Now That’s What I Call Music! 38 (1997) Original UK TV Advert. Voiceover by Mark Goodier
Now That’s What I Call Music! 38 or Now 38 was released in 1997. The album is the 38th edition of the (UK) Now! series. It was released on audio cassette & CD formats.
Sanyo VTC5000 Betacord advert from 1982
History:
Technologically Sanyo has had good ties with Sony, supporting the Betamax video format from invention until the mid 1980s (the best selling video recorder in the UK in 1983 was the Sanyo VTC5000), and later being an early adopter of the highly successful Video8 camcorder format. More recently, though, Sanyo decided against supporting Sony’s format, the Blu-ray Disc, and instead gave its backing to Toshiba’s HD DVD. This was ultimately unsuccessful, however, as Sony’s Blu-ray triumphed.History taken from Wikipedia.
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Now That’s What I Call Music or Now 1 is the first album from the popular Now! series that was released in the United Kingdom in 1983. Initial pressings were released on vinyl and audio cassette, with a re-release on CD in 2008, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album and series. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Becoming one of the biggest albums of the year, it became one of only a few compilation albums to reach #1 on the UK & Ireland album chart, staying there for four consecutive weeks and five in all. It also went 3x platinum, selling over 900,000 copies. Continue reading