Due to the higher cost of pressing vinyl and the limited time they are available, they are at least three times more expensive than their compact disc counterparts.

on 24 July 2015, the release dates in the UK and Ireland have been the same following the announcement of the Global Release Day campaign by IFPI, which became effective on 10 July 2015. Disc 2 opens with Lady Gaga's stunning 'Hold My Hand' (from 'Top Gun: Maverick') leading into the beautiful 'The Joker And The Queen' from Ed Sheeran and 'go' from Cat Burns feat.

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Some of the Special Editions have identical names, although a few of these titles are followed by their year of release. The latter contains a new retro-70s Now logo design and artwork which complements its 80s sister Yearbook series.

Whether you're looking for your favourite band's newest release, a compilation CD, or a classic album - you'll find what you need in our categories. Initially, a special edition of a Now compilation was quite rare, and between 1994 and 2002, there weren't any released at all.

From 2003, and until 2010, there was one special edition released each year, covering a decade (80s, 90s and 00s), or a cross section of big hits celebrating the Now series ( Now Decades, Now Years, Now Dance) - however, from 2011, they became much more frequent, and in 2017, there were fifteen different titles released. The tie-in television programmes are a month by month video playlist of tracks, from one year previously featured on a Now Yearbook album, with Bruno Brookes presenting. November 2020) David Bowie, Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald, and the Real Roxanne are the tracks that are missing.The 4-CD series follows the same general format of the original Special Editions series, with genre, era, and decade collections, but over four compact discs (there is also an abridged vinyl version of Punk and New Wave and Rock), meaning they contain more tracks than the original special editions, but fewer than the Now 100 Hits, which preceded this series.