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Now That's What I Call Music! discography

discography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ7065734 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of available physical albums belonging to the official 1983 Now That's What I Call Music! UK series, comprising compact discs (CD), magnetic audio cassettes (AC), vinyl (LP), VHS tape, DVD and other short-lived formats. They are categorized by series (country), then ordered by date. All countries but the United Kingdom have discontinued their respective series.

United Kingdom and Ireland

The evolution of Now That's What I Call Music! in the UK reflects the changing landscape of music consumption formats. Starting with vinyl and magnetic audio cassettes, the series adapted to the rise of compact discs (CDs) and explored various formats like DVDs, MiniDiscs, and videos.

Music formats

The initial releases of Now That's What I Call Music! in the UK and Ireland were exclusively on vinyl magnetic audio cassette and laserdisc.

Compact discs (CD)

The series transitioned to CD with the release of Now That's What I Call Music 4 in a single-CD format in 1984.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Now That's What I Call Music! discography” as discography. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around That's, What and Call.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with That's, What and Call providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Now That's What I Call Music! discography”, the useful work is to connect “discography” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7065734. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Now That's What I Call Music! discography” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.