I think, in the run up to the fiftieth edition that a lot of record companies probably wanted to cash in on the publicity. 2001 has a lot of artists that were rare for Nows back then: Westlife, Five, Jennifer Lopez, Outkast, Daft Punk, Destiny's Child, D12, Dido, Travis, etc.

 

Mis-teen never changed label they just got lucky their early hits were out at this point. Wheatus were the most lucky since their only 2 big hits fell in this era.

Did Mis-Teeq switch record labels (seeing as they were on Now 49 and Now 50), or did Now just manage to get hold of more contracts in 2001? I know Now 50 had the likes of Westlife, Five and J.Lo which was rare.

They were on the same label, but a lot of the songs on NOW 50 are quite old so I think Sony/Warner/BMG/Telestar decided to let them have a few oldies to make NOW 50 as big as NOW 44.

NOW Drive comes out on the 15th September. Some interesting choices, and again, Pompeii is on it!! There are A LOT of songs that were on NOW Chilled as well. But it's a nice mix.

 

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Disc: 1

1. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure

2. OneRepublic - Love Runs Out

3. MAGIC! - Rude

4. George Ezra - Budapest

5. P!nk feat. Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason

6. Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe - We Are Young

7. James Arthur - Impossible

8. John Legend - All Of Me

9. Labrinth feat. Emeli Sandé - Beneath Your Beautiful

10. A Great Big World - Say Something

11. Sam Smith - Stay With Me

12. Tom Odell - Another Love

13. Coldplay - Fix You

14. Bastille - Pompeii

15. RITA ORA - I Will Never Let You Down

16. Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven

17. Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball

18. Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire

19. Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah

20. OneRepublic - Apologize

21. Gary Barlow - Let Me Go

 

Disc: 2

1. The Killers - Human

2. Keane - Everybody's Changing

3. James - Sit Down

4. Texas - Say What You Want

5. Duffy - Mercy

6. Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

7. Take That - Rule The World

8. Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight

9. Orson - No Tomorrow

10. Avril Lavigne - Complicated

11. Anastacia - Left Outside Alone

12. The Script feat. will.i.am - Hall Of Fame

13. KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See

14. James Morrison - Wonderful World

15. Train - Drive By

16. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

17. Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

18. The Fray - How To Save A Life

19. Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You

20. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful

 

Disc: 3

1. Heart - Alone

2. Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

3. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

4. Berlin - Take My Breath Away (Love theme from ""Top Gun"")

5. The Bangles - Eternal Flame

6. Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven

7. Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms

8. The Scorpions - Wind Of Change

9. Labi Siffre - (Something Inside) So Strong

10. The Cars - Drive

11. Roy Orbison - You Got It

12. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

13. Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night

14. Roxette - Joyride

15. Boston - More Than A Feeling

16. Kiss - Crazy Crazy Nights

17. Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life

18. Stereophonics - Dakota

19. Oasis - Roll With It

Some good tracks, some bizarre choices and nothing I haven't got that I really want. I'll give this one a miss which is ironic since all I ever do with these spin offs is listen whilst I'm driving.

Disc 3 is heaven, though. But I agree they do overuse some recent tracks like Pompeii or Budapest.

Showed my mother this album (and some of the people I work with) and they love it! They all want a copy :lol: I'm certainly more interested in NOW Club Hits 2014 though. :wub:

 

 

Also going back to a previous page I'd also like to share my own version of NOW 56 / HITS 57.

 

Disc 1:

01: Kylie Minogue - Slow

02: Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex

03: Emma Bunton - Maybe

04: Lisa Scott-Lee - Too Far Gone

05: Louise - Pandora's Kiss

06: S Club 8 - Sundown

07: Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Mixed Up World

08: Liberty X - Jumpin'

09: Holly Valance - State of Mind

10: Phixx - Hold On Me

11: Atomic Kitten - If You Come to Me

12: Blue - Guilty

13: Girls Aloud - Life Got Cold

14: Clea - Download It

15: Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is the Deepest

16: The Darkness - I Believe In a Thing Called Love

17: Dido - White Flag

18: Richard X featuring Kelis - Finest Dreams

19: Jason Nevins featuring UNKY & Holly James - I'm In Heaven

20: Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes

 

Disc 2:

01: Blu Cantrell featuring Sean Paul - Breathe

02: Black Eyed Peas - Where Is the Love?

