Now Dance 92 (2 November 1992) Uniquely, 2-LP/2-MC/CD* with 12" mixes,*single CD with abridged tracklisting and 7" edits. Later the series started over with Now Esto Es Música 1, [31] which included songs from artists like Juanes, Enrique Iglesias, George Michael, Sheryl Crow, Tiziano Ferro, Alex Ubago, Las Ketchup and U2. The presentation of each release has evolved notably over time: from 1986 through to 2013, all double and triple CD sets were released in chubby Jewel cases which could hold up to 6 discs. Richard Branson had bought the poster for his cousin, Simon Draper, to hang behind Draper's desk at the Virgin Records office. The UK series has followed a double-album format throughout the series (many other foreign franchises of the Now!

Sometimes considered a spin-off, video releases, including video cassette editions of many early Now! November 2020) David Bowie, Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald, and the Real Roxanne are the tracks that are missing.

The compilation series was conceived in the office of Virgin Records in London and took its name from a 1920s British advertising poster for Danish bacon featuring a pig saying "Now. series are only released on one disc), now exploiting the capacity of the CD to include between 40 and 46 tracks over two discs. The original Now Dance series began in 1985 and has been released in a variety of titles, formats, and release frequency. The 1990s Yearbook series contains a new retro-90s logo design and artwork which also complements its sister decade series. From the years of 1996 to 2009 the series released an annual compilation usually in the late summer months.

Some of the Special Editions have identical names, although a few of these titles are followed by their year of release. has released X to 30X Hard Techno Beats Indie Alternative Rock Electronic Punk Soul Popular Hits New Zealand Limited Edition Now X Genre Pop Rock. Some of them have unique track listings and are not related to similarly themed collections already issued on compact disc, however, more recent releases have been 'selections' taken from a larger CD collection (Rock, for example). Written-By – Aaron Simmonds, Andrew Wotman, Ashton Simmonds, Bernard Harvey, Felisha King, Giveon Dezmann Evans*, Justin Bieber, Keavan Yazdani, Louis Bell (4), Luis Manuel Martinez Jr. 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.fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information. The Now Yearbook series continues both forwards, with Now Yearbook 1985 issued in November 2022, and backwards, with the release of Now Yearbook 1979 in September 2022 (an Extra followed in October). Now Dance – a series in its own right, these compilations originally consisted of 12" mixes of current hits. Over a hundred "main series" (not including spin-off and special edition) albums have been released to date.

on 24 July 2015, the release dates in the UK and Ireland have been the same following the announcement of the Global Release Day campaign by IFPI, which became effective on 10 July 2015.

Towards the end of the series, 3-CD digipak sets were issued, but in 2010, the long-running title was retired, and all subsequent dance-themed Now collections have been issued under the Special Editions series. As of November 2023, the most featured artists are Kylie Minogue with 32 followed by Robbie Williams with 31 singles, Calvin Harris with 30, David Guetta with 28, Rihanna with 27, Katy Perry with 22 and Girls Aloud with 21. In February 2023, 12" mixes all taken from the first three Now Dance compilations, originally released in 1985, 1986 and 1989, were collected on a special 4CD and 3LP set, Now Dance: The 80s, with artwork inspired by the original Now Dance 86. Through Volume 21 of the series, the multi-volume sets have included 414 national and international artists and a total of 787 different songs, ranking in an impressive four gold and 19 platinum records.