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Blimey I just saw the opening sales for Now 103. My God. Can't say I'm surprised but still shocking. I think it'd be fair to say they have a massive problem on their hands at this point when it's outsold on it's first week by an artist album/sales not even breaking 100k.

Now 70 in 2008 sold 383,000 in its opening week (the all-time weekly record for the series, although 1999's Now 44 is the biggest selling overall), and as recently as 2012 Now 83 did really well as there were lots of rumours that it was going to be the last one. It's interesting how they remained extremely high sellers in the download era, although I guess £10 for 40 songs was a bargain as opposed to paying 99p for each one.

 

Spotify has most of the albums in playlist form, but from looking at them recently there's several missing songs and some exist in the wrong version/s, so they're not a great replacement for the original CDs.

Now 70 in 2008 sold 383,000 in its opening week (the all-time weekly record for the series, although 1999's Now 44 is the biggest selling overall), and as recently as 2012 Now 83 did really well as there were lots of rumours that it was going to be the last one. It's interesting how they remained extremely high sellers in the download era, although I guess £10 for 40 songs was a bargain as opposed to paying 99p for each one.

 

Spotify has most of the albums in playlist form, but from looking at them recently there's several missing songs and some exist in the wrong version/s, so they're not a great replacement for the original CDs.

Shame they can never get those opening sales ever again. In other news, it’s not NOW related but I’ve seen that the Hits series are coming up with pointless spin-offs like NOW are doing. If the Hits wanna release any albums, they should just give Hits 1-6 and The Hit Pack the double CD treatment

  • 2 weeks later...
Next NOW spin-off due for release is NOW 100 Hits Movies on 20th September. I just hope it includes songs from films of all decades and not mainly this decade

According to amazon, songs which will be appearing on NOW 100 Hits Movies include

 

Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On (from "Titanic")

Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life (from "Dirty Dancing")

Rocket Man (from "Rocket Man") but not sure which version will appear

 

I hope they also include songs like this and not just the same old, same old

 

New Order - True Faith (from "Bright Lights, Big City")

Ramones - Pet Sematary (from "Pet Sematary")

Go West - King Of Wishful Thinking (from "Pretty Woman")

Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power (from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles")

Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire (from "Bram Stoker's Dracula")

Seal - Fly Like An Eagle (from "Space Jam")

Bananarama - Cruel Summer (from "The Karate Kid")

Joe 'Bean' Esposito - You're The Best (from "The Karate Kid")

Peter Cetera - Glory Of Love (from "The Karate Kid II")

Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Misirlou (from "Pulp Fiction")

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - If You Leave (from "Pretty In Pink")

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (from "An American Werewolf In London")

Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange (from "The Lost Boys")

Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister (from "The Lost Boys")

Lou Gramm - Lost In The Shadows (from "The Lost Boys")

Mental As Anything - Live It Up (from "Crocodile Dundee")

Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square (from "American Psycho")

Phil Collins - Sussudio (from "American Psycho")

Roxette - Almost Unreal (from "Super Mario Bros")

Bobby Brown - On Our Own (from "Ghostbusters II")

Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again (from "Fast & Furious 7")

Hole - Celebrity Skin (from "American Pie" and "Captain Marvel")

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Face To Face (from "Batman Returns")

Billy Idol - Hot In The City (from "Big")

Smash Mouth - All Star (from "Shrek")

Chase & Status featuring Plan B - End Credits (from "Harry Brown")

Divinyls - I Touch Myself (from "Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery")

The Primitives - Crash (from "Dumb & Dumber")

Boyzone - Picture Of You (from "Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie")

MC Hammer - Addams Groove (from "The Addams Family")

The Belle Stars - Iko Iko (from "Rain Man")

Mel & Kim - That's The Way It Is (from "Coming To America")

Frankie Valli - Grease Is The Word (from "Grease")

Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) (from "Shallow Hal")

Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer (from "There's Something About Mary")

Kula Shaker - Hush (from "I Know What You Did Last Summer")

Carly Simon - Coming Around Again (from "Heartburn")

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (from "The Sure Thing")

Björk & David Arnold - Play Dead (from "The Young Americans")

Edited by Hadji

NOW 100 Hits Movies tracklist

 

CD 1

 

1. Keala Settle - This Is Me

2. Taron Egerton - Rocket Man

3. Berlin - Take My Breath Away

4. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)

5. Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters

6. Huey Lewis & The News - The Power Of Love

7. Pharrell Williams - Happy

8. Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling!

9. Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F

10. Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing

11. Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther Theme

12. Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger

13. Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On

14. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

15. Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong

16. Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven

17. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around

18. Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do

19. Hans Zimmer - Now We Are Free

20. John Williams - Hedwig's Theme

 

CD 2

 

1. John Williams - Star Wars

2. Lalo Schifrin - Mission: Impossible

3. Robbie Williams - Have You Met Miss Jones?

4. Fontella Bass - Rescue Me

5. Natalie Cole - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)

6. Kenny Loggins - Footloose

7. ABBA - Does Your Mother Know

8. Irene Cara - Flashdance...What A Feeling

9. Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams

10. Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life

11. Wilson Phillips - Hold On

12. Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love

13. Blondie - Call Me

14. Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia

15. Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer

16. Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All

17. Lana Del Rey - Young And Beautiful

18. Anne Hathaway - I Dreamed A Dream

19. Leonard Bernstein - Act I: Maria

20. John Williams - Theme From Schindler's List

 

CD 3

 

1. Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman

2. Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions

3. Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

4. Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'

5. Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World

6. James Horner - For The Love Of A Princess

7. John Williams - Theme From Jaws

8. Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire

9. Dido - Thank You

10. All Saints - Pure Shores

11. Sia - Elastic Heart

12. A-Ha - The Living Daylights

13. Irene Cara - Fame

14. Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova

15. Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle

16. The Four Tops - Loco In Acapulco

17. Los Lobos - La Bamba

18. John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air

19. Chuck Berry - You Can Never Tell

20. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

 

CD 4

 

1. John Parr - St Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)

2. Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

3. Wings - Live And Let Die

4. Maurice Jarre - Lara's Theme

5. Sam Smith - Writing's On The Wall

6. Ellie Goulding - Still Falling For You

7. P!nk - Just Like Fire

8. The Cardigans - Lovefool

9. Dido - Here With Me

10. Dua Lipa - Swan Song

11. Hugh Jackman - The Greatest Show

12. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink

13. The Proclaimers - I'm On My Way

14. Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

15. Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams

16. Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

17. Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line

18. The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)

19. Bernard Herrmann - Main Title From Taxi Driver

20. Maurice Jarre - Overature

 

CD 5

 

1. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - The Grease Megamix

2. Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft

3. Salt-N-Pepa - Shoop

4. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

5. Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going

6. Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

7. Himesh Patel - Yesterday

8. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'

9. Johnny Mandel - Suicide Is Painless

10. Doris Day - Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

11. Cher & Andy García - Fernando

12. Nat King Cole - Stardust

13. Ben E King - Stand By Me

14. Michael Bublé - Love At First Sight

15. Matt Monro - From Russia With Love

16. Henry Mancini - Moon River

17. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

18. John Barry - Theme From Dances With Wolves

19. John Williams - Bicycle Chase & End Credits

20. Howard Shore - A Lord Of The Rings Suite

Edited by Hadji

Yeah it’s good, I’ll buy it.

 

Nice mix of old, new and scores as well as hits and some inspired choices. On the whole I’ve been enjoying this 100 Hits format, it’s been way better so far than their increasingly bland spin-offs from the prior three or four years.

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My only criticism...

 

Celine so low! She should be top 3 Disc 1!!! </3

I noticed the spin off series taking off under the “100 Hits” name that is gaining some publicity so I decided to make a playlist of 100 songs that were sadly overlooked for the main Now series during the 90’s. I intend to do the same for the 00’s and shortly the 10’s by the end of 2019.

 

This playlist is made up mostly of #1 singles, songs on end of year charts, and other noteworthy and recognised songs from that decade coupled with a few novelty hits too. :)

 

What’s your thoughts, would you buy a compilation like this with songs that you didn’t have in your Now cassettes, vinyls and CD’s from that era?

 

The Unofficial Now 100 Hits - 90’s Omissions

A playlist by awardinary

 

Disc 1

1. Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You {1}

2. Michael Bolton – How Am I Supposed To Live Without You {3}

3. Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On {1}

4. Mariah Carey – Without You {1}

5. Take That – Never Forget {1}

6. Spice Girls – 2 Become 1 {1}

7. Annie Lennox – No More “I Love You’s” {2}

8. Boyzone – I Love The Way You Love Me {2}

9. Westlife – Swear It Again {1}

10. The Corrs – Runaway {2}

11. S Club 7 – Two In A Million {2}

12. Peter Andre – I Feel You {1}

13. Boyz II Men – End Of The Road {1}

14. Toni Braxton – Unbreak My Heart {2}

15. Robson & Jerome – I Believe {1}

16. Elton John – Something About The Way You Look Tonight {1}

17. Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You {1}

18. Michael Jackson – Earth Song {1}

 

Disc 2

1. Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy {1}

2. Urban Cookie Collective – The Key, The Secret {2}

3. Grace – Not Over Yet {6}

4. Olive – You’re Not Alone {1}

5. Crystal Waters – Gyspy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da) {2}

6. Dannii Minogue – All I Wanna Do {4}

7. Tori Amos – Professional Widow {1}

8. Scatman John – Scatman {3}

9. My Blobby – Mr Blobby {1}

10. Pérez Prado – Guaglione {2}

11. Snap! – The Power {1}

12. Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy {2}

13. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby {1}

14. Will Smith – Men In Black {1}

15. Pras Michel feat. Ol’ Dirty bast*rd & Mya – Ghetto Superstar (That Is What You Are) {2}

16. Busta Rhymes – Turn It Up / Fire It Up {2}

17. Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing) {3}

18. Jay-Z – Hard Knock Life {2}

19. 2Pac & Talent – Changes {3}

20. Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans, 112 & The Lox – I’ll Be Missing You {1}

