I mean Dancing will probably outsell some of her top 10s like Chocolate and Come into My World. I guess with the charts as they are it’s more about longevity/name than final chart position.

No!

The first NOW not to have any OCC Number 1s was Now That's What I Call Music! 16 from 1989

The Now That's What I Call Music compilers don't care as much about chart positions nowadays. It's more about making up the numbers now with their tracklistings. They don't even mention how many number one singles feature on their albums anymore.

The Now That's What I Call Music compilers don't care as much about chart positions nowadays. It's more about making up the numbers now with their tracklistings. They don't even mention how many number one singles feature on their albums anymore.

But that is obviously due to the changing nature of the charts. Including a number 48 charting single on Now 99 which is on Heart and Radio 1 lots, lingering around the chart for 10 weeks from a top 20 album is different to a number 48 from 2001 which only hangs around for a week and has no airplay

 

I think the inclusions on Now 99 (though very little of Disc 2 is to my taste) are respectable - except for Oasis.

Obviously some tracks are always going to sneak through the cracks just because of the production deadlines involved. That might even happen more now that songs climb the chart gradually than in the first-week-peak era around the turn of the century. Though I doubt anyone thought that U2 song was going to be a hit.

 

 

 

 

Obviously some tracks are always going to sneak through the cracks just because of the production deadlines involved. That might even happen more now that songs climb the chart gradually than in the first-week-peak era around the turn of the century. Though I doubt anyone thought that U2 song was going to be a hit.

 

U2 was probably included as a favour to someone for giving them some other tracks for the album

U2 was probably included as a favour to someone for giving them some other tracks for the album

 

That's possible. Who remembers this Number 58 smash getting onto Now 40?

 

Edited March 24, 20187 yr by The Hit Parade

The Now That's What I Call Music compilers don't care as much about chart positions nowadays. It's more about making up the numbers now with their tracklistings. They don't even mention how many number one singles feature on their albums anymore.

 

They probably would mention it if they were still putting ten number 1s on each album.

The charts have changed so much that u cant compare it to 10-15 years ago... in the 90s and 2000s , they were several new entries per week in the top 40, now we only have one or two, and many new successful songs struggle to make the top 40 because of streaming which really slows down the chart... so back in the day a number 42 song was considered a flop, now its considered as a minor hit...hence the now inclusion...

Not any more it doesn't thanks to Rudimental.