03: Lumidee - Never Leave You - Uh Ooh, Uh Oooh!

04: Jamelia - Superstar

05: Javine - Surrender (Your Love)

06: Sugababes - Hole In the Head

07: Justin Timberlake - Senorita

08: Beyonce featuring Sean Paul - Baby Boy

09: Christina Aguilera featuring Lil' Kim - Can't Hold Us Down

10: Madonna - Hollywood

11: P!nk - Trouble

12: Hilary Duff - So Yesterday

13: Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent

14: Stacie Orrico - Stuck

15: Kelly Rowland - Train On a Track

16: Robbie Williams - Something Beautiful

17: Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow

18: Daniel Bedingfield - Never Gonna Leave Your Side

19: Busted - Sleeping With the Light On

20: D-Side - Invisible

Delta's Innocent Eyes missing though :(

Delta's Innocent Eyes missing though :(

I don't know that one as well as her other singles. Kinda went with the ones that brought back nostalgic memories :wub: This one of my fave albums I've made so far. The beginning of Disc 1 is just amazing (imo) :lol:

 

This is my first ever volume of my own version of the NOW Series. My version of NOW 44 / HITS 2000

 

Disc 1

 

01: Five - Keep On Movin’

02: R. Kelly - If I Could Turn Back The Hands of Time

03: Christina Aguilera - Genie In a Bottle

04: Westlife - Flying Without Wings

05: Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z - Heartbreaker

06: Ann Lee - 2 Times

07: Macy Gray - I Try

08: Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

09: Diana Ross - Not Over You Yet

10: Backstreet Boys - Larger than Life

11: B*Witched - Jesse Hold On

12: Destiny’s Child - Bug-a-Boo

13: Steps - After the Love Has Gone

14: Phil Collins - You’ll Be In My Heart

15: Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman!

16: Tina Turner - When the Heartbreak Is Over

17: Britney Spears (You Drive Me) Crazy [The Stop Remix!]

18: S Club 7 - S Club Party

19: Vengaboys - We’re Going to Ibiza

20: Gabrielle - Sunshine

 

Disc 2

 

01: Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up

02: Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton - What I Am

03: Jennifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight

04: Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You

05: ATB - Don’t Stop

06: Robbie Williams - She’s the One

07: A1 - Ready or Not

08: Wamdue Project - King of My Castle

09: Garbage - The World Is Not Enough

10: Texas - When We Are Together

11: Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Radio Edit)

12: Melanie C - Northern Star

13: Martine McCutcheon - Love Me

14: Alice DeeJay - Back In My Life

15: Lolly - Mickey

16: Atomic Kitten - Right Now

17: Celine Dion - That’s the Way It Is

18: The Corrs - Radio (Unplugged)

19: Vengaboys - Kiss (When the Sun Don’t Shine)

20: Len - Steal My Sunshine

 

I made 21 volumes. The latest one I have done so far is my version of NOW 64 (Summer '06). If anyone is interested in seeing any of them lemme know :lol:

I don't know that one as well as her other singles. Kinda went with the ones that brought back nostalgic memories :wub: This one of my fave albums I've made so far. The beginning of Disc 1 is just amazing (imo) :lol:

 

This is my first ever volume of my own version of the NOW Series. My version of NOW 44 / HITS 2000

 

Disc 1

 

01: Five - Keep On Movin’

02: R. Kelly - If I Could Turn Back The Hands of Time

03: Christina Aguilera - Genie In a Bottle

04: Westlife - Flying Without Wings

05: Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z - Heartbreaker

06: Ann Lee - 2 Times

07: Macy Gray - I Try

08: Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

09: Diana Ross - Not Over You Yet

10: Backstreet Boys - Larger than Life

11: B*Witched - Jesse Hold On

12: Destiny’s Child - Bug-a-Boo

13: Steps - After the Love Has Gone

14: Phil Collins - You’ll Be In My Heart

15: Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman!

