Together
21 Ellie Goulding - Power
22 Katy Perry - Daisies
23 Juan Daniél - Buenos Momentos
24 Conkarah feat. Shaggy - Banana (DJ Fle - Minisiren Remix)

Disk 2 von 2
1 Mark Forster - Übermorgen
2 WIER, Alexa Feser, Annett Louisan… - Best Of Us
3 Michael Patrick Kelly - Beautiful Madness
4 Milow - Whatever It Takes
5 Tom Gregory - Rather Be You
6 Winona Oak & Robin Schulz - Oxygen
7 Kungs feat. Jhart - Dopamine
8 David Puentez - LaLaLife
9 Apache 207 - Boot
10 Bausa feat. Bozza - Selfmade Babylon
11 LEA & Capital Bra - 7 Stunden
12 Lotte - Mehr davon
13 Surfaces & Elton John - Learn To Fly
14 James Blunt - Should I Give It All Up
15 Joris - Nur die Musik
16 Christopher - Leap Of Faith
17 Lizot - Weekend
18 Lucky Luke - Cooler Than Me
19 ZEDD & Jasmine Thompson - Funny
20 Milky Chance & Jack Johnson - Don’t Let Me Down
21 Johannes Oerding - Anfassen
22 Gentleman - Ahoi
23 Mike Singer - 100Tausend
24 Michele Morrone - Hard For Me

Some amazing inclusions on here - including Learn to Fly by Surfaces, Sia, and Ellie Goulding.

Posted by: gooddelta 9th July 2020, 08:57 PM

Pesumably Rockstar was a global licensing issue but it makes no sense why Rain On Me would be licensed in Australia and Germany but not the UK, especially as it was a No.1 here. They must have tried to get it, so it's odd.

Posted by: awardinary 9th July 2020, 09:31 PM

From that Bravo 110 track list that Spiral posted, I would have expected to see the following on Now 106;

I guess I can understand with Jonas Brothers as it did poorly, but they usually get added. As for Ava, it was disappointing that her last hit So Am I was also omitted from the series, so perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised about that one. Becky Hill’s latest single is quite new but that should be a reason to exclude it, so that was a bit baffling. And as for Rain On Me, considering Stupid Love made it on the last volume just two months ago, you would definitely have expected this major hit to be included.

Some early choices for a November 2020 release of Now volume 107, I would suggest the following tracks may have an outside chance of featuring (depending on how long that they can remain in the charts and peak higher);

DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch – ROCKSTAR {1}
Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande – Rain On Me {1}
Ava Max – Kings & Queens {19}
Marshmello & Halsey – Be Kind {33}
Becky Hill & Sigala – Heaven On My Mind {38}
Ella Henderson – Take Care Of Me {55}
CamelPhat feat. Yannis from Foals – Hypercolour {77}
Disclosure – ENERGY {TBA}
Franky Wah – Come Together {TBA}
AJ Tracey & Mabel – West Ten {TBA}
Anne-Marie feat. Doja Cat – To Be Young {TBA}
Dua Lipa – Hallucinate {TBA}

Posted by: Klaus 9th July 2020, 09:39 PM

Save a Kiss Is that the first Jessie appearance or did she get on with Tough Love/Say You Love Me?

Power on there but Ellie will still say it was only for the fans

Posted by: Hadji 9th July 2020, 09:58 PM

This will be her first appearance

Posted by: Bré 9th July 2020, 10:07 PM

Oh, Jessie Ware's inclusion is even more surprising if they didn't even include her actual top 40 hits...!

Posted by: Spiral 10th July 2020, 12:09 AM

Love that they included Jessie Ware. Wildest Moments deserved a NOW placement back when it was released, so at least they're making up for that.

And I love that they keep.adding HAIM. Someone at the NOW office is clearly a fan

Posted by: Hadji 10th July 2020, 11:29 AM

Surprised 6 and 106 aren’t available to pre-order on iTunes yet as they’d normally be available to pre-order by now

Posted by: Ken A. 10th July 2020, 04:15 PM

Here's to hoping they pull out a NOW 81 and change the tracklist (even a minor one will do), unless they're already mass-producing the album (NOW 106, that is).

