NOW – Yearbook 1984 [Special Edition CD Booklet]

Format: Special Edition CD Booklet, 4 x CD + booklet
Catalogue No.: CDYBXNOW84
Barcode: 0194398890821
Release Date: 29 Oct 2021
Genre: Pop

Repress: 18 Aug 2023

First released in June 2021, this special edition sold out quickly. Now available again while stocks last!

NOW Music is proud to present the continuation to our Yearbook series, NOW - YEARBOOK 1984; a 4CD compilation featuring 78 defining hits that ruled the charts in 1984, including No.1s from Lionel Richie, Chaka Khan, Duran Duran, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and George Michael (solo and with Wham!), together with huge hits from Culture Club, Bananarama, U2, Spandau Ballet, and Deniece Williams.

1984 marks one of the most iconic and successful years for singles – with the decade’s four biggest sellers all released this year. NOW - YEARBOOK 1984 reflects this amazing year with synth-pop classics such as ‘Here Comes The Rain Again’, ‘Self Control’, ‘Together In Electric Dreams’, and ‘Never Ending Story’. Celebrate the success of electro, Hi-NRG and rap becoming vital ingredients in dance-pop, with ‘I Feel For You’ by Chaka Khan, ‘Let The Music Play’ by Shannon, ‘Jump (For My Love)’ by The Pointer Sisters, ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’ by Rockwell, and ‘You Think You’re A Man’ by the sensational Divine, plus the defining ‘White Lines’ from Grandmaster Flash & Grandmaster Melle-Mel leading the way. 1984 saw the emergence of a huge number of new artists hitting the charts, including Sade, Alison Moyet, Dead Or Alive, Nik Kershaw and Bronski Beat. Plus, established greats continued from strength to strength, including Elton John, The Police, Billy Joel, Tina Turner and Paul McCartney. The album concludes, as the year did, with Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, to that point, the UK’s biggest selling single ever.

Take a trip back to one of the greatest years of pop music ever.

A must-have compilation for every lover of pop music. Available as a standard CD and a special edition (limited to 5000 copies), housed in ‘hard-back book’ packaging, including a 28-page booklet with a summary of the year, a track-by-track guide, a quiz, and original singles artwork.

Comparison Titles:
NOW Yearbook 1983 (2021)

Cumulative Sales: 18,000
Week 1: 7,700
Month 1: 12,100
Digital: 6%

NOW 100 Hits 80s (2019)

Cumulative Sales: 68,400
Week 1: 7,000
Month 1: 16,000
Digital: 21%

NOW 12” 80s (2021)

Cumulative Sales: 24,000
Week 1: 7,200
Month 1: 14,100
Digital: 11%

NOW 100 Hits 80s No.1s (2020)

Cumulative Sales: 27,700
Week 1: 4,500
Month 1: 10,000
Digital: 4%

NOW 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 80s (2019)

Cumulative Sales: 64,200
Week 1: 7,500
Month 1: 20,700
Digital: 4%

NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 80s (2019)

Cumulative Sales: 103,900
Week 1: 13,700
Month 1: 40,500
Digital: 11%

Forecast: Week 1 Target: 7,500 Month 1 Target: 18,000 Digital: 5%

Marketing:
TV advertising from day one of release to include major programming, terrestrial and satellite (actual program placement available closer to release date).
Digital rollout of advert / advertising across YouTube and Facebook.
Online/Social
- Inclusion in Now Newsletter pre order and Out now (1.2M reach)
- Bespoke landing page including transact link with all retailers
- Spotify, Apple Music Playlist and promotion
- Social media takeover and awareness (Facebook: 718k, Twitter: 64k, Instagram: 47k)

Tracklist
CD 1
1. George Michael - Careless Whisper
2. Duran Duran - The Reflex
3. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
4. Nena - 99 Red Balloons
5. Eurythmics, Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart - Here Comes the Rain Again
6. Laura Branigan - Self Control
7. Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do with It
8. Lionel Richie - Hello
9. Sade - Your Love Is King
10. The Style Council - You're The Best Thing
11. Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection
12. Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
13. Spandau Ballet - Only When You Leave
14. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
15. Limahl - Never Ending Story
16. Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
17. Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
18. Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)
19. Rufus And Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody

CD 2
1. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
2. Kenny Loggins - Footloose (From "Footloose" Soundtrack)
3. Adam Ant - Apollo 9
4. Culture Club - The War Song
5. Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting
6. Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
7. Howard Jones – What Is Love?
8. Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor!
9. Alphaville - Big In Japan (Single Version)
10. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Locomotion
11. Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
12. The Human League - The Lebanon
13. Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
14. Propaganda - Dr Mabuse
15. Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
16. New Order - Thieves Like Us
17. The Cure - The Caterpillar
18. Swansway - Soul Train
19. David Sylvian - Red Guitar
20. Echo And The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

CD 3
1. Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
2. Grandmaster Flash & Grandmaster Melle-Mel - White Lines (Don’t Do It)
3. Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy
4. Shannon - Let The Music Play
5. The Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)
6. The S.O.S Band - Just Be Good To Me
7. Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else’s Guy
8. Womack & Womack - Love Wars
9. Michael Jackson - Farewell My Summer Love
10. Julia And Company - Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba)
11. Ollie & Jerry - Breakin'...There's No Stopping Us (From "Breakin'" Soundtrack)
12. Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
13. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
14. Dead Or Alive - That's The Way (I Like It)
15. Evelyn Thomas - High Energy
16. Hazell Dean - Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)
17. Divine - You Think You’re A Man
18. The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
19. Miami Sound Machine - Dr. Beat
20. Shakatak - Down On The Street

CD 4
1. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
2. Duran Duran - The Wild Boys
3. U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
4. The Police - King Of Pain
5. Simple Minds - Up On The Catwalk
6. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
7. Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
8. Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo)
9. China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
10. Carmel - More More More
11. Matt Bianco - Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed
12. Kim Wilde - The Second Time
13. Nick Heyward - Warning Sign
14. Jim Diamond - I Should Have Known Better
15. Elton John - Sad Songs (Say So Much)
16. Billy Joel - An Innocent Man
17. The Cars - Drive
18. Paul McCartney - Pipes Of Peace
19. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984 Version)

‘NOW Yearbook’ presents 43 tracks on 3LPs; a stellar selection of 1983’s/ 1984's biggest and best hits… huge chart hits from the year, alongside enduring and well-loved classics.

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