Talk:Now That's What I Call Music!

Effect on singles chart?
Sorry I think this section of the article is absolute bollocks because it can't be proven for fuck sake. And many singles that were previously featured on a Now! compilation went on to be massive shits. 21:55, 26 January 2007. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.193.58.33 (talk • contribs).


 * I tagged this over two months ago. Nothing has been done, so I removed it. If the original contributors wish to go back and get citations, they can retrieve the text from the link given. Fourohfour 14:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

CD
At what point did the series first come out on CD? Rich Farmbrough 20:35, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Now on CD started with Now 479.75.188.77 16:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, Now 4 (1984) was the first but it was a sort of best-of release of Now 2, 3 and 4 combined. There were then no releases until Now 8 and 9 (1986-87) which only had about half the tracks from the vinyl/tape versions as they were only single CDs. Now 10 (1987) was the first full CD release and that's been the case for all volumes since. BillyH 17:26, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Categorization?
Should the individual NTWICM album topics be added to a category? Which one? [:Category:Compilation album series]? Or [:Category:Compilation albums]? Or just make a list in this topic? Or both? -- Mikeblas 19:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

The first release on CD was Now 4. I worked in a record shop when this item was released, it came out after the double Vinyl album and only contained 17 tracks. It had a limited print run of a few hundred and is VERY collectable, something I discovered when I sold this CD on E-bay in Feb 2006, I put the CD up for £5.00 starting bid and it sold for £ 283.16 !

Exclamation mark
Thought that I'd briefly mention the nonsense surrounding the (very) minor issue of the exclamation mark in the title. EGC, AKA London UK (who had originally removed the exclamation mark from the title) reverted my explanation of where it first appeared with the words
 * There is NO exclemation (sic) mark

If someone's going to make such a blanket statement, they should at least ensure its correctness (especially since my naming of specific albums gave some indication that I had done some research). A Google search on almost any post-1991 "Now!" album would have shown the above to be wrong.

If anyone's curious, I got the information from the fan site mentioned in the article, and I doubt that they (or Amazon, or anywhere else that includes cover scans) have been doctoring them to include an exclamation mark.

More discussion here...

Fourohfour 14:26, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Tom Petty?
In Tom Petty's song "Joe" from the album The Last DJ, the title character uses the phrase "Now that's what I call music!" and the song is about Petty's dissatisfaction with certain aspects of the pop music industry. Does anyone think this is relevant to this article, at all? MrCheshire 05:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Not really, unless it somehow inspired the title. And the version of the story I know is that Richard Branson got the title from a Danish bacon advertising poster (which went on the back of the very first "Now!" compilation). I don't think the Petty quote inspired *that* (though I wouldn't bet my life on it). Fourohfour 22:05, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I wasn't thinking that Petty inspired the name for this line of CDs... I'm suggesting that he was commenting on them, since these started being in produced in the late 90s and The Last DJ came out in 2002. MrCheshire 16:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Article dab templates
New disambiguation line templates for use in all such articles:- as used in Now That's What I Call Music (album) (N.Z. series), Now That's What I Call Music (album) (U.K. series) and Now That's What I Call Music! (album) (U.S. series) as used in Now! 7 (Canadian series).
 * template:Now-first
 * template:Now-num

If there are any problems or changes we wish to make, it can be done wholesale. The intention is to use these in all such articles, and to create a template:Now-special for "special" albums. Then any changes only have to be made to three templates.

I advise against using subst, at least for now, as the templates may not be in their final form.

Fourohfour 17:06, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Notability
While this article seems to make sense, it appears most of the individual album articles fail to assert notability and are simply lists of the album tracks. Not very encyclopedic. There seems to be some enthusiasm here, so I would suggest you see if you can do something about it. But I'm not sure what can be done. (John User:Jwy talk) 03:42, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Personally, I felt the same way. However, I already raised the issue early last year, when there were only a few such articles (and it was clear that something could still be done either way). There was insufficient response to reasonably claim a consensus either for or against the articles. I was unwilling to personally force the issue in the face of such indifference.


 * Since then many more articles have been created, and it seems a bit late to complain about it now. Ironically, I attempted to keep the articles in order- if we're going to have them, they may as well be organised- although my contributions were restricted to the article titles/dab lines, and even then I've probably spent too much time on them Fourohfour 14:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm with Jwy and Fourohfour -- I think they don't meet the GNG and should be deleted. I will start PRODing some and seeing what consensus is now.  I don't see a reliable source for the vast majority of them.  -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 16:22, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Now17.jpg
Boilerplate automated warning by bot removed from this page, fair use rationale addressed. Fourohfour 11:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Radio edits/non-explicit versions
to my knowledge, all the u.s. releases have featured censored/radio edit/non-explicit versions of tracks, without any indication that they are so on the actual compilations themselves (not unlike the promo only releases often do). i feel like for those buying these that it should be a valid concern, as there is no mention of such censoring, nor is there any remedy, such as obtaining a free download of the uncensored edits. thoughts? Impasse 21:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Impasse (talk • contribs)


 * obviously, like the case with big foot, nobody gives a shit, no comments for 4 years! Just download the explicit versions if you're that paranoid

Records/Achievments
If Robbie Williams is no 1 with 29 appearences, and that includes his Take That songs, then shouldn't Phil Collins be third with 20 appearences. 12 by himself, 1 duet with Marylin Martin and 7 with Genesis. From Now 1 - 68. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.92.170 (talk) 12:54, 14 March 2009 (UTC) Also the biggest span of appearences with 68, second is paul McCartney with 66. third is U2 with 62. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.92.170 (talk) 13:10, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Launchballer
I think a category should be written for all records ever released on one of the CD's of this series.--Launchballer 21:02, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Redirect Now album articles
I recommend that individual Now! album articles be redirected to Discography of Now That's What I Call Music!#country (depending on which country's series it is) for any that say only "this is the nth album in this country's Now! series" with a track list. These albums are typically big sellers, which is one reason why the series has gone on for so long, but if this information is not available or cannot be sourced, just having a track list of the album is not truly encyclopedic. --Wolfer68 (talk) 16:38, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

75.175.46.61 (talk) 17:19, 16 January 2012 (UTC)== Now That's What I Call Arabia ==

I came across this apparently previously undiscovered version of the series in the duty free in Dubai airport. They seem to be made by EMI Arabia who are based in the UAE, not sure if they're sold across the middle east or what (I used to live in Saudi in the early '90s, we used to get pirated UK Nows there with some tracks omitted so they could fit them on one 90-minute cassette). Here's some examples:, --Zilog Jones (talk) 21:57, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

I remember that series from when I lived in Dubai and then found it at our local library here in Portland, Oregon. It's at least up to issue 11. It certainly should be listed but I don't have any details. 75.175.46.61 (talk) 17:19, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Notability (again, 3 years later)
I want to re-raise the issue of notability. Again, the overall series seems to meet both WP:MUSIC and WP:GNG. But it seems likely that many individual articles do not. Some certainly do--for instance, Now That's What I Call Music! 17 (U.S. series) is itself triple platinum, clearly qualifying. But, for example, and the article that first called my attention to this series, is Now That's What I Call the USA: The Patriotic Country Collection notable? It seems to me that, instead, the page Now That's What I Call Music! discography should suffice as documentation unless the individual album is itself, notable. Note that back in 2006, someone said that "it seems a bit late to complain about it now." This is, in fact, flatly false--the whole point of Wikipedia being editable is that every article is subject to review, revision, and, in cases where the article doesn't meet guidelines, possible deletion. I'll wait for some comments here, but my feeling is it's time to start going through these articles and AfD'ing. Qwyrxian (talk) 00:41, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Hidden tracks
This may not be helpful to the article but the series (in the UK) have come close to including hidden tracks.


