Now That's What I Call Music! Decades – The Deluxe Edition

Now That's What I Call Music! Decades - The Deluxe Edition
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	29 September 2003
Recorded	Various times (1965, 1982, 1983-2003)
Genre	Pop
Label	EMI / Virgin / Universal

Now Decades was a special edition released in 2003 to celebrate Now's 20th anniversary. The 3-CD box set has 60 number-one singles from 1983-2003. The following year, a 'sequel' called Now That's What I Call Music Years was released. Now That's What I Call Music! 25 Years is the name of another similar album, released in 2008.

The album has double appearances from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, George Michael (including one with Wham!), Kylie Minogue, Ali & Robin Campbell (including one with UB40 and one with Pato Banton) and Ronan Keating (including one with Boyzone).

Track listing

CD1: 1983-1989

1. Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love (NOW 1)
2. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (NOW 3)
3. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (NOW 1)
4. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (NOW 3)
5. Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart (NOW 6)
6. Nena - 99 Red Balloons (NOW 2)
7. Duran Duran - The Reflex (NOW 3)
8. David Bowie - Let's Dance (never appeared on NOW)
9. UB40 - Red Red Wine (NOW 1)
10. Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (NOW 7)
11. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes (NOW 3)
12. Paul Hardcastle - 19 (never appeared on NOW)
13. Yazz and the Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up (NOW 13)
14. Diana Ross - Chain Reaction (never appeared on NOW)
15. Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now (NOW 12)
16. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky (NOW 11)
17. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (NOW 11)
18. T'Pau - China In Your Hand (NOW 10)
19. The Bangles - Eternal Flame (never appeared on NOW)
20. Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler - Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (NOW 15)

CD2: 1990-1996

1. Adamski - Killer (NOW 17)
2. Beats International feat. Lindy Layton - Dub Be Good to Me (NOW 17)
3. The KLF feat. The Children Of The Revolution - 3 a.m. Eternal (NOW 19)
4. Erasure - Take A Chance On Me (NOW 22)
5. Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) (never appeared on NOW)
6. Charles & Eddie - Would I Lie To You (NOW 23)
7. Gabrielle - Dreams (NOW 25)
8. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (NOW 18)
9. Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (NOW 18)
10. Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven (never appeared on NOW)
11. Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That) (NOW 26)
12. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around (NOW 28)
13. Beautiful South - A Little Time (NOW 18)
14. Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger (NOW 33)
15. Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's (NOW 35)
16. Pato Banton feat. Ali & Robin Campbell - Baby Come Back (NOW 29)
17. Spice Girls - Wannabe (NOW 34)
18. Shaggy - Boombastic (NOW 32)
19. Babylon Zoo - Spaceman (NOW 33)
20. The Prodigy - Firestarter (never appeared on NOW)

CD3: 1996-2003

1. George Michael - Fastlove (NOW 35)
2. Robbie Williams - Millennium (NOW 41)
3. Fatboy Slim - Praise You (NOW 42)
4. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) (NOW 39)
5. Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (NOW 39)
6. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (NOW 44)
7. Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way (NOW 43)
8. Boyzone - No Matter What (NOW 41)
9. Steps - Tragedy (NOW 44)
10. S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin' (NOW 49)
11. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (NOW 50)
12. Room 5 feat. Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv (NOW 54)
13. Sugababes - Round Round (NOW 53)
14. Destiny's Child - Independent Women (Part 1) (never appeared on NOW)
15. Liberty X - Just A Little (NOW 52)
16. Atomic Kitten - Whole Again (NOW 48)
17. Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not The One (NOW 54)
18. Blue - If You Come Back (NOW 50)
19. Ronan Keating - Life Is A Rollercoaster (NOW 47)
20. Busted - You Said No (NOW 55)

Albums in brackets () are the albums that the songs originally appeared on.

See also

• Now That's What I Call Music!

External links

• Now That's What I Call Music! Decades - The Deluxe Edition front- and backcover