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Let The Music Play: Disco Pop 80s is a 130-song, close-to-10 hour compilation of some of the best dance music of the 1980's, which includes songs from the late 1970's and the actual era of disco. This was put together with Russian strength.

Each release in our Yearbook series contains a vinyl edition with a selection of tracks from the complete line-up of the CD version. Inevitably, this means that a large number of fabulous tracks are not included on the LP versions… and we also released a companion CD Extra for each year. At the end of 2022 we released NOW Yearbook 1980 - 1984: Vinyl Extra a 5LP boxset containing one album per year for the period 1980-1984, each with an incredible selection of tracks taken from either Yearbook or the Extra and not previously included on a vinyl edition.

Next month, Now That’s What I Call Music will release a genre-spanning ‘Era’ release called The Sound of the Suburbs 1977-1980. In 4CD form, this set offers 80 tracks encompassing punk, new wave, reggae, ska, mod, post-punk and electronic. They were all initially released between 1977 and the end of 1980, and artists include The Undertones, The Clash, Elvis Costello, The Boomtown Rats, The Jam, The Cure, The Police, The Specials, The Beat, Japan, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, PIL, Devo, Skids, The Vibrators, XTC, John Foxx, The B-52s and many more. Full tracklistings for the formats are listed below. Whether this ‘Era’ release is the start of a new series or a one-off remains to be seen.

Following on from the success of NOW That’s What I Call 12” 80s, NOW Music proudly presents NOW That’s What I Call 12” 80s: Extended. We’ve dived even further into the musical treasure trove of the 80s to bring you 45 stunning extended tracks in a compilation.The album features extended versions of iconic tracks rarely seen on CD, including Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson’s ‘Say Say Say’, Queen’s ‘A Kind Of Magic’, Red Box’s ‘For America’, Malcolm McLaren’s ‘Double Dutch’, Strawberry Switchblade’s ‘Since Yesterday’ and ‘Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)’ by Eurythmics. Other rare finds include the Francois K Splashdown Mix of Adam Ant’s ‘Apollo 9’ and extended versions of Man 2 Man’s ‘Male Stripper’, Donna Summer’s ‘She Works Hard For The Money’, Whitney Houston’s ‘How Will I Know’ and ‘Fascinated’ by Company B.

NOW Presents The 80s delivers vibrant celebration of one of pop music's most iconic decades, beautifully packaged in a five album boxset. Featuring 78 massive hits, including 40 chart-toppers, this collection spans ten sides of vinyl, each pressed in different colour and containing pop classics The Police's 'Every Breath You Take' and Eurythmics' 'Sweet Dreams, number ones from Dead Or Alive and Soft Cell to dancefloor like Whitney Houstons 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' and Chaka Khan's 'I Feel For You.' The infectious 'Ghostbusters' theme song playful touch and set continues, legends like Billy Joel and Paul Simon shine, alongside reggae and ska flavours from UB40. LP3 highlights the synth-driven pop of era with New Order's 'Blue Monday' and Pet Shop Boys' 'Heart', while the final records feature timeless anthems!

Now That’s What I Call Music continue their CD collections of 1980s twelve-inch mixes with a new 4CD set: NOW 12″ 80s: 1984 Part Two. This set follows up Part One from January and what with this being 1984 and all, it’s rather predictably good – if familiar.