Does anyone know the total sales of any of them?

 

Would be interesting to see how they compare over the years.

Now 44 (Xmas 1999) is the biggest selling complilation ever, gaining huge sales for being released just before the millennium and featuring hits delayed from previous Nows such as Baby One More Time, Tragedy, That Don't Impress Me Much etc which should have been on Nows 42 or 43. 2.3 million copies were sold.

 

Recently Now 83 (Xmas 2012) sold well over a million because of false, possibly publicity-stunt stories that it was going to be the last ever one, which the more I think about it the more I think Now themselves encouraged so it would sell more copies.

Didn't somebody try to do some full estimates a couple of years ago? I remember they debunked that 2.3 million for Now 44, though it probably still is the top-selling non-soundtrack compilation.

 

Here's some of the figures they came up with:

http://nowthats.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/met...es-figures.html

 

Surely nobody would buy Now 83 just because they thought it was the last one - and are you sure that wasn't Now 84 anyway?