Posted by: Hadji 10th July 2020, 05:18 PM

They did a last minute change last year to NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 90s so I hope this is the case. I don’t understand why it’s not on iTunes yet as the release date ain’t changed

Posted by: Hadji 15th July 2020, 09:37 PM

According to itunes with NOW 6, the version of "Lavender" by Marillion is the remastered 2:28 version from 2017. "Uncle Sam" by Madness is the album version, not the single version. They only gave information for a few of the tracks but NOW 106 is still not up for pre-order. According to amazon, NOW 106 lasts 2:10:44 which means that there was 29:16 of total space left. On play store, a lot of songs have been edited and could have been left in full. Someone should go to NOW HQ and challenge Jenny Fisher for her job. Even a 5 year old can do a better job than her. No wonder sales for these albums are declining

Posted by: Hadji 17th July 2020, 12:28 PM

Here are the total running times for NOW 106 and NOW 6

NOW 106

CD 1

1. Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) 2:52
2. Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar 2:55
3. Dua Lipa - Break My Heart 3:42
4. Regard & RAYE - Secrets 2:57
5. Nathan Dawe featuring Jaykae - Flowers 3:18
6. Topic & A7S - Breaking Me 2:47
7. Surf Mesa featuring Emilee - ILY (I Love You Baby) 2:58
8. Powfu featuring Beabadoobee - Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head) 2:53
9. Jonas Blue & MAX - Naked 3:31
10. HOSH & 1979 featuring Jalja - Midnight (The Hanging Tree) 2:57
11. Joel Corry & MNEK - Head & Heart 2:47
12. Robbie Doherty & Keees - Pour The Milk 2:53
13. Ellie Goulding - Power 3:11
14. The Weeknd - In Your Eyes 3:58
15. Sam Smith & Demi Lovato - I'm Ready 3:19
16. The 1975 - If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) 4:00
17. HAIM - Don't Wanna 3:22
18. Katy Perry - Daisies 2:54
19. Kygo & OneRepublic - Lose Somebody 3:19
20. JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels - If The World Was Ending 3:29
21. Tom Walker - Wait For You 2:52

Running time: 66:54

CD 2

1. AJ Tracey & MoStack - Dinner Guest 3:19
2. S1mba featuring DTG - Rover 2:44
3. 220 KID & GRACEY - Don't Need Love 3:16
4. Lil Mosey - Blueberry Faygo 2:42
5. Doja Cat featuring Gucci Mane - Like That 2:44
6. StaySolidRocky - Party Girl 2:29
7. Tion Wayne featuring Dutchavelli & Stormzy - I Dunno 2:56
8. The Scotts - The Scotts 2:47
9. Niko B - Who's That What's That 4:01
10. KSI featuring Swarmz & Tion Wayne - Houdini 2:48
11. Sean Paul & Tove Lo - Calling On Me 3:38
12. PS1 featuring Alex Hosking - Fake Friends 2:54
13. Disclosure featuring Eko Roosevelt - Tondo 3:20
14. Jessie Ware - Save A Kiss 3:37
15. YUNGBLUD - Weird! 3:04
16. Ronan Keating - Little Thing Called Love 3:03
17. Paul Weller - Village 3:19
18. Natalie Taylor - Surrender 3:04
19. Rhys Lewis - No Right To Love You 3:56
20. Michael Ball, Captain Moore & The NHS Voices Of Care Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone 4:09

Running time 63:50

NOW 6

CD 1

1. Queen - One Vision 4:01
2. Nik Kershaw - When A Heart Beats 4:22
3. Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart - A Good Heart 4:38
4. Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) 4:41
5. Simple Minds - Alive And Kicking 4:46
6. Gary Moore - Empty Rooms 4:13
7. Marillion - Lavender 2:28
8. Elton John - Nikita 4:52
9. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 4:52
10. Level 42 - Something About You 3:47
11. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 4:14
12. UB40 - Don't Break My Heart 3:50
13. Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin - Separate Lives 4:07
14. Cliff Richard - She's So Beautiful 4:10

Running time: 59:01

CD 2

1. Arcadia - Election Day 4:26
2. UB40 & Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe 3:08
3. Fine Young Cannibals - Blue 3:30
4. Midge Ure - If I Was 5:18
5. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust - 4:04
6. Madness - Uncle Sam 4:15
7. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Lost Weekend 3:15
8. Communards - You Are My World 4:28
9. Paul Hardcastle - Just For Money 5:09
10. Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme 2:27
11. Maria Vidal - Body Rock 3:39
12. Baltimora - Tarzan Boy 3:47
13. Mai Tai - Body & Soul 3:46
14. Cameo - Single Life - 4:26
15. David Grant & Jaki Graham - Mated 3:49

Running time: 59:27

Posted by: Ken A. 19th July 2020, 04:55 PM

Note: I have edited this post on 21 July 2020. The added bits are in dark blue bold italic text.

