Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 55 by Various Artists

Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 55 Reviews

nursesteve
Like all the other Now Music range it is very good. It is as contemporary as the listener wants it to be. Always good value with two CDs.

Top Summer 2003
There Is Now A System To The Ever So Succefull Albums From The Now Company. Three Are Made Every Year 1) At The Beging Of The Year. 2)Summer And Finally Winter. Mow 55 Is A Summer Now Containg Certain Club Songs For Summer Like R Kelly's Ignition And XTM'S fLY On The Wings Of Love

Mostly here
Now 55 features most of the top tunes from the year so far. As always featuring a mix of pop, hip-hop, rock, indie and dance.
Including no.1s from R Kelly, Tomcraft, and Top 10 tracks from Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams, Daniel Bedingfield, 50 cent and t.A.T.u.

CD 1 starts with some excellent tracks from Justin Timberlake and Javine but sadly seems to drown in mediocre dance tracks for the last half. CD 2 features more indie/rockier music to start, with Robbie's "Come undone" and Coldplay's sublime "God put a smile on your face" and ends with more pop tracks such as S Club's final song "Say goodbye".

The down side has to be the awful novelty track from The fast food Rockers.

Now thats what i call a CD
This CD is a worthwhile purchase. It contains all ranges of up-to-date songs, from R'n'B to dance. The album attracts all kinds of music fanatics and is entertaining for hours on end.

What we've come to expect......
From the world-famous Now! series. After 20 years, 55 volumes and over 50 million sales they know what they're doing - and that's just the UK version! Yes, Now 55 is everything we've come to expect - the biggest, best and most varied collection of recent hits available.

As usual, many big hits are included - R Kelly, Justin Timberlake, Girls Aloud, TATU, Robbie Williams, Busted... the list goes on and on. It's good to see that once again the album branches out - whilst keeping pop as the overall base, it explores more diverse styles from artists who aren't as famous, but but still produce good music - dance (Benny Benassi / Plummet etc), garage (Lisa Maffia), rap (50 Cent), indie (Thrills)and r&b/hiphop (Jay-Z).

Before going any further, I'd like to just say this - this is a truly AMAZING compilation and would be happy in anyone's collection. Having said that however, there are tracks some recent smash hits missing - Evanescence, Beyonce, the more recent Justin Timberlake [Rock Your Body], Christina Aguilera, Delta Goodrem, Big Brovaz etc. Some of these can be found on Hits 56, and if you want more of the full picture it might be a good idea to buy that too.

Going through the album, there isn't that much that would be worth dropping though, so overall it is well worth the 5 stars I give it.

We start out with the biggest hit so far this summer - R Kelly's Ignition Remix. It's always important on compilations to have a strong start, so that's excellent. We then progress through another smash hit, and my personal favourite on the album - 50 Cent's In Da Club - to some more big pop hits - Justin Timberlake, Wayne Wonder, Javine, Kym Marsh, Girls Aloud, TATU, S Club 8 (formerly Juniors) and the Fast Food Rockers - it's all good, if mindless, entertainment - just right for summer.

We then get onto the dancier side of things, with XTM & DJ Chucky, Bhangra Knights and Tomcraft to name a few, followed by some R&B/Garage from Tiga and Lisa Maffia, then some less known dance, yet equally good, from many acts like Benny Benassi, DJ Sammy, Deepest Blue, Scooter, Plummet and Paul Van Dyk. The whole first disk is well worth listening to, and plays well as a whole or as individual tracks.

Disk 2 focusses mainly on indie and guitar pop - Robbie Williams, Busted, Amy Studt and others make a strong start. In the middle it gets a bit tedious, but worth a listen all the same, and then rounds off with ballads from Emma, Sugababes etc and R&B/Hiphop from Jay-Z, Mariah Carey & Cam'Ron, and Ja Rule & Ashanti. Overall it is strong too, but I prefer disk 1 personally.

So overall a great album then, and well worth every penny - I've already listened to disk 1 about 5 times through and disk 2 once, and I only bought it on Monday! This really is the soundtrack to the summer. BUY IT NOW!