 * Now 7 - Queen's "A Kind of Magic" is at the end of side 3 (record 2 side 1) on some copies of the LP and cassette. Some copies mentioned this as a hidden track.
 * Now 23 - The Shamen's "Ebeneezer Goode" starts off with a boom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.215.60 (talk) 19:01, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Now 29 - Oasis' "Cigarettes & Alcohol" starts with an unmentioned intro which is like T.Rex's "Get it On".
 * Now 50 - The Dandy Warhols' "Bohemian Like You" ends with a sound effect not normally on the song and not on other Virgin/EMI compilations
 * Now 60 - C-Sixty Four's "On a Good Thing" was between tracks 19 and 20 on CD1 but was dropped due to chart failure, however a ringtone for the song still appeares on the ringtones page in the same locaton.
 * Now 61 - U2's "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" does not have a ringtone in the booklet.
 * Now 81 - Jason Mraz's "I Won't Give Up" was originally included on CD1 but was replaced by Flo Rida's "Good Feeling". "I Won't Give Up" later appeared on Now 82. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.215.60 (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Lots of Now albums also have samples and they aren't clearly mentioned.

--213.83.125.225 (talk) 12:58, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Notability (Again?)
I've readded he notability tag. Per the music notability requirements listed here: Notability (music) even an album with original music cannot be considered notable if it has 'little more than a tracklist' which many of the over 200 pages linked from this article, including it's proclaimed 'most successful' compilation, have. I apologize for attaching it to this page, but with all the pages being near-identical I thought it would be easier to manage. It was also a lot easier to tag, but if someone is able to efficiently tag them all individually, go for it.

Albums
An album requires its own notability, and that notability is not inherited and requires independent evidence. That an album is an officially released recording by a notable musician or ensemble is not by itself reason for a standalone article. Conversely, an album does not need to be by a notable artist to require a standalone article if it meets the General notability guideline. Album articles with little more than a track listing may be more appropriately merged into the artist's main article or discography article, space permitting."

Padenton (talk) 02:20, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I have redirected many of the Now albums based on notability concerns and lack of sources (often nothing more than a tracklist), include those from France, Hungary, Portugal, and others. I've also PRODded a few, usually "special edition" ones. Feel free to do the same (redirect or PROD), if you feel strongly about this. For many of the US ones, I've tried to add in at least its chart peak and an allmusic review to show some independent coverage. -- Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 05:33, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Edits by User:Jon webster on the 5th August
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Now_That%27s_What_I_Call_Music%21&diff=506265447&oldid=505212466

The changes seem to make the article harder to read - they jumped out at me when I read the article as being odd, and they aren't cited. I don't know enough about this subject, but perhaps they should be reverted? EAi (talk) 14:33, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Split to country specific pages?
The article is a bit long, and it doesn't help that the discographies are on a separate page. How about individual pages are created for each country's series, including the discography for that nationality? I've knocked up User:Robsinden/sandbox/Template:Now That's What I Call Music! (Australia) as an example. --Rob Sinden (talk) 14:41, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I've also knocked up some navboxes to avoid having one massive navbox. They should be visible from the page mentioned above.  --Rob Sinden (talk) 14:51, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Also User:Robsinden/sandbox/Now That's What I Call Music! (Asian series) (also including navboxes). --Rob Sinden (talk) 15:02, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * There's really not enough sourced information to warrant articles for every country. There's no fanfare for these except perhaps in the UK. Even in the US, you just get a minimal review in AllMusic and a decent chart debut in Billboard as reliable sources. In other countries, it's just a brand with new releases every few months with no coverage on the individual albums. Most of those ones with articles should be redirected. -- Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 15:25, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Was just a thought in reaction to another editor wanting to link to 25 different sections of the same article in a navbox!!!  --Rob Sinden (talk) 15:56, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The individual album articles are pretty sparse and I wouldn't mind seeing the whole lot redirected. With nothing more than a track listing for most of them, a redirect would be sufficient. Perhaps split out UK and US from the main page and their discographies, which can simply summarize release dates and chart positions, since the album articles don't offer anything more substantial than that separately. -- Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 21:40, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Most featured artists
I saw your comment and that you made some edits on the section which I re-sourced. Just to clarify, I've got nothing against using the book as a source (I don't have it so I can't confirm what is in it) but what has happened is that the totals have been updated after the book and that is WP:OR, particularly where songs were added which have artists on them but don't feature them by name (e.g. Robbie in Take That and Helping Haiti). This is really dodgy because it's so difficult to know who sang or played on what (see arguments on Talk:List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart). Hope that explains why I did what I did. Btljs (talk) 19:46, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
 * When I created the Most Featured Artists section I simply referred to the top 5 artists as listed in the 2014 edition of the referenced book and then updated the numbers of appearances and names of the artists when the 2015 edition of the book was published. The rest of the information in the section was added by other editors afterwards resulting in the loss of clarity. I'm pleased you have dealt that issue but the data now ends in 2013 and the clear and up-to-date information and reference I included have now been deleted. Sealman (talk) 21:50, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
 * If you can find where to roll back to achieve this then fine. Btljs (talk) 22:23, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

