NOW That’s What I Call Music! 1

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In July 2018, the album was newly remastered and re-released on CD, vinyl and cassette to commemorate the release of the 100th volume of the series. The Australian series is a single disc edition and began in 2002, as a replacement for the long-running 100% Hits brand. As well as the Now regular series there have also been spin-offs including Now Big Hits, Now Christmas, Now Summer, Now Clubbing, Now Dance and Now Hip Hop.

The UK series has followed a double-album format throughout the series (many other foreign franchises of the Now!You can use the text audios in different ways, such as listening to the entire text or playing smaller pieces and repeating what you hear.

The track listings on the Mexican albums are only slightly different from those of the Argentine ones. The last four chapters have texts that deal more with different topics (like family and spare time). The Now series started in the Netherlands back in 1984 as Now This Is Music and a couple of spin-offs, such as Now Dance, a Christmas compilation ( Now This Is Xmas) and several year-end compilations.

In December 1983, the compilation debuted at number seven on the UK Albums Chart and reached number one a week later, staying at the top for five non-consecutive weeks. Since the second installment of the series, Universal, Warner and EMI have formed a joint venture together and generally take turns to release the series. Beginning with the second installment of the series, repertoire was licensed from Universal, Warner and EMI.