The Now That’s What I Call Music Team continue their popular Yearbook series with a new volume devoted to 1986. Now Yearbook ’86 is available as a 4CD deluxe book edition, a 3LP coloured vinyl (both limited) and a standard 4CD set. Now Yearbook Extra '80-'84 (The Final Chapter) (63 More Essential Hits From 1980 - 1984)‎ (3xCD, Comp)

CD 2 delivers some FM Radio classics with the likes of Cutting Crew’s ‘(I Just) Died In Your Arms’, Mr. Mister’s ‘Kyrie’, Peter Cetera’s Glory Of Love and Bruce Hornsby & The Range’s ‘The Way It Is’. The second disc also reminds us that Jennifer Rush isn’t technically a one-hit-wonder since ‘Ring Of Ice’ got to number 14 in the UK. In April, the Now That’s What I Call Music Team continue their Yearbook output with Now Yearbook ’86 – Extra, a 3CD companion to the ‘main’ 1986 Yearbook which was released in late February.Sophisticated Pop gems from Debbie Harry, Belouis Some, The Blow Monkeys and the sublime ‘Breakout’ from Swing Out Sister lead into a fabulous run of Soul and Dance floor-fillers from Aretha Franklin, Gwen Guthrie, Cameo, Jermaine Stewart, Whitney Houston’s ‘How Will I Know’, and closes with Lionel Richie’s international smash ‘Dancing On The Ceiling’. Three of the year’s biggest Pop-Dance hits are up next from Steve Winwood, The Human League and Nu Shooz, before Five Star’s biggest hit ‘Rain Or Shine’ - and to finish, two huge ballads; Whitney Houston’s cover of ‘Greatest Love Of All’ and a December #1 for the Housemartins with their a cappella version of ‘Caravan Of Love’. Alternative Pop takes the spotlight on the other side of LP2, with 1986 a vintage year for the sheer diversity of its chart music. The Smiths peerless ‘Panic’ opens, and is joined by Big Audio Dynamite, Furniture, and the landmark ‘Life’s What You Make It’ from Talk Talk. More timeless Pop from Red Box and The Bangles leads toward the well-chosen #1 cover of ‘Spirit In The Sky’ from Doctor & The Medics.