February 6, 20214 yr Manic Street Preachers only show up once and not with either of their Number One singles. Also football songs are never on there except 'Three Lions '98' and identifiable Christmas songs are understandably absent so that rules out all four versions of 'Do They Know it's Christmas?' plus Merry Christmas Everyone etc. 'West End Girls' and 'Heart' by the Pet Shop Boys didn't make it either.
February 6, 20214 yr Songs from 2000 - 2020 that reached Number 1, but didn't make it to a numbered NOW! album: 2000 Manic Street Preachers - The Masses Against The Classes Oasis - Go Let It Out Madonna - American Pie Westlife - Fool Again Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 Da reload (Casualty) The Corrs - Breathless Eminem-The Real Slim Shady Five / Queen - We Will Rock You Madonna - Music A1 - Take On Me Mariah Carey & Westlife - Against All Odds All Saints - Black Coffee Westlife - My Love A1 - Same Old Brand New You Destiny's Child - Independent Women Part 1 Eminem - Stan 2001 Rui Da Silva featuring Cassandra - Touch Me Jennifer Lopez - Love Don't Cost A Thing Limp Bizkit - Rollin' Shaggy feat. Rayvon - Angel Christina Aguilera / Lil' Kim / Mya / Pink - Lady Marmalade Blue - Too Close Westlife - Queen Of My Heart 2002 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (Re-issue) Westlife - World Of Our Own Will Young - Anything Is Possible / Evergreen Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody Oasis - The Hindu Times Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss Will Young - Light My Fire Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation Gareth Gates - Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake) Blazin' Squad - Crossroads Pink - Just Like A Pill Will Young & Gareth Gates - The Long And Winding Road / Suspicious Minds Westlife - Unbreakable Christina Aguilera featuring Redman - Dirrty Eminem - Lose Yourself Blue featuring Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word 2003 Christina Aguilera - Beautiful Gareth Gates featuring The Kumars - Spirit In The Sky Evanescence - Bring Me To Life Blu Cantrell featuring Sean Paul - Breathe Busted - Crashed The Wedding Westlife - Mandy 2004 Sam & Mark - With A Little Help From My Friends / Measure Of A Man Usher featuring Lil' Jon & Ludacris - Yeah Mario Winans featuring Enya & P Diddy - I Don't Wanna Know Usher - Burn The Streets - Dry Your Eyes Brian McFadden - Real To Me Ja Rule featuring R Kelly & Ashanti - Wonderful Eminem Just Lose It Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? 2005 Steve Brookstein - Against All Odds Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (re-issue) Elvis Presley - One Night / I Got Stung (re-issue) Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never (re-issue) Eminem-Like Toy Soldiers Jennifer Lopez - Get Right Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor Madonna - Hung Up Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu 2006 Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down Notorious BIG featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge & Avery Storm - Nasty Girl Madonna - Sorry My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade 2007 All Number 1's from 2007 appear on a Now! album 2008 Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes Beyonce - If I Were A Boy Leona Lewis-Run 2009 Alexandra Burke Feat Flo Rida-Bad Boys X Factor Finalists 2009 - You Are Not Alone Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band -The Official BBC Children In Need Medley Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 2010 Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé - Telephone Shout for England featuring Dizzee Rascal and James Corden - Shout Alexandra Burke featuring Laza Morgan - Start Without You JLS - Love You More The X Factor Finalists 2010 - Heroes 2011 Nero - Promises The X Factor Finalists 2011 - Wishing on a Star 2012 All Number 1's from 2012 appeared on a NOW! album 2013 Eminem featuring Rihanna - The Monster 2014 Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas? 2015 All Number 1's from 2015 appeared on a NOW! album 2016 All Number 1's from 2016 appeared on a NOW! album 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You Artists for Grenfell - Bridge over Troubled Water DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller - Wild Thoughts Ed Sheeran - Perfect 2018 Eminem featuring Ed Sheeran - River Drake - God's Plan Lil Dicky featuring Chris Brown - Freaky Friday Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions (Re-Entry) Drake - In My Feelings LadBaby - We Built This City 2019 Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber - I Don't Care Ed Sheeran featuring Khalid - Beautiful People LadBaby -I Love Sausage Rolls Ellie Goulding - River 2020 Eminem feat. Juice WRLD – Godzilla Billie Eilish – No Time To Die Live Lounge Allstars – Times Like These Drake – Toosie Slide Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You LadBaby – Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ Wham – Last Christmas Edited February 6, 20214 yr by gavindeejay
