Now That's What I Call Music! 13

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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. The latter contains a new retro-70s Now logo design and artwork which complements its 80s sister Yearbook series.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Initially, a special edition of a Now compilation was quite rare, and between 1994 and 2002, there weren't any released at all. A standard 4-CD version is also issued in a gatefold "wallet" design, which retails cheaper than the mini-hardback books.An earlier compilation tie-in with Smash Hits from 1987 did, however, include tracks from those years. This would be the last compilation album to be number 1 on the chart, as the UK Compilation Chart was created in January 1989 due to the dominance of compilations in the albums chart over the previous few years.

A video selection was also released on VHS featuring a selection of tracks that featured on the main album release. The Special Editions series includes a wide range of Now anniversary collections, different music genres, eras, and decades, as well as commercial tie-ins with Smash Hits, Disney, Eurovision, HMV and the Official Chart Company. 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. album, from June to August in 1993, a series of ten, 40-track yearly collections were released on CD and cassette (but not vinyl), covering the years 1983 to 1992. This all matters to me because I have children who listen to music and want digital copies for their devices.

November 2020) David Bowie, Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald, and the Real Roxanne are the tracks that are missing. Vinyl in EXCELLENT condition, MINIMAL superficial surface marks and minor background noise in places. Another strand of the Now Yearbook series, in August 2022, is the somewhat experimental release of a limited edition, extended play, 7" vinyl single, containing 2 tracks each from the 1983 and 1984 Yearbooks.

For the 30th anniversary of Now in 2013 and the release of Now 100 in Summer 2018, the first Now album was re-compiled and re-issued. Originally, the series captured extended 12" mixes of dance hits of the time, but from 1991 onwards, all Now Dance compilations featured 7" edits with only occasional extended versions or mixes included. Pop artists seem to have very few good songs on their albums beyond those that are hits in my opinion. They are also notable as being the first time a Now series had released a compilation of hits from the years 1980 to 1982. As the track-list comes up to date, we celebrate the biggest UK hits for Lizzo, Cat Burns, PinkPantheress and SZA.The 1990s Yearbook series contains a new retro-90s logo design and artwork which also complements its sister decade series.