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! The first two volumes were not released on compact disc, and all subsequent releases were either single, double, or triple disc sets. 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).

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. A standard 4-CD version is also issued in a gatefold "wallet" design, which retails cheaper than the mini-hardback books. The series is one of the highest selling compilations in New Zealand music history ( RIANZ) with multi-platinum album sales. They contained music videos, some for tracks featured on the accompanying album and others for tracks not on the album. Starting with 1983, the series will cover each year in depth via compilations released on a four-CD boxset and 3 disc coloured vinyl LP set by Now Music, with a tie-in programme (featuring videos from the year in question) appearing on their Freeview TV channel.Written-By – Aaron Simmonds, Andrew Wotman, Ashton Simmonds, Bernard Harvey, Felisha King, Giveon Dezmann Evans*, Justin Bieber, Keavan Yazdani, Louis Bell (4), Luis Manuel Martinez Jr. 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. 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. Its success has led to two more branded channels exploring decades, Now 90s on 27 December 2017, replacing Chilled TV, and Now 70s on 27 December 2019, replacing Total Country.

As of November 2023, the most featured artists are Kylie Minogue with 32 followed by Robbie Williams with 31 singles, Calvin Harris with 30, David Guetta with 28, Rihanna with 27, Katy Perry with 22 and Girls Aloud with 21. assistant engineer: Erica Block, Doug Clarke ( LA engineer/mixer) and Zachary Stokes engineer: Jamie Sickora and Lawson White producer: Mike Elizondo, Ben Jackson-Cook and Rag’n’Bone Man mixer: Adam Hawkins ( engineer) bass: Bill Banwell ( bass player) electric guitar: Wendy Melvoin piano: Ben Jackson-Cook background vocals: Pete Josef lead vocals: P! The rate of release settled very quickly to three per year: one release around late March/early April, another around late July and a third around late November.The concept was taken to Simon Draper (managing director at Virgin Records) and then Peter Jamieson (managing director of EMI Records (1983–1986)).

By 1989, Now, Hits, and other various-artist compilation albums were occupying such a large fraction of the UK Albums Chart that a separate UK Compilation Chart was created to restrict the Albums Chart to releases by a single act. The Yearbook series are 4-CD and 3-LP vinyl sets, each representing a year of music, which launched in June 2021. They all vary from one to five disc compilations (occasionally six disc), starting in 1986 and continuing to the present day (Jan 2023). until Now 85 when they used the Sony label instead, until Now 90 when they stopped using labels on the main series. Deleting this artist may remove other artists and scrobbles from your library - please handle this with caution!The Out Now series by MCA and Chrysalis was also established as a rival to the series, [6] but was short-lived and lasted only two volumes. S. Each of the first 29 volumes received at least a platinum certification, and 18 albums from the series have reached number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart, more than any individual recording artist except the Beatles. 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). These were all released on CD and magnetic cassette, but with the 1993 and 1994 volumes also being released on the vinyl format. often shortened to NOW) is a series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Sony Music and Universal Music ( Universal/ Sony Music) which began in 1983.

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. An earlier compilation tie-in with Smash Hits from 1987 did, however, include tracks from those years. They now focus on radio mixes of recent dance hits, and a Very Best of Now Dance compilation has been released.They are also notable as being the first time a Now series had released a compilation of hits from the years 1980 to 1982. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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.