February 6, 20214 yr Ok what WAS on the NOW albums in 2000 then :lol: Given the year had 43 different no.1s, still quite a lot! I’ve noticed a few errors in those lists though. Both Changes (2003) and Thunderbirds (2004) did appear on Now albums. Also I noted the following omissions that did not appear: Eminem-The Real Slim Shady (2000) Eminem-Like Toy Soldiers (2005) Leona Lewis-Run (2008) Alexandra Burke Feat Flo Rida-Bad Boys (2009)
February 6, 20214 yr Given the year had 43 different no.1s, still quite a lot! I’ve noticed a few errors in those lists though. Both Changes (2003) and Thunderbirds (2004) did appear on Now albums. Also I noted the following omissions that did not appear: Eminem-The Real Slim Shady (2000) Eminem-Like Toy Soldiers (2005) Leona Lewis-Run (2008) Alexandra Burke Feat Flo Rida-Bad Boys (2009) Thanks for that, I've edited them in now :)
February 6, 20214 yr Ok what WAS on the NOW albums in 2000 then :lol: Unfortunately in the early 2000's, the Hits albums stopped Now! from getting the rights to alot of the Number 1's. They were very cheap and tacky albums as they used to feature 50+ hits on one disc, great value for money granted, but they used to fade tracks out about 2:30 through to squeeze all the songs on.
February 6, 20214 yr The Hits albums were hit and miss by the 00s but they always stole some massive hits. I loved Hits 55, I got that in the Easter holidays in 2003 when my sister got Now 54. It was one of the better albums. Hits 56 however had about 15 great tracks that could have been on Now 55 and loads of filler. Now 55’s filler was simply better.
February 6, 20214 yr Some artists wandered from Hits to Now or from Now to Hits. Wet Wet Wet and Johnny Hates Jazz were both on Hits 6 but later featured on Now 11 with follow up hits. Johnny Hates Jazz and Wet Wet Wet only appeared on Hits 6 because there was no NOW release in summer 1987 otherwise they’d have appeared on NOW had there been a release then
February 8, 20214 yr None of B*Witched's number ones made it to a Now (or indeed, any of their singles outside of that) but they were on the BRITS Abba tribute 'Thank Abba for the Music' that was on Now 42.
February 8, 20214 yr Going by The Now That's What I Call Music Book and not counting double A-sides where one side featured, I think these were the #1s from 1983-89 that didn't feature: 1983 (w/e 15/01/83 onwards) Michael Jackson - Billie Jean David Bowie - Let's Dance Spandau Ballet - True Police - Every Breath You Take Billy Joel - Uptown Girl 1984 George Michael - Careless Whisper Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You Wham! - Freedom Chaka Khan - I Feel For You Jim Diamond - I Should Have Known Better Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love [remix made Now 46, 2000] Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? 1985 Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round [until re-release made Now 63, 2006] Philip Bailey with Phil Collins - Easy Lover USA For Africa - We Are The World Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer Paul Hardcastle - 19 Crowd - You'll Never Walk Alone Madonna - Into The Groove David Bowie and Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street Jennifer Rush - The Power Of Love Wham! - I'm Your Man Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 1986 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV Diana Ross - Chain Reaction Cliff Richard and the Young Ones - Living Doll George Michael - A Different Corner Falco - Rock Me Amadeus Spitting Image - The Chicken Song Madonna - Papa Don't Preach Madonna - True Blue 1987 George Michael and Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) Mel and Kim - Respectable Ferry Aid - Let It Be Madonna - La Isla Bonita Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) Firm - Star Trekkin' Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin Madonna - Who's That Girl Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett - I Just Can't Stop Loving You Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up Bee Gees - You Win Again 1988 Aswad - Don't Turn Around Pet Shop Boys - Heart Fairground Attraction - Perfect Bros - I Owe You Nothing U2 - Desire Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time Enya - Orinoco Flow Cliff Richard - Mistletoe And Wine 1989 Kylie and Jason - Especially For You Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts Madonna - Like A Prayer Bangles - Eternal Flame Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart Jason Donovan - Sealed With A Kiss Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You Black Box - Ride On Time Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - That's What I Like Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff) Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Let's Party Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas? Edited February 8, 20214 yr by jimwatts
February 8, 20214 yr Going by The Now That's What I Call Music Book and not counting double A-sides where one side featured, I think these were the #1s from 1983-89 that didn't feature: 1983 (w/e 15/01/83 onwards) Michael Jackson - Billie Jean David Bowie - Let's Dance Spandau Ballet - True Billy Joel - Uptown Girl Also 'Every Breath You Take' by the Police (the notes for the first album actually list the 5 missing!) 1985 Paul Hardcastle - 19 Paul Hardcastle didn't believe this when I told him! David Bowie and Mick Jagger - Into the Groove Should be 'Dancing In The Street', surely?