16: Tina Turner - When the Heartbreak Is Over

17: Britney Spears (You Drive Me) Crazy [The Stop Remix!]

18: S Club 7 - S Club Party

19: Vengaboys - We’re Going to Ibiza

20: Gabrielle - Sunshine

 

Disc 2

 

01: Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up

02: Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton - What I Am

03: Jennifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight

04: Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You

05: ATB - Don’t Stop

06: Robbie Williams - She’s the One

07: A1 - Ready or Not

08: Wamdue Project - King of My Castle

09: Garbage - The World Is Not Enough

10: Texas - When We Are Together

11: Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Radio Edit)

12: Melanie C - Northern Star

13: Martine McCutcheon - Love Me

14: Alice DeeJay - Back In My Life

15: Lolly - Mickey

16: Atomic Kitten - Right Now

17: Celine Dion - That’s the Way It Is

18: The Corrs - Radio (Unplugged)

19: Vengaboys - Kiss (When the Sun Don’t Shine)

20: Len - Steal My Sunshine

 

I made 21 volumes. The latest one I have done so far is my version of NOW 64 (Summer '06). If anyone is interested in seeing any of them lemme know :lol:

 

I'd like to see them, tbh. I used to make my own volumes too, but I remember I used to "release" 6/7 a year and trying to squeeze most UK Top 40 hits. The very first one I made was back in November 2003 and I did them until mid 2006.

It also helped me discover a lot of indie bands from the lower part of the chart and starting to really like them.

I'm still downloading the 00's editions weekly. Gonna get 2003 in a minute. :w00t: Some great songs on here from S Club, Love Inc., Atomic Kitten and Blu Cantrell. But there are so many amazing pop songs that didn't make it like Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex by Rachel Stevens, Free Me/Maybe by Emma or anything from Sophie Ellis-Bextor's 2nd album. :o

 

Also, for Lu, here is my version of NOW 45. ^_^

 

Disc 1:

01: Britney Spears - Born to Make You Happy (Radio Edit)

02: S Club 7 - You're My Number One

03: Steps - Say You'll Be Mine

04: Nu Generation - In Your Arms (Rescue Me)

05: Gabrielle - Rise

06: Daphne & Celeste - Ooh Stick You

07: Fierce - Sweet Love 2K

08: All Saints - Pure Shores

09: Christina Aguilera - What a Girl Wants

10: Shania Twain - Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You!)

11: AQUA - Carton Heroes

12: Backstreet Boys - Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely

13: Kelis - Caught Out There

14: *NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye

15: Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson - Movin' Too Fast

16: Vengaboys - Shalala La La

17: Honeyz - Won't Take It Lying Down

18: Northern Line - Love On the Northern Line

19: Five - Don't Wanna Let You Go

20: Chicane featuring Bryan Adams - Don't Give Up

 

Disc 2

 

01: Madonna - American Pie

02: Geri Halliwell - Bag It Up

03: Melanie C featuring Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes - Never Be the Same Again

04: Tom Jones & Stereophonics - Mama Told Me Not to Come

05: blink-182 - All the Small Things

06: No Doubt - Ex-Girlfriend

07: Destiny's Child - Say My Name

08: Atomic Kitten - See Ya

09: B*Witched - Jump Down

10: Lene Marlin - Sitting Down Here

11: Moloko - The Time Is Now

12: Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango

13: Fragma - Toca's Miracle

14: Jessica Simpson - I Wanna Love You Forever

15: Steps - Better the Devil You Know

16: A*Teens - Super Trouper

17: S Club 7 - Two In a Million

18: Westlife - Seasons In the Sun

19: Lolly - Big Boys Don't Cry

20: B*Witched & Ladysmith Black Mambazo - I Shall Be There

 

Wasn't a big fan of the Garage music that was out at the time. So there's a lot of double appearances on this one.

