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And as the series celebrates its 100th release today, it turns out your favourite NOW album could be worth quite a bit of cash. The Weeknd’s global smash hit ‘Blinding Lights’ brings the collection into the ‘20s, followed by the massive debut ‘Heat Waves’ from Glass Animals. The two series co-existed for the rest of the 1980s, and when Universal (formerly PolyGram from Now 8 in 1986 through to Now 42 in 1999) joined the collaboration, the Now! Lineup includes Maya Hawke, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, Bully, Wet Leg, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, and more. Truly amazing it's reached 100 now, heard some of the recent ones, Now 98, Now 99, they were Okay I guess nothing special just okay really.

The compilation series was conceived in the office of Virgin Records in London and took its name from a 1920s British advertising poster for Danish bacon featuring a pig saying "Now. The track listings on the Mexican albums are only slightly different from those of the Argentine ones. The original version of this David Bowie album was withdrawn because the cover artwork featured a dog’s genitals. The 3CD sets boast deluxe Yearbook-style hardcover book packaging with notes about the tracks, summary of the era and original NOW artwork.

s Now 03 came with a bonus DVD; the first standalone DVD release ( Now Vision 2004) appeared the following year. I was not introduced to UKs NOW series until the beginning of the 90s, so Im very happy to be completing my collection with the original 80s volumes, now reissued on CDs. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. The album went to number one, and soon after, CBS/ WEA's The Hits Album adopted a similar format to Now! The concept was taken to Simon Draper (managing director at Virgin Records) and then Peter Jamieson (managing director of EMI Records (1983–1986)).

At least two different series of year-by-year "retrospective" compilations, covering 1983 to 1995 and 1980 to 1999, respectively were issued in the 1990s with the latter series known as Now! When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.series are only released on one disc), now exploiting the capacity of the CD to include between 40 and 46 tracks over two discs. 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. 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. The 100th edition of Now, released today (July 20), has sparked a wave of nostalgia for the much-loved compilations. There were multiple pressings of the album in the first year, but collectors pay attention to the labels to tell which is the rarest of them all.