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Coming soon…

Now 25

Coming later today.

Teaser coming very soon!

Unfortunately I seriously doubt that Now 123 is going to be released this spring. I genuinely believe they’ve cut down to 2 a year, such a shame.

Now 26

Coming soon!

Now 27 Sorry it’s late, I’m almost as bad as the Now team.

Two in one day…😏

It would be good wouldn’t it

Thanks for all your comments people. I very much appreciate how many people are enjoying these. I have decided to go over Now 59 afterwards, no doubt they will be a lot weaker than the previous ones but I imagine they’ll be a handful of gems on each!

Now 28 I decided to post now incase we get an announcement today.

Another one for you all coming today

The 17th April being left empty seems like a good sign, fingers crossed we get the Now 123 announcement any day now.

Now 29 I’m quite proud of this one, and I think it’s quite strong considering this is perhaps the only one I’ve made with no number 1 singles on it. @awardinary it’s perhaps the exact opposite of silk! 😂

I’ve completed Now 21-29 of my Now omissions albums. I was thinking earlier that I missed when Now would tease the artworks before they revealed them. So here’s a teaser for Now 29 that I will reveal tonight.

Slightly off topic but I bought Now 111 and Now 112 as duplicate spares from an independent music shop last year for about £5 each brand new. I just looked them up on eBay to see how much they were and they are worth a fortune, why is that?

I’ve just scrolled through past posts on their instagram page, and I didn’t realise how small the gap between the announcement and release date of Now 111 was in 2022, with the announcement being on 15 March and the release date being the 8 April. Hopefully all should be okay with Now 123.

Am I right in thinking the UK editions are way more popular than the US ones were? I’m not sure how much they sold in the US or how popular they were towards the end, but the numbered editions in the UK are the brand’s core product, so it seems bizarre that they would just end them and continue with spin-offs. I’m sure I read somewhere that one of the reasons they release so many spin-offs is to help afford making the numbered volumes anyway. I genuinely don’t believe the series has come to an end, and I don’t think it will for many years either (especially ending at a number like 122). I think they’ll start by reducing the amount of volumes per year like they did in the 80s and then eventually switch to digital/streaming before stopping them completely. Maybe Now 150 in 9 years time would be the last one? That would make sense, as much as I hope the series carries on forever. Hopefully we’re just getting ahead of ourselves and we get the Now 123 announcement this week. When I created my version of the album it didn’t seem weak as I imagined it would (granted I included a handful of songs that were probably unlicensable) but I didn’t include many Radio 2 artists at all. I, like many others, would be gutted if they started to cut down as I genuinely feel excitement for each release.

I am worried as the US series just seemed to stop everything altogether, even their spin-offs with no announcements whatsoever. Their social media page has been left derelict. However, the UK series is still releasing spin-offs so hopefully Now 123 is still going ahead. Maybe they’re going to push it back to the very end of April just to get as many hits as possible. But I 100% get what you’re saying, they know there are die hard fans of this series that has been going for 43 whole years. To not give fans piece of mind is quite a d*ck move tbh.

Do they ever announce albums (including spin-offs) on any day except Thursday? Maybe they are just finalising Now 123 and that’s why it’s late and we’ll still get a release date of 10 April 2026?

After the disappointment of no Now 123 today I decided to make another album. Now 30

It really frustrates me how they don’t just release the spring Now’s at the end of March, surely it would make so much more sense with 4 months between each release. Not to mention that there’s always so many tracks that are in the charts around Christmas time that appear on the Spring Now’s. I think 3 volumes a year still works so that no hits are missed out, and people are still buying them. But I’m glad that they’re not filling them with 50 tracks anymore, less is more especially with how slow the charts are nowadays.

I’d love to know how many copies of Now 122 were sold, I know about 5 people who bought it that wouldn’t usually buy Now’s.