September 25, 2024Sep 25 A pixelated version has been posted of Yearbook ‘77 on the Now Collectors Group but from what I can make out ABBA are not on it, I really thought Waterloo missing ‘74 was a one-off for the 50th Anniversary :o They’ll regret not putting these out sooner when they had the license.
September 25, 2024Sep 25 And shame the release dates of the 1985 and 1987 yearbooks weren’t switched around as Bruce Springsteen and U2 could’ve appeared on 1985 and 1987, respectively
September 26, 2024Sep 26 13 Years Ago Today: Nf7D9mwbCW0 One of the most unique NOWs released during its originally EMI era, and one I really do love! R&B was having such a great Dance/Pop cross over, and things like "Massive R&B" were doing big numbers in the compilation charts - so I guess NOW quickly jumped on the band wagon. Faves for me are: Rihanna - Cheers (Drink To That) Dev - In The Dark Kelly Rowland feat Lil' Wayne - Motivation Nicole Scherzinger - Wet Jennifer Lopez feat. Lil Wayne - I'm Into You Rizzle Kicks - Down With the Trumpets Nicki Minaj - Super Bass Keri Hilson - Pretty Girl Rock Duchess - All The Boyz The only thing missing is Run The World (Girls)/Best Thing I Never Had by Beyoncé. This was the the time you could license her sometimes - and I was a little sad when neither appeared on 79 or 80. I wonder if this was them trying to create a new running series like "NOW Dance". Would've been a good series in my opinion. Edited September 26, 2024Sep 26 by Spiral
September 26, 2024Sep 26 We've had something old, now here's something new! NOW Yearbook - 1977 is out November 1st. Sadly ABBA still are a no-go Disc 3 is wall-to-wall bangers! It's leagues above the other discs for sure. Strangely The Stranglers have 2 songs on Disc 2. Odd, but hey-ho. Now let's get another 90s one on the go!
September 26, 2024Sep 26 I hope the next 90s yearbook is either 1991 or 1995 and I expect next years yearbooks to go in these patterns; 90s, 70s, 90s, 70s and 1989
October 1, 2024Oct 1 For some reason the compilers can't licence Abba at present. Should have Knowing Me Knowing You and Name Of The Game On It. Maybe because of the forthcoming compilation The First 50 Years.
October 2, 2024Oct 2 20 Years Ago Today... HITS 59: 10/02/2004 Disc: 1 1 These Words - Natasha Bedingfield 2 Real To Me - Brian Mcfadden 3 Burn (Radio Mix) - Usher 4 Roses - Outkast 5 Everytime - Britney Spears 6 My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne 7 Just (Radio Edit) - Jamie Scott 8 Make It Up With Love - Atl 9 We Are - Ana Johnsson 10 Talk Talk Talk - The Ordinary Boys 11 Get No Better - Cassidy Featuring Mashonda 12 Take My Hand (Radio Edit) - Jurgen Vries Featuring Andrea Britton 13 Believe - Ian Van Dahl 14 Dragostea Din Tei (Original Romanian Version) - O-Zone 15 Never Felt Like This Before - Shaznay Lewis 16 Trick Me - Kelis 17 Cold Hard Bitch - Jet 18 Can't Stand Me Now - The Libertines 19 First Of The Gang - Morrissey 20 Michael - Franz Ferdinand Disc: 2 1 Dumb - The 411 2 Flawless (Go to the City) (Single Edit) - George Michael 3 This Love - Maroon 5 4 F**k It (I Don't Want You Back) - Eamon 5 Overnight Celebrity - Twista 6 Talk About Our Love Brandy Featuring Kanye West 7 Insania - Peter Andre 8 Mass Destruction - Faithless 9 Last To Know - Pink 10 Tipsy - J-Kwon 11 Chocolate - Kylie Minogue 12 Satellite Of Love 2004 - Lou Reed 13 Still In Love Song - The Stills 14 Our Lives - The Calling 15 That's All Right - Elvis 16 Summer Sunshine - The Corrs 17 Hello - Candice 18 Friday's Child - Will Young 19 Crawling Up A Hill - Katie Melua 20 Don't Leave Home - Dido Bold = Also on NOW 58/59 Are we allowed to post about the rivals? Is this a safe space for them? :lol: - There are some amazing songs I wished made NOW 59, like "Dumb", "My Happy Ending", "Don't Leave Home", and "Never Felt Like This Before". - UK Number 1's included are: "These Words", "Real To Me", "Burn", "Everytime", and "F*** It (I Don't Want You Back)". Which songs are your faves? And which ones would you like to have seen on NOW 59.
