NOW That’s What I Call Music! 112

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November 2023) 33 tracks with only Kate Bush and Lil Louis missing, although Lil Louis was just a bonus track on the original CD version and did not appear on the vinyl and magnetic cassette versions. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. July 2019) re-issued on 2-CD - 28 tracks with only Bob Marley and the Wailers and Gary Glitter missing. November 2020) David Bowie, Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald, and the Real Roxanne are the tracks that are missing.

The tie-in television programmes are a month by month video playlist of tracks, from one year previously featured on a Now Yearbook album, with Bruno Brookes presenting. We close NOW 115 in tribute to Tina Turner, the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” with one of her most beloved tracks - ‘The Best’. Some of the Special Editions have identical names, although a few of these titles are followed by their year of release. The Now Yearbook series also releases a vinyl selection of its primary release, with an Extra round-up vinyl boxset featuring tracks from the CD-only series, released at the end of 2022. These were all released on CD and magnetic cassette, but with the 1993 and 1994 volumes also being released on the vinyl format.Originally, the series captured extended 12" mixes of dance hits of the time, but from 1991 onwards, all Now Dance compilations featured 7" edits with only occasional extended versions or mixes included. The Special Editions series includes a wide range of Now anniversary collections, different music genres, eras, and decades, as well as commercial tie-ins with Smash Hits, Disney, Eurovision, HMV and the Official Chart Company. A further release, The Final Chapter, a deluxe 4-CD and 3-LP set, was issued in December 2022, rounding off the Yearbook years 1980 to 1984.

The 4-CD series follows the same general format of the original Special Editions series, with genre, era, and decade collections, but over four compact discs (there is also an abridged vinyl version of Punk and New Wave and Rock), meaning they contain more tracks than the original special editions, but fewer than the Now 100 Hits, which preceded this series. The frequency in which they were released also varied from year to year; initially, and most frequently across the series, there would be one Now Dance volume per year, but in 1994 for example, there were four volumes released, and in 1996, there weren't any Now Dance compilations released.A triple-CD only release, Yearbook Extra: The Collectors Edition, is issued a few weeks later; these include lesser known tracks and more songs by big artists included on the main album and they are released only in standard gatefold wallet packaging. An earlier compilation tie-in with Smash Hits from 1987 did, however, include tracks from those years. Dance tracks from David Guetta, Anne Marie and Coi Leray and Leigh-Ann keep the party going, before the hit ‘Waffle House’ from the Jonas Brothers and OneRepublic’s airplay smash ‘RUNAWAY’ give way to Tom Grennan and Niall Horan. Due to licensing issues, these re-compiled versions often use alternative mixes such as album versions. Since the release of Now 102 in Easter 2019, the corresponding Now album from 100 volumes ago has been re-compiled and re-issued on 2-CD sets on the same day.

The Now Yearbook series continues both forwards, with Now Yearbook 1985 issued in November 2022, and backwards, with the release of Now Yearbook 1979 in September 2022 (an Extra followed in October).Some of them have unique track listings and are not related to similarly themed collections already issued on compact disc, however, more recent releases have been 'selections' taken from a larger CD collection (Rock, for example). They all vary from one to five disc compilations (occasionally six disc), starting in 1986 and continuing to the present day (Jan 2023).

Recent hit-makers Lauren Spencer-Smith, Mimi Webb, and Dermot Kennedy all feature, alongside long-established chart legends Liam Gallagher, Mark Owen, and closing with the tribute ‘Gold Forever – For Tom’ from The Wanted. Across 2 CDs, 48 tracks, providing an essential selection of the UK’s chart favourites from recent months. For the 30th anniversary of Now in 2013 and the release of Now 100 in Summer 2018, the first Now album was re-compiled and re-issued. The first sixteen volumes were all released on the same date, with the final four being issued four months later. Released in association with the Official Chart Company to "celebrate 70 years of the official UK singles chart".

Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. In November 2018, the Now team took over the " 100 Hits" brand from Demon Music Group, and in 2019 and 2020, the Special Editions series was effectively rested while 24 different Now 100 Hits compilations were issued in very quick succession, until the end of November 2020.