Being able to get Baby One More Time, Tragedy and That Don’t Impress Me Much in time for the millennium addition was excellent timing. They may have been late but it made Now 44 all about the year’s bigger hits.

Presumably they were only allowed one Spice Girls track per album and eventually Too Much found its window to appear.

They should’ve made the exception as it was a double a side. They did it with All Saints on Now 40. Best way they should’ve panned out the Spice Girls songs is by including 2 Become 1 on Now 36 and both Mama and Who Do You Think You Are on Now 37

Edited January 9Jan 9 by Hadji

Being able to get Baby One More Time, Tragedy and That Don’t Impress Me Much in time for the millennium addition was excellent timing. They may have been late but it made Now 44 all about the year’s bigger hits.

 

 

I always thought it was planned that way.

 

 

Maybe that's an approach they should take now? I feel like more recent Numbered NOWs are all very "what's out RIGHT now", which is great - no complaints, but perhaps they could save some of the biggest hits or ones that are gonna be around longer and add them to the Winter one. It's not like there's any rival company to sweep away those "exclusives" anymore.

Maybe that's an approach they should take now? I feel like more recent Numbered NOWs are all very "what's out RIGHT now", which is great - no complaints, but perhaps they could save some of the biggest hits or ones that are gonna be around longer and add them to the Winter one. It's not like there's any rival company to sweep away those "exclusives" anymore.

Whilst a somewhat practical approach to securing quality music for future releases, two things spring to mind for me. The first is that potentially you could miss out other "hits" by the same artist in a set period of time or even run out of disc space for more essential music that really doesn't class as "filler" but it's hard to predict the future markets so you never know when the charts are going to be at their busiest for new music.

 

The second reason for me is that aesthetic of picking up a Now compilation from my collection, from any time period since 1983, and looking back at what music "represented" that time period, say for example, Summer of 2005. I wouldn't want straggler hits from 2004 to be included in that mix because it wouldn't give me that true narrative as to what the history of chart music was like for that era.

 

I guess really we can easily make our own playlists of annuals to suit our own tastes but I also like to have a physical music library that feels like a piece of history too.

This was posted by Now some weeks ago and highlighted by somebody on the Facebook forum just now. All of Now's other Spotify 'Ultimate Playlists' contain everything from the main release and the Extra, so maybe the songs underneath the main album are what is due to make up the as yet unannounced Extra:

 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ot7V8SmG...6SWW-mfLJha2Zqw

 

It's 60 more songs and does make sense in sequence tbh, with Queen opening it.

Edited November 25, 2024Nov 25 by gooddelta

Seeing as extra 1977 is looking likely to be announced this week, then I’m expecting 12" 1984 part 1 to be announced next week or the week after

Now Yearbook Extra 1977 and it’s being released on 10th January instead of 3rd January. That seems too late for the extra edition of the November yearbook. It’s bad enough they make us wait 9 weeks for the extra edition of the November yearbook but it’s even worse making us wait 10 weeks. Every other yearbook, we wait 6 weeks for the extra edition but here’s the tracklist https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DNRXVVNT

The 70s are a bit lost on me, and the Extras don't make it any easier. I have discovered some great songs from them though - and my mind explodes when I know a song because it gets sampled in a song later on in life.

 

I wonder if they'll bother with themed compilations next year or just stick to the Year themed ones. Still waiting for something like "NOW 90s Pop", "Girl Power", or "Forgotten 00s", but I guess that'll never happen.

Now Yearbook Extra 1977 and it’s being released on 10th January instead of 3rd January. That seems too late for the extra edition of the November yearbook. It’s bad enough they make us wait 9 weeks for the extra edition of the November yearbook but it’s even worse making us wait 10 weeks. Every other yearbook, we wait 6 weeks for the extra edition but here’s the tracklist https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DNRXVVNT

 

The tracklist is exactly as that Spotify playlist Now created weeks ago suggested (that I posted Monday), apart from Shalamar and Mary Mason weren't on that (I don't think the latter is on Spotify though).

 

I don't care about the wait until January personally as this time of year is expensive enough as it is and I'm not exactly chomping at the bit for more from 1977, I'm not even halfway through the main release yet.

Edited November 29, 2024Nov 29 by gooddelta

I’m just hoping that the next yearbook is either 1989 to get the 80s over and done with or 1995 because we haven’t had the second half of the 90s and also for its 30th anniversary. To be honest, we need 1989 soon so we can have 1985-1989 before vault 1985 is due. It would look odd to release vault 1985 before 1985-1989

It’s a good job that Now 119 was released a week earlier than usual otherwise it would’ve been the third numbered Now to be denied #1 thanks to Wicked. Maybe they learnt their lesson from when Barbie blocked Now 115 from #1

Now 12" 1984 Part 1 due for release on 17th January https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DPH21BBM/

Now 12" 1984 Part 1 due for release on 17th January https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DPH21BBM/

Whilst I love the Early-Mid-80s. The late 80s are gonna be brilliant with (hopefully) all the PWL Mixes, and 12" House tracks.

Whilst I love the Early-Mid-80s. The late 80s are gonna be brilliant with (hopefully) all the PWL Mixes, and 12" House tracks.

If they’re gonna keep doing part 1 and 2 for every year, then we’d have to wait until 2027 for 12" 1988 and 1989

Do think get now announcement tomorrow

Do think get now announcement tomorrow

Hopefully they announce the next yearbook as we’re long overdue one. I hope the next yearbook is 1989, 1991 or 1995 and it was a year ago this time that they announced the 1990 yearbook. If they announce something today, I hope it’s the next yearbook and not one of their shitty pointless spin-offs

Edited January 9Jan 9 by Hadji

Looks like it’s another pointless spin-off that’s next instead of another yearbook and by the way, the majority of songs on this album are already on yearbooks. Now The Sounds Of The Suburbs 1977-1980 and it’s being released on 7th February https://www.amazon.co.uk/NOW-Thats-What-Cal...a/dp/B0DSCV4J5Q

Edited January 10Jan 10 by Hadji

On the Now collectors group on Facebook, the next yearbook is rumoured to be 1998

On the Now collectors group on Facebook, the next yearbook is rumoured to be 1998

Gosh they better do that year right, so many gems from then and it was the year I started following the charts and buying my own music.