With the increased presence of “mood" playlists on streaming services like Spotify, musical compilations have been becoming more and more popular. These compilations could represent one of the best ...

Recently my colleague Nathan Smith cobbled together the Destiny Child’s compilation Beyoncé doesn’t want you to see and it gave me an idea. Compilations are both the most necessary and aggravating ...

The UK’s Now That’s What I Call Music series was launched on 28 November 1983. Since then, the compilations have served as a musical snapshot of passing eras, charting every music trend from the early ...

Half a century on from its release, we track down the surviving artists from the hugely influential record and hear how the double LP changed their lives and careers ‘If I knew I’d be talking about it ...

As it approaches its seventh anniversary of release at the end of the year, The Greatest Showman soundtrack is still going strong. While Now That’s What I Call Music 118 is set to be No.1 in the ...

Good compilation albums provide both listening pleasure and musical education. These are some of the best. Getting hold of a good compilation album can be an amazing way to broaden your musical ...

Compilations still play a crucial role in understanding pop — maybe even more so now with an ever-more-daunting smorgasbord of options, both present and past, at our disposal — as a few recent ...

The compilations sector may not be the most fashionable part of the biz right now, but it’s certainly the most entertaining to watch. By rights, the art of putting single tracks together and getting ...

It seems like the last thing local guitar-type bands or musicians want to do these days is release a full-length CD. So far this year, the lion’s share of notable Houston indie and punk releases has ...

Now That's What I call Music albums – known as Now! to its fans – has been collecting the biggest contemporary chart hits since December 1983, when the very first edition topped everyone's Christmas ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Three Now albums have been released every year since 1983 Now That's What I Call Music is the biggest-selling compilation series in the world, with more than 120 million records sold and 654 weeks at ...