October 2, 2024Oct 2 Next edition of Now Christmas is due for release on 1st November. Seen it on the Now collectors page on Facebook. It’s basically songs from the 2022 edition reshuffled. They should at least release it on the 8th November instead of having it clash with Now Yearbook 1977
October 2, 2024Oct 2 The Hits series could sometimes be better than the Now one-not often but it was possibly. My sister bagged herself Now 54 in April 2003 and I decided to opt for Hits 55 at the time instead-it was a really good tracklist!
October 2, 2024Oct 2 The Hits series could sometimes be better than the Now one-not often but it was possibly. My sister bagged herself Now 54 in April 2003 and I decided to opt for Hits 55 at the time instead-it was a really good tracklist! This Love by Maroon 5 should’ve been on Now 58 instead of Hits 59 as they were signed to Interscope where their songs normally appeared on the Now series
October 2, 2024Oct 2 Next edition of Now Christmas is due for release on 1st November. Seen it on the Now collectors page on Facebook. It’s basically songs from the 2022 edition reshuffled. They should at least release it on the 8th November instead of having it clash with Now Yearbook 1977 Has a couple that are rarely on Xmas compilations. Dana and The Wombles. No Queen and was a big Xmas song.
October 2, 2024Oct 2 Has a couple that are rarely on Xmas compilations. Dana and The Wombles. No Queen and was a big Xmas song. No Queen because they wanna include Wham! instead. Best way to include both Freddie and George on the same compilation is to have Freddie open disc 1 and George open disc 2
October 3, 2024Oct 3 The Hits series could sometimes be better than the Now one-not often but it was possibly. My sister bagged herself Now 54 in April 2003 and I decided to opt for Hits 55 at the time instead-it was a really good tracklist! I think that's my favourite Hits album, or certainly up there. And for me it was better than the equivalent Now. Some very big hitters that Now couldn't get, like Christina Aguilera, Kelly Rowland, P!nk, Delta Goodrem, Gareth Gates (not that I cared much for the song), Avril Lavigne, J.Lo, Dannii Minogue, the list goes on... Hits 58 posted above does give me some college memories, bang in the middle for me. It had some good tracks - Now would get These Words later on but didn't have Single or even Unwritten until its recent resurgence - and The Corrs, Faithless, Will Young and Avril were all good as well as some of the dance picks. I don't know if that Candice song was cancelled or just didn't chart, it's funny because I saw a write-up about that song recently and I was surprised I remembered it so vividly, and now I know it's because I remember hearing it on this album. No Queen because they wanna include Wham! instead. Best way to include both Freddie and George on the same compilation is to have Freddie open disc 1 and George open disc 2 I think Queen and George's labels or estate or whatever both insist on Disc 1, Track 1, so they can't have both, they have one or the other. Now Yearbook 1987 was interesting in that George and Aretha opened Disc 2, but only because George had already opened Disc 1. I doubt in any other circumstance that would happen.
October 3, 2024Oct 3 George did open disc 2 of Now 1993-2003 without opening disc 1 and as Now sometimes like to change the release date of their spin-offs, they should postpone Now Christmas for another week to avoid clashing with Now Yearbook 1977 and I hope that Now Yearbook 1977 beats Now Christmas to the top of the compilation chart and that the latter flops Edited October 3, 2024Oct 3 by Hadji
October 3, 2024Oct 3 This Love by Maroon 5 should’ve been on Now 58 instead of Hits 59 as they were signed to Interscope where their songs normally appeared on the Now series I think Maroon 5's first set of releases were BMG releases, until they moved over to Universal (where they also brought the rights to the debut album). Regarding the "new" NOW Christmas album: It's nice to see Cher! It's turned into one of my favourite Christmas tracks, but I need Britney's "My Only Wish"! It's the 2nd best Xmas single imo.
