Now That's What I Call Music! 50 (U.S. series)

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Now That's What I Call Music! 50
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Compilation album by Various artists
Released May 6, 2014 (2014-05-06)
Length76:43
Label Universal Music Enterprises
Numbered series chronology
Now That's What I Call Music! 49
(2014)		Now That's What I Call Music! 50
(2014)		 Now That's What I Call Music! 51
(2014)

Now That's What I Call Music! 50 is the 50th edition of the Now! series in the United States, released on May 6, 2014. [1] The album features 21 tracks including the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits, "Happy", "Dark Horse" and "All of Me".

Now That's What I Call Music! is a series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Sony Music and Universal Music which began in 1983. Spinoff series began for other countries the following year, starting with South Africa, and many other countries worldwide soon followed, expanding into Asia in 1995, then the United States in 1998.

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Contents

A special deluxe edition includes 14 additional tracks from previously released volumes of the series as selected through an online voting process. [1]

The album sold 153,000 copies and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The album is the 18th album in the series to debut on the top of chart. The Beatles are the only artist to amass more number ones (19) than the Now series. [2] As of October 2014, the compilation has sold 642,000 copies. [3]

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Track listing

No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Happy" Pharrell Williams 3:51
2."Dark Horse" Katy Perry featuring Juicy J 3:32
3."The Man" Aloe Blacc 3:29
4."Hey Brother" Avicii 4:12
5."Pompeii" Bastille 3:32
6."Team" Lorde 3:11
7."Talk Dirty" Jason Derulo featuring 2 Chainz 2:56
8."Selfie" The Chainsmokers 3:01
9."Turn Down for What" DJ Snake and Lil Jon 3:32
10."Show Me" Kid Ink featuring Chris Brown 3:36
11."La La La" Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith 3:36
12."Young Girls" Bruno Mars 3:48
13."Adore You" Miley Cyrus 4:36
14."All of Me" John Legend 4:29
15."Let Her Go" Passenger 4:09
16."Best Day of My Life" American Authors 3:13
17."She Keeps Me Warm" Mary Lambert 3:49
18."Ten Feet Tall" Wrabel 3:36
19."Youth" Foxes 3:40
20."Big Talk"Conway3:39
21."On My Mind" Pia Mia 3:04

Deluxe Edition (Disc 2)

No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Firework" (from Now! 37 ) Katy Perry 3:46
2."Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" (from Now! 42 ) Kelly Clarkson 3:39
3."Poker Face" (from Now! 31 ) Lady Gaga 3:56
4."I Gotta Feeling" (from Now! 32 ) The Black Eyed Peas 4:04
5."Hot in Herre" (from Now! 11 ) Nelly 3:48
6."Call Me Maybe" (from Now! 43 ) Carly Rae Jepsen 3:12
7."...Baby One More Time" (from Now! 2 ) Britney Spears 3:29
8."Hey, Soul Sister" (from Now! 33 ) Train 3:34
9."Somebody That I Used to Know" (from Now! 42 ) Gotye featuring Kimbra 4:03
10."Just Give Me a Reason" (from Now! 46 ) Pink featuring Nate Ruess 4:01
11."Need You Now" (from Now! 33 ) Lady Antebellum 3:52
12."We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (from Now! 45 ) Taylor Swift 3:11
13."Hey There Delilah" (from Now! 26 ) Plain White T's 3:35
14."As Long as You Love Me" (from Now! ) Backstreet Boys 3:31

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References

  1. 1 2 "NOW That's What I Call Music! 50th Deluxe Edition" (Press release). February 25, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Grein, Paul. "Chart Watch: 'Now' Bumps 'Frozen'...Again" . Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Grein, Paul (20 October 2014). "Wanted: A Platinum Album". Yahoo! Music.
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