I'm old enough to remember the first, when it didn't even have a number. I also owned one of the single-digit ones. God I'm old
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Hello fellow old. I too got the first one. For my kids.
It's ok we're wise now
I remember the first one and didn’t buy that one either. By then I had already been a metal head for good several years.
I remember them being in the single digits.
My back hurts.
Same. When I saw it had reached triple digits I spontaneously cremated.
I didn't even know they made it past 20 or so.
I'm young!! I'm finally young!! I don't remember anything before 40 something!
Me too. I was shocked when I saw one in the teens, like how did this last that long?
I was there when they started these.
I also remember Kidz Bop. Basically the same thing, but the songs were sung by children and way worse.
I loved spamming these two bars with kidz bop on the AMI app because one was a club that lost their remote to skip, and the other was an old timers towny bar, I suspect they just didn't know how to do it. Just the immediate hate and anger out of the towny bar, omg. It's like I can still taste it.
I still have "Now That's What I Call Music volume 2" starts with Radio Gaga. A double cassette.
I've got volume 1 and it's just two rocks you hit together
Oh now that is a TUNE
Well that is a bit shocking.
I didn't realise they got past 10....
I remember the first two quite well...
The original “Now that’s what I call music!”
Fucking hell it got this far? Probably like 20-30!
Now 31, released July 1995 apparently. Very strong memories of this specific cover art. Some good songs on there!
I had 26 on cassette. It had some bangers.
Lol new ways to feel old.
37 to about 45 was my era.
However, the first ones Insaw were 8 and 11 in my parents vinyl collection. I may have them at my house now, not sure.
Depends if you're american or british. America's volume one didnt appear until 1998, 15 years after volume 1 in the UK.
I had no idea!
NOW you do
Can't remember the exact number but I remember first discovered them on an ad break and they said it has Starships by Nicki Minaj. She is full of shit but that song feels nostalgic to me still.
I owned 43 as one of my first CDs
I think we had Now 40 on cassette tape in the car
Edit: I also got Now Dance '97 around the same time, which may actually be older than 43, but it wasn't a mainline Now compilation (regardless of it being pure fire)
I was going to say 43! That was my favourite one, too.
I think I had Now 54 on CD. 2003 apparently!
"Now that's what I call music" was in the house, along with some number of its single-digit brethren - though they weren't brand new at the time. The oldest one I have any memory of seeing advertised on TV etc was "Now 13".
Maybe 20 or 27, some of the 40s look familiar too.
How did they get up to 120??!
Now 4 - still got the vinyl I think 😁
Now 60
I definitely remember one with Bros on it. Already in two digits by then!
I used to own volume 8 somewhere...
Earliest I can remember is a television commercial for Volume 5. I can even remember what songs they played, in order, and whenever I hear those song segments out in the wild it's like a fucking MK Ultra activation phrase for me.
The earliest number I remember seeing was 2, but thats because the first one was simply named “NOW that’s what I call music!”
Found these in my aunt's vinyl collection from when she was younger. Best as I can tell they're entirely unrelated, but my headcanon likes to think these were proto-NTWICM albums. Like how the early Guitar Hero games used covers because they couldn't get the rights to the real songs until the series got big.
