The Now Project

The whole of the sorry saga of my attempts to listen to, and review every track on every Now That’s What I Call Music album.

So far, I’m only just approaching halfway, and am in the late 90’s but I am hoping that this is slowly becoming a lovingly curated resource for anybody who wants to learn the history of modern pop music as told through Richard Branson’s finest achievement. Or it may just be me swearing and bullying Paul Weller a lot. At the bottom, you’ll find an ever growing playlist of the best song from each record. Hopefully, it will distill three decades of pop into one listenable quadruple album, eventually.

Now That’s What I Call a Music Project

Volume	Release Date	Rating
	November 1983	54%
	March 1984	46%
	July 1984	63%
	November 1984	62%
	August 1985	50%
	November 1985	52%
	August 1986	66%
	November 1986	59%
	March 1987	50%
	November 1987	58%
	March 1988	53%
	August 1988	63%
	November 1988	56%
	March 1989	49%
	August 1989	60%
	November 1989	57%
	April 1990	63%
	November 1990	59%
	March 1991	46%
	November 1991	56%
	February 1992	55%
	July 1992	56%
	November 1992	56%
	March 1993	59%
	August 1993	46%
	November 1993	58%
	March 1994	64%
	August 1994	56%
	November 1994	61%
	April 1995	58%
	July 1995	61%
	November 1995	64%
	March 1996	63%
	August 1996	57%
	November 1996	55%
	March 1997	53%
	July 1997	54%
	November 1997	48%
	April 1998	60%
	August 1998	50%
	November 1998	50%
	March 1999	53%
	July 1999	59%
	November 1999	46%
	April 2000	51%
	July 2000	51%
	November 2000	52%
	April 2001	48%
	July 2001	53%
	November 2001	58%
	March 2002	53%
	July 2002	60%
	November 2002	44%
	April 2003	50%
	July 2003	52%
	November 2003	???%
	November 2014	47%
	March 2015	46%
	July 2015	48%
	November 2015	50%

Ephemera

 

Volume	Release Date	Rating
	Every year!	67%

Now Stats What I Call Music

A side project to the main series, where every ten albums, I stop, and try to analyse what has happened, what it means for pop music, and why the heck I haven’t stopped yet!

• Now Stats What I Call Music (Now 1-10, 1983-87)
• Now Stats What I Call Music 2 (Now 11-20, 1987-91)
• Now Stats What I Call Music 3 (Now 21-30, 1991-95)
• Now Stats What I Call Music 2.1 (Now 1-20, 1983-91)
• Now Stats What I Call Music 3.1 (Now 1-30, 1983-95)

Now That’s What I Call Now That’s What I Call Music 1984-2015