Now US Series Are the Top 40 edits legit?
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Topic: Now US Series Are the Top 40 edits legit?
Posted By: PopArchivist
Subject: Now US Series Are the Top 40 edits legit?
Date Posted: 22 December 2024 at 12:32pm
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Interesting question here.
Especially since the 2000's were the apex of the promo/maxi single US releases there are NOW That's What I Call Music volumes that feature shorter edits (Missy Elliott Lose Control for example) that never appear on promo CD's or anything official from the label. Are the NOW edits legit. Or are they created to get more tracks on the disc (especially before the NOW Next artists additions in the first half of the decade run of the series). Any thoughts are helpful. Thanks. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 22 December 2024 at 11:41pm
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Hello, PopArchivist:
To my knowledge, the Now series routinely uses the official clean radio edits, when applicable, for tracks appearing on each volume. Off the top of my head, I am not aware of any instances in which a shorter edit of a song was created exclusively for the series. Keep in mind that all tracks on the Now compilations are licensed by the major record labels. |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 23 December 2024 at 6:31am
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Custom edits on VA comps are nothing new. Pretty much every K-Tel album from the 70s/early 80s had many of them...some skillfully done,
others not so much. The earliest I'm aware of is a mail order LP a friend of mine bought when we were in high school...this would have been mid 60s. OTOH, many of the songs on those K-Tel, Ronco, etc. albums were stereo when the singles were not. |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 27 December 2024 at 1:40pm
Todd, It's more that some of these "edits" on the NOW series appear nowhere else. I always presumed the record label gave them but why not put them on a promo CD then? ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Todd Ireland wrote: