Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love
2. Michael Bublé - Haven't Met You Yet
3. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
4. David Guetta feat. Akon - Sexy Chick
5. La Roux - Bulletproof
6. Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart
7. N-Dubz - I Need You
8. Jason Derulo - Whatcha Say
9. Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne - Down
10. Alesha Dixon - To Love Again
11. Chipmunk feat. Dayo Olatunji - Oopsy Daisy
12. Tinchy Stryder feat. Amelle - Never Leave You
13. Little Boots - Remedy
14. Pixie Lott - Boys And Girls
15. Mini Viva - Left My Heart In Tokyo
16. Sean Kingston - Fire Burning
17. Pitbull feat. Nicole Scherzinger - Hotel Room Service (Remix)
18. Sugababes - Get Sexy
19. The Saturdays - Forever Is Over
20. Young Soul Rebels - I Got Soul
21. Agnes - I Need You Now
22. JLS - Beat Again

Disc 2:

1. Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
2. Beyoncé - Sweet Dreams
3. Shakira - She Wolf
4. Jay-Z feat. Rihanna & Kanye West - Run This Town
5. Mr Hudson feat. Kanye West - Supernova
6. Robbie Williams - Bodies
7. Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
8. Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
9. Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill (Frankie Knuckles Radio Mix)
10. The Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky
11. Chase & Status - End Credits
12. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
13. Muse - Uprising
14. Snow Patrol - Just Say Yes
15. Florence & The Machine - You've Got The Love
16. Lily Allen - 22
17. Paolo Nutini - Pencil Full Of Lead
18. Mika - We Are Golden
19. Cobra Starship feat. Leighton Meester - Good Girls Go Bad
20. Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
21. Just Jack - The Day I Died
22. Esmée Denters - Outta Here
23. Deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire - Ghosts 'n' Stuff

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4 in Music
• Released on: 2009-11-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

CD Description
The hugely popular Now That's What I Call Music! series returns with the 74th installment in the long-running compilations collection. Across an enormous 45 tracks, Now! 74 picks out the most important tracks to dominate the charts in 2009 with huge contributions from the likes of Robbie Williams, The Sugababes, Beyonce, Snow Patrol, Jay-Z and so many more. With two discs absolutely crammed with chart hits, the Now That's What I Call Music! series comfortably continues its hugely-respected legacy in delivering the finest pop compilations available today.

Please note that a small number of customers have reported an issue with this CD whereby the wrong album and track titles are displayed when uploading or playing the songs on their PC. In most cases, the audio content on the CD is correct, but the software used displays the details of another CD. Please also note: this is an issue with the software used to play the CD, and not a manufacturing problem. Customers are encouraged to try playing the disc with a different software package, or on a conventional CD player/Hi-Fi before returning the item, or contacting customer service.

Customer Reviews

The UK's Most Successful Hits of Late...Hmm. 2 Stars.
The `Now' compilations have been a key part of the UK's pop albums industry for many years, and still sell impressively. This particular collection is the latest offering, and covers hits from around August to November. As per, it holds most of the biggest No'1s from the UK singles chart, including `Fight for This Love', `Never Leave You' and `Get Sexy'; and the songs that have had a lot of video channel and radio airplay, like Houston's comeback `Million Dollar Bill', and Agnes' `Need You Now'.

Completely fresh hits from November, like Alesha Dixon's `To Love Again' and Michael Buble's `Haven't Met You Yet', give this compilation the current edge that these albums need: radio is still playing these songs in heavy rotation. Some `older' songs by current chart artists take its `current' edge away however - as, for example, JLS' `Beat Again', over their recent #1, `Everybody In Love'; and the Black Eyed Peas' `I Gotta Feeling' over `Meet Me Halfway'. To take the material as a whole, either way, it is highly flawed: mainly generic R'n'B and pop, with poor vocals and unoriginal music. Surprisingly, there are some big songs missed out, namely by Alicia Keys, Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Alexandra Burke, Daughtry, Taylor Swift, Paloma Faith, Westlife, Take That, Rihanna, and Mariah Carey (mostly women, strange, I know).

Disc 1 kicks off with Cheryl Cole's massive hit `Fight For This Love'. Although a devastatingly catchy chorus and hook, the lyrics to this song are terrible. It would have been impossible for `Now' to release this compilation without this song, as it is possibly the biggest smash of the year. Michael Buble's track is a pleasant surprise to have on the album: as it is definitely an adult contemporary track, not pop. This is possibly the strongest track on this disc, making weak melody and vocal offering from the likes of The Saturdays, N-Dubz and Chipmunk pale to death. `Bulletproof' is another summer track, but is a welcome addition. Although it won't go down in history, it is a catchy, fine piece of pop, and radio is still lapping it up.

`To Love Again' is a solid track from Strictly Judge Alesha Dixon. Although a blatant Gary Barlow pen, and not really showcasing much of Dixon's personality, it's a refreshing song to have in pop music - breaking the boring and mediocre sounds of David Guetta, Taio Cruz, Jay Sean and Sean Kingston. `Remedy' is another refreshing song, in the sense that it is in vein of La Roux's style - something original sounding, with substantial lyrics. `Get Sexy' is the other highlight on disc 1: a track that proves The Sugababes can develop with pop music in a distinct fashion. Other than this handful of tracks, Disc 1 is a rather bland affair. The music is of a poor quality: generic R'n'B filling up the tracklist. This appears to be the problem with the UK music scene at the moment also. Although only recently recovering from the Indie overdose of the Naughties, it would appear we've entered a phase of mediocre, gangsta/player wannabe fascination. Chart radio isn't diverse, and it isn't a surprise that the UK music scene demographics are pathetic in comparison to the US or Australia.

