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AdvertDetailsReleased: 23rd November 2018

Origin: United Kingdom

Label: Sony Music Entertainment / Universal

Format: Double CD, Digital Download

Duration: 2:38:37 (158 minutes 37 seconds)

Tracks: 46

#1’s: 3

Chart Peak: #1 (13 weeks)

Sales: 384,589 (Platinum)

Tracklisting1. Little Mix feat. Nicki Minaj – Woman Like Me 3:50 {2}

2. Calvin Harris & Sam Smith – Promises 3:50 {1}

3. Ariana Grande – God is a woman 3:17 {4}

4. George Ezra – Hold My Girl 3:32 {8}

5. Rita Ora – Let Me Love You 3:12 {4}

6. benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid – Eastside 2:54 {1}

7. Jess Glynne – All I Am 3:40 {7}

8. Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin – I Like It 4:14 {8}

9. The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar – Pray For Me 3:33 {11}

10. Silk City, Dua Lipa feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson – Electricity 3:44 {4}

11. Dynoro & Gigi D'Agostino – In My Mind 3:04 {5}

12. Loud Luxury feat. brando – Body 2:45 {4}

13. Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B – Girls Like You 3:56 {7}

14. Marshmello & Bastille – Happier 3:35 {2}

15. Clean Bandit feat. Marina & The Diamonds & Luis Fonsi – Baby 3:26 {15}

16. Ellie Goulding, Diplo & Swae Lee – Close To Me 3:04 {17}

17. Cheryl – Love Made Me Do It 3:28 {19}

18. Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes 3:12 {12}

19. The 1975 – TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME 3:29 {26}

20. Mabel – One Shot 3:53 {44}

21. Take That – Out Of Our Heads 2:55 {DNC}

22. Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies & Celia Imrie – When I Kissed The Teavher (from 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again') 3:01 {40}

23. Andrea Bocelli feat. Dua Lipa – If Only 3:39 {DNC}

24. DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper & Quavo – No Brainer 4:22 {3}

25. Dave & Fredo – Funky Friday 3:04 {1}

26. DJ Snake feat. Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B – Taki Taki 3:34 {15}

27. French Montana feat. Drake – No Stylist 3:13 {19}

28. Dennis Lloyd – Nevermind 2:38 {17}

29. Khalid – Better 3:51 {15}

30. Martin Garrix feat. Khalid – Ocean 3:37 {25}

31. Halsey – Without Me 3:23 {3}

32. B Young – 079ME 3:33 {23}

33. Stay Flee Get Lizzy feat. Fredo & Young T & Bugsey – Ay Caramba 3:33 {32}

34. Travis Scott – SICKO MODE 5:14 {9}

35. Shawn Mendes & Zedd – Lost In Japan [Remix] 3:22 {30}

36. MK x Jonas Blue x Becky Hill – Back & Forth 3:17 {12}

37. Jonas Blue, Liam Payne & Lennon Stella – Polaroid 3:12 {12}

38. Au/Ra & CamelPhat – Panic Room 3:36 {30}

39. Sigala & Ella Eyre & Meghan Trainor feat. French Montana – Just Got Paid 3:40 {11}

40. David Guetta feat. Anne-Marie – Don't Leave Me Alone 3:05 {18}

41. Hardy Caprio feat. One Acen – Best Life 3:20 {26}

42. ZieZie – Fine Girl 2:48 {30}

43. Sigrid – Sucker Punch 3:15 {DNC}

44. Selena Gomez – Back To You 3:29 {13}

45. LSD feat. Sia, Diplo & Labrinth – Thunderclouds 3:08 {17}

46. Dean Lewis – Be Alright 3:19 {11}

 

Key

Tracks highlighted red were official UK #1’s.

Tracks with an asterisk (*) next to their title have also been included in special releases from the series.

The track duration has been highlighted cyan.

Bracketed numbers refer to highest chart position reached.

Miscellaneous FactsTrack Most Weeks At #1: Calvin Harris & Sam Smith – Promises (6 Weeks)

Lowest Charting Track: Take That – Out Of Our Heads / Andrea Bocelli feat. Dua Lipa – If Only / Sigrid – Sucker Punch {DNC}

Longest Song: Travis Scott – SICKO MODE 5:12

Shortest Song: Dennis Lloyd – Nevermind 2:38

Edited Tracks: Unknown

Unedited Tracks: Unknown

Inlay Mistakes: Lennon Stella is described as American instead of correctly being identified as Canadian.