Some new info about a few Stateside NOW releases.

First off, their Q3 release, NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 75. On 19 July, they released its cover art, which is similar to UK's NOW 102 (2019) (which, btw, I just bought a CD copy of and is now on its way to me - yay!).

Shown below is the non-animated version of the cover art.

And just now, they made a sneak peek of the album's 16 main tracks by uploading a really fast-moving GIF . I will list them down here so you don't have to.

So, here goes US NOW 75's main tracks, as well as the NOW What's Next Bonus Tracks:

01. Dua Lipa - "Break My Heart"
02. Lady Gaga - "Stupid Love"
03. The Weeknd & Doja Cat - "In Your Eyes [remix]"
04. DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch - "ROCKSTAR"
05. THE SCOTTS, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi - "THE SCOTTS"
06. Lil Moseyy - "Blueberry Faygo"
07. Doja Cat feat. Gucci Mane - "Like That"
08. Surfaces - "Sunday Best"
09. Justin Bieber feat. Quavo - "Intentions"
10. Katy Perry - "Daisies"
11. Powfu feat. beabadoobee - "death bed (coffee for your head)"
12. JP Saxe feat. Julia Michaels - "If the World Was Ending"
13. Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber - "Stuck with U"
14. Diplo (as Thomas Wesley) feat. Morgan Wallen - "Heartless"
15. Gabby Barrett - "I Hope"
16. Lewis Capaldi - "Before You Go"
NOW What's Next Bonus Tracks
17. Zoe Wees - "Control"
18. UMI - "Open Up"
19. kenzie feat. Sia - "Exhale"
20. Role Model - "For the People in the Back"
21. YK Osiris - "Leave Me on Read"
22. Dauzat St. Marie - "Common Ground"

Based on the track lengths presented in https://music.apple.com/us/album/1523515438?app=music&at=1000lNNy&lId=22057472&cId=TP&sr=1&src=Linkfire&itscg=30440&itsct=catchall_p1&ct=LFV_c66318ab559c6099d36b09e529710dfc&ls=1, the total running time is 1:09:16, leaving a void of 10 minutes. Its release date is confirmed to be on Friday, 07 August 2020.

From the outset, quite a good one too. Maybe I should be getting used to the urban songs? They're kind of not my thing, but I appreciate them getting represented more on the mainstream music scene lately. Not familiar with "Heartless" and "I Hope" - I had to even look them up just to be sure!

Half of the songs here will also appear on the upcoming NOW 106 (out this Friday!), and three are from NOW 105 ("Stupid Love", "Intentions", and "Before You Go").

Another big blow to the UK NOW team, as "ROCKSTAR", which I am aware recently had a long stint atop the UK charts, as well as "Stuck with U", appear on this album, but not on its UK counterpart, NOW 106. Hope they still have a chance on NOW 107 - same with Gaga & Ariana's "Rain on Me".

And yet another occurrence of a previous NOW What's Next bonus track being promoted to the main tracks, in this case it's Surfaces' "Sunday Best". As I implied, this isn't the first time this has happened. Examples include Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight Tonight" (NOW 38 & 39), MKTO's "Classic" (NOW 47 & 51), and WALK THE MOON's "Shut Up and Dance" (NOW 53 & 54). There are also times when an artist appeared in the main tracks then to the NOW What's Next section (e.g. Michael Franti & Spearhead - NOW 32 & 38) or the other way around, prominent example is Shawn Mendes who started out with NOW 52 as a NOW What's Next artist and since then has appeared on multiple US NOWs in the main tracks section.

The US NOW team have also announced a spinoff title that recaps the decade that was, with NOW That's What I Call a Decade: 2010s. Its release date is on Friday, 07 August 2020, the same day as NOW 75.



