All together, Now: How Now That's What I Call Music became the world's biggest compilation series

Mark Sutherland

Britain’s best-loved compilation series reaches the Now That’s What I Call Music 100 milestone this week. But can it survive in the streaming age? Music Week investigates…

Sir Richard Branson is reminiscing.

The Virgin Group Founder was at the helm of Virgin Records back in 1983, when then Virgin head of licensing and business affairs Stephen Navin and GM Jon “Webbo” Webster dreamed up the concept for a compilation series that – unlike other such records of the time – ...

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