2 hours ago, geraintlewis268 said:

Well, I did have an ASDA Living, but not anymore. It shut down that same year. Matter of fact, I still have an ASDA, but they ceased selling new CDs, unfortunately.

The Asda Living near me has rebranded to George and dumped all entertainment products then my local Asda supermarket has removed CDs too!

1 hour ago, awardinary said:

The only real licensing issue for any artist, including Taylor Swift, is whether compilers are willing to fork out the sort of capital to acquire it. I don't believe anything is ever off limits but if FIFA put an astronomical value on licensing their official product then that's because it's just how well documented their greed is.

Madonna would be a most welcome surprise which we never even consider in this day and age too.

They can usually afford licensing for things such as Eurovision which is why I couldn’t believe that they didn’t include the 2 Eurovision songs on Now 124. As for the next yearbook, there’s 2 reasons why I want it to be 1975; first, so we can have another yearbook ending with a 5 and second, so it closes the gap between 1972 and 1993

Edited July 17Jul 17 by Hadji

On 09/07/2026 at 20:44, Hadji said:

I agree. They need to stop making David Sylvian happen. Save him for the vaults at least. Too many hits missing yet they include David Sylvian. Even though Elton John is overly represented on yearbooks, I’d rather they included his top 10 hit over David Sylvian’s top 40 hit. No ATB Don’t Stop either. They obviously don’t listen to complaints they’re getting about overly representing David Sylvian. Same with Donna Summer. Her song didn’t even make the top 40

PLOT TWIST: David Sylvian is curating them.

4 hours ago, HiyaLuv! said:

PLOT TWIST: David Sylvian is curating them.

If I was in charge, David Sylvian will only be appearing on the vaults apart from Forbidden Colours appearing on 1983 or extra and Red Guitar on 1984 or extra. This is how he should’ve been spread out in my opinion

Forbidden Colours 1983

Red Guitar 1984

The Ink In The Well extra 1984

Pulling Punches vault 1984

Taking The Veil extra 1986

Silver Moon vault 1986

Let The Happiness in vault 1987

Orpheus vault 1988

Pop Song vault 1989

Heartbeat vault 1992

Jean The Birdman vault 1993

I Surrender vault 1999

Edited July 18Jul 18 by Hadji

I’ve just ordered Now 18 from musicmapgie on eBay. Will they send me the original 1990 fatbox or the 2024 re-release? The image shows the 1990 release with 32 tracks. It only cost me £3 something however.

1 hour ago, nowmusic1993 said:

I’ve just ordered Now 18 from musicmapgie on eBay. Will they send me the original 1990 fatbox or the 2024 re-release? The image shows the 1990 release with 32 tracks. It only cost me £3 something however

Be sure to let us know when it arrives! Hope you bagged a bargain there.

26 minutes ago, awardinary said:

Be sure to let us know when it arrives! Hope you bagged a bargain there.

I will do mate. I’ve ordered 2 just to see if maybe at least one of them is the original!

2 hours ago, nowmusic1993 said:

I will do mate. I’ve ordered 2 just to see if maybe at least one of them is the original!

If they show the cover for the original, then they should send you the original or if they want to sell the reissue, show the cover for that instead of misleading customers

Edited July 18Jul 18 by Hadji

2 minutes ago, Hadji said:

If they show the cover for the original, then they should send you the original or if they want to sell the reissue, show the cover for that instead of misleading customers

MusicMagpie in my experience have been quite careless, like just sending me copies of Now albums with graffiti all over them etc. I think they just receive Now 18 copies and assume they’re all the same and just send out whatever they find first, whether that’s the 1990 original or the 2024 reissue.

Edited July 18Jul 18 by nowmusic1993

2 minutes ago, nowmusic1993 said:

MusicMagpie in my experience have been quite careless, like just sending me copies of Now albums with graffiti all over them etc. I think they just receive Now 18 copies and assume they’re all the same and just send out whatever they find first, whether that’s the 1990 original or the 2024 reissue.

That’s why I usually get mine from eBay so I know what to expect and obviously, I’ll check the sellers feedback before buying

Do people still use Discogs to purchase rare second hand albums?

23 minutes ago, awardinary said:

Do people still use Discogs to purchase rare second hand albums?

I used to use Discogs to receive these DANCE albums! But since then, that was the last time I used it.

42 minutes ago, Harrison FB said:

I used to use Discogs to receive these DANCE albums! But since then, that was the last time I used it.

Ooh, wow! That's quite the set you got there!

Not to mention that I've already stacked my Yearbook shelf!

5 hours ago, Harrison FB said:

Not to mention that I've already stacked my Yearbook shelf!

Even I catalog MY yearbooks like that! I love it!

54 minutes ago, geraintlewis268 said:

Even I catalog MY yearbooks like that! I love it!

Same here

Though to think, I've been collecting NOW albums since 2012.

4 hours ago, geraintlewis268 said:

Though to think, I've been collecting NOW albums since 2012.

I started collecting them properly in 1996 although I did have a few of them pre-1996. I was buying them since Now 35 and I somehow missed Now 37 so bought that when I found it cheap

I just seen articles about physical media on the rise again. Come on Now, take note of this and target all audiences rather than having it in your heads that only older people buy music. I hope Now read those articles about physical media on the rise again and take notes. Maybe, they’ll actually put together a decent album

27 minutes ago, Hadji said:

I just seen articles about physical media on the rise again. Come on Now, take note of this and target all audiences rather than having it in your heads that only older people buy music. I hope Now read those articles about physical media on the rise again and take notes. Maybe, they’ll actually put together a decent album

True. But where's your review on 124? Did you alter it?