Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Queen - I Want To Break Free
2. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
3. Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)
4. The Police - Every Breath You Take
5. U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
6. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
7. RUN-DMC feat. Aerosmith - Walk This Way
8. Cameo - Word Up
9. Ray Parker Junior - Ghostbusters
10. Michael Jackson - Thriller
11. Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
12. Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love
13. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
14. Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin
15. Duran Duran - The Reflex
16. Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart
17. David Bowie - Modern Love
18. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
19. UB40 - Red Red Wine

Disc 2:

1. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
2. Robbie Williams - Angels
3. Boyzone - No Matter What
4. The Beautiful South - A Little Time
5. Oasis - Wonderwall
6. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
7. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around
8. Tina Turner - The Best
9. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
10. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
11. James - Sit Down
12. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
13. Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much
14. Cher - Believe
15. Spice Girls - Wannabe
16. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
17. Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
18. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
19. Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

Disc 3:

1. James Blunt - You're Beautiful
2. Take That - Patience
3. Duffy - Mercy
4. Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie
5. OutKast - Hey Ya!
6. Nelly Furtado - Maneater
7. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
8. MIKA - Grace Kelly
9. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
10. The Killers - Somebody Told Me
11. Sugababes - Push The Button
12. Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
13. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
14. Tony Christie - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo
15. Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella
16. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
17. Timbaland feat. OneRepublic - Apologize
18. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River
19. Coldplay - Fix You
20. Paolo Nutini - Last Request
21. Will Young - Leave Right Now
22. Westlife - You Raise Me Up

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #439 in Music
• Released on: 2008-10-27
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .41 pounds

Customer Reviews

Looking back at 25 years of pop excellence....
Here it is, the NOW series' "greatest hits" if you may...

I am sure it was a difficult process picking the songs for such a milestone collection. You can not please everyone and there will be dozens of songs people will feel should have been there. Perhaps a 4 or 5 CD collection would have been a better idea to cover such a long period of hits. It seems that each CD in the collection is devoted to one decade of music, which is not a bad idea. But why not have the songs in their chronological order while you're at it?

To comment on the songs that are on it they are sure to bring back memories for people growing up in the 80s and the 90s. Most of the songs on here have become modern classics, the type of songs everyone will know by just looking at the title. Yet there are a handful of songs here I hadn't previously heard.

However, certain artists who were big during the last 25 years have been mysteriously omitted, like: Whitney Houston, Madonna (none of her songs have ever appeared on a NOW collection - possibly due to copyright issues), Prince, Mariah Carey, Meat Loaf, Cyndi Lauper, Celine Dion, Elton John, Janet Jackson...

My personal highlights on this CD are: "Every Breath You Take", "Thriller", "Chain Reaction", "It's A Sin", "Love Is All Around", "Wannabe", "It Must Have Been Love", "Nothing Compares 2 U", "You're Beautiful", "Patience" and "You Raise Me Up". These songs alone are worth the purchase. To have all these 60 handpicked gems in one collection is really nice, and it is so beautifully presented as well. A must have for any collector of the NOW series.

NOW 25 YEARS
REALLY ENJOY THIS CD I DO ALL THE HOUSEWORK TO THIS ,I NEVER GET SICK OF LISTENING TO IT JUST GREAT!!

Is it really that long !
With The Now series you know what you are going to get, a collection of great and not so great pop tunes which have graced the charts, in this case over the last 25 years. Now 25 years is a collection 60 tunes over 3 CD's which have done exactly that. Can you have a favourite yes, are you going to like everything probably not but pop fans can buy knowing that this is going to offer variety and top ten tunes for every occasion.