February 8, 20214 yr Also 'Every Breath You Take' by the Police (the notes for the first album actually list the 5 missing!) Thanks, I've edited that in. Two other Paul Hardcastle songs appeared on NOWs (Just For Money and The Wizard) but apparently not 19!
February 8, 20214 yr This isn't a list that you want to top x It is assuming they have the no1’s but some business men decided to i push for other songs on those cd’s. Imagine World of our own not making it to any NOW cd. This is a crime
February 9, 20214 yr I see Westlife topping this list too! And still in the EU This isn't a list that you want to top x Posts of the year already :rofl:
February 9, 20214 yr And here are the #1s from 1990-99 which I don't think appeared, again not counting double A-sides where one side featured (and if neither side featured, I've only listed the first): 1990 New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough Kylie Minogue - Tears On My Pillow Snap! - The Power Madonna - Vogue EnglandNewOrder - World In Motion Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Cliff Richard - Saviour's Day 1991 Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter Simpsons - Do The Bartman Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Michael Jackson - Black Or White 1992 Boyz II Men - End Of The Road Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 1993 Take That featuring Lulu - Relight My Fire Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby Take That - Babe 1994 Mariah Carey - Without You Take That - Everything Changes Prince - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World Manchester United Football Squad - Come On You Reds Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy 1995 Celine Dion - Think Twice Take That - Back For Good Robson & Jerome - Unchained Melody Take That - Never Forget Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone Robson & Jerome - I Believe Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1996 Take That - How Deep Is Your Love Prodigy - Firestarter Baddiel and Skinner / Lightning Seeds - Three Lions ['98 version made Now 40, 1998] Fugees - Killing Me Softly Gary Barlow - Forever Love Fugees - Ready Or Not Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun Robson & Jerome - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted Peter Andre - I Feel You Dunblane - Knockin' On Heaven's Door Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 1997 Tori Amos - Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big) LL Cool J - Ain't Nobody Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dancefloor Gary Barlow - Love Won't Wait Olive - You're Not Alone Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean? Will Smith - Men In Black Elton John - Something About The Way You Look Tonight [live version of the original Candle In The Wind made Now 11, 1988] Teletubbies - Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh! 1998 Oasis - All Around The World Usher - You Make Me Wanna Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On Madonna - Frozen B*Witched - C'est La Vie Another Level - Freak Me Jamiroquai - Deeper Underground Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next B*Witched - Rollercoaster Spacedust - Gym And Tonic B*Witched - To You I Belong Chef - Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You) 1999 Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) Blondie - Maria B*Witched - Blame It On The Weatherman Westlife - Swear It Again Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca Westlife - If I Let You Go Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle Westlife - Flying Without Wings Five - Keep On Movin' Cliff Richard - The Millennium Prayer Westlife - I Have A Dream Edited February 9, 20214 yr by jimwatts
February 9, 20214 yr I guess many of them would have been due to licensing rights and a few of them were probably down to bad timing but I'd be interested to know why some of the others were omitted. There's some pretty huge number ones in that list!
February 9, 20214 yr Johnny Hates Jazz and Wet Wet Wet only appeared on Hits 6 because there was no NOW release in summer 1987 otherwise they’d have appeared on NOW had there been a release then Isn't that speculation?
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