The anonymous email read: "Here's a challenge for your NOW (sic) scale! NOW #1's!!!"
HERC said he wouldn't use the Now scale again anytime soon but he was challenged. (And how hard is it to type numbers into a spreadsheet?) The thing about Now That's What I Call Music! #1's (aka Now #1's) is that like every other #1s album (Beatles, Elvis, Bee Gees, Abba, etc) HERC has encountered, the title is a little misleading; while all of the songs may have reached #1 on some chart, not all of them were Number One songs on Billboard's industry standard Hot 100 chart. Now #1's came out in 2006 and features 20 songs culled from the first twenty volumes of Now That's What I Call Music! here in the States. More accurately it features at least one track from every volume except the eight pictured below:
HERC said he wouldn't use the Now scale again anytime soon but he was challenged. (And how hard is it to type numbers into a spreadsheet?) The thing about Now That's What I Call Music! #1's (aka Now #1's) is that like every other #1s album (Beatles, Elvis, Bee Gees, Abba, etc) HERC has encountered, the title is a little misleading; while all of the songs may have reached #1 on some chart, not all of them were Number One songs on Billboard's industry standard Hot 100 chart. Now #1's came out in 2006 and features 20 songs culled from the first twenty volumes of Now That's What I Call Music! here in the States. More accurately it features at least one track from every volume except the eight pictured below:
Granted, both Now 13 and Now 20 lack any Hot 100 Number Ones at all but the other six discs feature thirteen #1s between them. So just how many certified chart-toppers, bona fide Number Ones does Now #1's contain? Here's the album's scorecard from the Now scale:
NOW #1s (2006)
| K-tel Scale: |
37.31
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| Billboard Top 40s | |||||||
| POP | ROC | R&B | RHY | CLUB | AC | ||
| Hot In Herre | Nelly | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Hey Ya! | Outkast | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||
| Hollaback Girl | Gwen Stefani | 1 | 8 | 15 | |||
| Survivor | Destiny's Child | 2 | 6 | 3 | |||
| Love Don't Cost A Thing | Jennifer Lopez | 3 | 40 | 3 | 9 | ||
| All For You | Janet Jackson | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| ...Baby One More Time | Britney Spears | 1 | |||||
| Bump, Bump, Bump | B2K feat P. Diddy | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| I Try | Macy Gray | 5 | 21 | ||||
| Again | Lenny Kravitz | 4 | 23 | ||||
| All Star | Smash Mouth | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Absolutely (Story of A Girl) | Nine Days | 6 | 10 | ||||
| Kryptonite | 3 Doors Down | 3 | 1 | ||||
| How You Remind Me | Nickelback | 1 | 1 | ||||
| With Arms Wide Open | Creed | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Hanging By A Moment | Lifehouse | 2 | 1 | ||||
| The Reason | Hoobastank | 2 | 1 | 17 | |||
HERC counts nine Number Ones in the Pop column which represents the Hot 100 exclusively. All but one track managed to crossover to another listed chart. R&B (the R&B/Hip Hop Singles chart) was substituted for COU (Country Singles chart) this time around because Now #1's contains no Country songs. (For identification of other charts used in the Now scale, read this.) With no songs charting below #6 and all but one crossover song, Now #1's scores a 37.31, which if eligible, would place it at #2 in the rankings behind reigning champ Music Machine, which incidentally also had nine Number One Hot 100 songs. Before we put the Now scale to rest, here's Now #1's in Spotify playlist form.
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