That's an interesting idea. It would be an eye opener for me, certainly.

National compilation for any country (which is not UK / US).

 

Lithuania, Ireland, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Germany, maybe anything else.

 

That is a good idea, back in 2010 I made a 100 Hits: Sweden, clearly it would be a lot stronger now with 14 years more to pool from, as well as a deeper knowledge of music that came earlier, but this is what it looked like back then:

 

Disc 1

 

1. Agnes - Release Me

2. Alcazar - Stay The Night

3. Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat

4. Charlotte Perrelli - Hero

5. Salem Al Fakir - Keep On Walking

6. The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind

7. The Sound of Arrows - M.A.G.I.C.

8. Ace Of Base - Life Is A Flower

9. Roxette - Listen To Your Heart

10. ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

11. Carola - Invincible

12. One More Time - Den Vilda

13. Eric Prydz - Pjanoo

14. September - Cry For You

15. Timoteij - Kom

16. Basshunter - All I Ever Wanted

17. Blank feat Young Ivy - I'm Going For Your Brother

18. Sanna Nielsen - Nobody Without You

19. Staygold feat Spank Rock, Lady Tigra and Damien Adore - Backseat

20. Sheelah - Psycho

 

Disc 2

 

1. Europe - The Final Countdown

2. Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe

3. Dr Alban - It's My Life

4. Axwell - I Found U

5. Swedish House Mafia - One (Your Name)

6. Malena Ernman - La Voix

7. Caroline Af Ugglas - Snalla Snalla

8. Erik Hassle - Hurtful

9. Meja - All 'Bout The Money

10. Emilia - Big Big World

11. Markoolio & Linda Bengtzing - Varsta Schlagern

12. Lucky Twice - Lucky

13. BWO - Lay Your Love On Me

14. Mans Zelmerlow - Cara Mia

15. E.M.D. - Baby Goodbye

16. Darin feat KatDeLuna - Breathing Your Love

17. A*Teens - Upside Down

18. Caroline Jonsson - By My Side

19. Elin Lanto - Funeral

20. Jenny Berggren - Here I Am

 

Disc 3

 

1. Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life

2. Fame - Give Me Your Love

3. Friends - Listen To Your Heartbeat

4. Cecilia Vennersten - Det Vackraste

5. Ola - Natalie

6. Lazee feat Neverstore - Hold On

7. Jill Johnson - Crazy In Love

8. Sarah Dawn Finer - I Remember Love

9. Amy Diamond - Thank You

10. The Sounds - Painted By Numbers

11. Andreas Johnson - Glorious

12. The Poodles - Night Of Passion

13. H.E.A.T. - 1000 Miles

14. P-Bros feat DJ Trexx & Olga Pratilova - Tingaliin

15. Eric Saade - Manboy

16. Gathania - Blame It On You

17. Lena Philipsson - It Hurts

18. The Ark - The Worrying Kind

19. Miss Li - Dancing The Whole Way Home

20. Amanda Jenssen - Do You Love Me?

 

Disc 4

 

1. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

2. Vincent - Miss Blue

3. Sibel - That Is Where I'll Go

4. Thermostatic - Driving

5. Christian Falk feat Demetrius - Make It Right

6. Star Pilots - In The Heat Of The Night

7. Neo - Human Frontier

8. Le Kid - Mercy Mercy

9. Love Generation - Love Generation

10. Lili & Susie - Show Me Heaven

11. Ana Johnsson - We Are

12. The Wannadies - You & Me Song

13. Velvet - Take My Body Close

14. Hello Saferide - Anna

15. Dead By April - Losing You

16. Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks

17. José González - Hearbeats

18. Mando Diao - Dance With Somebody

19. Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

20. A Camp - I Can Buy You

 

Disc 5

 

1. ABBA - Mamma Mia

2. Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque

3. Robyn - Show Me Love

4. Charlotte Nilsson - Take Me To Your Heaven

5. Carola - Fångad Av En Stormvind

6. Mans Zelmerlow - Hope & Glory

7. The Cardigans - Lovefool

8. Ace of Base - The Sign

9. Basshunter - Now You're Gone

10. Sanna Nielsen - Empty Room

11. September - Can't Get Over

12. Agnes - On & On

13. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love

14. BWO - Temple Of Love

15. E.M.D. - Jennie Let Me Love You

16. Jill Johnson - Karleken Ar

17. Andreas Johnson - A Little Bit Of Love

18. Eric Prydz - Call On Me

19. Linda Bengtzing - Alla Flickor

20. Sarah Dawn Finer - Moving On

No Leila K - Electric, gooddelta!? Would be good after Dr Alban - It's My Life as its like a faster version of its production.

