We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. 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. 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). It was the first album in the series which did not chart in the UK Albums Chart as the UK Compilation Chart was created in January 1989.

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). Since it has catalogued every musical trend from hip-hop to K-pop, featuring everyone from Queen to Billie Eilish and even Bob The Builder. Hit tracks from Kim Wilde and Sam Brown are up next, plus Driving Rock from legendary Roy Orbison with ‘You Got It’.

Ashley Abram, who compiled volumes 2 to 81, says the decision was forced by US record labels, who couldn't understand why superstar artists were being kept off the top of the charts by Now.

With record labels reluctant to give approval to the new format, it ended up as a single disc containing only 15 songs. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Matt Lucas's NHS fundraising track Thank You Baked Potato also appears on Now 105, lasting a brisk 1 minute and 04 seconds).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.

In 2021, the company launched its "Yearbook" series, a new series of albums collecting the hits from a specific year. 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’! Covering the years 1973 to 1992 (so far), these albums have marked the first appearance of 700 songs on any Now compilation. 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". 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.CD 's play ok good quality track book front cover missing still ok,case is not in brilliant condition signs off damage but not a bad purchase.