Disc 2 is definitely the stronger disc, musically. Kicking off with GaGa's `Paparazzi', the disc is more adult contemporary than pop - which is pleasing. Beyonce's killer `Sweet Dreams' is a fantastic inclusion: pop mastery, with a solid melody. Shakira's colourful `She Wolf' is included, and is another piece of pop genius. An original sound, with a well-layered vocal, really puts immature works like `Supernova', `Holiday' and `Get Shaky' to shame. `Run This Town' is a mature R'n'B piece of music, avoiding the cliché modern R'n'B has become saturated with: beautiful girls and being a `plaaayyerrrr'. A pleasant feat. Whitney Houston's extremely catchy `Million Dollar Bill' is one of the best tracks on the compilation. Although a different style of music for Houston, it suits her fantastically: full props going to Alicia Keys for a superb song. Another highlight is definitely Lily Allen's all-too-true `22'. A stirring track, tackling self image distortion, the reality of age, and society's prejudice towards the average Jane, the song is killer. Allen claims she isn't releasing another album, and I pray that this isn't true. She is essential for British pop music, and an extremely credible writer. Other features on disc 2 are Mika's `We Are Golden', Harris' `Ready for the Weekend', and Nutini's `Pencil Full of Lead'. Flunks come with the disastrous cover of `You've Got The Love' by the over-hyped Florence and the Machine; `Bodies' by Robbie Williams, and `Holiday' by the nonsense that is Dizzee Rascal.

All in all, I can't say I'd recommend buying this album. It isn't a great compilation: the material mainly weak, the artists fairly irrelevant to music as an art, and it hugely focuses on songs that are disposed of within weeks of release. Sure, there are some killer tracks from the big stars, but buy their album, not this where you get a glimpse of what they can do. The compilation is however true to the UK industry at the moment - probably why it is so weak. British music needs a serious shake up, or else we'll divulge into another catastrophe like the Indie Overdose.

2 Stars.

Now 74
I,ve just recieved now 74 which I have anxiously waited for since it was available for pre-order but was really dissappointed with the track list. I've always bought the 'now' cds but I've got 2 say this one seems to have been released a bit too late as alot of the artists have new songs out now such as black eyed peas,jls,lady gaga and sugababes. And why on earth are songs like Leona's new one happy and Alexandra Burke's bad boys not on it at all. Nope,not impressed at all!

Another chapter has been written
The official track listing has just been announced by NOW...

Disc 1

Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole
Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Sexy Chick - David Guetta Featuring Akon
Bulletproof - La Roux
Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz
I Need You - N-Dubz
Whatcha Say - Jason Derulo
Down - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne
To Love Again - Alesha Dixon
Oopsy Daisy - Chipmunk feat. Dayo Olatunji
Never Leave You - Tinchy Stryder feat. Amelle
Remedy - Little Boots
Boys And Girls - Pixie Lott
Left My Heart In Tokyo - Mini Viva
Sean Kingston Fire Burning
Hotel Room Service (Remix) - Pitbull feat. Nicole Scherzinger
Get Sexy - Sugababes
Forever Is Over - The Saturdays
I Got Soul - Young Soul Rebels
I Need You Now - Agnes
Beat Again - JLS

Disc 2

Paparazzi - Lady Gaga
Sweet Dreams - Beyoncé
She Wolf - Shakira
Run This Town - Jay-Z feat. Rihanna & Kanye West
Supernova - Mr Hudson feat. Kanye West
Bodies - Robbie Williams
Holiday - Dizzee Rascal
Ready For The Weekend - Calvin Harris
Million Dollar Bill (Frankie Knuckles Radio Mix) - Whitney Houston
Get Shaky - The Ian Carey Project
End Credits - Chase & Status
Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
Uprising - Muse
Just Say Yes - Snow Patrol
You've Got The Love - Florence + The Machine
22 - Lily Allen
Pencil Full Of Lead -Paolo Nutini
We Are Golden - MIKA
Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship feat. Leighton Meester
Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
The Day I Died - Just Jack
Outta Here - Esmée Denters
Ghosts 'n' Stuff - deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire

Judging by this track listing this is a very good CD indeed, surpassing both NOW 72 and NOW 73. Some great songs are however mysteriously absent like Alexandra Burke's "Bad Boys" (a travesty that this song isn't on it in my opinion!), Take That's top 10 "Said It All", Britney Spears' "3", Lady GaGa's "Love Game", JLS' "Everybody In Love", Leona Lewis' upcoming single "Happy", Kelly Clarkson's "Already Gone", Westlife's "What About Now", Pussycat Dolls' "Hush, Hush; Hush, Hush", and possibly others too.

I would still recommended this CD to everyone who wants to complete their NOW collection with this latest installment, or music fans who wants to own some of the most popular songs from the last 3-4 months. A piece of music history is captured, and I am sure will be cherished for a long time.