Amazing version of Now 45... I love the fact that you took the original idea, but managed to include huge songs by artists that would usually never make it on a Now.

 

My favourite "odd-one-out" has to be No Doubt's "Ex-Girlfriend" ^_^

Amazing version of Now 45... I love the fact that you took the original idea, but managed to include huge songs by artists that would usually never make it on a Now.

 

My favourite "odd-one-out" has to be No Doubt's "Ex-Girlfriend" ^_^

Thanks, Luciano :wub: And No Doubt make quite a few appearances later on as well. If I ever make 2012 editions you know "Settle Down" and "Looking Hot" will make them. But until then, here's my NOW 46*

 

*Disclaimer! Disc 2 is dangerously cheesy.

 

 

Disc 1:

01: Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again

02: Billie Piper - Day and Night

03: S Club 7 - Reach

04: Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around

05: The Corrs - Breathless

06: Steps - Summer of Love

07: Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You

08: Christina Aguilera - I Turn to You

09: Savage Garden - Affrimation

10: Steps - When I Said Goodbye

11: Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin'

12: Five + Queen - We Will Rock You

13: Eminem - The Real Slim Shady

14: Jennifer Lopez - Let's Get Loud

15: Gabrielle - When A Woman

16: Mary Mary - Shackles

17: Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough for Me

18: Heather Small - Proud

19: Coldplay - Yellow

20: David Gray - Babylon

 

Disc 2:

01: Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby

02: Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet

03: Tom Jones & Mouse T. - Sexbomb (Pepermint Radio Mix)

04: Sonique - Feels So Good

05: Darude - Sandstorm

06: York - On the Beach

07: Alice Deejay - Will I Ever

08: Vengaboys - Uncle John from Jamaica

09: Fem@il - Flee Fly Flo

10: Girl Thing - Last One Standing

11: AQUA - Around the World

12: Made In London - Dirty Water

13: Lolly - Per Sempre Amore (Forever In Love)

14: Mandy Moore - Candy

15: Scooch - The Best Is Yet to Come

16: Steps - Deeper Shade of Blue

17: Atomic Kitten - I Want Your Love

18: Stephen Gately - New Beginning

19: Moby - Porcelain

20: Backsteet Boys - The One

 

I think there's 3 Steps songs in this one. I was so annoyed when NOW 46 went with "When I Said Goodbye" and "Deeper Shade of Blue", but left out the AMAZING "Summer of Love". This was another one where I started to run out of Pop songs that were big around this time so I randomly thew in Moby and Coldplay :lol:

 

ALSO, if anyone is interested in making some artwork for any of these albums I'd be truly thankful, 'cos I wanna turn these into actual CDs (maybe even make a cute little booklet for each one).

Brought NOW Drive today in Sainsburys for £11. It's not bad actually! Disc 3 has ended up being my fave out of the discs. But they've used that odd version of "Show Me Heaven" again that was on NOW Movies.

Any news on Now That's What I Call A Million? Or at least do we know what is it about?

You missed the opportunity to have double Scooch on Now 46 Spiral *.* For Sure was quite the jam though, I'd have left that on!

 

Amazing tracklist otherwise - Dirty Water :wub:

Aqua's Around The World was such a favourite of mine back then. I remember not being able to cope with the fact that it flopped. Glad to see it on your Now 46!

You missed the opportunity to have double Scooch on Now 46 Spiral *.* For Sure was quite the jam though, I'd have left that on!

 

Amazing tracklist otherwise - Dirty Water :wub:

I must've missed it when looking at the official charts because I love that song! :wub:

 

But I'm glad you like it. Here's another one, my version of NOW 47!

