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Edited October 20, 2024Oct 20 by Torple

Watch the annual 2025 include hits which missed the Now series. Another thing Now should do new for 2025 is release the numbered series on vinyl and announce it a week before the CD edition and include selected songs which will appear on the CD series. Releasing it on vinyl will help to boost sales

Edited October 20, 2024Oct 20 by Hadji

Vinyl production times need to be queued up months in advance now due to (lack of) production capacity. If we have it on vinyl then it’s going to feature hits from six months ago at best. This is why major artists often stagger their vinyl releases for ages - it is just not possible to get them ready without a lot of advance notice. So the tracklists would be even more irrelevant.

 

The best we could hope for is maybe a ‘Best of the year’ released at the end of the year and featuring hits up to July.

 

Also, the Now collectors wouldn’t buy these in droves - if you look at the makeup of the Facebook group there is 10 times more buzz for even a Yearbook Extra announcement than the latest in the numbered series. They are a nostalgia brand now for the most part and many members will grumpily buy the £12 CD to complete their collection (and then moan about how they only like two songs) but would not be wanting an expensive vinyl of songs that mostly weren’t even hits.

It’s a good job David Sylvian hasn’t released any new songs otherwise he’d be on the next Now album

Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Natasha Bedingfield aside, I don't think we will expect to see on Now volumes older tracks going viral again unless it's to reach a new peak or a new audience. That's probably why *NSYNC weren't included on this volume, along with Oasis and Bruce Springsteen as you said. I'd also not have expected Crowded House or Milli Vanilli to appear for the same reason.

Oasis reached a new peak with Live Forever but saying that, if they’d have included that, they would have received backlash for using the song a third time. If it only had one appearance, there would have been a chance of Live Forever being included. It’s like they had a choice to either include Live Forever or no Oasis at all so they went with the latter

Edited October 22, 2024Oct 22 by Hadji

Oasis reached a new peak with Live Forever but saying that, if they’d have included that, they would have received backlash for using the song a third time. If it only had one appearance, there would have been a chance of Live Forever being included. It’s like they had a choice to either include Live Forever or no Oasis at all so they went with the latter

The Oasis hype quickly passed now. It's been a talking point for a while this year, but really there's only merit in including them if new music surfaces. Let's leave the past in the past please.

The Oasis hype quickly passed now. It's been a talking point for a while this year, but really there's only merit in including them if new music surfaces. Let's leave the past in the past please.

You didn’t say that when Tom Odell reappeared on Now 113 and in my opinion, I don’t mind them including old songs as long as it’s ones that haven’t appeared before which is why on Now 117, I wasn’t happy with the inclusion of Sophie but was happy with the inclusion of Natasha

Edited October 23, 2024Oct 23 by Hadji

Now Massive 70s Party is due on 22nd November according to the Facebook fan page. They should just stop with these pointless spin-offs and just release the yearbooks, vaults, millennium series and 12" 80s series quicker than usual to substitute the pointless spin-offs and if they wanna milk a decade, then milk the 90s and 00s and stop milking the 70s and 80s. I hope it gets blocked from the top of the compilation chart

Edited October 23, 2024Oct 23 by Hadji

They're not going to stop if it makes them money, simple business x

They're not going to stop if it makes them money, simple business x

Aside from the numbered series, the yearbooks, vaults, millennium and 12" 80s make them more money than these pointless spin-offs. Their 100 hits series made them money and they stopped it

Edited October 23, 2024Oct 23 by Hadji

Whatever you say my dear

Didn’t the Jukebox one do really well earlier in the year? And 50s and 60s stuff will be so cheap to license, I bet that was a real cash cow compared to some of the yearbooks where some of the licenses of bigger artists probably set them back a bit.

 

So as much as I don’t care for or will be buying generic themed spin-offs of 70s songs, I’m sure it is a profitable venture for them, probably more so than the 12” 80s as that is a CD only product that doesn’t seem to sell that well going by the chart runs.

Whatever you say my dear

Because I’m pointing out facts? The 100 hits series made them money and I bet you’re the saddo that buys these pointless spin-offs

So as much as I don’t care for or will be buying generic themed spin-offs of 70s songs, I’m sure it is a profitable venture for them, probably more so than the 12” 80s as that is a CD only product that doesn’t seem to sell that well going by the chart runs.

Now 80s Dancefloor is the most pointless spin-off judging by its chart runs

No need for name calling really is there?

No need for name calling really is there?

Saddo is hardly an insult and Now do get backlash for these pointless spin-offs and no one really cares for them. That’s why I said if they need to make their money, they could release the usual series spin-offs quicker than usual instead. Everytime they announce Now 80s Dancefloor on vinyl, they get backlash for it and people say that no one really cares for 00s? Saltburn OST which was released a year ago and features 00s songs beat Now Yearbook Extra 1987 to the top of the compilation chart

Edited October 23, 2024Oct 23 by Hadji

Quit the name calling please x

What is Saddo, if not an insult?

And besides, it’s pointless to release a pointless 70s spin-off when we have a 70s yearbook out next week and most of the yearbooks being released lately are 70s

Are Now albums your whole life, Hadji?