Here is its track list, which is said to be fan-voted:

01. Lizzo - "Truth Hurts" (NOW debut, 2019)
02. Pharrell Williams - "Happy (from Despicable Me 2)" (NOW 50, 2014)
03. Meghan Trainor - "All About That Bass" (NOW 52, 2014)
04. P!nk - "Raise Your Glass" (NOW 37, 2011)
05. Jonas Brothers - "Sucker" (NOW 71, 2019)
06. Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - "Señorita" (NOW 72, 2019)
07. Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber - "Despacito [remix]" (NOW 64, 2017)
08. Maroon 5 - "Girls Like You" (NOW 67, 2018)
09. The Chainsmokers & Halsey - "Closer" (NOW debut, 2016) [FINALLY. Should've been in the NOW 20th Anniversary albums, imo. Heck, it should've been in NOW 60!]
10. Ariana Grande - "thank u, next" (NOW 70, 2019)
11. Selena Gomez - "Lose You to Love Me" (NOW 73, 2020)
12. Billie Eilish - "bad guy" (NOW 71, 2019)
13. The Weeknd - "Can't Feel My Face" (NOW 56, 2015)
14. Lady Gaga - "Born This Way" (NOW 38, 2011)
15. Katy Perry - "Teenage Dream" (NOW 36, 2010)
16. Kesha - "TiK ToK" (NOW 33, 2010) [No, not the app! ]
17. Miley Cyrus - "Wrecking Ball" (NOW 49, 2014)
18. Lorde - "Royals" (NOW 49, 2014)

Very great songs. Could've been more diverse, though.

But apparently, the list above is for the CD version of the album, as shown in the NOW US website and https://www.amazon.com/Thats-What-Decade-2010s-Clean/dp/B08CY7T24G/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=NOW+That%27s+what+I+call+Music+Decade+2010&qid=1595262351&sr=8-2&tag=univemuisc-central-21&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&ascsubtag=51f41c28dacda7f592f9a6061d501757. The https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/pl.eaf54e851468401b89bddb06a377fe46?app=music&at=1000lNNy&lId=22075953&cId=TP&sr=1&src=Linkfire&itscg=30440&itsct=catchall_p1&ct=LFV_cbca798f5b7a3da3e89a07ad87f50fc8&ls=1 and https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18RViKIp06x5HCozrfPzFW versions are presented as playlists, with more songs and therefore, is more diverse and made the 2010s decade well-represented, just like what the UK NOWs did in the past with their 3-disc spinoff titles, prior to shifting to the 100 Hits format.

Also, it's surprising to see the Bieber remix of Despacito in this US NOW spinoff title. In a previous version of this post, I pointed out that this more popular version of the song is barely featured on the UK NOW spinoffs (for instance, NOW Summer Party 2018 had the "pop version remix" of the song) and other non-NOW spinoff titles (except for a few cases, like the 2018 Grammy Nominees album).

And just a quick reply to Hadji's previous post: Darn, they used the edit versions of "If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)", "Tondo", and "Save a Kiss" for NOW 106. Yikes! Also, nice coincidence that NOW 106's CD 1 is 1:06:54.

Posted by: Hadji 1st August 2020, 03:36 PM

According to music week, the reason for the NOW 106 tracklist being short was because they never had time to compile it which was also their reason for it selling only 28k. And songs such as "Break Up Song" and "This City" would’ve been on 106 instead of 105 had the release date of 105 not been moved

Posted by: andeeeeyhart 5th August 2020, 06:19 PM

Break Up Song and This City could easily both have been on Now 105 had it been released in April, they had both charted before April 3rd. Hadji too often you can't separate your own subjective Now beliefs from actual reality.

Posted by: Hadji 5th August 2020, 06:59 PM

I never heard of This City until it appeared on NOW 105

Posted by: Hadji 11th August 2020, 07:14 PM

NOW 100 Hits Dance due for release on 18th September. I’d rather they did NOW 100 Hits Trance but if they include a lot of 90s and 00s dance, I’ll be happy https://www.nowmusic.com/albums/now-100-hits-dance/

Posted by: lewistgreen 11th August 2020, 07:15 PM

Omg perched for that

Posted by: Hadji 12th August 2020, 12:28 AM

I just hope it has actual dance hits and not just what they think is dance. NOW Dance Hits from 2016 and The Very Best Of Now Dance spring to mind. I hope it’s like the yearly NOW Dance spin offs they used to do back when EMI were in charge which was actual dance music

Posted by: Spiral 16th August 2020, 02:57 PM

Do you think we'll see Madonna finally make an appearance on NOW 107 with the latest Dua Lipa single? It'd be so insane to see after 106 NOWs of nothing!

