![]() ![]() Not counting bonus compilation albums-like the unassailable Now That’s What I Call Christmas! and the international-friendly Now Esto Es Musica! Latino-there have been 67 Now albums in the United States series. The things they have called music have never been not-music, and so the ecosystem has remained intact. We have never learned the identity of the authoritarian figure who guides us-this so-called “I”-but no matter, he or she or they or it has been just and resolute and unfleeting. ![]() Since that day we have had help in determining what is and what is not music (now), in the form of triannual installments in the Now series. The release of Now That’s What I Call Music! on October 27, 1998, was a turning point, a moment when the chaos of the auditory world was silenced when consensus was reached by the mere declaration that nay, this-a collection of 17 contemporary songs-was music. Twenty years ago, someone finally told Americans what music was. ![]()
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