Now: That's What I Call Music 75 Review (4/5)

The Now franchise has been running for decades now, reaching it's monumental 75th entry this month, and the CD producers have pulled out most of the stops to celebrate this landmark achievement. The song list includes "Meet Me Halfway"; "Bad Romance"; "Don't Stop Believing" (Don't Stop buying this album though, it's not the Glee version!); "Under Pressure" (Not the brilliant Queen version, instead the strange Jedward remix with "Ice Ice Baby"); Joe McElderry's "The Climb" and "Everybody Hurts", all of which have proved major hits in the last few months, and while countless replays on radio stations have made some tracks wear thin, all of the songs on offer still earn their worth on this volume, and will doubtless be played at parties and nightclubs aplenty after the album's release. There's not much to say of Now 75 that hasn't been said before: no music videos or sneaky extras have been included, so this is a pretty bog-standard release whose status of purchase depends on whether customers prefer to simply download their faves onto their MP3s and iPods.