I should imagine Now 101 will play catch up on the missing hits from Now 100 which will mean 101 will be a stronger compilation to sell in the Christmas market.

I just hope we don't get the American format of one disc only in the future.

Same. Or at least if it does get knocked down to 1 disc, at least up it to 4 a year with it being released the first Friday of each season

Edited July 3, 20187 yr by Hadji

To me the fact that it was 100 editions was more important to them than the actual regular album of 2 discs of current hits, which in terms made the current hits seem like an afterthought. I would rather two discs of currents even WITH filler than 1 disc of current hits and 2nd disc of greatest hits (which doesn't even feel balanced out)

An impromptu alternate Disc 2 (since I just realised I never predicted for this which I thought it did)

 

1. Ed Sheeran - Perfect

2. Drake - Nice For What

3. Cardi B feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin – I Like It

4. Sigala feat. Fuse ODG, Sean Paul & Kent Jones – Feels Like Home

5. Lil Dicky feat. Chris Brown – Freaky Friday

6. Childish Gambino - This Is America

7. The Weeknd – Call Out My Name

8. Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams

9. EO – German

10. Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B – Girls Like You

11. Shawn Mendes - Nervous

12. Taylor Swift - Delicate

13. Nicki Minaj feat. Ariana Grande - Bed

14. Rita Ora feat. Cardi B, Bebe Rexha & Charli XCX – Girls

15. Shakka feat. AlunaGeorge – Man Down

16. MoStack – What I Wanna

17. Rudimental & Major Lazer feat. Anne-Marie & Mr. Eazi – Let Me Live

18. Arctic Monkeys – Four Out Of Five

19. The 1975 – Give Yourself A Try

20. Jorja Smith – Blue Lights

21. Kygo & Imagine Dragons – Born To Be Yours

22. Avicii feat. Sandro Cavazza – Without You

Here's a list of songs which have a chance of appearing on NOW 101

 

1. Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin - I Like It

2. Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B - Girls Like You

3. EO - German

4. Selena Gomez - Back To You

5. Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams

6. A$AP Rocky featuring Skepta - Praise The Lord (Da Shine)

7. AJ Tracey featuring Not3s - Butterflies

8. Dennis Lloyd - Nevermind

9. Florence + The Machine - Hunger

I can't see Florence making it unless it does become a hit or she gets a hit with another single from her album.

And it would have been appropriate to include “Three Lions” on disc 2 seeing as how well England are doing

Freaky Friday, Girls Like You and I Like It are the only notable ommisions apart from the obvious Drake and Ed Sheeran. Would have liked some Nicki or even Troye but oh well

It’s so hard to know where to begin....

 

Ok, who is this actually for? What audience is being targeted? Is it the young collectors who may not have many previous Nows and disc 2 will open their minds to older music? I doubt it, if anything they’ll probably be pissed that so many of their current favourite songs have been replaced with old music they don’t care about like Wannabe and Reach. Is it long term collectors? For nostalgia? Absolutely not, we already have all of these tracks. They’re all exhausted on the spin offs. So I really can’t decide what the point of this is.

 

I was worried ‘greatest hits of Now’ would mean something this lazy. I had hoped they’d use the term loosely and include tracks that hadn’t made Nows. Perfect opportunity to finally include Madonna. I knew that wasn’t going to happen but seeing that track list has just woken me up to this reality.

 

It feels like a mockery of the whole series. Such an anticlimax. You wait years imagining what the 100th volume would be like and they come out with something lazy and cheap. The best thing about Nows is that you can pick one out to play and you’re transported to a certain time in your life. Now 100 won’t fulfil this. Disc 2 is clearly a tacky disc 3 they would have used if desperate.

 

I’m tempted to cancel my preorder but I might just get this to be a completist. I can see this being my last Now as the charts don’t mean much to me anymore and I feel a little letdown by the company here. I’m currently collecting old Nows and that is more interesting and exciting for me these days.

I would have preferred it if NOW 100 was 3 discs with discs 1 & 2 being current hits and disc 3 being 22 classics with tracks 1-6 80s, tracks 7-12 90s, tracks 13-18 00s and tracks 19-22 10s

Edited July 3, 20187 yr by Hadji

Exactly.

 

This move already looks like it's backfiring. Lots of negative comments on Facebook. So poor.

OCC published the GMB track as CD 2 Track 1 on their article and NOW have tweeted that it’s CD 1 Track 23. OCC must have made a mistake then

Edited July 3, 20187 yr by Hadji

It's a shame they won't even address the negative feedback too they never do :lol:

One hour warning of the ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ documentary on BBC Radio 2 tonight at 9pm!

It's a shame they won't even address the negative feedback too they never do :lol:

If Ashley Abram and EMI were in charge, we’d either have 3 discs with disc 3 being classics or just 2 discs but filled with current hits

Edited July 5, 20187 yr by Hadji

I can't imagine poor Jenny came to this decision alone, or indeed that any tracklist compiler would have the final say on something as big as this!

 

I mean, if it had been done well this album could have sold 700,000 copies at least, but with this tracklist I'd be amazed if it passes half a million sales. They've just cost themselves an awful lot of revenue...

I can't imagine poor Jenny came to this decision alone, or indeed that any tracklist compiler would have the final say on something as big as this!

 

I mean, if it had been done well this album could have sold 700,000 copies at least, but with this tracklist I'd be amazed if it passes half a million sales. They've just cost themselves an awful lot of revenue...

When EMI were in charge, the albums were selling well. The spin-offs released by EMI are worth a lot of money whereas the spin-offs released by Sony go straight in the bargain bin. NOW 101 will have to make up for it. Instead of filling it with flops, fill it with hits which missed NOW 100 ie. Maroon 5

Edited July 5, 20187 yr by Hadji

I suppose the spin-offs back then were rarer, we got one a year if we were lucky, but yes I agree that they were better curated. The brand has been cheapened hugely during this decade.

I remember buying the Now Dance spinoff's back in the early 2000's. Now they were good!

 

The spin off's were mentioned in the Radio 2 documentary last night, they were saying the spin off's are to experiment and bring a new audience to the NOW brand which makes sense with the recent Now Country/Jazz releases but not so much with Now That's What I Call A Song!

The Radio 2 documentary was fantastic. Answers a lot of questions about licensing issues and there's a bit about how Queen stipulated they must be Disc 1, Track 1 to be included (as I suspected though I'm not sure if this still exists but if not it's coincidental that they always lead every spin-off they are featured on!)

Edited July 5, 20187 yr by gooddelta