A special deluxe edition includes 14 additional tracks from previously released volumes of the series as selected through an online voting process. The album sold , copies and debuted at No. The album is the 18th album in the series to debut on the top of chart. The Beatles are the only artist to amass more number ones 19 than the Now series. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article describes the 50th album in the U. It should not be confused with identically-numbered albums from other Now! February 25, Retrieved April 10, Retrieved 16 May

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At the time, the very existence of the album was revolutionary, even though the music it contained seemed like anything but. The format was associated with oldies and numbers. There was no real market for individual tracks, and accepted wisdom said that an artist would be crazy to allow his or her top hit to be sold on a compilation while the source album was still moving off shelves, particularly when the compilation was the product of a rival record label. Despite the challenges, they succeeded — obviously. About 91 million NOW records have sold in the U.
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The U. And though they might expire, in a sense, since they're based on trends in pop music, they work as more than adequate snapshots of specific points in time. The 50th volume, released in , includes Bob the Builder 's "Mambo No.