NOW That's What I Call Music! 14

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Blow the House Down' appears as a slightly longer edit, inserting an extra bar at 1'36" which isn't there in the video or 7" version; 'Straight Up' uses completely the wrong edit, halving the intro and the 'do do you love me' break but with a longer outro than the 1989 edit; 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' reverts to the correct single version rather than the shorter edit used on the 1989 NOW 14; 'Belfast Child' remains in its shorter promo edit version; and the version of 'Be My Twin' presented here is a slightly different mix to the 1989 single (but it's slightly too long to be the album version). Matt Lucas's NHS fundraising track Thank You Baked Potato also appears on Now 105, lasting a brisk 1 minute and 04 seconds). We actually stuck the number 12 to the bottom of a swimming pool, painted some polystyrene balls with the Now logo and had a photographer take a photo that would become the cover," said artwork designer Neal Martinez. One of the reasons music stands the test of time is that we have personal experiences associated with songs - so people who are deeply knowledgeable about music can curate playlists better than Artificial Intelligence.

The series was so successful that compilation albums were quarantined into a separate chart in 1999. That's why each of our records is first meticulously cleaned and then not just inspected once, but twice, before a sample is play-tested to make sure it sounds as good as it looks.

Pump up the volume on Disc 2 with Hip-Hop infused ‘Buffalo Stance’ from Neneh Cherry and floor-fillers ‘Good Life’ from Detroit natives Inner City and ‘Hey Music Lover’ from S’Express. They debuted on the very first Now album with their number one hit Is There Something I Should Know, and are back on the latest volume with Black Moonlight - a single which failed to make the top 75. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered.

Elsewhere, Fine Young Cannibals step up to the big time with ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ and Sam Brown makes here mark with the excellent ‘Stop’.In 2021, the company launched its "Yearbook" series, a new series of albums collecting the hits from a specific year. Terence Trent D'Arby's hits are now credited to Sananda Maitreya, the name he chose in 2001; while Eurythmics now insist on the awkward billing of "Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart". The 116th edition has just been released, opening with Sam Smith and Calvin Harris's dance smash Desire, before rattling through Olivia Rodrigo's Vampire and Doja Cat's Paint The Town Red. Don McLean's American Pie is the longest song to feature on a Now album, clocking in at 8 minutes and 34 seconds. Since the vinyl comeback in 2015, NOW Classic Rock and NOW Christmas have been released with some tracks from the CD version.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Very Good: The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch.DJ Mark Goodier, who has voiced adverts for the Now series since 1992, says it still has a place in the market. This collection comes to a close with ‘Love Changes Everything’ from Michael Ball, taken from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Aspects Of Love. He also has four uncredited entries as a member of the charity projects Helping Haiti (Now 75), Justice Collective (Now 84), Artists for Grenfell (Now 97), and World Music project 1 Giant Leap (Now 52). If compilation albums were included in list of the UK's best-selling records, it would take ninth place, nestling between Michael Jackson's Bad and Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms.

Captain Sir Tom Moore is the oldest singer to feature on the compilation, having reached his 100th birthday when he sang alongside Michael Ball on the charity cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone (Now 106). There’s still room for old school acts however with Simple Minds’ UK number one ‘Belfast Child’ included along with contributions from Status Quo, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney (with Marc Almond, of course) and the decidedly unhip Michael Ball singing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Love Changes Everything’! In the pre-playlist era, the Now albums were an essential way of staying up-to-date, and even discovering new music. Although downloads and streaming appear to pose an existential threat to the Now series, the numbered volumes still sell in big quantities.The album spent a record 13 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, the most for any multi-artist compilation album since 1963. The perceived wisdom about compilations is that, when somebody picks one up, they look at the first half-dozen tracks and the last two or three tracks and make a decision accordingly," says Steve Pritchard, who was custodian of the series for more than 20 years.