 

I didn't know that the Cardigans were Swedish!

 

'Be Mine!' is my favourite of Robyn's songs I think!

Edited December 21, 20231 yr by TheSnake

No, I guess I wasn't aware of the song at the time. Got To Get I should have included though.

 

Obviously Loreen would be on here twice now.

 

I love the fact 2010 me didn't kick off with ABBA.

Edited December 21, 20231 yr by gooddelta

Surprised you didn't include Caesars - Jerk It Out too

Not sure I realised they were Swedish!

Yaki-Da - I Saw You Dancing

 

 

Almost 50 million views on Youtube. Possibly 90-95 % are from Russians. I don't know why this flop (# 32 in Sweden) became an insane hit in my country. :lol:

Edited December 21, 20231 yr by Last Dreamer

Fabulous work, guys! I will definitely give the accompanying Spotify playlists a listen when I get the chance.

The opening track on disc 3 of 1989 isn't something obvious. I just thought it worked for that particular disc.

The Stone Roses - Fools Gold?

The opening track on disc 3 of 1989 isn't something obvious. I just thought it worked for that particular disc.

 

Its the ballad/slow song disc and its Richard Marx's Right There Waiting?

I hope Bring Me Edelweiss makes the cut for 1989!

This is a great idea, I'm looking forward to seeing the full 1989 tracklisting.

 

Just being pedantic here but it's Lightning Seeds, not Lightening Seeds, if you want to correct it before unveiling the final track list :P

Thanks. gooddelta did point that out and I thought I had corrected it

 

:)

 

National compilation for any country (which is not UK / US).

 

Lithuania, Ireland, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Germany, maybe anything else.

 

Hits of Australia 1975-now would be awesome. The 70s is when Australian music culture really started up with AC/DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels, Midnight Oil, etc. pumping out some massive rock songs. But as years went on the predominant genre turned to grunge/indie rock, then to pop/electronic, then back to more indie soft rock/pseudo folk, and in more recent years (for lack of a better word) hip hop. Australian rap isn’t exactly hip hop.. maybe the genre is just Australian rap?

 

In any case you could literally plot out the transition of Australian music over 4 discs. Would be difficult to not have Kylie Minogue on every disc lol

 

 

Italy would be good too Italo disco, Italo house, Eurodance, Måneskin!

Netherlands is good choice, but don't know how mainstream and popular their acts were in other countries.

There are plenty.

 

You could include a lot of Eurodance/pop for a start: Alice Deejay, 2 Unlimited, Vengaboys, Doop, T-Spoon, Hermes House Band etc...

 

Dance: Armin Van Buuren, System F, Gouryella, Ferry Corsten, Tiësto, Martin Garrix, Afrojack, Fedde Le Grand, Sam Feldt, Rank 1, DJ Jean

 

And then Eurovision artists: Duncan Laurence, The Common Linnets, Mouth & MacNeal, Teach-In...

 

Other: Caro Emerald, Eva Simons

 

Probably quite an easy country to do.

 

There will be other themes too! We're trying to also cover some bases that Now has not done yet with their themes.

 

We are very much open to outside involvement as it's a community project, if anybody has an idea for a compilation and feels they could come up with a strong, cohesive tracklist that flows well and fits with the theme (with 3-4 'discs' of circa 80 minutes of music each) then please let us know your ideas.

I’ve always wanted a Now! Britpop. Reckon I could make a good playlist.

BuzzJack presents... Britpop is very much on the cards. Will message you.