Looks like they’ve decided to announce a pointless 70s spin-off rather than announce extra 1989. Now 70s due for release on 30th May. Talk about milking it. Bit pointless doing a pointless 70s spin-off when we’re gonna have a 70s yearbook round end of June or beginning of July

Edited May 1May 1 by Hadji

Probably alone on this, but I’d love that kind of treatment for a 90s one. The one from 2014 (3CD) was un-inspired, but so much fun!

27 minutes ago, SuperWooper said:

Probably alone on this, but I’d love that kind of treatment for a 90s one. The one from 2014 (3CD) was un-inspired, but so much fun!

I agree and the same treatment for a 00s one but I have a feeling if they did one, it would only include songs that appeared on the millennium series. They do need to stop milking the 70s and 80s though

Extra 1989 due for release on 6th June and they really need to stop with the David Sylvian obsession. Either save him for the vault or don’t include him at all and Healing Hands should’ve been on 1990

Edited May 8May 8 by Hadji

I’m surprised Texas didn’t make the main one or the extra with I Don’t Want A Lover.

I’ve made a list of the hits that were omitted and have a chance of appearing across both 1985-1989 yearbooks

1985

Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days

UB40 - Don’t Break My Heart

Dead Or Alive - In Too Deep

Go West - Call Me

Duran Duran - A View To A Kill

Jimmy Nail - Love Don’t Live Here Anymore

Jaki Graham - Round And Around

Howard Jones - Life In One Day

Wham! - Everything She Wants

Shakin' Stevens - Breaking Up My Heart

Shakin' Stevens - Lipstick, Powder And Paint

Nik Kershaw - When A Heart Beats

Denise LaSalle - My Toot Toot

Trans-X - Living On Video

Amazulu - Excitable

Paul Hardcastle - Just For Money

Big Sound Authority - This House (Is Where Your Love Stands)

ABC - Be Near Me

Mai Tai - History

Mai Tai - Body And Soul

1986

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money)

Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia

Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat

A-Ha - Train Of Thought

Feargal Sharkey - You Little Thief

Eurythmics - It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)

Eurythmics - The Miracle Of Love

Five Star - Find The Time

Hollywood Beyond - What’s The Colour Of Money

Huey Lewis & The News - Stuck With You

The Stranglers - Always The Sun

Sophia George - Girlie Girlie

Survivor - Burning Heart

Ultravox - All Fall Down

Jim Diamond - Hi Ho Silver

Paul Hardcastle - Don’t Waste My Time

Double - The Captain Of Her Heart

Amazulu - Montego Bay

1987

Mental As Anything - Live It Up

Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender

Five Star - Strong As Steel

The Firm - Star Trekkin’

John Farnham - You’re The Voice

Labi Siffre - (Something Inside) So Strong

Beastie Boys - She’s On It

Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body

Taffy - I Love My Radio (Midnight Radio)

Squeeze - Hourglass

Pet Shop Boys - Rent

Europe - Rock The Night

Carly Simon - Coming Around Again

1988

Level 42 - Heaven In My Hands

The Proclaimers - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Bomb The Bass - Don’t Make Me Wait

Wet Wet Wet - Angel Eyes (Home & Away)

Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn Back The Clock

Art Of Noise featuring Tom Jones - Kiss

Tiffany - I Saw Him Standing There

Prefab Sprout - The King Of Rock 'N' Roll

The Stranglers - All Day And All Of The Night

Aswad - Give A Little Love

Hothouse Flowers - Don’t Go

David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise

Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible

Status Quo - Burning Bridges (On And Off And On Again)

1989

Hue & Cry - Looking For Linda

Living In A Box - Blow The House Down

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

Damian - The Time Warp

Natalie Cole - Miss You Like Crazy

Brother Beyond - Be My Twin

Kirsty MacColl - Days

Stevie Nicks - Rooms On Fire

Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - Swing The Mood

Bobby Brown - Every Little Step

Jeff Wayne - The Eve Of The War

The Reynolds Girls - I’d Rather Jack

The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums

Inner City - Ain’t Nobody Better

Tone Lõc - Funky Cold Medina

Texas - I Don’t Want A Lover

Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville - Don’t Know Much

Kaoma - Lambada

Big Fun - Can’t Shake The Feeling

Samantha Fox - I Only Wanna Be With You

Dusty Springfield - Nothing Has Been Proved

I was hoping to see This One by Paul McCartney rather than My Brave Face. Quite surprised at the lack of Jive Bunny as the re-records have been used on other Now compilations.

I can only assume the likes of Lambada, I Don't Want A Lover and Don't Know Much are licensing issues, although quite surprised that Texas is.

Overall it looks like a pretty decent Extra though.

How long was it after completing the first half of the 80s decade that we received a "Final Chapter" collection?

Also, given that the "Final Chapter" was a collection of 5 years... would they milk yet another collection for the whole 10 years to rinse up any remaining unused tracks they have access to?

4 hours ago, gooddelta said:

I was hoping to see This One by Paul McCartney rather than My Brave Face. Quite surprised at the lack of Jive Bunny as the re-records have been used on other Now compilations.

I can only assume the likes of Lambada, I Don't Want A Lover and Don't Know Much are licensing issues, although quite surprised that Texas is.

Overall it looks like a pretty decent Extra though.

Both songs peaked at number 18 and I’d have preferred if they included This One over My Brave Face as well have the latter on Now 15

Edited May 10May 10 by Hadji

Hi Ho Silver appeared on this recently released non-NOW album Pop Gems The 80s

https://hmv.com/store/music/cd/pop-gems-the-80-s

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Human

The Human League

2.Cry Wolf

a-ha

3.Careless Memories

Duran Duran

4.Visions of China

Japan

5.That Was Then But This Is Now

ABC

6.Apollo 9

Adam Ant

7.Mothers Talk

Tears for Fears

8.Same Old Scene

Roxy Music

9.European Female

The Stranglers

10.Drop the Pilot

Joan Armatrading

11.Typical Male

Tina Turner

12.Circle in the Sand

Belinda Carlisle

13.Find My Love (Feat. Eddie Reader)

Fairground Attraction

14.Sun Street

Katrina and The Waves

15.Excitable

Amazulu

16.Good Tradition

Tanita Tikaram

17.Lean On Me (Ah-li-ayo)

Red Box

18.Ordinary Day

Curiosity Killed the Cat

19.If I Say Yes

Five Star

20.I Gave You My Heart (Didn't I)

Hot Chocolate

21.Round and Round

Jaki Graham

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.Absolute Beginners

The Jam

2.The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, Please, Thank You)

Dexys Midnight Runners

3.Wages Day

Deacon Blue

4.The Right Thing

Simply Red

5.The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)

Level 42

6.Twilight World

Swing Out Sister

7.Love Wars

Womack & Womack

8.Back and Forth

Cameo

9.This Is My Night

Chaka Khan

10.The Belle of St. Mark

Sheila E.

11.Something in My House

Dead Or Alive

12.The Second Time

Kim Wilde

13.Peter Gunn (Feat. Duane Eddy)

Art of Noise

14.Bridge to Your Heart

Wax

15.Tomb of Memories

Paul Young

16.Won't You Hold My Hand Now

King

17.Imagination

Belouis Some

18.Brilliant Mind

Furniture

19.The Promise You Made

Cock Robin

20.Keep Me in Mind

Boy George

21.Breakfast in Bed

UB40 & Chrissie Hyde

Disc 3

Track name

Artist

1.Twilight

Electric Light Orchestra

2.St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)

John Parr

3.Calling All the Heroes

It Bites

4.Overkill

Men at Work

5.Hi Ho Silver

Jim Diamond

6.Love Games

Belle & The Devotions

7.Hand Held in Black and White

Dollar

8.Shiny Shiny

Haysi Fantayzee

9.A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)

Shakin' Stevens & Bonnie Tyler

10.Runaway Boys

Stray Cats

11.Motor Mania

Roman Holiday

12.Can I Get a Witness

Sam Brown

13.I Saw Him Standing There

Tiffany

14.Chocolate Box

Bros

15.Baby Don't Forget My Number

Milli Vanilli

16.Casanova

Levert

17.I Shoulda Loved Ya

Narada Michael Walden

18.Cupid/I've Loved You for a Long Time

The Spinners

19.Indestructable

The Four Tops

20.Forgotten Town

The Christians

21.Rainy Night in Georgia

Randy Crawford

Hopefully, they include Hi Ho Silver on any of the 1985-1989 yearbooks and Forgotten Town on vault 1987. With Baby Don’t Forget My Number appearing on that album, shame it missed extra 1989. That only peaked at number 16 so it qualifies for vault 1989 which I hope they include that on too

On 08/05/2025 at 17:31, T Boy said:

I’m surprised Texas didn’t make the main one or the extra with I Don’t Want A Lover.

