Now Thats What I Call Music Now Thats What I Call Music Now is a series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Sony Music and Universal Music UniversalSony Music. Spinoff series were later introduced in South Africa 1. United States in 1. Asia in 1. 99. 5, very similar to the Totally Hits series. Original United Kingdom and Ireland serieseditThe idea for the series was conceived in the office of Virgin Records in Vernon Yard, near Portobello Road, by the head of Licensing and Business Affairs at Virgin records 1. Stephen Navin, and General Manager 1. Jon Webster. 2 The concept was taken to Simon Draper Managing Director at Virgin Records and then Peter Jamieson Managing Director of EMI Records 1. Jamieson had similar plans to launch such a compilation and he immediately agreed to the partnership. I/61i%2BIZNo2vL._SS500.jpg' alt='Now Thats What I Call 80S Dance' title='Now Thats What I Call 80S Dance' />The deal was negotiated and finalised on Richard Bransons boat moored in Little Venice. The series took its name from a 1. Danish bacon featuring a pig saying Now. Thats What I Call Music as it listened to a chicken singing. Richard Branson had bought the poster for his cousin, Simon Draper, to hang behind Drapers desk at the Virgin Records office. Branson wrote He was notoriously grumpy before breakfast and loved his eggs in the morning, so I bought him the poster, framed it and had it hung behind his desk. The pig became the mascot for the series, making its last appearance on Now Thats What I Call Music 5. The first Now was released on 2. November 1. 98. 35 and featured 3. UK hit singles from that year on a double vinyl LP or cassette. Although the compilation of recent hit songs into a single release was not a new concept K tel and Ronco, for example, had been issuing various artists compilations for some years, this was the first time that two major record labels had collaborated on such a venture. Virgin agreed to a deal with EMI, which allowed a greater number of major hits to be included the first album in the series included a total of eleven number ones on its sleeve. The album went to number one, and soon after, CBSWEAs The Hits Album, adopted a similar format to Now The two series co existed for the rest of the 1. Universal joined the collaboration the Now The Out Now series by MCA and Chrysalis was also established as a rival to the series,6 but was short lived. By 1. 98. 9, Now, Hits, and other various artist compilation albums were occupying such a high fraction of the UK Albums Chart that a separate UK Compilation Chart was created to restrict the Albums Chart to releases by a single act. The rate of release settled very quickly to three per year one release around late Marchearly April, another around late July and a third around late November. Over ninety main series not including spin off and special edition albums have been released to date. The UK series has followed a double album format throughout the series many other foreign franchises of the NowCD to include between 4. Since November 2. Now 6. 2, the NowCD and digital download formats. Active Fuel Injector Tester Update. Previously, the series had been available on vinyl, audio cassette and Mini. Disc. As these formats declined in popularity, Now releases are no longer issued on them. Peter Duckworth and Steve Pritchard, Managing Directors of Now Music, have been managing the Now NOW 1. Mark Goodier has voiced the NowA few weeks after winning one of NASCARs biggest races, the Brickyard 400, 37yearold Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne got booted from one of. Erro ao se conectar com o banco de dadosNow Thats What I Call 80S DanceNow Thats What I Call 80S DanceNow 2. BBC Radio 1, with the exception of Now 9. Ashley Abram of Box Music compiled every album, with the exception of Now 5. Now 2 in 1. 98. 4 through to Now 8. Jenny Fisher took over as the compiler beginning with Now 8. On 2. 3 October 2. NOW Music television channel was launched in the UK. Targeting a broad age group, the channel used to play current popular music in the daytime and hits from its 3. It rebranded in December 2. Now 8. 0s. 1. 0RecordsachievementseditThe most successful volume to date is 1. Now Thats What I Call MusicNow Thats What I Call 80S DanceOver 1,000 classic music videos from the 1980s. A A Flock Of Seagulls I Ran A Guy Called Gerald Voodoo Ray Aha Take On Me. IndyCar driver Will Power got the ultimate opencockpit racing scare tonight at Gateway Motorsports Park a view of the underside of Ed Carpenters car. Slacker Radio is a free internet radio service, light years away from the onedimensional playlists that youre used to. Personalize hundreds of music stations, as. UK. 1. 1 2. 00. 8s Now Thats What I Call Music Now album. Most featured artistseditAs of 2. Robbie Williams with 3. Rihanna with 2. 7, Calvin Harris with 2. Wasted money on unreliable and slow multihosters LinkSnappy is the only multihost that works. Download from ALL Filehosts as a premium user at incredibly fast speeds First, you have to realize that feminism has already won. We are currently living in a postfeminist dystopia where measures are being implemented to control men and. Africa by Toto song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position. Catch phrases used by television characters during the 1980s. David Guetta with 2. Kylie Minogue with 2. Girls Aloud with 2. This does not include any uncredited appearances in groups or on charity records. FormatseditAlthough starting out on only vinyl records and cassette tapes, the formats on which the albums have been released have changed over the years Unabridged double CD full versions of Now were first available starting with Now 1. Now 4 was released on CD featuring songs that had appeared on the vinyl and cassette configurations of Nows 2, 3 and 4. Now 8 1. 7 tracks and Now 9 1. CDs in 1. 98. 6 and 1. A Special Collectors Edition of Now 1 was released on CD in 2. Vinyl editions ended in 1. Now 3. 5. 1. 4Mini. Discs started with Now 4. Now 4. 8 in 2. 00. The first Now album to be released as a digital download was Now 6. Cassette tapes ceased in 2. Now 6. 4. VHS Tapes were released as companions to all the Now Now 2. Now They contained music videos, some of which were for tracks featured on the accompanying album and others for tracks which were not. Some of the earlier volumes were also released on Betamax and for some volumes laserdiscs were also released. Spin offseditIn addition to the main Now Thats What I Call Music series, there have been a number of spin off compilations in the UK using the name, including Now Dance  a series in its own right, these compilations originally consisted of 1. They now focus on 7 mixes of recent dance hits, and a Very Best of Now Dance compilation has been released. At least two different series of year by year retrospective compilations, covering 1. Now The Millennium Editions. At least three best of compilations covering the entire Now Now Decades, Now Years and Now 2. Years are these three albums, but there have been other albums like Now No. Now series. At least one tie up with Smash Hits magazine in 1. Now Smash Hits. 1. Smash Hits later went on to release their own compilations. Raw Realms Of Ancient War Crack Fix more. Christmas releases, including some classic Christmas favourites. Sometimes considered a spin off, video releases, including video cassette editions of many early Now DVD video releases. Other releases include Now Karaoke and the interactive DVD Now Thats What I Call A Music Quiz. A series of compilation video games for the Commodore 6. Virgin Games with the name Now Games. A Wii game was released on 2. November 2. 01. 1 named Now Thats What I Call Music Dance and Sing. It features tracks by recent artists, including Alexandra Burke, Jessie J, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Tinie Tempah, Calvin Harris and Plan B. It features a Dance Mode, Sing Mode and Career Mode. Record labelseditThe record labels which make up the UK series have changed over the years but have always been controlled by EMI and Virgin Records, although Virgin Records logo was last featured on NowVirgin Records were a label from Now 1 to Now 7. Up until Now 6. 1, they used just the Virgin logo. From that volume onwards, the Virgin Records logo was used. EMI were a label on all volumes. Up until Now 7. 5, the logo they used was simply the EMI logo. From that volume onwards, EMI TVs logo was used instead. Polygram were a label from Now 8 to Now 4. Universal Music were a label from Now 4. Polygram label. Box Music Ltd. Now 2. 6 onwards that their logo was used on the packaging. Also, the Music from EMI logo was used Now 6.