Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. James Blunt - You¹re Beautiful
2. 2Pac feat. Elton John - Ghetto Gospel
3. Coldplay - Speed Of Sound
4. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc
5. Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart
6. Audio Bullys feat. Nancy Sinatra - Shot You Down
7. Jem - They
8. Natalie Imbruglia - Shiver
9. KT Tunstall - Other Side Of The World
10. Oasis - Lyla
11. Razorlight - Somewhere Else
12. Bodyrockers - I Like The Way
13. Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less And Less
14. Caesars - Jerk It Out
15. The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It
16. Hard-Fi - Hard To Beat
17. Weezer - Beverly Hills
18. Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
19. The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
20. Jack Johnson - Good People
21. U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

Disc 2:

1. Akon - Lonely
2. Mario - Let Me Love You
3. Gwen Stefani feat. Eve - Rich Girl
4. Will Smith - Switch
5. M.V.P. - Roc Ya Body ³Mic Check 1, 2²
6. Mariah Carey - It¹s Like That
7. Nelly - N Dey Say
8. Bobby Valentino - Slow Down
9. Faith Evans - Again
10. Joss Stone - Don't Cha Wanna Ride
11. Roll Deep - The Avenue
12. Charlotte Church - Crazy Chick
13. Rachel Stevens - So Good
14. Inaya Day - Nasty Girl
15. Deep Dish - Say Hello
16. Freeloaders feat. The Real Thing - So Much Love To Give
17. Kylie Minogue - Giving You Up
18. Girls Aloud - Wake Me Up
19. Crazy Frog - Axel F
20. Tony Christie - Avenues And Alleyways
21. McFly - You¹ve Got A Friend
22. Heather Small - Proud

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14430 in Music
• Released on: 2005-07-25
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
Now That's What I Call Music! Vol 61 is another double-CD triumph compiling the best music from the UK pop charts. Featured here is the perfect-pop of Gwen Stefani's "Rich Girl" and Natalie Imbruglia's "Shiver", plus the steamy R&B of Mariah Carey's "It's Like That" and Akon's No. 1 spot-hogging "Lonely". Indie highlights include The Killers' "Smile Like You Mean It", Razorlight's "Somewhere Else", Kaiser Chiefs' "Everyday I Love You Less And Less" and the Gorillaz' "Feel Good Inc". Now!: 61 and still packing in the best chart hits, dancefloor fillers and indie anthems around. --Paul Eisinger

Customer Reviews

Awful second disc...
First disc has some great tracks but the second disc is truly awful. I can't even listen to 1 second of that Akon track without wanting to go on a killing spree and as for Crazy Frog - well I live in Germany and this "klingeltone" garbage is very popular here - it's sickeningly sad to see it achieving big success in the UK. The rest of disc 2 is mainly "miss" rather than "hit" but I don't think anything approaches the stomach churning sounds of Akon and Crazy Frog.

2nd disc: Not even music
The 'Now That's What I Call Music' collection has, in my view, never been good value for money. But number 61 is almost an exception. While the first disc contains some of the best tracks of the year (albeit some turgid choices like the Black Eyed Peas and 2Pac), the second disc is a collection of some of the worst songs of the decade (anyone who thinks that the Crazy Frog even counts as a song deserves to be shot).
In my opinion, you should buy the first disc off a gulible mate for a fiver and leave it at that. Don't waste your time or money on the whole package though.

Strong as it ever was
School's out for the summer, and so is the latest Now, laying its now traditional claim to the kids' holiday pocket money. Not to mention the kids of somewhat older years.

The tracklisting really speaks for itself. In reflecting the mainstream pop elements of the UK chart since the last volume at Easter there is in fact very little on this collection that hasn't been on the Beeb's Radio 2 playlist, but there is still quite a lot that were on Radio 1's, so, as ever, it aims, and largely succeeds, in appealing to the great majority of pop music lovers, young and old.

Contrary to some observations it is still as up-to-date as usual - no less than 20 of the tracks were still in the UK Top 40 on its release date. As the advert tells us, seven of them have been No 1, and many more were Top Tenners. And one lesser-known statistic is that 13 tracks are either covers of, or use samples of, old hits.

Overall, it's as strong as it ever was.