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Released in association with the Official Chart Company to "celebrate 70 years of the official UK singles chart". Initially, a special edition of a Now compilation was quite rare, and between 1994 and 2002, there weren't any released at all. Ballroom Blitz’ from Sweet starts a run of Glam 70s Pop including Wizzard, 10cc and Mott The Hoople. The series is then moved forward again, with the release of Now Yearbook 1992 in July 2023 (an Extra followed in August). Towards the end of the series, 3-CD digipak sets were issued, but in 2010, the long-running title was retired, and all subsequent dance-themed Now collections have been issued under the Special Editions series.

They are also notable as being the first time a Now series had released a compilation of hits from the years 1980 to 1982. The disc closes with the inspirational 60’s classics ‘Moon River’ from Danny Williams and ‘What A Wonderful World’ from Louis Armstrong. Some of the Special Editions have identical names, although a few of these titles are followed by their year of release. Generally, a reasonable amount of feel good stuff (thank you) but Anne-Marie taking on a thorny modern issue with a degree of aplomb (okay with one or two stop and think songs). The year 1984 followed, but after this, the series rewound its year of focus, issuing collections that went from 1982 and backwards into the late 1970s.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A UMG imprint, do not use it for ©/℗ credits)(in 2022) and Republic Records ( from 1994–2006 and since 2012, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. From 2003, and until 2010, there was one special edition released each year, covering a decade (80s, 90s and 00s), or a cross section of big hits celebrating the Now series ( Now Decades, Now Years, Now Dance) - however, from 2011, they became much more frequent, and in 2017, there were fifteen different titles released. was only initially released on vinyl and audio cassette, with the first compact disc edition, featuring a compilation of tracks from all four previous albums released in 1984. The second disc begins with two superstars – Elton John and Britney Spears together on the smash ‘Hold Me Closer’, followed by a run of superb Pop-Dance from Calvin Harris with Justin Timberlake, Halsey and Pharrell Williams, Joel Corry and Becky Hill, Luude and Mattafix, and James Hype and Miggy Dela Rosa – before Pop highlights from Olly Murs and ‘SNAP’- the huge Eurovision favourite from Rosa Linn.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. CD4 begins with two huge soundtrack songs from blockbusters - ‘Flashdance…What A Feeling’ from Irene Cara and ‘Ghostbusters’ from Ray Parker Jr. on 24 July 2015, the release dates in the UK and Ireland have been the same following the announcement of the Global Release Day campaign by IFPI, which became effective on 10 July 2015.

A run of modern Pop classics feature from Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Carly Rae Jepsen, One Direction and Spice Girls, before the Hip-Hop and Dance fusion of ‘It’s Like That’ from Run DMC vs. In November 2018, the Now team took over the " 100 Hits" brand from Demon Music Group, and in 2019 and 2020, the Special Editions series was effectively rested while 24 different Now 100 Hits compilations were issued in very quick succession, until the end of November 2020. All series with the exception of United Kingdom and the United States have been discontinued, New Zealand had two more albums released as a playlist only on Spotify, South Africa had three more albums released as a playlist on Spotify under DJ Kurtis. The 1990s Yearbook series contains a new retro-90s logo design and artwork which also complements its sister decade series. USA, affiliated with ASCAP), Universal Music Publishing ( Belgium), Universal Music Publishing International Ltd.

The first sixteen volumes were all released on the same date, with the final four being issued four months later. Each release is issued as a limited edition mini-hardback book, with the CDs in sleeves forming the pages of the ' yearbook' which contains an introductory overview of the year, original 7" single artwork, trivia, chart positions and a quiz. These compilations are very similar to the anniversary series, however, they contain a lower amount of tracks and retailed much cheaper than the former series. Other legendary acts – The Police and U2 follow, before more recent collaborations between ground-breaking artists - Sam Smith and Kim Petras with their massive hit ‘Unholy’ and Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande with the fantastic chart topper ‘Rain On Me’.The tie-in television programmes are a month by month video playlist of tracks, from one year previously featured on a Now Yearbook album, with Bruno Brookes presenting.