3 minutes ago, nowmusic1993 said:

Cheers mate! It is odd that sometimes artists appear and then other times they don’t as you said. It was odd that Steps didn’t appear on Now 43 with Love’s Got A Hold Of My Heart, which would have given Steps a streak of appearances from Now 39-Now 51.

Yes the label must have withheld it. I think I’d have liked to have seen Tragedy on 43 and a later hits on 44 but it appears it was part of a strategy to save up a lot of big sellers for Now 44, which did work tbf as it was the biggest selling Now ever.

19 hours ago, Tylky said:

Noticed that. It's good they rectified it before release!

Have you had a chance to listen to it yet? What do you think of it? I'll listen to it when I find the time and put together my thoughts!

What has struck me about the album is how many songs I've never heard that I'm coming across. Usually I have this with the Vault albums but not an Extra, especially not from the 90s, so they really have used some very low peakers. The A-ha, Sting, Rain Tree Crow, ABC and Julee Cruise songs and maybe more all missed the top 40, and these songs feel more like Vault territory so I very much doubt they will continue the Vault into the 90s, what would they even include on it to make it sell if they are using up big names with low charting songs on the Extra? I expect they already know that the Vault series is going to remain 80s only which is why we have these non top 40 songs on here.

Still, I'm enjoying the likes of Belinda Carlisle, Chris Rea, Voice of the Beehive, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie, Roxette, Simply Red and even the early Take That single. Can You Dig It?, There's Nothing Like This, Something Got Me Started and Things That Make You Go Hmmm should have been on the main album. Samantha Janus also should have been on the Extra imo, they often do find a space for the UK Eurovision entry somewhere.

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Now 42

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2 minutes ago, nowmusic1993 said:

Now 42

That's my favourite one yet I think! ❤️

Just now, awardinary said:

That's my favourite one yet I think! ❤️

That’s great to hear! It was probably the most awkward one to get right with the sequencing!

Another excellent effort.

What was going on with licensing at this point. Neither Now or Hits managing to get so many big songs. Actually, When You're Gone, Changes and When You Believe I'm pretty sure have all still never appeared on any UK compilation. My Name Is was on a Q album in 2001 and that's it.

I created playlists for NOW81 and NOW82 and added some of the main ommissions at the end.

Unfortunately for each compilation one of the songs featured on the NOW's is not available at Spotify:

NOW 81: Gym Class Heroes Feat. Neon Hitch – Get Yourself Back Home

NOW 82: Lawson – When She Was Mine

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Now 41

Sorry guys but I had to adjust the sequencing of the Now 42 tracklist, I hope you prefer the new ordering.

Where do you make the images?

Now 40

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@nowmusic1993 you have my heart. Thank you for bringing me such excitement for a fresh new release from you every day! I'll be sad when this all ends as I'll want to own every single one of these in my CD collection!

5 minutes ago, awardinary said:

@nowmusic1993 you have my heart. Thank you for bringing me such excitement for a fresh new release from you every day! I'll be sad when this all ends as I'll want to own every single one of these in my CD collection!

That’s very kind of you @awardinary thank you😁if it’s any consolation I have decided that I will be going back to Now 20. I may go over Now 60 eventually, I just think they may look like they’re full of filler!

1 minute ago, nowmusic1993 said:

That’s very kind of you @awardinary thank you😁if it’s any consolation I have decided that I will be going back to Now 20. I may go over Now 60 eventually, I just think they may look like they’re full of filler!

I think that's a fair judgement for you to make and perhaps that's what some of my Disc 3 collections looked like beyond that volume too. I guess we got the best but still some glaring omissions over the years that followed from the likes of Taylor, Harry, Adele and Ed to name a few.

1 hour ago, nowmusic1993 said:

That’s very kind of you @awardinary thank you😁if it’s any consolation I have decided that I will be going back to Now 20. I may go over Now 60 eventually, I just think they may look like they’re full of filler!

I would be very happy if you went past 60! No need to worry about filler, that’s part of the NOW DNA. These have been such fun to look at, I can’t tell you how excited I get when I see the thread has new posts! You’ve made this thread such fun to be in @nowmusic1993 ! Keep doing what you’re doing!

2 hours ago, SuperWooper said:

I would be very happy if you went past 60! No need to worry about filler, that’s part of the NOW DNA. These have been such fun to look at, I can’t tell you how excited I get when I see the thread has new posts! You’ve made this thread such fun to be in @nowmusic1993 ! Keep doing what you’re doing!

Thank you so much!

Now 39

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24 minutes ago, nowmusic1993 said:

Now 39

Now 39, my very first Now compilation. ❤️

I wish I had this copy along with it though as a four disc bumper special!

Some names on this I would never have expected to see on a Now compilation I might add! 😂

I agree. It’s quite a novelty volume I think! It was another awkward tracklist to order!