They have made a mistake in stating that Rihanna has had 25 appearances when in fact, she has 26 appearances. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.215.60 (talk) 22:40, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Listing US before Asia?
At the end of the first paragraph it says "including the United States in 1998, and expanding into Asia in 1995." It seems odd to me that the regions are not listed in chronological order.

67.149.118.177 (talk) 17:24, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Bulk deletion of all album articles.
have both uselessly closed as redirects.
 * Articles for deletion/Now That's What I Call Music! 52 (UK series)
 * Articles for deletion/Now That's What I Call Music! 51 (UK series)

What's the next step? Articles for deletion/Now That's What I Call Music! 50 (UK series)?

Or should we do something more useful, such as a bulk deletion of all the album articles? There is zero value to having them as redirects. Can we do this through an AfD, or does it need an RFC? Andy Dingley (talk) 11:18, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I've just come across then when searching for Now 52 and the current situation is indeed preposterous. There are even still links from Now 51 to Now 52, which now take the user back to the Now! Music page. It makes it look like something went wrong. Also, the bare text on the Now! Music page makes it look like there is no information on these releases available, as with some of the more obscure ones. I don't see how removing a couple of pages of useful information, based on the wishes of what seems to be a handful of people, with no useful replacement is helpful to users of Wikipedia. I often use Wikipedia to look up information on album releases. Yes, there are probably more detailed specific resources for this information (e.g. Discogs & MusicBrainz which this article could link to), but Wikipedia tends to be my immediate go to for many things, so that's where I end up. Either replace the pages with links to the data available elsewhere or re-instate these two pages that weren't doing anyone any harm. I've noted that the other pages often do have interesting information about the release which would be lost if they were removed. The fact that some aren't of that quality is a reason to improve them, not wipe them. There are other compilation series pages of even less merit. Are we going to wipe those two? How about pages on various TV shows? Gnu andrew (talk) 03:27, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Split / merge/ redirect
Hey folks, what are you thoughts about these? They are just working drafts right now as I fill in the info within the tables, but the idea is to combine the UK and US series info in Now That's What I Call Music! and Now That's What I Call Music! discography and split them into their own articles (perhaps Now That's What I Call Music! (UK) and Now That's What I Call Music! (US)), while redirecting the articles written for each individual volume to the appropriate page. Even the 100th volume coming out soon in the UK can be redirected as the coverage is going to be about the series reaching this milestone and not the release itself and be more adequately noted within the main article. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 16:55, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * User:Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars/Now UK
 * User:Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars/Now US

Australia & New Zealand
Probably not worth mentioning in the article but there also was a one off vinyl release for both of these countries from the 80's. DanTheMusicMan2 (talk) 15:19 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Original Now 12 cd (uk)
A number of Now 12 cd's (original) appear to have two disc 1s. I have one cd with two disc 1s in the case and one with 1& 2 but disc 2 has disc 1 tracks on it although clearly lists disc 2 tracks on the cd printing. I presume this was a manufacturing glitch in the 1980s but can't find any information to help with my inquiries. 188.28.165.136 (talk) 14:36, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

My copy is correct however my Now 14 vinyl does have 1A stickers on both sides on record one DanTheMusicMan2 (talk) 15:26 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Inconsistent styling
Whether "Now" is written "Now", "Now!", "NOW", or "NOW!", or even "Now", "Now!", "NOW", or "NOW!" is wildly inconsistent throughout this article and I cannot discern any apparent rule for which is used when.

David G (talk) 01:13, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Peter Kay's Car Share
Worth mentioning one of the Now albums returned to the charts because it's featured on the series above. Not sure where in the article though. DanTheMusicMan2 (talk) 17:48, 12 October 2023 (UTC)