NOW That’s What I Call Music! is excited to celebrate our 40th anniversary, and we are proud to present four very special collector’s editions that together present 250 essential hits from the past 40 years on CD.

The first of these is NOW That's What I Call 40 Years: Volume 1 - 1983-1993. Looking back at 10 years of huge Pop hits, this special edition 3CD is housed in ‘hard-back-book’ packaging, including a 26-page booklet featuring a summary of the era, a track-by-track guide, a quiz, plus original singles and NOW artwork. 60 tracks that span the first 10 years of NOW That’s What I Call Music! releases, including tracks from all of the first 25 numbered NOW albums.

Kicking off in 1983 with the year’s biggest seller ‘Karma Chameleon’ from Culture Club and including some of the most popular hits of the 80s, including ‘Radio Ga Ga’ from Queen, UB40, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Paul McCartney, and Tina Turner with her signature song ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’. ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’ - the first #1 for Wham! - is included alongside huge hits from Lionel Richie, Eurythmics, Bananarama, The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris, and ‘Sledgehammer’ from Peter Gabriel. The collaboration between Run DMC and Aerosmith plus giant rock hits from Bon Jovi and Europe are featured, along with #1s from Pet Shop Boys, Belinda Carlisle, Yazz & The Plastic Population, Marc Almond & Gene Pitney, Soul II Soul & Caron Wheeler and dance classics from Inner City and Womack & Womack.  As the 80s gave way to the 90s, Adamski & Seal’s ‘Killer’ leads the #1s including classic tracks from Beats International, The Beautiful South, Elton John with ‘Sacrifice’, and the stunning version of the Prince-written ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ from Sinéad O’Connor. Shakespears Sister, Tasmin Archer and Charles & Eddie hit #1 for the first time, and The KLF delivered a fantastic collaboration with Tammy Wynette. Duran Duran and New Order were both back in the Top 10 in 1993. A remix of Freddie Mercury’s ‘Living On My Own’ saw him top the charts for the first time as a solo artist and the sophisticated pop of Sade’s ‘No Ordinary Love’ closes this first volume of hits from NOW’s first 40 Years.

NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years – celebrating NOW’s legacy with Massive Pop Hits from the past 40 years.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Karma Chameleon

Culture Club

2.Red Red Wine

UB40

3.Total Eclipse of the Heart

Bonnie Tyler

4.The Lovecats

The Cure

5.Radio Ga Ga

Queen

6.Relax

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

7.99 Red Balloons

Nena

8.Pipes of Peace

Paul McCartney

9.What's Love Got to Do With It

Tina Turner

10.Wake Me Up Before You Go-go

Wham!

11.Together in Electric Dreams

Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder

12.Never Ending Story

Limahl

13.Ghostbusters

Ray Parker Jr.

14.Hello

Lionel Richie

15.Frankie

Sister Sledge

16.Don't You (Forget About Me)

Simple Minds

17.There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)

Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart

18.Something About You

Level 42

19.Venus

Bananarama

20.When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

Billy Ocean

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.Sledgehammer

Peter Gabriel

2.Don't Leave Me This Way

The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris

3.Walk This Way (Feat. Aerosmith)

RUN DMC

4.Livin' On a Prayer

Bon Jovi

5.The Final Countdown

Europe

6.China in Your Hand

T'Pau

7.Always On My Mind

Pet Shop Boys

8.Heaven Is a Place On Earth

Belinda Carlisle

9.I Think We're Alone Now

Tiffany

10.Theme from S-Express

S'Express

11.The Only Way Is Up

Yazz & The Plastic Population

12.Teardrops

Womack & Womack

13.You Came

Kim Wilde

14.First Time

Robin Beck

15.Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart

Marc Almond & Gene Pitney

16.Good Life

Inner City

17.Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)

Soul II Soul & Caron Wheeler

18.I Just Don't Have the Heart

Cliff Richard

19.I Want That Man

Debbie Harry

20.Sowing the Seeds of Love

Tears for Fears

Disc 3

Track name

Artist

1.Killer

Adamski & Seal

2.Dub Be Good to Me

Beats International

3.A Little Time

The Beautiful South

4.It Must Have Been Love

Roxette

5.Sacrifice

Elton John

6.Nothing Compares 2 U

Sinead O'Connor

7.Should I Stay Or Should I Go

The Clash

8.Wind of Change

Scorpions

9.Any Dream Will Do

Andrew Lloyd Webber & Jason Donovan

10.Stars

Simply Red

11.Stay

Shakespears Sister

12.Justified and Ancient (Feat. Tammy Wynette)

The KLF

13.Rhythm Is a Dancer

Snap!

14.Would I Lie to You?

Charles & Eddie

15.Sleeping Satellite

Tasmin Archer

16.Ordinary World

Duran Duran

17.The Love I Lost (Feat. Sybil)

West End

18.Regret

New Order

19.Living On My Own

Freddie Mercury

20.No Ordinary Love

Sade

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