LOS ANGELES (By
Angela Salomon/ Sony BMG Entertainment) - The world's best selling multi-artist album series, NOW That's What I Call Music!, is back this spring with a red-hot collection of chart-topping tunes. NOW That's What I Call Music!, Vol. 21, scheduled for release on April 4th, will feature 20 of the biggest smash hits spanning the current Pop,
Modern Rock and R&B charts.
NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 21 features current chart favorites from such superstar artists such as Mariah Carey, Black Eyed Peas, Kelly Clarkson, Gorillaz and Nelly as well as hot newcomers such as Dem Franchize Boyz, All American Rejects, Natasha Bedingfield and T-Pain amongst others. NOW 21 is a compilation joint venture featuring top hits from EMI Music, SONY BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and the Zomba Group of labels. NOW 21 will be released by the Universal Music Group.
For the first time ever, NOW will debut a Spanish language compilation Now Latino - Esto es Musica! featuring 20 top Latin and Reggaeton hits. Now Latino - Esto es Musica! will be released on March 21, 2006, through SONY BMG.
The NOW That's What I Call Music! series debuted in the United States in 1998 after the NOW brand had been an enormous, multi-platinum international success for nearly 20 years, with some 63 volumes internationally. To date, the NOW series has generated sales of over 145 million albums worldwide, and has sold over 55 million copies in the United States since its debut. Every album in the NOW series has reached the Billboard Top 10, and it is the only non-soundtrack, multi-artist collection to reach #1 Billboard status on the Billboard Top 200 Album Sales Chart.
Every NOW volume has been certified platinum or better by the RIAA:
NOW 1 (October 1998, certified platinum)
NOW 2 (July 1999, certified double platinum)
NOW 3 (December 1999, certified double platinum)
NOW 4 (July 2000, the first compilation ever to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, certified double platinum)
NOW 5 (November 2000, certified quadruple platinum)
NOW 6 (April 2001, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, certified triple platinum)
NOW 7 (July 2001, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, certified triple platinum)
NOW 8 (November 2001, certified triple platinum)
NOW 9 (April 2002, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, certified double platinum)
NOW 10 (July 2002, certified platinum)
NOW 11 (November 2002, certified double platinum)
NOW 12 (March 2003, certified platinum)
NOW 13 (July 2003, certified platinum)
NOW 14 (April 2004, certified triple platinum)
NOW 15 (May 2004, certified double platinum)
NOW 16 (July 2004, certified triple platinum)
NOW 17 (November 2004, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, certified double platinum)
NOW 18 (March 2005, certified platinum)
NOW 19 (July 2005, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, certified double platinum)
NOW 20 (November 2005, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, certified double platinum)
NOW That's What I Call Christmas! (October 2001, certified quintuple platinum)
NOW That's What I Call Christmas! The Signature Collection (September 2003, certified double platinum)
NOW #1's (January 2006, certified Gold)
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! VOL. 21 TRACK LISTING
1. Mariah Carey Don't Forget About Us
2. The Pussycat Dolls Stickwitu
3. Nelly feat. Paul Wall and Ali & Gipp Grillz
4. Chris Brown Run It!
5. Black Eyed Peas My Humps
6. Rihanna If Its Lovin' That You Want
7. Bow Wow feat. J-Kwon and Jermaine Dupri Fresh AZIMIZ
8. Dem Franchize Boyz feat. Peanut and Charlay Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It
9. Three 6 Mafia feat. Young Buck and Eightball & MJG Stay Fly
10. T-Pain I'm Sprung
11. Ray J One Wish
12. Kelly Clarkson Because Of You
13. Natasha Bedingfield Unwritten
14. Nickelback Photograph
15. The All American Rejects Dirty Little Secret
16. Fall Out Boy Dance, Dance
17. Relient K Who I Am Hates Who I've Been
18. Gorillaz Dare
19. Trace Adkins Honky Tonk Bodonkadonk
20. Cascada Everytime We Touch