21. Prince – The Most Beautiful Girl In The World {1}

 

Disc 3

1. Fugees – Killing Me Softly {1}

2. TLC – Waterfalls {4}

3. Christina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle {1}

4. Jennifer Lopez – If You Had My Love {4}

5. Usher – You Make Me Wanna {1}

6. Another Level – Freak Me {1}

7. Five – Everybody Get Up {2}

8. Backstreet Boys – We’ve Got It Goin’ On {3}

9. A1 – Be The First To Believe {6}

10. 911 – Bodyshakin’ {3}

11. B*Witched – Rollercoaster {1}

12. Cleopatra – Cleopatra’s Theme {3}

13. Britney Spears – Sometimes {3}

14. Steps – One For Sorrow {2}

15. *Nsync – I Want You Back {5}

16. Ricky Martin – Livin’ La Vida Loca {1}

17. Los Del Rio – Macarena {2}

18. Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart {2}

19. B-52’s – Love Shack {2}

20. The Simpsons – Do The Bartman {1}

 

Disc 4

1. Bon Jovi – Always {2}

2. Aerosmith – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing {4}

3. Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next {1}

4. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit {7}

5. Oasis – All Around The World {1}

6. Blur – Song 2 {2}

7. Kula Shaker – Hush {2}

8. Stereophonics – The Bartender And The Thief {3}

9. The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) {1}

10. Eminem – My Name Is {2}

11. Garbage – Stupid Girl {4}

12. Savage Garden – To The Moon And Back {3}

13. Blondie – Maria {1}

14. Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do {4}

15. Extreme – More Than Words {2}

16. Alanis Morissette – Ironic {11}

17. Björk – It’s Oh So Quiet {4}

18. Cher – Strong Enough {5}

19. Billie – She Wants You {3}

20. Undercover – Baker Street {2}

 

Disc 5

1. Madonna – Vogue {1}

2. Michael Jackson – Black Or White {1}

3. The Rembrandts – I’ll Be There For You {3}

4. EMF – Unbelievable {3}

5. Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground {1}

6. The Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun {1}

7. The Prodigy – Everybody In The Place {2}

8. Mario Più – Communication (Somebody Answer The Phone) {5}

9. Paul Johnson – Get Get Down {5}

10. Spacedust – Gym And Tonic {1}

11. Sash! feat. Tina Cousins – Mysterious Times {2}

12. Vengaboys – Kiss (When The Sun Don’t Shine) {3}

13. Basement Jaxx – Rendez-Vu {4}

14. Chef – Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You) {1}

15. TLC – No Scrubs {3}

16. Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine {2}

17. George Michael – Outside {2}

18. Take That feat. Lulu – Relight My Fire {1}

19. Five – Keep On Movin’ {1}

20. Bryan Adams feat. Melanie C – When You’re Gone {3}

21. Kylie Minogue – Better The Devil You Know {2}

  • 4 weeks later...
If they’re gonna include TMBTL by Ed on 104, they should include the remix on there
I can't see any Ed Sheeran on Now 104 as he doesn't seem to licence his Number 1 hits to Now any longer.
I can't see any Ed Sheeran on Now 104 as he doesn't seem to licence his Number 1 hits to Now any longer.

The only hit single from his new album which didn’t reach #1 was CM which is already on 103. If he won’t give them TMBTL for 104, I hope he gives them BP seeing as that was only #1 for a week

NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 90s due for release on 25th October. All we need now is NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 00s, NOW 100 Hits Trance and NOW 100 Hits Christmas

Edited by Hadji

Excited to see the Forgotten 90s tracklist. So much I’d love to see on there.

 

Now 100 Hits: Christmas would be a big seller for them, will be a shame if they just restock the 2015 release again this year, five years for one edition seems excessive.

If they do a NOW 100 Hits Christmas, I expect it to be Queen track 1, Mariah track 2 and for them to include the Darlene Love song from Home Alone 2 as we never see that on a Xmas compilation. And question is, which Tiësto song will we be getting for NOW 104? I hope we get both of them

Edited by Hadji

It’s early yet but the poll on the dance forum got me thinking:

 

Ritual AND God is a Dancer on Now 104?

 

It’s early yet but the poll on the dance forum got me thinking:

 

Ritual AND God is a Dancer on Now 104?

I hope we get both but I reckon we’ll get GIAD and they’ll miss out Ritual

Edited by Hadji

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