Revisit the 14 essential "NOW That's What I Call Music!" albums, from the franchise's very first volumes to a special pair of 2017 releases.

July 31, 2001, may not seem like a special date to many, but some Top 40 aficionados will remember it as the day Now That’s What I Call Music 7 hit shelves and enlivened music lovers of all ...

(The latest, Now That's What I Call Music! 57, was just released on February 5.) ... That's all we really need to define this decade so far. via GIPHY. Now That's What I Call Music! #31.

Now That's What I Call Music! is the umbrella title for a series of compilation albums comprising songs already huge hits. Created in 1983 by Virgin Records and launched in the UK and Ireland, the ...

19) 2008's Now That's What I Call Music! 70 sold 383,002 copies in seven days - the biggest first-week sales of any Now album. It featured hits like Estelle's American Boy, The Ting Tings' That's ...

Now That's What I Call Music: 100 Courtesy Photo It all started in 1983 in Vernon Yard, a small mews off Portobello Road in London’s Notting Hill and the home of Virgin Records in the U.K.

The people in the UK were onto something when they issued the first compilation known as Now That's What I Call Music! in 1983. It would take 15 years before the US caught onto the power of ...

NOW’s latest numbered volume, NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 88, and NOW That's What I Call Music! 25th Anniversary: Volume 1 will both be released October 27 on CD and digitally.

See the Now That's What I Call Dad Rock tracklist down toward the bottom of this post. The compilation kicks off with Queen's "We Will Rock You" and includes additional 1970s fare such as the ...

9) Now That's What I Call Music 4 was the first edition to be released on CD. With record labels reluctant to give approval to the new format, it ended up as a single disc containing only 15 songs.