You can. I do, yet Im one of the thousands of NOW collectors who've been purchasing a copy of each NOW TWICM CD since the late 1980s.
It's just nice to have a hard copy of music as a back-up and a near complete collection of vgc NOW CDs could be worth a small fortune in a few years. Call it 'an investment'. ;-)
Nice to see Karen Harding's Say Something make an appearance. Brilliant dance/house track that frankly deserved to do better in the charts. Future classic.
I bought it today, and it's one of the weakest in a while IMO. Even worse than Now 87 last year, which was also pretty weak.
It contains around 8 genuine hits (Mark Ronson, Ed Sheeran, Olly Murs etc), and the rest is generally low selling crap which will be forgotten in 3 months time. The trouble is the charts are so slow moving these days the turnaround just isn't there. Perhaps they should go back to just releasing 2 a year instead of 3.
I'd quite like them to do a compilation which contains all the songs which get a lot of radio play but don't necessarily sell. i.e. everything that Radio 2 play. I love going back to old compilations and hearing songs that I haven't heard in years. These days, so many great songs are just going to get forgotten because in the age of the download hits just aren't being made. It's sad
I bought it today, and it's one of the weakest in a while IMO. Even worse than Now 87 last year, which was also pretty weak.
It contains around 8 genuine hits (Mark Ronson, Ed Sheeran, Olly Murs etc), and the rest is generally low selling crap which will be forgotten in 3 months time. The trouble is the charts are so slow moving these days the turnaround just isn't there. Perhaps they should go back to just releasing 2 a year instead of 3.
I'd quite like them to do a compilation which contains all the songs which get a lot of radio play but don't necessarily sell. i.e. everything that Radio 2 play. I love going back to old compilations and hearing songs that I haven't heard in years. These days, so many great songs are just going to get forgotten because in the age of the download hits just aren't being made. It's sad
There are some great, "genuine" songs on there ("Hold My Hand", "Heartbeat Song", "Say Something" and "Go All Night" to name but a few). I personally cannot stand Uptown Funk (find it horrendously overrated and over-played), nor can I stand anything by the awful Meghan Trainor or untalented Cheryl. But apart from that it is a good album and, imo, far from the weakest...
Looks like Taylor Swift or her label has refused the rights to her singles. It is a very disappointing decision and ridiculous to fans if she has, as was her removal of music on Spotify. If she had kept her back catalogue on Spotify, she would have undoubtedly had her first UK #1 with Shake It Off, and Blank Space could have even done the same. I noticed that Style, imo one of her best, has peaked at #21 in the singles charts and looks set to fall, which is a shame.
Looks like Taylor Swift or her label has refused the rights to her singles. It is a very disappointing decision and ridiculous to fans if she has, as was her removal of music on Spotify. If she had kept her back catalogue on Spotify, she would have undoubtedly had her first UK #1 with Shake It Off, and Blank Space could have even done the same. I noticed that Style, imo one of her best, has peaked at #21 in the singles charts and looks set to fall, which is a shame.
Yet is sitting at 12 on iTunes. Streaming is really affecting her chart positions in the UK. Shake It off would probably have been number 1 and Blank Space pretty close
Taylor didn't take her stuff off Spotify until after Shake it Off had peaked so that won't have affected her position. I had it on my Spotify playlist for a few weeks before it was removed.
The covers do need a bit of kick up the Now ar$e! They have kept a similar template since Now 56 with the exception of Now 59 and Now 86 which were both Christmas releases.
Although the winner is the actual Now logo itself which has been with us since Now 20 way back in 1991.
I'd like to see a variation of the old 80s style covers like now 3 and 4, for example.
Yet is sitting at 12 on iTunes. Streaming is really affecting her chart positions in the UK. Shake It off would probably have been number 1 and Blank Space pretty close
It's a shame iTunes chart positions aren't an actual reflection of where the song will peak. It really is a disappointment that in the UK singles chart, Style hasn't even made the top 20. It is currently at #31...
Taylor didn't take her stuff off Spotify until after Shake it Off had peaked so that won't have affected her position. I had it on my Spotify playlist for a few weeks before it was removed.
