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The NOW team's just confirmed the upcoming NOW 100 Hits 2010s release. Its cover art kind of mimics its US counterpart.

 

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And yes, Cheryl's "Fight for This Love", released in September 2009, reached number one a week later, and featured on NOW 74 from November 2009, will actually be included there. Yikes. Indeed, it would've been her 2012 number-one "Call My Name", as that one would fit better towards the opening tracks of disc 2.

 

It's also the first appearance for "Love You More" by JLS, released in 2010 as that year's BBC Children in Need single. The sophomore single from their "Outta This World" album, it narrowly missed out for NOW 77 (Nov. 2010), even though it reached number-one given its status as a high-profile charity record, and quite understandable, too, given that very reason. It was then left out of NOW 78 (April 2011) in favour of their latest single at that point, "Eyes Wide Shut" featuring Tinie Tempah.

 

P!nk's 2017 hit "What About Us" is actually placed in disc 5, between Dua Lipa's "New Rules" and Rag'n'Bone Man's "Human".

 

Indeed, there are a few 2009 releases here. Save for the Cheryl track, they appeared on NOW 75, which was released at the start of the decade - March 2010 to be exact.

 

Despite its apparent shortcomings, I believe it is a very good album capping the decade that was. Well, that's for me on a personal note, given that these are most of my schooling years - the first few years are my high school years (2009-2013)*, majority of it spent in uni (2013-2018), and finally, my transition to the "adulting" phase of life (2019-present). So, these songs provide a trip to my own memory lane that is very, very close to my heart.

 

*Yep, we only had a four-year high school programme at the time; my country has since fully transitioned into K-12 education only a few years back.

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This is also marks the second appearance of Post Malone on a non-numbered Now since Psycho appeared on "Now That's What I Call Now 100 Hits From 100 Nows!".

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That actually makes the last decade look really boring tbh.

I still feel annoyed that Shape Of You is still never going to make the series in any form, main series or spin off.

 

I think it’s a generally ok selection of artists from the last decade, but not the best of what the decade had to offer.

They could be bothered to move P!nk nearer to the end of the album but they couldn’t replace the artists 2009 singles with songs from the previous decade. They could easily replace "Bad Romance", "TiK ToK", "Meet Me Halfway" and "Fight For This Love" with "Judas", "We R Who We R", "Just Can’t Get Enough" and "Call My Name". On NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 90s, they could be bothered to replace one of the 90s songs on there with an 80s song

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I still feel annoyed that Shape Of You is still never going to make the series in any form, main series or spin off.

 

I think it’s a generally ok selection of artists from the last decade, but not the best of what the decade had to offer.

 

Indeed. Or they could've easily gone away with whatever Ed Sheeran song they included in the actual NOW albums.

 

Not to mention, another superstar of the 2010s decade was missed out, too - your very own Adele. Missed opportunity for "Hello" to be in here, or again, any of her hits that appeared in the NOW albums themselves, which was mostly from the "21" era.

 

They could be bothered to move P!nk nearer to the end of the album but they couldn’t replace the artists 2009 singles with songs from the previous decade. They could easily replace "Bad Romance", "TiK ToK", "Meet Me Halfway" and "Fight For This Love" with "Judas", "We R Who We R", "Just Can’t Get Enough" and "Call My Name". On NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 90s, they could be bothered to replace one of the 90s songs on there with an 80s song

 

To be honest, the first time you posted the track list, I was also quite bothered as to why "What About Us" was sandwiched between songs from 2013, which just didn't make sense if they compiled the songs in a (somewhat) chronological order. Thanks for correcting it, by the way.

 

As with your alternative song suggestions, I agree with your Kesha and Cheryl ones. As for Gaga, I'd go for either "Born This Way" or "The Edge of Glory" since these were the ones that appeared in the numbered NOWs, and for BEP, my personal choice would be "The Time (Dirty Bit)".

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As with your alternative song suggestions, I agree with your Kesha and Cheryl ones. As for Gaga, I'd go for either "Born This Way" or "The Edge of Glory" since these were the ones that appeared in the numbered NOWs, and for BEP, my personal choice would be "The Time (Dirty Bit)".

The reason why I suggested "Judas" for Gaga is because it was quite a hit and it has never appeared on a compilation before. It would’ve been on NOW 79 had "Born This Way" been on NOW 78 like it should have. And as for "Just Can’t Get Enough", reason I suggested that is because it hardly appears on compilations and it was also dedicated to the victims of the Japan earthquake in March 2011

I just want a sequel to Now 100 Hits: Forgotten 90s, or Forgotten 00s. The 70s, both 80s and 90s Forgotten albums are some of my favourite compilations of the last few years, but I've got little time for the No.1s etc collections they are now starting to put out as those sorts of songs pop up on every compilation going.
I reckon if they include Aqua, they’ll definitely include Barbie Girl but I’d rather they included Turn Back Time or Doctor Jones. I’m just waiting for them to announce NOW 107 and the NOW 7 CD

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Shouldn't we be getting the cover for Now 107 soon?

I was thinking that. I also think that NOW 100 Hits 90s No.1s should kick off with Queen - "Innuendo" and if they do a NOW 100 Hits 00s No.1s, I wanna see lots of #1s from the pre-download era

Amazon are saying Now 107 will be out on the 20th November.

And the NOW 7 CD as well. It’s gone back to it’s original release slot. I was hoping the early November slot like 104 last year would become permanent. But with the 20th November, it will be four months after 106 (24th July) and four months before 108 (26th March). There’s also a NOW 100 Hits Christmas due for release 30th October. It’s probably the exact same one as last year

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NOW 100 Hits 60s No.1s due for release on 27th November. It says that it’s 5 discs when they can easily reduce it to 4 discs like they did with NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 60s

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Love the cover, and great to see Coldplay up high! Two Darlene Love songs, and not her best one either (All Alone on Christmas)

They could’ve replaced one of her songs with AAOC. At least both Cliff songs are on there but no Mariah

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