NOW Thats What I Call Music! 6

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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. For the majority of tracks listed above, there are multiple compilations and releases that include the 7″ versions. UB40 - Please Don't Break My Heart: Great song; I think it should have been put next to the other 'heart' songs. The original Now Dance series began in 1985 and has been released in a variety of titles, formats, and release frequency. The 1990s Yearbook series contains a new retro-90s logo design and artwork which also complements its sister decade series.

Election Day was the first fruit and is an exotic belter complete with a mid-section spoke word piece from Grace Jones. These were all released on CD and magnetic cassette, but with the 1993 and 1994 volumes also being released on the vinyl format. Phil Collins crowns a most successful year with another duet; this time with a woman – Marilyn Martin – and the emotional Separate Lives.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. A Good Heart and There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) both reached the top of the charts and remain radio staples today.

Our automated blocking policies are imperfect and sometimes too strict, and some IP addresses are blocked by accident. Body Rock is also a screen tie-in; the title song for the breakdancing film of the same name starring Lance from Falcon Crest. Nevertheless I am sure that Nik was delighted to see his first eight singles compiled on albums such as these. was the year of Live Aid and the opening track – One Vision by Queen – is described as a tribute to Bob Geldof’s ongoing efforts.Not quite as bouncy as you’d usually expect from UB40, but I really quite like the atmosphere of this one. Bryan Adams and Tina Turner duet effectively on It’s Only Love while Gary Moore’s gloomy and introspective Empty Rooms fits in well beside Marillion’s dilly-dilly blues of Lavender. The latter does not promote Now 6 but has small images on Nows 1-5 + Now Dance on the reverse sleeve. Many of these artists have gone on to become global superstars such as Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes, Walk The Moon, Maggie Rogers, Rae Sremmurd, Zara Larsson, Jacob Whitesides, and Tate McRae.

Side note: Geth and I noticed when we were at the Sage Gateshead for the Kim Wilde gig last night that Level 42 will be playing there in October.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. A further release, The Final Chapter, a deluxe 4-CD and 3-LP set, was issued in December 2022, rounding off the Yearbook years 1980 to 1984. A favourite going back to childhood – we had the A Kind Of Magic album on CD in the ’90s and always played it in the car. November 2023) 33 tracks with only Kate Bush and Lil Louis missing, although Lil Louis was just a bonus track on the original CD version and did not appear on the vinyl and magnetic cassette versions.

first reissued 2009 for the 25th anniversary, then again 20 July 2018 to coincide with Now 100) re-issued on 2CD (gatefold in 2009, jewel case in 2018), audio cassette, and a 2LP vinyl release. 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 album features three Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits: " Independent Women Part I", " It Wasn't Me", and " With Arms Wide Open".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. 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.