Now 36: That’s What I Call Music
2010 release, the 36th installment in this stupendously popular compilation series. Features the biggest hits from the biggest stars including cuts from Katy Perry, usher, Adam Lambert, Nelly, Taio Cruz, Maroon 5, Paramore, Sugarland and many others.
Now 36: That’s What I Call Music
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Enough of the tinkering ‘NOW’ editors! Please revert to 20 tracks of ‘today’s music’ NOW,
The ‘NOW’ series was coined as a definition of today’s music. In keeping with this theme, this ‘Now 36′ album is indeed a snapshot of today’s popular music.
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My problem is the reduction in the number of ‘today’s music’ on the recent ‘Now’ compilations. Until `NOW 32′, the ‘NOW’ compilations included 20 popular tracks – a 100% snapshot of ‘today’s music’. The new format (beginning with ‘NOW 33′) includes only 16 popular hits. In my opinion, the producers of the Now albums have messed up a winning formula!
On ‘NOW 32′ a 21st bonus track was added as ‘What’s Next … that was fine!
From ‘NOW 33′ to `NOW 35′, the format dubiously changed from 20 chart toppers to 16, with the last 4 tracks featuring ‘upcoming artistes’ as ‘NOW What’s Next’ bonus tracks.
The (current) ‘NOW 36′ album has yet again just 16 chart toppers. Still tinkering with the formula for the ‘NOW’ album compilation – the 4 ‘bonus tracks’ now comprise – 3 featuring ‘upcoming artistes’ and 1 as a ‘NOW Flashback Bonus’ – an Elvis Presley song. I love Elvis, but please ‘NOW’ editors, no oldies on an album of ‘current music’!
Enough of the experimenting ‘NOW’ editors! Just listen to what we the ‘NOW’ buyers are saying!
You found the winning formula a long time ago … on the ‘NOW’ 1 to 32 albums! It’s that simple! Revert to the old format – a compilation of 20 chart toppers defining today’s music … not the music of tomorrow or yesterday!
I buy the ‘NOW’ compilation series to collect the hits from the current stars like Katy Perry, Usher, Daughtry, Ke$ha and Nelly. I simply want a ‘NOW’ album with 100% today’s chart toppers! – no ‘oldies’ or ‘maybes’! Save these as alternative ‘NOW’ compilations or bonus downloads from the ‘NOW’ website.
4 STARS for an excellent compilation of 16 current hits. I took out 1 star for the 4 bonus track format!
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|Excellent selection of current tracks–but the 4 ‘bonus tracks’ are getting worse,
This time around, Now does a good job of mirroring exactly what’s on the radio these days, and it just so happens that the majority of the tracks this time are actual album length instead of radio edits, and there isn’t even much of an issue with ‘censored’ versions since most of these songs don’t involve any explicit lyrics.
The continuing problem with the series at this point is the loss of four track slots for ‘up and coming’ artists–none of which has proved to become popular yet. And on top of that, they are now using only 3 tracks for the emerging artists and songs, and the final track is now a “flashback” track, in this situation, an Elvis track. Really? Is this really the proper use of a collection of current radio hits? It’s just too out of place here, and personally, as a collector of all popular music since the beginning of the rock n roll era, I’m never going to find a ‘flashback’ track that I don’t already have on CD. Instead of forcing an Elvis track onto a new millennium compilation, Now would be better of creating a new series called THEN that features all classic cuts from the earlier days of the rock n roll era…of course, that would be kind of pointless since there are already HUNDREDS of compilations that do just that.
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