October 3, 2024Oct 3 I think Maroon 5's first set of releases were BMG releases, until they moved over to Universal (where they also brought the rights to the debut album). Regarding the "new" NOW Christmas album: It's nice to see Cher! It's turned into one of my favourite Christmas tracks, but I need Britney's "My Only Wish"! It's the 2nd best Xmas single imo. Harder To Breathe and This Love we’re both released under the Octone label which was owned by Universal worldwide and Polydor in the UK which is why I’m surprised both those songs appeared on Hits instead of Now
October 3, 2024Oct 3 Just spotted Sam Ryder is on the new Christmas album too, which is a nice addition. Laughing at them flexing that Bruce Springsteen license they like to show off at every opportunity with his version of Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. They didn't waste making the most of the PSB license either. I really don't rate the artwork, the penguins look a bit weird to me (AI?). I wouldn't want to own that cover on vinyl regardless, but as I have the 2022 vinyl with 95% the same tracks, it's a surefire miss for me. Wasted opportunity to change things up outside of the 20 or so core classics that I suppose have to be on every one. Edited October 3, 2024Oct 3 by gooddelta
October 3, 2024Oct 3 It’s not official but I have compiled my own Now 119 tracklist ahead of the reveal in 3 weeks. I hope it ends up looking something like or similar to this CD 1 1. Sabrina Carpenter - Taste 2:37 2. Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish - Guess 2:23 3. Billie Eilish - Birds Of A Feather 3:30 4. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile 4:11 5. Chappell Roan - Hot To Go! 3:04 6. BL3SS & CamrinWatsin featuring Bbyclose - Kisses 2:18 7. Adam Port & Stryv - Move 2:57 8. Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) 2:51 9. Coldplay featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna & Tini - We Pray 3:53 10. JADE - Angel Of My Dreams 3:17 11. Perrie - You Go Your Way 3:54 11. Ariana Grande - The Boy Is Mine 2:53 12. Noah Kahan - You're Gonna Go Far 4:46 13. Katy Perry - Woman's World 2:43 14. Kylie Minogue - Lights Camera Action 2:42 15. Gigi Perez - Sailor Song 3:31 16. Quavo & Lana Del Rey - Tough 3:08 17. Post Malone featuring Luke Combs - Guy For That 2:44 18. Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry 2:37 19. The Kid LAROI - Nights Like This 1:26 20. Tate McRae - It's OK I'm OK 2:36 22. Benson Boone - Pretty Slowly 4:21 23. Teddy Swims - Bad Dreams 3:04 24. Rag'n'Bone Man - What Do You Believe In? 3:10 25. Oasis - Supersonic 4:43 or Don't Look Back In Anger 4:47 Total running time: 79:19 with Supersonic or 79:23 with Don't Look Back In Anger CD 2 1. Chase & Status & Stormzy - Backbone 2:46 2. Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please 3:06 3. Coldplay - Feelslikeimfallinginlove 3:56 4. Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Free 3:32 5. Clean Bandit, Anne-Marie & David Guetta - Cry Baby 2:37 6. Jordan Adetunji - Kehlani 2:02 7. The Weeknd & Playboy Carti - Timeless 4:16 8. Charli XCX - Apple 2:31 9. *NSync - Bye Bye Bye 3:19 10. Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D - Somedays 3:27 11. The Blessed Madonna featuring Kylie Minogue - Edge Of Saturday Night 3:26 12. Nathan Dawe, Joel Corry & SACHA - Higher 2:11 13. Andy C & Becky Hill - Indestructible 2:40 14. Rudimental featuring Karen Harding - Bring Me Joy 2:25 15. Addison Rae - Diet Pepsi 2:49 16. Majestic, The Jammin Kid & Céline Dion - Set My Heart On Fire 2:59 17. Alex Warren - Burning Down 2:59 or Carry You Home 2:46 18. Jax Jones, Joel Corry & Jason Derulo - Tonight (DIYA) 3:01 19. Ice Spice & Central Cee - Did It First 1:58 20. Mark Ambor - Belong Together 2:28 21. Shawn Mendes - Why Why Why 2:49 22. Chappell Roan - Red Wine Supernova 3:12 23. Beabadoobee - Beaches 3:50 24. Tom Odell & Lost Frequencies - Black Friday (Pretty Like The Sun) 2:25 25. Tom Grennan - Higher 3:21 26. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark 4:02 Total running time: 77:54 with Carry You Home or 78:07 with Burning Down Edited October 3, 2024Oct 3 by Hadji
October 4, 2024Oct 4 Author Just been wondering, has any artist been Disc 1, Track 1 consecutively before? I just can't see anyone other than Sabrina kicking off the next compilation again the same as she did on Now 118.
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