The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. As far as I can tell, Now is FAR BETTER at selecting the best pop songs, and when they miss on the back half of the albums, they really miss. It also has a shocking amount of forgettable songs, like Aerosmith’s “Just Push Play,” “Caramel” by City High, and “Lights, Camera, Action! The first Now is a glorious, clear mission statement, perfectly encapsulating what music was in 1998.

Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Released in association with the Official Chart Company to "celebrate 70 years of the official UK singles chart". Now did not realize that a song by the Baha Men about letting the dogs out would so resolutely become music. The latter contains a new retro-70s Now logo design and artwork which complements its 80s sister Yearbook series.

It also, for some reason, has Juvenile’s “Slow Motion,” marking one of the only times Now correctly classified rap as music. It was very difficult choosing the most essential song off Now 6, which tells you why it’s ranked so high. 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. Here’s a question I’ve been waiting all day to ask: Is Ally, Lady Gaga’s character from A Star Is Born, music?

I could simply print the entire tracklist of Now 37 and it would be a sufficient explanation for why this ranks at the top of this list.

If your song ends up on a commercial, especially one featuring a person dancing, congrats, dude—your song is probably music. 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.

I’m ’n Luv (wit a Stripper),” which appears on Now 22, is not the only song in which T-Pain documents his unrequited love for a stripper. I picked “Cups” as the most essential song over Icona Pop’s “I Love It” and Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors” because I need us all to never forget the odd state pop music has been in this decade. Now 65, in particular, features a three-song run that paints a ghastly picture of recent popular rap, from G-Eazy’s “No Limit” to NF’s “Let You Down” to Post Malone’s “I Fall Apart.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.