Other Facts: This is the final cover that has an animation from Brant Animation.

On This Day In HistoryNo music news to report for 23rd November 2018.Other ResourcesOfficial Now Music Website

Wikipedia

Polyhex

Brandt Animation Archive

My ReviewNow That’s What I Call Music! 101 otherwise referred to as Now 101 was the third and final release of 2018. The compilation contained 46 tracks with 3 UK #1 singles. This volume was the first in the series to feature music from Travis Scott & Au/Ra who would feature again in future volumes.

 

Omissions included the popular soundtrack single to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by Post Malone featuring Swae Lee. Other omitted artists included the likes of Tyga, Kodak Black, Juice WRLD, Bazzi, BTS, Rak-Su and still no music from Drake that would have added an extra #1 to the tracklisting.

 

Quite a number of artists have so far only appeared on this volume and no other, and at the time of this review, these included benny blanco, Silk City, Dynoro, Loud Luxury, Panic! At The Disco, Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies & Celia Imrie, Andrea Bocelli, Dennis Lloyd, Halsey (as a lead artist), Stay Flee Get Lizzy, Hardy Caprio, ZieZie, LSD and Dean Lewis.

 

Artwork Rating: 9/10 Amazing

I always love a dark themed cover. This astro themed cover with satellites surrounding the logo as it hovered over the Earth was rather beautiful and striking for sure. What is also noteworthy is a slightly different curved font used for the logo (most notable with the numbers). It is definitely one of my favourite covers in recent years.

 

Disc 1 Favourite: Silk City, Dua Lipa feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson – Electricity

This is one of the better dance features for pop singer Dua Lipa. Although Silk City released another single not long prior to this which didn't chart, this has to be their best yet, and hopefully they will have another hit in the future which will feature in the Now series.

 

Disc 2 Favourite: Au/Ra & CamelPhat – Panic Room

I knew nothing about Au/Ra before this song, and it became a favourite for a long time, and one of my highlights from CamelPhat's vast discography. I was thrilled when I saw that this song was included in the tracklisting, despite it's low chart peak.

 

Disc 3 Tracklist:

(A concept of what a third disc might look like if other hits from the era were used).

 

1. Post Malone feat. Swae Lee – Sunflower (from the original motion picture "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse") 2:38 {3}

2. Drake – In My Feelings 3:38 {1}

3. Tyga feat. Offset – Taste 3:53 {5}

4. Kodak Black feat. Travis Scott & Offset – ZEZE 3:49 {7}

5. Ariana Grande – breathin 3:18 {8}

6. Juice WRLD – Lucid Dreams 4:00 {10}

7. Bazzi feat. Camila Cabello – Beautiful 3:00 {33}

8. Dua Lipa & BLACKPINK – Kiss And Make Up 3:09 {36}

9. BTS & Nicki Minaj – Idol 4:20 {21}

10. Rak-Su – I Want You To Freak 3:09 {39}

11. Olly Murs feat. Snoop Dogg – Moves 2:45 {46}

12. The Chainsmokers feat. Emily Warren – Side Effects 2:53 {50}

13. Zedd & Elley Duhe – Happy Now 3:27 {45}

14. Years & Years – All For You 3:40 {47}

15. Steel Banglez feat. MØ & Yxng Bane – Your Lovin' 3:24 {47}

16. Fredo – BMT 2:52 {25}

17. AJ Tracey – LO(V/S)ER 2:45 {38}

18. Mac Miller – Self Care 5:45 {61}

19. James Arthur – You Deserve Better 3:28 {53}

20. Mumford & Sons – Guiding Light 3:38 {40}

21. Imagine Dragons – Natural 3:09 {49}

22. Bring Me The Horizon – MANTRA 3:53 {55}

23. Billie Eilish – when the party's over 3:16 {21}

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Total time: 1:19:49

 

Overall Rating: 7/10 Very Good

I was pleased to see the return of two discs of current hits after the last release only contained one (due to featuring older hits on the second disc). So there was a big improvement from seeing lots of hits, although there was some filler towards the end of Disc 2 it felt like. I would have especially liked to have seen Sunflower feature and that one song alone would likely have increased my overall rating, as well as a chance to feature a popular Billie Eilish single However, it's not a bad effort given what was available in the charts at the time.

