Where the albums differ is in the aggregate quality of the music they contain—while all Now albums have definitively told us what music was in a given three-to-four-month span, they have never guaranteed that that music would be necessarily good. The subject of “I Can’t Believe It,” whom T-Pain reportedly puts in a mansion somewhere in Wiscansin, is intimated to be a dancer. The first two volumes were not released on compact disc, and all subsequent releases were either single, double, or triple disc sets.

These songs were not factored into scoring, as they are mostly random shots in the dark at predicting future hits that never panned out.there’s no better time than now to determine which compilations are superior, and where all of the albums rank in relation to one another. It also doesn’t have any massive hits—“Closing Time” was the album’s longest-charting song at 37 weeks on the Hot 100—which is why this bizarre conglomeration of songs is ranked so low.

A hot take: “Need You Now” is one of the best songs of the decade, across all genres; it’s probably top five. Now did not realize that a song by the Baha Men about letting the dogs out would so resolutely become music.The latter contains a new retro-70s Now logo design and artwork which complements its 80s sister Yearbook series. Each release is issued as a limited edition mini-hardback book, with the CDs in sleeves forming the pages of the ' yearbook' which contains an introductory overview of the year, original 7" single artwork, trivia, chart positions and a quiz. It also, for some reason, has Juvenile’s “Slow Motion,” marking one of the only times Now correctly classified rap as music.