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FIFA should’ve played either Julie Covington or Madonna on Sunday after the game and it might have helped the song get a slight boost

Shame he won’t push any of the material from his latest album. Maybe push Risk It All or On My Soul

I wish OCC would stop resetting Die With A Smile and poor Mr Brightside is gonna miss the top 40

It’s the collectors that will buy the numbered albums regardless of how bad the tracklist is. It’s the casual buyers that won’t touch these albums. The numbered series should cater to both collectors and casual buyers. They should’ve at least included the 2 Eurovision songs like they do on every summer edition. Shame LMNC and Dara both missed out. They should’ve at least included the latter rather than nothing. The reason why the casual spin-offs get bad reviews is because they repeat the same songs that have already been on yearbooks rather than include songs that haven’t been on yearbooks. Also, they should do some casual spin-offs that haven’t been done before. The clubland spin-off last year was 10/10. As for reviews, I was gonna Now 124 3 stars until I saw on the description that they were prioritising the sales and airplay charts and using the singles chart as filler rather than the other way round

I hate Last Christmas but I’d rather that broke the record which it will eventually

I just seen and I was expecting it to fall now the World Cup is over

Streaming algorithms

Says the person who thinks that Last Christmas only gets number 1 because of streaming platforms

Rein Me In is number 1 because of streaming playlists. If you press play on a playlist that Rein Me In is on, that’s the first song it’ll play. Why stream Rein Me In when you can just put the radio on and it gets played on the radio

Shame Don’t Cry For Me Argentina didn’t scrape the top 200 following Argentina’s defeat. FIFA should’ve played the song in the background after the game

You know where the door is Karen you bullying scum. Just don’t hit yourself on your way out. I don’t take shit from bullying scum so WATCH IT NOW

Bros - Cat Among The Pigeons

The George/Wham! label’s obsession with track 1 started in 2017 just after he died and with Ashley Abram and Rihanna, I’m surprised he chose not to include Rehab on Now 73

I remember Now 80s Party in 2017 which she compiled and Queen opened disc 1 and Wham! opened disc 2. Same on Now 100 Hits 80s in 2019, Queen were track 1 and Wham! were track 2 behind Queen. And when Ashley Abram compiled, I did wonder if he had an obsession with Rihanna as he seemed to include her on every album he compiled from 62-81 apart from 66 and 73. Jenny Fisher doing the Now throwbacks from 102-104 I disagreed on but she was doing it probably to promote the Now 2 reissue

I’d hear Now albums being played a lot at school discos and birthday parties. I remember Now 14 being played at one of my birthday parties and I’d hear shops playing the albums and guessing which album of theirs was playing. They helped me get through a lot of long journeys especially being stuck in traffic

Madonna licensed her music to the Hits up to the 2000s which is why she didn’t appear. Now albums would’ve been slightly better if Jenny Fisher stayed on to compile the albums. If she compiled the yearbooks, we’d be getting both Queen and George Michael on the same yearbooks

You know where the door is

Set You Free charted in 2001 because of the Rob Searle remix. I’d have agreed with its inclusion on Now 50 if it was that remix instead of the original. Live Forever didn’t reach a new peak in 2018. It was performed at the BRITs and it reached a new peak in 2024

And I disagreed with those. A dance mix of Relax charted in 1993 but they made the mistake and used the original version. You might agree with track repetition but I disagree with it

I just said if you pay attention that I only accept old songs appearing if they haven’t appeared before 🤦‍♂️ and I don’t criticise all their albums. I love their yearbooks, extras and vaults

That part yes. I only agree with old songs being included if they haven’t appeared before as you pointed out Beauty And A Beat, Sure Thing and Go. They did miss out Every Breath You Take off Now 123 when that re-entered earlier this year due to Stranger Things. I do disagree with them including old songs if they’ve already appeared ie Live Forever, Another Love and Murder On The Dancefloor. Another thing that ruins the albums is who they choose as track 1. Calvin Harris kicking off Now 121 spoiled the album and George Michael kicking off all their spin-offs ruins the albums too, especially when Queen get ignored as a result

They could easily reuse the old chart re-entries as filler too as they’re easy to license but they choose not to

In this decade, I’d say Now 109 to Now 115 were all decent apart from the reuse of Tom Odell on 113. I could say Now 106 was bad but that weren’t their fault because of Now 105 being pushed back and they only had 2 months of hits to include in between

You forgot On 2nite. Another dance song that missed out and as for RAYE, she had 2 songs post-WIMH and they both missed out

They can. On Now 124, they quite clearly chose not to include dance music when it’s a summer edition and dance music is very popular in the summer