NOW Thats What I Call Music! 109

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They all vary from one to five disc compilations (occasionally six disc), starting in 1986 and continuing to the present day (Jan 2023).

The series took its name from a 1920s British advertising poster for Danish Bacon featuring a pig saying "Now. 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). Robbie Williams is the artist to be featured the most often in the regular Danish Now series, just as he also is in the UK Now! Since the second installment of the series, Universal, Warner and EMI have formed a joint venture together and generally take turns to release the series. It consists of 2 CD’s as usual, although the 2nd CD is filled in with new music and is not a re-release of old tracks.Spinoff series began for other countries the following year, starting with South Africa, and many other countries worldwide soon followed, expanding into Asia in 1995, then the United States in 1998. The track listings on the Argentine Now albums are only slightly different from those of the Mexican ones.

The Now series started in the Netherlands back in 1984 as Now This Is Music and a couple of spin-offs, such as Now Dance, a Christmas compilation ( Now This Is Xmas) and several year-end compilations. The first Now was released on 28 November 1983 [5] and featured 30 UK hit singles from that year on a double vinyl LP or cassette.As well as the Now regular series there have also been spin-offs including Now Big Hits, Now Christmas, Now Summer, Now Clubbing, Now Dance and Now Hip Hop. Elsewhere, popular Top 40 dance hits including Rasputin by Majestic x Boney M and Noizu's Summer 91 (Looking Back) feature, while rock is represented with Royal Blood's Typhoons and Italian rockers Måneskin with their recent Top 10 smash I Wanna Be Your Slave.