 

My Best 5 (as of April 2022)

1. Au/Ra & CamelPhat – Panic Room

2. Silk City, Dua Lipa feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson – Electricity

3. Sigala & Ella Eyre & Meghan Trainor feat. French Montana – Just Got Paid

4. Calvin Harris & Sam Smith – Promises

5. Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes

 

My Worst 5 (as of April 2022)

1. Khalid – Better

2. Dean Lewis – Be Alright

3. Cheryl – Love Made Me Do It

4. Sigrid – Sucker Punch

5. Travis Scott – SICKO MODE

Other OmissionsKanye West feat. Lil Pump – I Love It {3}

Eminem – The Ringer {4}

Lil Peep & XXXTENTACION – Falling Down {10}

Eminem – Killshot {13}

Bad Bunny feat. Drake – MIA {13}

XXXTENTACION & Lil Pump feat. Maluma & Swae Lee – Arms Around You {14}

Travis Scott – Stargazing {15}

Machine Gun Kelly – Rap Devil {15}

Eminem – Venom {16}

6ix9ine, Nicki Minaj feat. Murda Beatz – FEFE {17}

Lil Wayne feat. Kendrick Lamar – Mona Lisa {21}

XXXTENTACION – Bad {23}

Childish Gambino – Summertime Magic {30}

The 1975 – Love It If We Made It {33}

6ix9ine feat. Bobby Shmurda – Stoopid {34}

D-Block Europe feat. Young Adz, Lil Pino, Dirtbike LB – NASSty {35}

Nicki Minaj – Barbie Dreams {36}

Khalid feat. Empress Of – Suncity {41}

Chip feat. Not3s – CRB Check {43}

Imagine Dragons – Bad Liar {44}

Lil Baby, Gunna & Drake – Never Recover {46}

Tyga – Swish {47}

Ella Mai – Trip {47}

D-Block Europe & Yxng Bane – Gucci Mane {49}

Twenty One Pilots – Jumpsuit {50}

Yxng Bane – Needed Time {51}

Ella Mai – Boo'd Up {52}

Bugzy Malone feat. Rag'N'Bone Man – Run {55}

Quavo feat. Drake – Flip The Switch {55}

Future & Juice WRLD – Fine China {55}

Geko feat. NSG – 6 30 {56}

Steve Aoki feat. BTS – Waste It On Me {57}

Skepta & Wizkid – Energy (Stay Far Away) {59}

Not3s – Just Fine {60}

Little Mix – Joan Of Arc {61}

Tyga – Dip {62}

Ill Blu feat. Krept & Konan, Loksi & ZieZie – Chop My Money {64}

Dappy – All We Know {64}

Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars & Kodak Black – Wake Up In The Sky {65}

6ix9ine feat. Anuel AA – Bebe {67}

Dizzee Rascal feat. Skepta – Money Right {68}

Lil Uzi Vert – New Patek {68}

Kojo Funds feat. Bugzy Malone – Who Am I {69}

Lil Baby & Gunna – Drip Too Hard {69}

Da Beatfreakz x AJ x Deno x Swarmz x Cadet – Pumpy {70}

Krept & Konan feat. Tabitha – Pour Me Another One {73}

A very average album for me, I don't honestly care about a single song on Disc 2 but picked Dean Lewis. Even that I only just about like.

 

Disc 1 has a lot of great stuff, my favourite is In My Mind by Dynoro. Electricity by Silk City is my second favourite but I think eight songs on the disc made my personal end of year top 100.

There is an inlay mistake in which they label Lennon Stella as American instead of Canadian during the description for Jonas Blue's Polaroid.

There is an inlay mistake in which they label Lennon Stella as American instead of Canadian during the description for Jonas Blue's Polaroid.

Thank you I’ve added that detail.

Disc 1 favourite: Ariana Grande - God is a woman

Disc 2 favourite: Au/Ra & CamelPhat – Panic Room

 

Both were personal chart #1s for me! Pleased to see them both leading :heart: