8 hours ago, Mark said:

Decent tracklisting.

No Our Kid so must be a licensing issue. Strange to see no Girls Girls Girls by Sailor as Glass Of Champagne's on the main one.

12 hours ago, CRAZY CHRIS said:

No Our Kid so must be a licensing issue. Strange to see no Girls Girls Girls by Sailor as Glass Of Champagne's on the main one.

Same for Bionic Santa by Chris Hill another one you never see on compilations.

And Renta Santa the previous year.

Same goes for a lot of novelty tracks.

1976 has become the second 70s yearbook after 1973 to miss the top of the compilation chart and 1982 is the only 80s yearbook to miss the top of the compilation chart

4 hours ago, Mark said:

Same for Bionic Santa by Chris Hill another one you never see on compilations.

And Renta Santa the previous year.

Same goes for a lot of novelty tracks

Chris Hill used the actual excerpts from tracks so maybe there's an issue with some of those. Heard that's the reason anyway.

Edited September 5Sep 5 by CRAZY CHRIS

Just received the 1976 yearbook yesterday. I find the selected tracks quite decent reflecting the charts quite well. A pity that ABBA is missing, but their songs seem not to be reachable.

I also took a deeper look on the 97 yearbook and they omit quite a lot of dance songs - normally I would have expected that at least one CD would be rammed purely with dance songs. Particularly these should have been added:

Gala - Freed From Desire (peak #2)

Sash! - Ecuador (#2)

Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close (#4)

DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima (#4)

Todd Terry - Something's Going On (#5)

B.B.E. - Flash (#5)

The Course - Ready Or Not (#5)

Daft Punk - Around The World (#5)

PF Project - Choose Life (#6)

Further miss outs

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (#2), Drugs Don't Work (#1)

All Saints - Never Ever (#1)

Will Smith - Men In Black (#1)

Blur - Beetlebum (#1), Song 2 (#2)

No Doubt - Don't Speak (#1)

V.A. - Perfect Day (#1)

Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor (#1)

Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You (#1)

U2 - Discotheque (#1)

Placebo - Nancy Boy (#4)

22 minutes ago, DaTilt said:

Just received the 1976 yearbook yesterday. I find the selected tracks quite decent reflecting the charts quite well. A pity that ABBA is missing, but their songs seem not to be reachable.

I also took a deeper look on the 97 yearbook and they omit quite a lot of dance songs - normally I would have expected that at least one CD would be rammed purely with dance songs. Particularly these should have been added:

Gala - Freed From Desire (peak #2)

Sash! - Ecuador (#2)

Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close (#4)

DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima (#4)

Todd Terry - Something's Going On (#5)

B.B.E. - Flash (#5)

The Course - Ready Or Not (#5)

Daft Punk - Around The World (#5)

PF Project - Choose Life (#6)

Further miss outs

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (#2), Drugs Don't Work (#1)

All Saints - Never Ever (#1)

Will Smith - Men In Black (#1)

Blur - Beetlebum (#1), Song 2 (#2)

No Doubt - Don't Speak (#1)

V.A. - Perfect Day (#1)

Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor (#1)

Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You (#1)

U2 - Discotheque (#1)

Placebo - Nancy Boy (#4)

Closer Than Close is disc 1 track 5 on extra 1997 and Never Ever is on 1998. I agree about the miss outs and you forgot to include Tubthumping on the list of miss outs. I also hope that today’s announcement is vault 1982 but it will most likely be 12" 1985 part 2

Edited September 11Sep 11 by Hadji

Now 12" 1985 part 2 due for release on 17th October. I hope next weeks announcement is vault 1982 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FPVKPHJ6

Edited September 11Sep 11 by Hadji

Hi there everyone and anyone - I wonder if the hivemind can help. I'm pretty sure a while back I saw that someone had created an excel file of every track featured on the Now albums to download. I may be imagining it, but if anyone here knows of one - could they point me in the right direction? Much appreciated!!

On 05/09/2025 at 18:27, CRAZY CHRIS said:

Chris Hill used the actual excerpts from tracks so maybe there's an issue with some of those. Heard that's the reason anyway.

He just passed

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