The series release dates below represent the date of release in the United Kingdom. Up until the release of Now That's What I Call Music! 90 on 30 March 2015, the release date in Ireland was three days before the UK release. Beginning with the release of Now That's What I Call Music! 91 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. [6] Volume To appropriately rank the Now albums, I devised a formula to take into account the commercial success, accolades, and feeling of essentialness of each song featured. Half a point was awarded for every week a song stayed on the Billboard Hot 100; five points were awarded for every Grammy nomination a song earned, while 10 points were awarded for a Grammy win; lastly, one point was awarded for every MTV Video Music Award nomination, while two points were awarded for every VMA win. Those numbers were then totaled and averaged. The Essential Score for each album was determined by rating each song’s essentialness on a scale of 1 to 10. How do you determine how essential a song is, you ask? I’ll answer that question with a series of questions: How efficiently does the song conjure a sense of time and place? How well does it capture where popular music was as a genre when it was included on Now? And lastly, how good is the song to this day? Taking those questions into account and assigning each song an Essential Score, I—again, I am the authority here, which is valid because as Now doctrine states, all people who started the sixth grade three or four years before or after the first Now are Now experts—averaged those numbers to arrive at an Essential Score. Each album’s Points Average was then multiplied by its Essential Score to give us a Now Score. Simply put, the higher the Now Score, the better the Now album. Universal Music Publishing AB/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia/Sony/ATV Songs LLC/Swede Dreams Music (BMI). ℗2000 Zomba Recording Corporation. Licensed courtesy of Jive Records.

Top 20 Compilations" (PDF). Music Week. 14 January 1989. p.26 . Retrieved 26 November 2022– via World Radio History. Now That's What I Call Music! 54 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018. Now That's What I Call Music! - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018. a b " NOW 44 Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. 23 November 2012 . Retrieved 18 August 2020. Now That's What I Call Music! 56 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018.Official Compilation Chart Top 100 – 19 April 2019 – 25 April 2019". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 29 July 2019. British certifications – What I Call Music". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 13 May 2023. Type What I Call Music in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. Now That's What I Call Music! 78 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018.

Now That's What I Call Music! 14 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018. NOW That's What I Call Music! 106 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 17 December 2020. Chanté’s Got a Man” is a wildly rude song. The thesis of “Chanté’s Got a Man” is “Oh dang, it’s really too bad your boyfriend is cheating on you, but guess what: I’m in a very stable, rewarding relationship.” It’s just a whole bunch of boasting—all done in the third person—directed at a woman going through one of the hardest periods of her life. Chanté didn’t need to do this. 56. Now That’s What I Call Music! 66The Temper Trap’s “Sweet Disposition” is on Now 34, which can mean only one thing: (500) Days of Summer played a major role in dictating what was called music in 2010. 53. Now That’s What I Call Music! 40 Now That's What I Call Music 4 to be released as a two-CD set". Superdeluxeedition.com. 12 October 2023 . Retrieved 12 October 2023.

Now That's What I Call Music! 30 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018. a b " NOW 48 Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. 29 November 2013 . Retrieved 18 August 2020. Now That's What I Call Music! 76 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018. Now That's What I Call Music! 87 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018. Now That's What I Call Music! 35 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018.

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Official Compilations Chart Top 100 – 24 November 2023 – 30 November 2023". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 25 November 2023. EMI Music Publishing. ℗2000 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Licensed courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. Now That's What I Call Music! 62 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018.

Now That's What I Call Music 5 to be released as a two-CD set". Superdeluxeedition.com. 12 March 2020 . Retrieved 26 May 2023. Now That's What I Call Music! 74 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018. Now That's What I Call Music! 12 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018. A&S Production/BE's Songs. ℗ 2001 Freestyle Records/AS Productions, exclusively licensed to Nulife Recordings, a division of BMG Eurodisc Ltd. Issued under license from BMG Entertainment UK & Ireland Ltd.The last two Now albums, nos. 66 and 67, include songs that were released after October 1, 2017, meaning they have not yet been eligible to be nominated for, and win, Grammys. In those cases, educated guesses were employed. It was very difficult choosing the most essential song off Now 6, which tells you why it’s ranked so high. In one corner you’ve got “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” by Jennifer Lopez, which was the subject of probably my favorite episode of Making the Video. In the next corner there’s Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open,” and may I just say WELCOME TOOOO THIS PLACE, I’LL SHOW YOU EVERYYYYTHANG. Then there’s “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy, a song in which a man is caught literally having sex on the floor of a bathroom, and when that man asks Shaggy for advice, Shaggy just says, “Lie about it, bro.” Not helpful, Shaggy! She already saw me! Now That's What I Call Music! 45 - Now That's What I Call Music". www.nowmusic.com . Retrieved 2 July 2018.