REVIEW: Now Thats What I Call Music! 94, Released 22nd July 2016 | 42 Tracks | 0 #1 Singles |
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28th August 2018, 10:34 PM
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Origin: United Kingdom Label: Sony Music Entertainment / Universal Format: Double CD, Digital Download Duration: 2:29:37 (149 minutes 37 seconds) Tracks: 42 #1s: 0 Chart Peak: #1 (13 weeks) Sales: TBC (2x Platinum)
2. Justin Timberlake Can't Stop The Feeling! (Original Song from DreamWorks Animation "TROLLS") 3:56 {2} 3. Kungs vs. Cookin' On 3 Burners This Girl 3:16 {2} 4. Sia feat. Sean Paul Cheap Thrills 3:44 {2} 5. Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign Work From Home 3:36 {2} 6. DNCE Cake By The Ocean 3:38 {4} 7. Clean Bandit feat. Louisa Johnson Tears 3:46 {5} 8. Little Mix feat. Sean Paul Hair 3:54 {11} 9. The Chainsmokers feat. Daya Don't Let Me Down 3:27 {2} 10. Justin Bieber Company 3:29 {25} 11. Calum Scott Dancing On My Own 4:20 {2} 12. P!nk Just Like Fire (from the original motion picture "Alice Through The Looking Glass") 3:34 {19} 13. Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman 3:56 {17} 14. Nick Jonas feat. Tove Lo Close 3:54 {25} 15. Meghan Trainor NO 3:12 {11} 16. Shawn Mendes Treat You Better 3:08 {6} 17. Years & Years feat. Tove Lo Desire 3:23 {22} 18. Sigma feat. Take That Cry 3:18 {21} 19. Bastille Good Grief 3:30 {13} 20. Viola Beach Boys That Sing 3:15 {50} 21. Coldplay Up&Up 4:00 {71} 22. Gnash feat. Olivia O'Brien i hate u, i love u 3:48 {7} 23. Drake Hotline Bling 4:26 {3} 24. Galantis No Money 3:09 {4} 25. DJ Snake feat. Bipolar Sunshine Middle 3:39 {10} 26. Desiigner Panda 3:46 {7} 27. Kent Jones Dont Mind 3:19 {9} 28. Cheat Codes x Kris Kross Amsterdam Sex 3:49 {9} 29. Sigala feat. Imani Williams & DJ Fresh Say You Do 3:23 {5} 30. Blonde & Craig David Nothing Like This 3:03 {15} 31. Charlie Puth feat. Selena Gomez We Don't Talk Anymore 3:37 {14} 32. Ariana Grande Into You 4:05 {14} 33. David Guetta feat. Zara Larsson This One's For You (Official Song UEFA EURO 2016) 3:28 {16} 34. Jonas Blue feat. JP Cooper Perfect Strangers 3:15 {2} 35. Dua Lipa Hotter Than Hell 3:08 {15} 36. Kygo feat. Kodaline Raging 3:20 {42} 37. Selena Gomez Kill Em With Kindness 3:36 {35} 38. will.i.am feat. Pia Mia Boys & Girls 2:49 {21} 39. Reggie 'N' Bollie New Girl 3:35 {26} 40. Tinie Tempah feat. Wizkid Mamacita 3:39 {45} 41. Craig David One More Time 3:14 {30} 42. Sigala feat. John Newman & Nile Rodgers Give Me Your Love 3:29 {9} Key Tracks highlighted red were official UK #1s. Tracks with an asterisk (*) next to their title have also been included in special releases from the series. The track duration has been highlighted cyan. Bracketed numbers refer to highest chart position reached.
Lowest Charting Track: Coldplay Up&Up {71} Longest Song: Drake Hotline Bling 4:26 Shortest Song: will.i.am feat. Pia Mia Boys & Girls 2:49 Edited Tracks: Unknown Unedited Tracks: Unknown Inlay Mistakes: None Other Facts: This volume became only the second ever in the series to feature no UK #1 singles, the first was Now 16.
