NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ SONY BMG) - 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. 27, scheduled for release on March 11, will feature 20 of the biggest smash hits spanning the current Pop,
Modern Rock, Country and R&B charts.
NOW That's What I Call Music!, Vol. 27 features current chart favorites from such superstar artists as Natasha Bedingfield, Keith Urban, Chris Brown, Mary J. Blige and Alicia Keys as well as hot newcomers such as Paramore, Sara Bareilles and Taylor Swift amongst others. NOW 27 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 27 will be released by SONY BMG Music Entertainment.
NOW That's What I Call The '80s, featuring 20 huge hits that defined the decade, also hits stores on March 11.
The NOW That's What I Call Music! series debuted in the United States in 1998 after the NOW brand had become an enormous, multi-platinum international success for nearly 20 years. To date, the NOW series has generated sales of over 200 million albums worldwide, and has sold over 67 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 No 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, platinum)
NOW 2 (July 1999, double platinum)
NOW 3 (December 1999, double platinum)
NOW 4 (July 2000, the first compilation ever to debut at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, double platinum)
NOW 5 (November 2000, quadruple platinum)
NOW 6 (April 2001, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, triple platinum)
NOW 7 (July 2001, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, triple platinum)
NOW 8 (November 2001, triple platinum)
NOW 9 (April 2002, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, double platinum)
NOW 10 (July 2002, platinum)
NOW 11 (November 2002, double platinum)
NOW 12 (March 2003, platinum)
NOW 13 (July 2003, platinum)
NOW 14 (April 2004, triple platinum)
NOW 15 (May 2004, double platinum)
NOW 16 (July 2004, triple platinum)
NOW 17 (November 2004, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, double platinum)
NOW 18 (March 2005, platinum)
NOW 19 (July 2005, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, double platinum)
NOW 20 (November 2005, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, double platinum)
NOW 21 (April 2006, debuted at No 2 on the Billboard Top 200, double platinum)
NOW 22 (July 2006, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, platinum)
NOW 23 (November 2006, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, double platinum)
NOW 24 (March 2007, debuted at No 2 on the Billboard Top 200, platinum)
NOW 25 (July 2007, debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Top 200, platinum)
NOW 26 (November 2007, platinum)
NOW That's What I Call Christmas! (October 2001, quintuple platinum)
NOW That's What I Call Christmas! Vol. 2 (The Signature Collection) (September 2003, double platinum)
NOW That's What I Call Christmas! Vol. 3 (October 2006, platinum)
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! VOL. 27 TRACK LISTING:
1. Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
2. Mary J. Blige - Just Fine
3. Janet - Feedback
4. Britney Spears - Piece Of Me
5. Fergie - Clumsy
6. Jordin Sparks - Tattoo
7. Natasha Bedingfield - Love Like This
8. Chris Brown - Kiss Kiss
9. Kanye West w/Dwele - Flashing Lights
10. Sean Kingston - Take You There
11. J. Holiday - Suffocate
12. Alicia Keys - No One
13. Sara Bareilles - Love Song
14. Timbaland presents OneRepublic - Apologize
15. Boys Like Girls - Hero/Heroine
16. Paramore - crushcrushcrush
17. Finger Eleven - Parylyzer
18. Santana w/Chad Kroeger - Into The Night
19. Taylor Swift - Teardrops On My Guitar
20. Keith Urban - Everybody
