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Now That’s What I Call Music! 68 was released on October 5, 2018. The album features hit songs from today’s most popular artists.
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Introduction
Now That’s What I Call Music! (NOW) is a series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Sony Music and Universal Music (Universal/Virgin EMI) which began in 1983.
The 68th edition of the UK series was released on 23 March 2018 as a 3-disc CD, 2-disc vinyl record and digital album. It is the first album in the series to be released on vinyl record since Now That’s What I Call Music 36 in November 2001.
What’s included
Now That’s What I Call Music!68 or simply Now 68, is adouble-disc compilation album that was released in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2018. The album is the 68th edition of the (UK)Now! series.
Disc one
“All Night” – The Vamps & Matoma
“Barking” – Ramz
” Caller #idis (Crazy)” – Jax Jones & Ina Wroldsen
“Cola” – Camelphat & Elderbrook
“Dancing” – Kylie Minogue
“Designer” – Patti Cake$
“Done for Me” – Charlie Puth feat. Kehlani
“First Time” – M-22 feat. Medina
Notable tracks
“All I Wanna Do” – Sheryl Crow
“The Sign” – Ace of Base
“I’ll Make Love to You” – Boyz II Men
“I Swear” – All-4-One
“Here Comes the Hotstepper” – Ini Kamoze
“On Bended Knee” – Boyz II Men
“Secret”) – Madonna
Critical reception
The series continued to find commercial success in 2018, with the release of Now That’s What I Call Music! 68. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 109,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. This marked the fifteenth consecutive album in the series to debut atop the chart, and the thirty-sixth overall. The album was later certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Commercially, Now That’s What I Call Music! 68 became the best-selling album of 2018 in the United States. The album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for track-equivalent sales of three million units. In Canada, the album was certified double platinum by Music Canada (MC) for sales of 160,000 copies.
Critical reception for Now That’s What I Call Music! 68 was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 63 based on 7 reviews. Hannah Mylrea from NME gave the album a positive review, praising its “diversity and quality”. She felt that “Now That’s What I Call Music! 68 is further evidence that – whatever naysayers might say – pop music is currently in rude health.”
Commercial performance
Now That’s What I Call Music 68 debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 58,000 copies in its first week. This marked the Now! brand’s 30th chart-topping album in the United Kingdom. The album also debuted at number one on the Scottish Albums Chart.
Legacy
Now That’s What I Call Music! 68 or simply Now 68, is a double-CD compilation album that was released in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2018. The album is the 68th edition of the (UK) Now! series. Disc one features songs that were big hits in the UK charts during late 2018, while disc two contains material that was intended to appeal to a more “mature” audience.
The album debuted at number one on the UK Compilation Albums Chart, selling 34,000 copies in its first week. It became the tenth Now! album to top the chart and became the Christmas number-one compilation album for 2018, replacing NOW That’s What I Call Music 67.
Track listing
“All I Wanna Do”
“Dancing in the Street”
“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
“I Don’t Wanna Lose You”
“Just Like Paradise”
“Kiss from a Rose”
“The Loco-Motion”
“Make Me Lose Control”
“Only Girl (In the World)”
“Sledgehammer”
“Uptown Funk!”
Personnel
Now That’s What I Call Music 68 (2018) is a double-CD album released on December 21, 2018. The sixty-eighth volume of the Now! series, it features forty-six popular songs from 2018. “All I Wanna Do” by Sheryl Crow, “Here Comes the Hotstepper” by Ini Kamoze, “Dancing in the Street” by Martha & The Vandellas, and “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston are some of the tracks included on the album.
The personnel for Now That’s What I Call Music 68 (2018) is as follows:
-Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do
-Ini Kamoze – Here Comes the Hotstepper
-Martha & The Vandellas – Dancing in the Street
-Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
Charts
Now That’s What I Call Music 68 or Now 68 was released on 18 May 2018. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, becoming the seventeenth Now! album to do so, and spending two weeks there. It also debuted atop the Scottish Albums Chart. The album also entered the Irish Albums Chart at number two.
See also
Now That’s What I Call Music 68 or 2018 in other countries, is the 68th edition of the Now! series. It was released on April 27, 2018, and features thirty-three songs including two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: “Havana” by Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug and “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran.
