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Congrats Rollo on the 39 yesterday. Round 1: 24 - Shalamar, Roxy Music, Depeche Mode Round 2: 36 - Level 42 3 in 10: Cool For Cats, Up The Junction and meh...

Well done John and Rollo for the 39 yesterday. Round 1: 36 - Seal Round 2: 33 - Kraftwerk, Eurythmics 3 in 10: Green Green Grass Of Home, It's Not Unusual, A Boy From Nowhere

Licensing older tracks becomes really cheap so they can afford "NOW That's What I Call Legends: Madonna" "Michael Jackson" "Phil Collins & Genesis" "ABBA" etc and create 4-Disc Compilations similar to the Yearbooks where you get track-by-track commentary of each track. Also, "NOW That's What I Call The Ones That Got Away", where the licensing for one-hit wonder tracks and the like are cheap, where tracks not included on the Yearbooks or numbered volumes are included on these editions. They may release it year-by-year like the Yearbooks, but as 2-Disc editions instead of 4.

Well done for the double 39s on Friday, John! Also, well done on the 39 for Friday, Jade. Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 36 - 10cc 3 in 10: Kisses On The Wind, Manchild, Woman

Rarewaves. I've become a sucker for them. Especially since recently they gave me a £5 off voucher, which brought my NOW Yearbook Vault 1986 Collector's Edition down to below £10. I think going forward though, I'm going to consider HMV, or the NOW website itself. I've been through this so often, I'm just a glutton for punishment!

Article was from the 30th August, likely gearing up for Friday just gone. As the moment has now passed, I can see her songs sliding down the charts again.

Well done Jade for yesterday's 39 and Rollo for yesterday's double. Round 1: 27 - Carpenters, Paul Weller, Richard Marx Round 2: 33 - Blancmange 3 in 10: I'd Do Anything For Love, Bat Out Of Hell, Dead Ringer For Love.

I think @DaTilt was helping out @WazzupMyBoyz with the latest reveal, as they had missed it. So just filling them in! Looking forward to this release, and I'm still waiting on my copy of the first NOW Yearbook 1971! Royal Mail are being a pain...

Well done John for yesterday's double 39. Round 1: 27 - Cockney Rebel, Keith West Round 2: 24 - ELO, INXS (Michael Hutchence), Ice House 3 in 10: The Lady In Red, Missing You and meh...

If you back a page you may have already seen it. 😉

Well done on the 39s yesterday John and Jade. Solid 33 from Rollo too. Round 1: 33 - Roxy Music, Lean On Me Round 2: 24 - The Associates, Ray Davies, Dusty Springfield 3 in 10: Saturday Night At The Movies, Under The Boardwalk and meh...

On an initial take there are so many songs that I don't know about on first look, though there could be songs here that I'd recognise if I listen to them. Happy to see more Stevie Wonder on these, and the novelty of Waldo De Los Rios!

Well done Jade and Rollo for the 39s on Friday. Round 1: 33 - Depeche Mode Round 2: 24 - David Bowie, the year, Toni Braxton 3 in 10: I Want It That Way, Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), The One

Well done Rollo for double 39s yesterday and John for 39 yesterday! The internet cut off at the very start of Round 1 today so can only play Round 2 properly. ☹️ Round 2: 27 - The Four Tops, Double, The Dooleys 3 in 10: Couldn't get any differing Sade tracks to the caller, so won't input here as I didn't think on my own.

Hmm, I think this is more genius on NOW's part that they included the song so prematurely on Now 122. I don't really want them to add it to Now 125 as it's the same song taking up space on an edition which could include a new and unique track instead. We've had NOWs before where there were no No.1s so I'm not too bothered by the fact there may not be any on the next edition.

I'm curious. Do you know if the 1977 Yearbook outsold the NOW Christmas 2024 album?

Round 1: 24 - Linx, Sweet, Andy Fairweather Low Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, True Colors, Time After Time

Round 1: 27 - The Pointer Sisters, Split Enz Round 2: 33 - Donna Lewis, The Stylistics 3 in 10: He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother and meh...

Well done popchartfreak for the 39 yesterday and the double today! Well done Jade for today's 39 also! Round 1: 27 - David Bowie, Dire Straits Round 2: 30 - 10cc, Ultravox 3 in 10: Meh...

Rarewaves still has it down for the 28th August. In fact, my copy on Rarewaves has been confirmed as being prepared for shipping. 100% this. The official UK charts as a whole are now a niche that only chart followers appreciate rather than the general public, as listening to music has become more democratised where everyone has access to almost everything 24/7, thanks in part to streaming. A byproduct of that is the numbered NOW albums, who - let's be honest - are more or less for the collectors these days. Unless the youth of today decide that they are now into chart music again, and care about it, the numbered NOWs will only be purchased by the collectors. The Yearbooks are evidence of that. However, if NOW Towers are truly oblivious to what's really going on, they will continue to sell those pointless spin-offs that used to be a fun grab for grandmothers at their local Tesco or other supermarkets that stocked CDs. However that's all dying too, and the product of the CD is now only for collectors - either fans of a particular artist who will get all the merchandise, or truly hardcore NOW collectors who will get every copy each week from HMV, online or other record shops who may or may not stock them. That could financially ruin them. I wouldn't be surprised if they slowly reduced themselves to Collectors-only products, like the Yearbooks, before going as a profile on Spotify where they create playlists only. The NOW brand could very well die that way. But as it's a brand under a label, it's no real skin off the noses of EMI, who can keep producing artist albums and the like.

Smashing it out the park with 39 on Friday Rollo, nice! Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: Joyride, The Look, How Do You Do!

Nice 39 there Rollo! Round 1: 30 - Genesis, Squeeze Round 2: 24 - Lindisfarne, The Jacksons, Andy Williams Tie-break: Right, Right, Right, Right 3 in 10: Cosmic Girl, Love Foolosophy, Seven Days In Sunny June

Incredible scores from yesterday, Rollo! Wow! Round 1: 33 - Peter Skellern Round 2: 24 - U2/Brian Eno (Passengers), The Undertones, The Three Degrees 3 in 10: Need You Tonight, Disappear, meh...

Well done for yesterday John and Rollo! Questions were tricky! Round 1: 36 - Nick Lowe Round 2: 21 - Bee Gees, Vonda Shepard, Alvin Stardust, Whitney Houston 3 in 10: See My Baby Jive and meh...

Good effort on yesterday guys, was a tricky one! Round 1: 30 - Barry White, Sherbet Round 2: 30 - year, Depeche Mode, Bryan Ferry Tie-break: Right, Right 3 in 10: Whole Again, The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling), It's OK!