 

Disc 1

01: Madonna - Music

02: Melanie C - I Turn to You (Hex Hector Remix)

03: True Steppers, Dane Bowers & Victoria Beckham - Out of Your Mind

04: Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

05: Britney Spears - Lucky

06: A1 - Take On Me

07: Daphne & Celeste - School's Out

08: Lolly - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

09: *NSYNC - It's Gonna Be Me

10: S Club 7 - Natural

11: Sugababes - Overload

12: Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody

13: Billie Piper - Something Deep Inside

14: Anastacia - I'm Outta Love

15: Melanie B - Tell Me

16: Steps - Stomp

17: Spice Girls - Holler

18: Atomic Kitten - Follow Me

19: All Saints - Black Coffee

20: Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication

 

Disc 2:

01: Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

02: Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation

03: Kylie Minogue - On a Night Like This

04: Madison Avenue - Who the Hell Are You

05: Sonique - Sky

06: Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter

07: Mariah Carey - Against All Odds (No Westlife Version)

08: Texas - In Demand

09: Spice Girls - Let Love Lead the Way

10: Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue - Kids

11: The Corrs - Irresisitble

12: Coldplay - Trouble

13: Billie Piper - Walk of Life

14: LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight

15: Martine McCutcheon - I'm Over You

16: Samantha Mumba - Body II Body

17: Christina Aguilera - Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)

18: A1 - Same Old Brand New You

19: Ricky Martin - She Bangs

20: Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out

 

There were so many songs on NOW 47 but I can't believe how many songs they missed off because of licensing. I've included both Spice Girl songs because "Let Love Lead the Way" is so beautiful. It's the only good thing from the "mature" and "R&B influenced" 'Forever' in my opinion. Queen Billie's Walk of Life MAKES this album because it's so good. And yes Red Hot Chilli Peppers are on it, but Califronication is really good :wub:

NOW Million gets released 13th October as well.

 

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Also, here is track listing for NOW Million (according to Amazon)

 

Disc: 1

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

2. Oasis - Wonderwall

3. Wings - Mull Of Kintyre

4. Robbie Williams - Angels

5. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

6. Céline Dion - Think Twice

7. Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah

8. George Michael - Careless Whisper

9. Take That - Back For Good

10. Elton John - Something About The Way You Look Tonight

11. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

12. James Arthur - Impossible

13. Robson & Jerome - Unchained Melody

14. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around

15. Jennifer Rush - The Power Of Love

16. Will Young - Evergreen

17. Boyzone - No Matter What

18. Paul Anka - Diana

19. Bill Haley & His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock

 

Disc: 2

1. Pharrell Williams - Happy (from ""Despicable Me 2"")

2. Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger

3. The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

4. Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be

5. Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell - Blurred Lines

6. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

7. Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song

8. Coolio feat. L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise

9. Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

10. Ed Sheeran - The A Team

11. Passenger - Let Her Go

12. Take That - Rule The World

13. All Saints - Never Ever

14. Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

15. Atomic Kitten - Whole Again

16. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

17. Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love

18. Steps - Tragedy

19. Hear'Say - Pure & Simple

20. Shaggy feat. Ricardo ""RikRok"" Ducent - It Wasn't Me

21. RUN - DMC vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That

 

Disc: 3

1. John Lennon - Imagine

2. Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never

3. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

4. Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

5. Cher - Believe

6. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

7. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

8. The Human League - Don't You Want Me

9. Blondie - Heart Of Glass

10. New Order - Blue Monday

11. Irene Cara - Fame

12. Village People - Y.M.C.A.

13. Boney M. - Rivers Of Babylon

14. Ray Parker, Jr. - Ghostbusters

15. Spice Girls - Wannabe

16. Whigfield - Saturday Night

17. Aqua - Barbie Girl

18. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

19. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

20. UB40 - Red Red Wine

21. Tony Christie - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo

 

That's a great selection of songs! I love the variety of years they come from as well. Reminds me of Now That's What I Call a No. 1 in 2012.

My only problem with that tracklist is the inclusion of "Rather Be" which hasn't actually sold one million copies yet I don't think. That and the inclusions of "Diana" and "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock" on disc one - I don't think anyone could name those songs if asked. A really nice tracklist overall though and not too many recent releases!

People couldn't name Rock Around The Clock? That song is extremely famous!