Talk:Now That's What I Call Music!

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[edit] Effect on singles chart?

Sorry I think this section of the article is bollocks because it can't be proven. And many singles that were previously featured on a Now! compilation went on to be massive hits. 21:55, 26 January 2007. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.193.58.33 (talk • contribs).

I tagged this over two months ago. Nothing has been done, so I removed it. If the original contributors wish to go back and get citations, they can retrieve the text from the link given. Fourohfour 14:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CD

At what point did the series first come out on CD? Rich Farmbrough 20:35, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

  • Now on CD started with Now 479.75.188.77 16:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Just to clarify, Now 4 (1984) was the first but it was a sort of best-of release of Now 2, 3 and 4 combined. There were then no releases until Now 8 and 9 (1986-87) which only had about half the tracks from the vinyl/tape versions as they were only single CDs. Now 10 (1987) was the first full CD release and that's been the case for all volumes since. BillyH 17:26, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categorization?

Should the individual NTWICM album topics be added to a category? Which one? [:Category:Compilation album series]? Or [:Category:Compilation albums]? Or just make a list in this topic? Or both? -- Mikeblas 19:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

The first release on CD was Now 4. I worked in a record shop when this item was released, it came out after the double Vinyl album and only contained 17 tracks. It had a limited print run of a few hundred and is VERY collectable, something I discovered when I sold this CD on E-bay in Feb 2006, I put the CD up for £5.00 starting bid and it sold for £ 283.16 !

[edit] Exclamation mark

Thought that I'd briefly mention the nonsense surrounding the (very) minor issue of the exclamation mark in the title. EGC, AKA London UK (who had originally removed the exclamation mark from the title) reverted my explanation of where it first appeared with the words

There is NO exclemation (sic) mark

If someone's going to make such a blanket statement, they should at least ensure its correctness (especially since my naming of specific albums gave some indication that I had done some research). A Google search on almost any post-1991 "Now!" album would have shown the above to be wrong.

If anyone's curious, I got the information from the fan site mentioned in the article, and I doubt that they (or Amazon, or anywhere else that includes cover scans) have been doctoring them to include an exclamation mark.

More discussion here...

Fourohfour 14:26, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Petty?

In Tom Petty's song "Joe" from the album The Last DJ, the title character uses the phrase "Now that's what I call music!" and the song is about Petty's dissatisfaction with certain aspects of the pop music industry. Does anyone think this is relevant to this article, at all? MrCheshire 05:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Not really, unless it somehow inspired the title. And the version of the story I know is that Richard Branson got the title from a Danish bacon advertising poster (which went on the back of the very first "Now!" compilation). I don't think the Petty quote inspired *that* (though I wouldn't bet my life on it). Fourohfour 22:05, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I wasn't thinking that Petty inspired the name for this line of CDs... I'm suggesting that he was commenting on them, since these started being in produced in the late 90s and The Last DJ came out in 2002. MrCheshire 16:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article dab templates

New disambiguation line templates for use in all such articles:-

as used in Now That's What I Call Music (album) (N.Z. series), Now That's What I Call Music (album) (U.K. series) and Now That's What I Call Music! (album) (U.S. series)

as used in Now! 7 (Canadian series).

If there are any problems or changes we wish to make, it can be done wholesale. The intention is to use these in all such articles, and to create a template:Now-special for "special" albums. Then any changes only have to be made to three templates.

I advise against using subst, at least for now, as the templates may not be in their final form.

Fourohfour 17:06, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

While this article seems to make sense, it appears most of the individual album articles fail to assert notability and are simply lists of the album tracks. Not very encyclopedic. There seems to be some enthusiasm here, so I would suggest you see if you can do something about it. But I'm not sure what can be done. (John User:Jwy talk) 03:42, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I felt the same way. However, I already raised the issue early last year, when there were only a few such articles (and it was clear that something could still be done either way). There was insufficient response to reasonably claim a consensus either for or against the articles. I was unwilling to personally force the issue in the face of such indifference.
Since then many more articles have been created, and it seems a bit late to complain about it now. Ironically, I attempted to keep the articles in order- if we're going to have them, they may as well be organised- although my contributions were restricted to the article titles/dab lines, and even then I've probably spent too much time on them Fourohfour 14:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Now17.jpg

Boilerplate automated warning by bot removed from this page, fair use rationale addressed. Fourohfour 11:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)