NOW That's What I Call Music! 14

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One of the reasons music stands the test of time is that we have personal experiences associated with songs - so people who are deeply knowledgeable about music can curate playlists better than Artificial Intelligence. It was the first album in the series which did not chart in the UK Albums Chart as the UK Compilation Chart was created in January 1989. Elsewhere, Fine Young Cannibals step up to the big time with ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ and Sam Brown makes here mark with the excellent ‘Stop’. Don McLean's American Pie is the longest song to feature on a Now album, clocking in at 8 minutes and 34 seconds.

Pump up the volume on Disc 2 with Hip-Hop infused ‘Buffalo Stance’ from Neneh Cherry and floor-fillers ‘Good Life’ from Detroit natives Inner City and ‘Hey Music Lover’ from S’Express. The series was so successful that compilation albums were quarantined into a separate chart in 1999. In the pre-playlist era, the Now albums were an essential way of staying up-to-date, and even discovering new music.

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DJ Mark Goodier, who has voiced adverts for the Now series since 1992, says it still has a place in the market. More recently, two cover versions of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car have appeared on different albums, the first by Jonas Blue on Now 93; and the second by Luke Combs on Now 116. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Climie Fisher, Brother Beyond and Level 42 deliver some hits from the second tier while Duran Duran have their last top 10 single of the 1980s with the club-oriented ‘All She Wants Is’. Blow the House Down' appears as a slightly longer edit, inserting an extra bar at 1'36" which isn't there in the video or 7" version; 'Straight Up' uses completely the wrong edit, halving the intro and the 'do do you love me' break but with a longer outro than the 1989 edit; 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' reverts to the correct single version rather than the shorter edit used on the 1989 NOW 14; 'Belfast Child' remains in its shorter promo edit version; and the version of 'Be My Twin' presented here is a slightly different mix to the 1989 single (but it's slightly too long to be the album version).