If you used to buy the Now albums what number was your first one?

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33 for me, brought on double cassette from good old Woolies.

I know they are viewed by many as being deeply uncool but individual albums were way too expensive for me as a pre-teen. I think they featured on all my teen Xmas lists too and I remember the adverts with Mark Goodier doing the voice over.

I still have a very soft spot for them, even though when I occasionally pick one up for a nosy at I have no idea who 99% of the tracklists are, but I don't think I'm their target audience anymore anyway!

Omg I loved that song! Haven’t heard it in years!

I had a couple of the rival Hits albums in my teens, but none of the Nows. However, now I have a record player again and am building up a collection of stuff I like, I've picked a few up in charity shops, and the plan is to try and get as many as I can if I find them at decent prices. I currently have Now 5 and 8, and Hits 3, 4 and 7. There's a few turkeys on each one, but generally they're good selections, and I'll put them on if I want undemanding background music while I'm working.

The original on cassette - maybe in 1983.

Wish I still had it! Think I threw out all my cassettes way back.

I only stopped buying them about 10 years ago.

Now that’s what I call music on cassette. My mum took me for an assessment to see if I could climb poles before starting as an apprentice linesman. Passed it and was given a fiver for expenses. Tried to give it my Mum, she said I could keep it and I bought the cassette.

Wow, I'd forgotten about them. I've just googled and I had from number three onwards for a few years. It's really taken me back seeing the covers...

@Isitfridayyetsophie my first was now 44 too 😍

The sound quality was crap, but the playlist was good. There was a dodgy station on in my area as well called Hits FM, it played more or less constant chart music without annoying DJs, but the ads were all for those monstrously expensive soft-porn 0898 phone lines...

😂yes I do, because I also am very old have great taste and I love MG's chart show followed by the lovely Rylan 😊. I missed him today though, will have to listen on catch up.

I still have my original 33 double cassette. It felt like such a rite of passage buying it that I couldn't part with it.

I was 11. This one. And I’m right back in 1993. open.spotify.com/playlist/3DvNKzSHXFMalD2B5GhUsJ?si=HJcTw7XFQZWAdKLCxkKYQA&pi=e-LFJ3JAPJRxm7

I can't remember but think it must have been one in the 20s. My parents had Now 3 on vinyl!

I just looked up Boyzlife and if I didn't know then I would probably assume they were a tribute act because they both look very different now (mind you so do I, so no shaming here!).

For reference the best I ever heard was Amy Housewine in a bar in Corfu.

🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant. Simple but effective!!

That was my first and indeed my first modern music purchase - also from Woolworths.

Me too! Also got a baby blue mini boom box to play it on.

44 I remember it had a purple cover and can remember a lot of the songs (Alice Deejay Back in My Life has been a favourite since I discovered it on that CD). I then went on to steal my mums album which was an older one 41 I think which had Sex on the Beach on it. After 44 I got the album for Xmas most years the only other one I remember was 48 which was blue and yellow I think but can’t remember any songs. Now 44 got played on repeat for ages as it was my first ever CD.

The First One.

Now That's What I Call Music. On vinyl. Indeed, I have the first 21 on vinyl. Bought them on CD thereafter. Stopped at 75.

I also used to buy The Hits Albums. They only went to about No. 10 though I think.

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Mine was Now 39.

I feel like a generation traitor because I really don't think music was better in my teen years. Case in point, Now 39 ends with "No Way, No Way" by Vanilla which I'm going to link to here as a punishment for reminding me it exists.

Number 2! Still have it on vinyl...

Now That's What I Call Music.

Still got it - I bought all the first 12 of them, and 'Now That's What I Call Dance' in 1985.

@Robotnik Another poster has already pointed out that they used to put the worst songs at the end so you've just beautifully proved their point with that abomination! 😂

Now 2

Really wish I'd got the first one

Me too!

Now 6. On double cassette tape from Woolies!