Are Now albums your whole life, Hadji?

No, they’re not

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A few odd tracks on there for a party album like the theme to Black Beauty.

I had a NOW score in a charity shop today, 4 cassettes for £1

NOWs 2,5,10 and 13

If I wanna buy Now Massive 70s Party, I’ll give it a couple of months and I’ll be able to find it in my local charity shop

Yearbook 1989 may be the next one to get announced, I hope.

Edited October 25, 2024Oct 25 by WazzupMyBoyz

Yearbook 1989 may be the next one to get announced, I hope.

I hope they get that and 1985-1989 out the way before vault 1985 is due. If they don’t hurry with those, they’ll end up releasing vault 1985 before 1985-1989

Last do the vault 1982

I'd love another 90s one. The ones they've done have been so good, and 1991 would satisfy my OCD of there being a gap between 90 and 92.

They should do a curveball and throw out Vault 1998. I'd snap that up instantly

I hope they get that and 1985-1989 out the way before vault 1985 is due. If they don’t hurry with those, they’ll end up releasing vault 1985 before 1985-1989

 

Not forgetting The Final Chapter Extra

I'd love another 90s one. The ones they've done have been so good, and 1991 would satisfy my OCD of there being a gap between 90 and 92.

 

I hope the next 90s one is 1991.

I hope the next 90s one is 1991.

1991 or 1995 but more preferably 1995 as we haven’t had the second half of the 90s and for the 30th anniversary and as for Now Christmas, they should’ve released it yesterday so it’s not clashing with Now Yearbook 1977 instead of this Friday where it’s clashing with Now Yearbook 1977

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Now Presents 12" 1980-1982 due for release on 6th December. It’s basically a selection of songs from 12" years on vinyl. I just hope next week that they announce extra 1977

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Now Presents 12" 1980-1982 due for release on 6th December. It’s basically a selection of songs from 12" years on vinyl. I just hope next week that they announce extra 1977

Well considering that the non-extra yearbook is only being released tomorrow give it a chance for fans to order and listen to their copies before shoving the extra volume down their throat. I suspect that the extra release will be the final one from 2024.

Well considering that the non-extra yearbook is only being released tomorrow give it a chance for fans to order and listen to their copies before shoving the extra volume down their throat. I suspect that the extra release will be the final one from 2024.

They usually announce the extra edition a week after the main edition is released and I have a feeling that extra 1977 will be released at the start of 2025. They did it with extra editions of 1985 and 1988 for some reason

Considering that the yearbooks tend to go mostly by the year the song peaked, there’s a song on the 1977 yearbook (Love’s Unkind) which was released in 1977 but peaked in 1978

Now 80s Dancefloor Synth due for release on 6th December https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DLMKWJJB

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY:







An album of EPIC proportions. NOW 29 spent 9 weeks at No. 1, with it leaving the top spot to be replaced by "The Best of Heartbeat". It's the first Numbered NOW to go for a slimmer case, leaving the fatboxes behind.

90s radio hits, million selling singles, and established anthems all make there way on this collection. No 1's from Pato Banton (Baby Come Back), Take Take (Sure), and Whigfield (Saturday Night). May not seem a lot, but Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around" (NOW 28) was still dominating the top spot. Going back to Whigfield though, those crafty NOW compilers gave us a night to remember lining Saturday Night, Rhythm of the Night, and Another Night together!

Let's talk Legends! Louis Armstrong's "We Have All The Time In The World" appears on this album, even though Louis passed away twenty-three years before NOW 29. He still holds the "record" for "Earliest Birth" among credited NOW performers, being born in 1901.

Next up, despite already having a number of hits and a million selling single at this point, this is Celine Dion's debut appearance on the NOW franchise with her cover of the Jennifer Rush power ballad "The Power of Love" (Jennifer's never appeared on a Numbered NOW). Celine would finally make her 2nd appearance on NOW 104 with "Lying Down". Both Minogues are present. Kylie obviously appears with her moody-indie-banger "Confide In Me" (4th appearance so far...), and Dannii is featured in the Ensemble of "Music Relief" (her 2nd appearance).

Britpop really kicked into gear as Oasis make their debut appearance with "Cigarettes & Alcohol" - they would go on to appear 14 times on the Numbered NOWs (with Live Forever being their last inclusion on NOW 99). Their rivals, Blur appear with Parklife on Disc 2.

What Madonna song could've been on it? Secret The song peaked at No. 5 in early October.
Anything else missing? Not that I can think of? The HITS series was having quite the identity crises at this point, so the NOWs of the year got a majority of the big hits.
What else was released on this Date? In 2000, the U.S. released NOW 5! featuring 3 Billboard No. 1s from *NSYNC (It's Gonna Be Me), Sisqo (Incomplete), and Janet Jackson (Doesn't Really Matter). The UK also released 1 Disc Xmas album called "NOW Xmas: Massive Christmas Hits". Is it any good? Not really. It's your classic 60s-80s Xmas tracks that EMI/Virgin/Universal had lying around

What's your favourite song on NOW 29? What songs are missing for you? Are you a fan of the US NOWs? and What is the best NOW Xmas album?

This is a good one. Sweetness through to Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm is a no skip section of huge tunes for me.

 

Still lots of reggae around, like in 1993. There are some classics on Disc 2 sequenced a bit weirdly (Kylie and Blur would fit better on Disc 1 I think, with Louis Armstrong and Robert Palmer on Disc 2).

 

Now 5 is one of the few US Now albums I own, I picked it up mostly for Doesn't Really Matter. I didn't buy that single-disc Xmas album, it's very weak.