Now That's What I Call Music! 1

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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.

Outstanding value and a great snap shot year by year of the best pop records through these four great decades of music. Some of the the track timings on the labels are incorrect and were timed with a stopwatch - the affected tracks are A4, A8, B6, B8, C2, C6, D6, D7.The odds that you once owned a copy of the album that had a low serial number are slim to none, but not impossible.

When it decided to cut ties with the band, the record company had already pressed 25,000 copies of their single “God Save the Queen. 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. The Australian series is a single disc edition and began in 2002, as a replacement for the long-running 100% Hits 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. 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 triple-vinyl packages for each decade are all pressed on limited edition coloured vinyl (white, red, blue and green respectively) and these come in tri-fold sleeves. However, in late 2009, EMI Music released the album "Now Dance" in Spain, which contains all the biggest dance hits in Spain during 2009, including Lady Gaga, David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland, The Black Eyed Peas and Katy Perry, among others.