She removed her songs late September, and at that point Shake It Off was at #4 in the singles chart, having remained in the same position since late August. In mid-October, following Taylor's X Factor performance, Shake It Off climbed and peaked at #2, behind All About that Bass (imo, Shake It Off was the more deserving winner, especially as All About that Bass had already been #1 for three weeks).
She removed her songs late September, and at that point Shake It Off was at #4 in the singles chart, having remained in the same position since late August. In mid-October, following Taylor's X Factor performance, Shake It Off climbed and peaked at #2, behind All About that Bass (imo, Shake It Off was the more deserving winner, especially as All About that Bass had already been #1 for three weeks).
I don't think Shake It Off was ever destined to be #1 against the powerhouse song that was All About That Bass.
However, I reckon had Blank Space been on Spotify it would've given Thinking Out Loud a run for its money the week Ed Sheeran returned to #1 in the UK. Possibly even denying Take That's These Days from getting to #1 the previous week too.
I don't think Shake It Off was ever destined to be #1 against the powerhouse song that was All About That Bass.
However, I reckon had Blank Space been on Spotify it would've given Thinking Out Loud a run for its money the week Ed Sheeran returned to #1 in the UK. Possibly even denying Take That's These Days from getting to #1 the previous week too.
I just cannot bare All About That Bass! So annoying and overhyped! How it got to number one for 4 weeks is, imo, an absolute joke given the much more deserving competition but obviously a lot of people like it and that is fair enough. I just think it is a shame that somebody as talented as Taylor has never had a UK #1 single.
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You can get HQ downloads too.
You can. I do, yet Im one of the thousands of NOW collectors who've been purchasing a copy of each NOW TWICM CD since the late 1980s.
It's just nice to have a hard copy of music as a back-up and a near complete collection of vgc NOW CDs could be worth a small fortune in a few years. Call it 'an investment'. ;-)
Quite correct. ;-)
MP3 is compressed to bits and crap, WAV format is the high quality standard put onto music CDs.
It contains around 8 genuine hits (Mark Ronson, Ed Sheeran, Olly Murs etc), and the rest is generally low selling crap which will be forgotten in 3 months time. The trouble is the charts are so slow moving these days the turnaround just isn't there. Perhaps they should go back to just releasing 2 a year instead of 3.
I'd quite like them to do a compilation which contains all the songs which get a lot of radio play but don't necessarily sell. i.e. everything that Radio 2 play. I love going back to old compilations and hearing songs that I haven't heard in years. These days, so many great songs are just going to get forgotten because in the age of the download hits just aren't being made. It's sad
There are some great, "genuine" songs on there ("Hold My Hand", "Heartbeat Song", "Say Something" and "Go All Night" to name but a few). I personally cannot stand Uptown Funk (find it horrendously overrated and over-played), nor can I stand anything by the awful Meghan Trainor or untalented Cheryl. But apart from that it is a good album and, imo, far from the weakest...
Yet is sitting at 12 on iTunes. Streaming is really affecting her chart positions in the UK. Shake It off would probably have been number 1 and Blank Space pretty close
I'd like to see a variation of the old 80s style covers like now 3 and 4, for example.
It's a shame iTunes chart positions aren't an actual reflection of where the song will peak. It really is a disappointment that in the UK singles chart, Style hasn't even made the top 20. It is currently at #31...
She removed her songs late September, and at that point Shake It Off was at #4 in the singles chart, having remained in the same position since late August. In mid-October, following Taylor's X Factor performance, Shake It Off climbed and peaked at #2, behind All About that Bass (imo, Shake It Off was the more deserving winner, especially as All About that Bass had already been #1 for three weeks).
I don't think Shake It Off was ever destined to be #1 against the powerhouse song that was All About That Bass.
However, I reckon had Blank Space been on Spotify it would've given Thinking Out Loud a run for its money the week Ed Sheeran returned to #1 in the UK. Possibly even denying Take That's These Days from getting to #1 the previous week too.
I just cannot bare All About That Bass! So annoying and overhyped! How it got to number one for 4 weeks is, imo, an absolute joke given the much more deserving competition but obviously a lot of people like it and that is fair enough. I just think it is a shame that somebody as talented as Taylor has never had a UK #1 single.