In 2010, it was announced that total sales of the series, not counting the extra editions, topped one million copies in Portugal. Some of the earlier volumes were also released on Betamax and for some volumes laserdiscs were also released. Floating World Music, Kasz Money Publishing ( ASCAP), Prescription Songs, Solána Rowe Publishing Designee, Songs of Universal, Inc.

Written-By – Aaron Simmonds, Andrew Wotman, Ashton Simmonds, Bernard Harvey, Felisha King, Giveon Dezmann Evans*, Justin Bieber, Keavan Yazdani, Louis Bell (4), Luis Manuel Martinez Jr. EMI Asia has also released Now Dance (2000), Now The Essential Collection (2003), Now + volume 1 (2004) and Now + volume 2 (2005).

In addition to these volumes, the series includes six dance editions, a DVD and the tenth anniversary commemorative edition, NOW 10 ANOS, released by EMI in December 2009. UK series, comprising: compact discs (CD), magnetic audio cassettes (AC), vinyl ( LP), VHS tape, DVD, and on other short-lived formats.

Released in association with the Official Chart Company to "celebrate 70 years of the official UK singles chart". However, beginning with Now 15, there have been two editions each year which usually take place in early winter and late summer. Due to licensing issues, these re-compiled versions often use alternative mixes such as album versions. Over a hundred "main series" (not including spin-off and special edition) albums have been released to date.The Now Yearbook series also releases a vinyl selection of its primary release, with an Extra round-up vinyl boxset featuring tracks from the CD-only series, released at the end of 2022. July 2019) re-issued on 2-CD - 28 tracks with only Bob Marley and the Wailers and Gary Glitter missing. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). 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. A further release, The Final Chapter, a deluxe 4-CD and 3-LP set, was issued in December 2022, rounding off the Yearbook years 1980 to 1984.

The first Now was released on 28 November 1983 [5] and featured 30 UK hit singles from that year on a double vinyl LP or cassette. Robbie Williams is the artist to be featured the most often in the regular Danish Now series, just as he also is in the UK Now!A "Special Collectors Edition" of Now 1 was released on CD in 2009 as a digipak, 2015 and again in 2018 as a jewel case album. Deleting this artist may remove other artists and scrobbles from your library - please handle this with caution! post-2008 subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment)(in 2021) and Warner Music UK Limited ( not for release label use! 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.

They are also notable as being the first time a Now series had released a compilation of hits from the years 1980 to 1982. Some of them have unique track listings and are not related to similarly themed collections already issued on compact disc, however, more recent releases have been 'selections' taken from a larger CD collection (Rock, for example). Spinoff series began for other countries the following year, starting with South Africa, and many other countries worldwide soon followed, expanding into Asia in 1995, then the United States in 1998.By 1989, Now, Hits, and other various-artist compilation albums were occupying such a large fraction of the UK Albums Chart that a separate UK Compilation Chart was created to restrict the Albums Chart to releases by a single act. Originally, the series captured extended 12" mixes of dance hits of the time, but from 1991 onwards, all Now Dance compilations featured 7" edits with only occasional extended versions or mixes included. Richard Branson had bought the poster for his cousin, Simon Draper, to hang behind Draper's desk at the Virgin Records office.