Various Artists - Now, Vol. 80 (2011)

Track Listing
1. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
2. We Found Love - Rihanna
3. What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
4. Marry You - Bruno Mars
5. Take a Chance on Me - JLS
6. Jar of Hearts - Christina Perri
7. Mr. Know It All - Kelly Clarkson
8. Heart Skips a Beat - Olly Murs
9. Lightning - Wanted
10. All About Tonight - Pixie Lott
11. All Fired Up - Saturdays
12. The Edge of Glory (Radio Edit) - Lady Gaga
13. Jealousy - Will Young
14. I Won't Let You Go - James Morrison
15. You Need Me, I Don't Need You - Ed Sheeran
16. Cannonball - Damien Rice
17. Video Games (Radio Edit) - Lana Del Rey
18. Wherever You Will Go - Charlene Soraia
19. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
20. Run for Your Life - Matt Cardle
21. Lighthouse - Westlife

1. Set Fire to the Rain - Adele
2. Read All About It (Radio Edit) - Professor Green
3. Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes
4. Earthquake - Labrinth
5. It Girl - Jason Derulo
6. No Regrets (Radio Edit) - Dappy
7. Without You - David Guetta
8. Feel So Close (Radio Edit) - Calvin Harris
9. Collide - Leona Lewis
10. Stay Awake (Radio Edit) - Example
11. Party All Night (Sleep All Day) - Sean Kingston
12. Off the Record (Radio Edit) - Tinchy Stryder
13. Loca People (UK Radio Edit) - Sak Noel
14. Down with the Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks
15. With Ur Love - Cher Lloyd
16. Who's Laughing Now - Jessie J
17. Cheers (Drink to That) - Rihanna
18. Got 2 Luv U - Sean Paul
19. Heaven - Emeli Sande
20. I Need (Radio Edit) - Maverick Sabre
21. Don't Go (Radio Edit) - Wretch Thirty Two
22. Teardrop - Collective

Details
Number of CDs:	2
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
EAN:	5099967858323

Album Notes
Still as popular as ever, despite fears the download market would make its whole concept slightly redundant, the all-conquering Now That's What I Call Music series steamrolls onto its 80th installment with 43 of the biggest U.K. chart tracks from the second half of 2011. Highlighting just what a great year the U.K. hip-hop scene has had, there are number ones from Professor Green ("Read All About It"), Dappy ("No Regrets"), and Wretch 32 ("Don't Go"), while the six contributions from the various X Factor alumni (JLS, One Direction, Matt Cardle) and two tracks that belatedly became Top Ten hits thanks to being performed in the audition stages (Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris," Damien Rice's "Cannonball") show that while the TV show may have had a lackluster year, its impact on the charts still remains powerful. Elsewhere there are chart-toppers from Rihanna ("We Found Love"), Pixie Lott ("All About Tonight"), and Sak Noel ("Loca People"), contributions from ever-presents Adele ("Set Fire to the Rain"), David Guetta ("Without You"), and Bruno Mars ("Marry You"), and two appearances apiece from the likes of Maroon 5's Adam Levine, Emeli Sandé, and Calvin Harris. Highlights from the first disc include Olly Murs' early-'90s throwback "Heart Skips a Beat," the Saturdays' triumphant trance-pop floor-filler "All Fired Up," and Charlene Soraia's stripped-back cover version of the Calling's "Wherever You Will Go," while the bouncy R&B-pop of Cher Lloyd's "With Ur Love," Rizzle Kicks' infectious mariachi band anthem "Down with the Trumpets," and the retro soul of Maverick Sabre's "I Need" are the standouts from the second. The whole dubstep scene seems to have passed the compilers by with the recent number one from Nero conspicuous by its absence, while Ed Sheeran is the closest thing the record gets to anything approaching indie music. But while Now, Vol. 80 is perhaps the most dance-pop and R&B-heavy volume in its 28-year history, its 300,000 first-week sales show that it's certainly not going anywhere just yet. ~ Jon O'Brien