S. Each of the first 29 volumes received at least a platinum certification, and 18 albums from the series have reached number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart, more than any individual recording artist except the Beatles. In addition to these volumes, the series includes six dance editions, a DVD and the tenth anniversary commemorative edition, NOW 10 ANOS, released by EMI in December 2009.

On the Extras page you find other material related to what you will learn in each chapter such as extra vocabulary lists. They now focus on radio mixes of recent dance hits, and a Very Best of Now Dance compilation has been released. EMI Asia has also released Now Dance (2000), Now The Essential Collection (2003), Now + volume 1 (2004) and Now + volume 2 (2005). Its success has led to two more branded channels exploring decades, Now 90s on 27 December 2017, replacing Chilled TV, and Now 70s on 27 December 2019, replacing Total Country. Since the release of Volume 32 in 2009, albums have included bonus "Now What's Next" tracks by not-yet-fully-established artists at the expense of additional hit songs.It was released on vinyl and audio cassette, with a re-release on CD in 2009 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album. is a joint venture by the Norwegian branches of Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI Music and Warner Music.

The UK series has followed a double-album format throughout the series (many other foreign franchises of the Now! Other than that, there are too many other songs, that got so much airplay, you don't want to hear them again ever. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album and series, the album was re-released on CD for the first time in 2009. The Now series started in the Netherlands back in 1984 as Now This Is Music and a couple of spin-offs, such as Now Dance, a Christmas compilation ( Now This Is Xmas) and several year-end compilations.

Targeting a broad age group, the channel used to play current popular music in the daytime and hits from its 30-year back catalogue in the evenings. s Now 03 came with a bonus DVD; the first standalone DVD release ( Now Vision 2004) appeared the following year. At least two different series of year-by-year "retrospective" compilations, covering 1983 to 1995 and 1980 to 1999, respectively were issued in the 1990s with the latter series known as Now! However, in late 2009, EMI Music released the album "Now Dance" in Spain, which contains all the biggest dance hits in Spain during 2009, including Lady Gaga, David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland, The Black Eyed Peas and Katy Perry, among others.