NOW 61 [US]

Guess who's back for 2017? Now That's What I Call Music! will release Now That's What I Call Music! 61 on January 27th here in these still somewhat united States. Featuring the regulation sixteen hits and six additional What's Next! tracks, you might find one or two songs on the compilation that make your day. Here are two songs I've been digging for the past few months before they were selected for inclusion on the album. The second video contains explicit language so be careful if your Granny or your Supervisor is within earshot.

Props to Misters Snake and Bieber for opting not to appear in the music video. Love that car, though. The whole video could have just shown it driving around all night and I would have been a happy pappy.

If you've read any of my previous NOW posts, you had to know I'd be featuring my girl Ariana's irresistible groove, right? Not one I sing along to but damn, that beat. It gets me moving, you guessed it, side to side.

		UK NOW	title	artist	Hot 100	TOP 40	RHY
	1		24K Magic	Bruno Mars	4	5	1
	2	95	Don't Wanna Know	Maroon 5 feat. Kendrick Lamar	7	2	19
	3		Scars To Your Beautiful	Alessia Cara	12	2	15
	4	95	Side To Side	Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj	4	1	2
	5	95	Let Me Love You	DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber	4	2	4
	6		Starboy	The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk	1	3	1
	7		Black Beatles	Rae Stremmurd feat. Gucci Mane	1	14	1
	8		Broccoli	D.R.A.M. feat. Lil Yachty	5	22	-
	9		Juju On That Beat	Zay Hilfigerr & Zayon McCall	5	30	20
	10	95	That's My Girl	Fifth Harmony	73	19	-
	11		All Time Low	Jon Bellion	16	13	-
	12	95	In The Name Of Love	Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha	24	16	30
	13		Guys My Age	Hey Violet	*	*	*
	14	94	Treat You Better	Shawn Mendes	6	3	-
	15	95	This Town	Niall Horan	20	12	-
	16	94	i hate u, i love u	gnash feat. Olivia O'Brien	10	5	-
	17		Testify	Citizen Four	What's Next Bonus Tracks
	18		Fool's Gold	Dagny
	19		No Apologies	Jojo feat. Wiz Khalifa
	20		Burn Break Crash	Aanysa X Snakehips
	21		Alaska	Maggie Rogers
	22		Old School	Urban Cone

Quick question: Did you click on the hyperlink at the top of the post? If you did, you know that there is another Now That's What I Call Music disc heading our way on the 27th of January.

Eighteen songs, all of them at least eighteen years old but if you are the kind of music fan who collects NOW compilations and were born in the Nineties, you probably already have some of - if not most of - these tracks in your stacks or on your hard drive. Now That's What I Call 90s Pop is a nice throwback party starter though I would have used some other Bobby Brown song and left off the New Kids track altogether.