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28th August 2018, 10:36 PM
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There was only one song dominating the top spot for a long time, and that was not used for this volume but saved for the next one. Being as there was over 10 minutes of available disc space meant at least one or two additional tracks could have made the cut, and there were available hits from Adele, Beyoncι, Stone Roses, DJ Khaled, The Vamps, OneRepublic and various tracks from Prince that charted following his death. Up until the time of this review, the only artists not to have made another appearance in the series are Kungs, DNCE, Viola Beach, gnash, Desiigner, Kent Jones (as a lead artist) and Reggie N Bollie. Artwork Rating: 8/10 Extremely Good This volumes theme is very unique as no other artwork has explored the ocean world quite like this one. With beautiful corals surrounded by various tropical fish including clownfish, this artwork is rather spectacular. The logo is right on the seabed and the plant life is all around it. I wish more like this could have been seen in other covers in the series. Disc 1 Favourite: Years & Years feat. Tove Lo Desire This song is my favourite by Years & Years and I was delighted that it got to be featured in the Now series. Granted, it took a remix featuring Tove Lo to make it happen, but nonetheless its great to see this on this volume. Disc 2 Favourite: Drake Hotline Bling A very late inclusion to the series, but necessary to offset the lack of Drakes long lasting UK #1 single of 2016. I dont often choose R&B songs as my favourites but on this occasion I have done, and it was one of the last singles by Drake that I can say I actually enjoyed. Disc 3 Tracklist: (A concept of what a third disc might look like if other hits from the era were used) 1. Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain 5:17 {6} 2. Adele Send My Love (To Your New Lover) 3:43 {5} 3. The Stone Roses All For One 3:36 {17} 4. Twenty One Pilots Ride 3:34 {47} 5. Disturbed The Sound Of Silence 4:08 {29} 6. Tom Odell Magnetised 3:57 {40} 7. James Bay Running (Live from Abbey Road Studios 2016)3:40 {60} 8. The Choir for the Invictus Games & Gareth Malone feat. Laura Wright Flesh And Blood 3:35 {29} 9. The Neales Ill Be There 3:34 {22} 10. ZAYN Like I Would 3:12 {30} 11. Benny Benassi & Chris Brown Paradise 3:53 {40} 12. MK & Becky Hill Piece Of Me 3:08 {37} 13. Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris Hype 3:31 {34} 14. Jason Derulo If It Aint Love 3:23 {49} 15. Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul Make My Love Go 3:31 {49} 16. Flo Rida My House 3:12 {59} 17. Kiiara Gold 3:45 {48} 18. Rihanna Kiss It Better 4:13 {46} 19. Kanye West Famous 3:16 {33} 20. DJ Khaled feat. Drake For Free 3:03 {25} 21. The Vamps feat. OMI I Found A Girl 2:58 {30} 22. Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello I Know What You Did Last Summer 3:43 {42} ---------- Total time: 1:19:52 Overall Rating: 5/10 Poor This doesnt go down as a memorable time for chart music for me. So much lacklustre tracks spread across both discs and just a lack of quality in general. What lets this volume down first and foremost is of course the lack of any UK #1 single, because there was only one that could have been chosen and it was left off but saved for the next volume. Also the available disc space unused was quite high too, and 42 tracks was a low number to be getting by this point in the series too. Many of the tracks havent aged well in just two years and will be well forgotten in another ten years time. I just cant find much good to say about this volume and it was not an easy task choosing favourites either. I also found it somewhat controversial that music legend David Bowie got a posthumous feature following his death on Now 93 but Prince got nothing. Andrew's Best 5 (as of August 2018) 1. Years & Years feat. Tove Lo Desire 2. Drake Hotline Bling 3. Sia feat. Sean Paul Cheap Thrills 4. Sigala feat. Imani Williams & DJ Fresh Say You Do 5. The Chainsmokers feat. Daya Don't Let Me Down Andrew's Worst 5 (as of August 2018) 1. will.i.am feat. Pia Mia Boys & Girls 2. Gnash feat. Olivia O'Brien i hate u, i love u 3. Shawn Mendes Treat You Better 4. Meghan Trainor NO 5. Justin Bieber Company |
