Quite some confidence in Dizzy to put it as track 1 above Houdini *.* Nice Danny L Harle 1-2 anyway.

 

Sophie deserves more than the last spot, but I guess it's just the 'old song' place along with Unwritten - nice to finally see that make a numbered Now.

 

Prada missing is a bit baffling, is there no clean version of it? MOS are usually ok with explicit lyrics I think, and it's the explicit version on Bravo The Hits 2023 too.

 

There are still so few top ten hits though, 11 if you count Unwritten the first time around. Dizzy and Alibi will have future chances though.

Here’s a higher resolution image of the front and back covers;

 

 

 

Here’s a playlist for those who wish to listen to the tracks in the order;

 

 

Here’s an incomplete list of omissions in the order of UK chart peak (red ones were from a soundtrack to a movie or TV show so may have been harder to license, bold ones are realistic additions to the next release, Now 118);

 

Beyoncé – TEXAS HOLD ‘EM {1}

Dua Lipa – Dance The Night {1}

The Beatles – Now And Then {1}

cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe – Prada {2}

Dua Lipa – Training Season {4}

Djo – End Of Beginning {5}

Noah Kahan & Sam Fender – Homesick {5}

YG Marley – Praise Jah In The Moonlight {5}

Mitski – My Love Mine All Mine {8}

The Weeknd with Playboi Carti & Madonna – Popular {10}

21 Savage – redrum {11}

Fred again.. & Baby Keem – leavemealone {11}

Olivia Rodrigo – Can’t Catch Me Now {12}

Tate McRae – exes {12}

Calvin Harris with Rag'n'Bone Man – Lovers In A Past Life {13}

Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves – I Remember Everything {14}

Flo Milli – Never Lose Me {15}

SZA – Saturn {15}

Noah Kahan & Hozier – Northern Attitude {16}

Chase & Status & Hedex feat. ArrDee – Liquor & Cigarettes {17}

Kygo & Ava Max – Whatever {17}

Central Cee – I Will {18}

Bring Me The Horizon – Kool-Aid {21}

The Weeknd, JENNIE & Lily-Rose Depp – One Of The Girls {21}

Michael Marcagi – Scared To Start {22}

Jungle – Back On 74 {25}

Good Neighbours – Home {26}

Mason & Princess Superstar – Perfect (Exceeder) {26}

Campbell x Alchemist – Would You (go to bed with me?) {29}

Justin Timberlake – Selfish {29}

Bryson Tiller – Whatever She Wants {31}

JID feat. 21 Savage & Baby Tate – Surround Sound {35}

David Kushner – Skin And Bones {36}

Wes Nelson feat. Craig David – Abracadabra {37}

Newera – Birds In The Sky {40}

Charli XCX & Sam Smith – In The City {41}

Hannah Laing & HVRR – Party All The Time {51}

Joel Corry – Hey DJ {59}

Lil Nas X – J CHRIST {59}

Marshmello x Venbee – No Man’s Land {61}

Selena Gomez – Love On {61}

 

Here are some others that did not chart that were potentially expected to feature;

 

Alicia Keys – Limetime

Billy Joel – Turn The Lights Back On

Jess Glynne – Friend Of Mine / Enough

Keane – Love Actually

Kenya Grace – Only In My Mind / Paris

Kings Of Leon – Mustang

Marshmello, P!nk & Sting – Dreaming

Paloma Faith – How You Leave A Man

Purple Disco Machine, Duke Dumont & Nothing But Thieves – Something On My Mind

Switch Disco – VACANCY

The Killers – Spirit

The Rolling Stones feat. Lady Gaga – Sweet Sounds Of Heaven

Usher – Kissing Strangers

Zara Larsson – You Love Who You Love

 

I may add more omissions to the list later.

Official Twitter/X post for both releases:

https://twitter.com/NOWMusic/status/1765757...sBH0hA&s=19

Olly Alexander (Years & Years)

Stanning the fact that Kylie is featured twice :wub:

And Calvin only once. Shame his latest hit isn’t on there as he’s a Now favourite. At least there’s a few 1xtra songs on there unlike Now 115 which didn’t have any

I'm surprised Ed Sheeran's American Town didn't appear on the tracklist since a few songs that didn't appear on NOW 116 (Agora Hills, Used to Be Young, get him back!, Water etc.) appear on NOW 117 and similar to Calvin, he's a NOW favourite.

Edited March 7, 20241 yr by IdentFan101

And Calvin only once. Shame his latest hit isn’t on there as he’s a Now favourite. At least there’s a few 1xtra songs on there unlike Now 115 which didn’t have any

Which ones would you consider ‘1xtra’ songs?

Which ones would you consider ‘1xtra’ songs?

RAYE, Nicki Minaj, Doja Cat

RAYE, Nicki Minaj, Doja Cat

The first 2 are also Capital song as well.

RAYE, Nicki Minaj, Doja Cat

I mean, they’re all pretty pop-based as far as chart rap goes (and RAYE isn’t even that) :lol: more Radio 1/Capital than anything.

 

 

I mean, they’re all pretty pop-based as far as chart rap goes (and RAYE isn’t even that) :lol: more Radio 1/Capital than anything.

I also forgot Central Cee

Just listening to that awful remix of The Sound Of Silence whilst realising the original recording from 2016 was never featured. :mellow:

Really good tracklist actually, might buy the CD for the first time in a long time

 

EDIT: And if we want to talk about radio stations, two thirds of this album has been on the Radio 2 playlist at some point.

Edited March 7, 20241 yr by lewistgreen

Like remix sound of silence

Shame the original didn’t appear on Now 94 and shame Prada isn’t on there seeing as it’s been on other compilations

Nice to see Troye Sivan finally debut as a main artist. Rush should've been on NOW 115!

Pet Shop Boys haven't appeared since NOW 72, so was not expecting to see them again. Quite iconic really

J.Lo sneaking in another appearance as well? Fair play! I love that song

Two Kylie songs! Amazing!

And Natasha Bedingfield hasn't appeared on a NOW since 67! Glad Unwritten made it.

 

Also, so many samples connect this album to so many other NOWs. Off the top of my head we have:

 

Ella Henderson feat. Rudimental - Alibi / Coolio feat. L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise (NOW 32)

Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Girls / Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun (NOW 2)

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (Not a sample, but was previously on NOW 51)

David Guetta & Kim Petras - When We Were Young (The Logical Song) / Scooter - The Logical Song (NOW 52)

 

If I've missed any, let me know.

RE: Prada, not sure what's happened there. There is a clean version so it's not that. It's a Ministry of Sound single, which belongs to Sony who also release the Now compilations. Maybe, and quite rightfully, it's something to do with not wanting D-Block Europe to appear :kink: (or it's not that deep and it just didn't get included becuase it didn't).

I prefer spring Nows being released before Easter. One of the reasons is because a lot of people tend to go away for Easter weekend and releasing the spring Now before Easter like they used to gives people something to listen to for their journeys

Well that's my Easter ruined then. Can't have anything nice