Audiophiles swear by the sound quality of vinyl over CDs, MP3s, and other files, and now younger generations are starting to see the light. Targeting a broad age group, the channel used to play current popular music in the daytime and hits from its 30-year back catalogue in the evenings. A series of compilation video games (for the Commodore 64, among other home computers) were released in the mid-1980s by Virgin Games with the name Now Games.

The very first pressing features gold lettering on a black label and is considered the “holy grail” for Beatles fans. Maybe some of the music on them is not quite the same or as good as it used to be on the early ones, but still though such a great collection. According to Record Mecca, four songs were replaced with newly recorded tracks, but somehow, someone at the pressing plant used the old version instead of the new masters to press an unknown number of albums. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. To celebrate this year’s milestone, Now 100 comes with a classics disc which includes some of the artists that have featured most throughout the compilation series.For more international flavored multilingual European Hits I also highly suggest the German BRAVO HITS, and their even more Global Hits counterparts BRAVO HITS (Polish edition). To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Tuesday Night Music Club now has a proper 1LP vinyl version of the 7x certified Platinum album. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Before you dig through those crates to listen to your favorite throwback LP or 45-RPM single, make sure that what you’re holding isn’t worth a full semester of college. Between 300 and 1000 copies of this Hank Mobley jazz record (known as Blue Note 1568 by collectors) were released in 1957, and there is one small change that makes them more valuable than other records from the label. Soft Cell followed up 2022’s acclaimed Top 10 long player *Happiness not included with the release of two expanded editions via BMG on 28th July. Bernie Grundman, who originally mastered the album, recently used the original 1/2” flat master tape to create a new master and then cut the lacquers.The odds that you once owned a copy of the album that had a low serial number are slim to none, but not impossible. Vinyl in EXCELLENT condition, MINIMAL superficial surface marks and minor background noise in places. In addition to these volumes, the series includes six dance editions, a DVD and the tenth anniversary commemorative edition, NOW 10 ANOS, released by EMI in December 2009. The series is one of the highest selling compilations in New Zealand music history ( RIANZ) with multi-platinum album sales.

Rock Steady Crew - Hey You (Rock Steady Crew): This was another one that got played a lot at school discos, super catchy. LP1 closes with The KLF and Tammy Wynette’s collaboration ‘Justified And Ancient’, and ‘Ordinary World’, a huge hit from 1993 for Duran Duran. Through Volume 21 of the series, the multi-volume sets have included 414 national and international artists and a total of 787 different songs, ranking in an impressive four gold and 19 platinum records. A "Special Collectors Edition" of Now 1 was released on CD in 2009 as a digipak, 2015 and again in 2018 as a jewel case album. This spans the four decades and kicks off with Culture Club’s ‘Karma Chameleon’ and is bang up to date, finishing with Kylie’s ‘Padam Padam’.If you want to go deeper, then the NOW team have split the 40 year period into four decades, resulting in four volumes, with 3CD and 3LP sets devoted to each ten year period. Richard Branson had bought the poster for his cousin, Simon Draper, to hang behind Draper's desk at the Virgin Records office. They contained music videos, some for tracks featured on the accompanying album and others for tracks not on the album. Bob Dylan’s second album changed a bit just before it was supposed to be released in 1963, and those track changes can mean a difference of tens of thousands of dollars if your copy falls on the right side of the fence. It also sees the inclusion for the first time on vinyl one of the album’s highlights ‘Nighthawks’, with New York performance artist CHRISTEENE.

Virgin agreed to a deal with EMI, which allowed a greater number of major hits to be included (the first album in the series included a total of "eleven number ones" on its sleeve). According to the Beatles Collecting Guide, the album Please Please Me was released in a hurry on March 22, 1963 in Great Britain. I've listened since Now 10 as that was my first tape cassette I had as a kid and been hearing them ever since. reissue features all-analogue mastering by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, direct from the original analogue tapes. Due to the Universal Music Group's purchasing of EMI in 2012, a share of the Now albums' rights were transferred over to Sony Music Entertainment (a partner in the original Hits Album brand).

We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. The track listings on the Mexican albums are only slightly different from those of the Argentine ones. Now 08 was the last of this series however a second series took over this time with seasons instead of volumes for example Now Winter 2005, Now Spring 2005. On 26 April 2010, Now Mix 2010 was released, which includes dance versions of popular songs in a non-stop mix format. Volume 1 is 1983-1993, Volume 2 is 1993-2003, Volume 3 is 2003-2013 and the fourth volume is 2013-2023.