I know as they are licensable artists. Omitting them from the 1997 yearbooks would be criminal as that’s when they peaked

Decided today to make a first draft for the Now 121 tracklisting;

Disc One

1. Ed Sheeran – Azizam

2. WizTheMc feat. bees & honey – Show Me Love

3. Chappell Roan – The Giver

4. Sabrina Carpenter – Busy Woman

5. Benson Boone – Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else

6. Alex Warren – Burning Down

7. Sam Fender – Arm's Length

8. Sleep Token – Caramel

9. Miley Cyrus – End Of The World

10. Lady Gaga – Abracadabra

11. JADE – FUFN (F**k You For Now)

12. Jorja Smith – The Way I Love You

13. PinkPantheress – Tonight

14. Sonny Fodera feat. Clementine Douglas – Tell Me

15. Morgan Seatree vs. Florence + The Machine – Say My Name [Remix]

16. Rudimental feat. Khalid – All I Know

17. Clean Bandit, Tiësto & Leony – Tell Me Where U Go

18. Alesso & Becky Hill – Surrender

19. David Guetta & Sia – Beautiful People

20. MOILY & Silent Addy feat. Skillibeng & Shenseea – Shake It To The Max (FLY)

21. Aitch & BOU – Raving In The Studio

22. Lil Tecca – Dark Thoughts

23. Lil Nas X – HOTBOX

24. Lizzo – Still Bad

25. Sugababes – Jungle

Disc Two

1. Calvin Harris feat. Clementine Douglas – Blessings

2. Tate McRae – Sports car

3. Addison Rae – Headphones On

4. Charli XCX – party 4 u

5. Benson Boone – Mystical Magical

6. Tom Grennan – Attention

7. Jonas Brothers – Love Me To Heaven

8. Remember Monday – What The Hell Just Happened?

9. Mae Muller – Breakaway

10. sombr – undressed

11. Doechii – Anxiety

12. Selena Gomez & benny blanco feat. Gracie Abrams – Call Me When You Break Up

13. Lorde – What Was That

14. Tate McRae – Revolving Door

15. Zara Larsson – Pretty Ugly

16. Ely Oaks – Running Around

17. Calvin Harris – SMOKE THE PAIN AWAY

18. Morgan Wallen – I'm The Problem

19. Myles Smith – My First Heartbreak

20. Skye Newman – Hairdresser

21. Garbage – There's No Future In Optimism

22. Pulp – Spike Island

23. Wet Leg – catch these fists

24. Lana Del Rey – Bluebird

Not enough Radio 2 for it to be realistic 😆

I don’t think Jorja Smith has a chance of appearing seeing as Little Things missed Now 115 possibly due to her being a 1xtra artist and Ravyn Lenae has a chance of appearing. I just hope we get a new number 1 by the time this is announced. It’s also a good job that David Sylvian isn’t bringing out any new music otherwise they’d include him on Now 121

Edited May 12May 12 by Hadji

"1Xtra artist". I'm done 💀

2 minutes ago, lewistgreen said:

"1Xtra artist". I'm done 💀

Well that’s one way to refer to them as some people find the word urban offensive

Edited May 10May 10 by Hadji

I'd love 'Jungle' by Sugababes to appear! 'When The Rain Comes' did make 116, so it is possible.

I imagine they'll add the winning Eurovision song as well (and hopefully Remember Monday's entry).

I don't think Lorde will appear since "Solar Power" didn't make 109/110 - probably something to do with her anti-CD thing? (so dumb)

For Selena maybe "Bluest Flame" will be big enough before the release of 121. It's getting a lot of attention on TikTok.

And it's gonna be another Pop Girlies heavy album again (I hope). Gaga, Chappell, Sabrina, Miley, Tate, Zara, JADE, and Addison are great tracks and should be added!

I’ll do a prediction once Eurovision is done as there could be other songs from there charting such as the obvious UK entry and the winner

7 hours ago, SuperWooper said:

I don't think Lorde will appear since "Solar Power" didn't make 109/110 - probably something to do with her anti-CD thing? (so dumb)

Lorde is still a licensable artist. She did appear quite recently on Now 40 Years 2013-2023 so there’s a chance of her appearing on Now 121

Edited May 11May 11 by Hadji