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28th August 2018, 10:36 PM
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Stone Roses Beautiful Thing {21} Kevin Simm All You Good Friends {24} OneRepublic Wherever I Go {29} Drake feat. The Throne Pop Style {33} Skepta Man {34} Lukas Graham Mama Said {48} Fergie M.I.L.F. $ {56} Nathan Sykes feat. G-Eazy Give It Up {56} Tiλsto feat. John Legend Summer Nights {60} Frans If I Were Sorry {61} Iggy Azalea Team {62} Alessia Cara Wild Things {63} Mike Will Made-It & Rihanna Nothing Is Promised {64} Luvbug The Best Is Yet To Come {68} Red Hot Chili Peppers Dark Necessities {72} Radiohead Daydreaming {74} Birdy Wild Horses {75} |
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3rd September 2018, 10:18 AM
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A pretty good volume to be fair. My biggest gripe is the order of the tracklisting on CD2. It just doesn't flow! Anyhow here's my Top 5:-
1) Colsplay - Up & Up 2) Viola Beach - Boys That Sing 3) Sigala feat. John Newman - Give Me Your Love 4) Jonas Blue feat. JP Cooper - Perfect Strangers 5) Kungs vs. Cookin' On 3 Burners This Girl |
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5th September 2018, 07:17 AM
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Disc One
1. Sia feat. Sean Paul Cheap Thrills 3:44 {2} 2. Justin Timberlake Can't Stop The Feeling! (Original Song from DreamWorks Animation "TROLLS") 3:56 {2} 3. Coldplay Up&Up 4:00 {71} 4. Bastille Good Grief 3:30 {13} 5. The Chainsmokers feat. Daya Don't Let Me Down 3:27 {2} 6. Kungs vs. Cookin' On 3 Burners This Girl 3:16 {2} 7. Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman 3:56 {17} 8. Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna This Is What You Came For 3:44 {2} Disc Two 1. Jonas Blue feat. JP Cooper Perfect Strangers 3:15 {2} 2. Ariana Grande Into You 4:05 {14} 3. Dua Lipa Hotter Than Hell 3:08 {15} 4. DJ Snake feat. Bipolar Sunshine Middle 3:39 {10} 5. Sigala feat. John Newman & Nile Rodgers Give Me Your Love 3:29 {9} 6. Sigala feat. Imani Williams & DJ Fresh Say You Do 3:23 {5} 7. Drake Hotline Bling 4:26 {3} 8. Tinie Tempah feat. Wizkid Mamacita 3:39 {45} Artwork: 8/10 Overall: 9/10 This Now has a lot of decent songs, there's a fair amount of filler sure but they're mostly songs I enjoy anyway. Even a lot of emissions are songs I enjoy which just goes to show how much into music I was around this time in 2016. Ride, Kiss It Better, Hold Up, and Wild Things have all stood out as some of my favourite songs from the year Adele Send My Love (To Your New Lover) 3:43 {5} The Stone Roses All For One 3:36 {17} Twenty One Pilots Ride 3:34 {47} Disturbed The Sound Of Silence 4:08 {29} Tom Odell Magnetised 3:57 {40} Benny Benassi & Chris Brown Paradise 3:53 {40} MK & Becky Hill Piece Of Me 3:08 {37} Jason Derulo If It Aint Love 3:23 {49} Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul Make My Love Go 3:31 {49} Flo Rida My House 3:12 {59} Kiiara Gold 3:45 {48} Rihanna Kiss It Better 4:13 {46} Kanye West Famous 3:16 {33} The Vamps feat. OMI I Found A Girl 2:58 {30} Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello I Know What You Did Last Summer 3:43 {42} Beyoncι Hold Up {11} OneRepublic Wherever I Go {29} Lukas Graham Mama Said {48} Nathan Sykes feat. G-Eazy Give It Up {56} Alessia Cara Wild Things {63} Luvbug The Best Is Yet To Come {68} |
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5th September 2018, 09:14 AM
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To me, Now 94 I feel is mostly good actually.
I quite enjoy CD1 with some the filler okay to listen to. CD2 as been said already does not flow, it peaks in the middle for me. Whilst there are no proper no.1s there are of course a number of sales number ones , most of which would have topped the chart had it not been for drake's overrated hit (some of these were cruelly denied it). I really like the cover as it something a bit different. When considering other streaming-era NOWs it isn't that bad really. My Top 7: This Girl (easily) This Is What You Came For Can't Stop The Feeling Perfect Strangers Don't Let Me Down Into You Raging |
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