Posted by: Hadji 16th August 2020, 03:31 PM

Depends which version they include but it makes logical sense to include the remix. Shame when Take Me Back To London was included on 104, that it wasn’t the remix version considering that it was that version what took the song to #1. But if the remix of Levitating gets included, I think everyone will go insane

Posted by: Hadji 24th August 2020, 11:34 PM

NOW 100 Hits Dance tracklist

1. Black Box - Ride On Time
2. Technotronic featuring Felly - Pump Up The Jam
3. S-Express - Theme From S-Express
4. Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer
5. Inner City - Good Life
6. C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
7. Wildchild - Renegade Master
8. Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close
9. Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
10. Livin' Joy - Dreamer
11. Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On
12. Gala - Freed From Desire
13. Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)
14. Ultra Naté - Free
15. Moloko - Sing It Back
16. The Original - I Luv U Baby
17. Sub Sub featuring Melanie Williams - Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)
18. Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night
19. Haddaway - What Is Love
20. Rozalla - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)
21. Underworld - Born Slippy
22. Cher - Believe
23. Strike - U Sure Do
24. De'Lacy - Hideaway
25. Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret
26. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
27. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
28. DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima
29. DJ Sammy & Yanou featuring Do - Heaven
30. Faithless - Insomnia
31. Robert Miles - Children
32. Felix - Don't You Want Me
33. Robin S - Show Me Love
34. Infernal - From Paris To Berlin
35. Mousse T vs Hot 'N' Juicy - Horny
36. Sonique - It Feels So Good
37. Lasgo - Something
38. Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan - Silence
39. N-Trance - Set You Free
40. York - O.T.B (On The Beach)
41. Eric Prydz - Call On Me
42. Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby
43. D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better
44. Phats & Small - Turn Around
45. The Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme
46. Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv
47. Steps - Tragedy
48. Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes
49. X-Press 2 featuring David Byrne - Lazy
50. Paul Oakenfold featuring Shifty Shellshock - Starry Eyed Surprise
51. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor
52. La Roux - In For The Kill
53. Kesha - Tik Tok
54. Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers
55. Kelis - Milkshake
56. Benny Benassi presents The Biz - Satisfaction
57. Shaft - (Mucho Mambo) Sway
58. Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
59. 3 Of A Kind - Baby Cakes
60. Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
61. Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss
62. Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais - Summertime Sadness
63. Taio Cruz - Dynamite
64. The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This
65. Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin - Don't You Worry Child
66. Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza
67. Jonas Blue featuring Dakota - Fast Car
68. Kiesza - Hideaway
69. Meduza featuring GOODBOYS - Piece Of Your Heart
70. Major Lazer & DJ Snake featuring MO - Lean On
71. Kungs vs Cookin' On 3 Burners - This Girl
72. Disclosure featuring Sam Smith - Latch
73. Lilly Wood vs Robin Schulz - Prayer In C
74. Tiesto featuring Matthew Koma - Wasted
75. Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)
76. Example - Changed The Way You Kissed Me
77. David Zowie - House Every Weekend
78. Sigma - Nobody To Love
79. DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora - Hot Right Now
80. Rudimental featuring John Newman - Feel The Love
81. Avicii featuring Aloe Blacc - Wake Me Up
82. Pitbull featuring Kesha - Timber
83. Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea - Problem
84. Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
85. Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me
86. Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones - I Got U
87. Starley - Call On Me
88. Jax Jones featuring Ina Wroldsen - Breathe
89. Sigala & Ella Eyre - Came Here For Love
90. Lost Frequencies - Are You With Me
91. Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith - La La La
92. Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me
93. Felix Jaehn featuring Jasmine Thompson - Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)
94. Anne-Marie - Ciao Adios
95. Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson - Symphony
96. Regard & RAYE - Secrets
97. Joel Corry featuring MNEK - Head & Heart
98. 220 KID & GRACEY - Don't Need Love
99. Topic & A7S - Breaking Me
100. Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)

Posted by: lewistgreen 25th August 2020, 05:56 AM

Think I’ll buy it but... Jason Derulo twice and Anne-Marie???