Now That's What I Call Music! 21 or Now 21 was released on April 13, 1992 as an LP, audio cassette and CD. The album is the 21st edition of the Now! series released in the United Kingdom.
Tracklist[]
CD/Record/Tape 1:
- Queen : "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- Wet Wet Wet : "Goodnight Girl"
- Shakespears Sister : "Stay"
- The Temptations : "My Girl"
- Simply Red : "Stars"
- The KLF : "Justified and Ancient (Stand by the Jams)"
- Madness : "It Must Be Love"
- Genesis : "I Can't Dance"
- Julia Fordham : "(Love Moves in) Mysterious Ways"
- Crowded House : "Weather with You"
- Right Said Fred : "Deeply Dippy"
- Mr. Big : "To Be with You"
- Everything but the Girl : "Love Is Strange"
- Roxette : "Church of Your Heart"
- Brian May : "Driven by You"
- The Wonder Stuff : "Welcome to the Cheap Seats"
- The Jesus and Mary Chain : "Far Gone and Out"
- James : "Born of Frustration"
- The Cure : "High"
CD/Record/Tape 2:
- Shanice : "I Love Your Smile" (Driza Bone Remix)
- The Pasadenas : "I'm Doing Fine Now"
- Kylie Minogue : "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
- East Side Beat : "Ride Like the Wind"
- 2 Unlimited : "Twilight Zone"
- The KLF featuring The Children of the Revolution : "America: What Time Is Love?"
- Clivilles & Cole : "A Deeper Love"
- Opus III : "It's a Fine Day"
- Erasure : "Breath of Life"
- MC Hammer : "Addams Groove"
- Salt-N-Pepa : "Expression"
- CeCe Peniston : "We Got a Love Thang"
- Paula Abdul : "Vibeology"
- Alison Limerick : "Make It on My Own"
- Tina Turner : "Way of the World"
- Curtis Stigers : "I Wonder Why"
- Diana Ross : "When You Tell Me That You Love Me"
Trivia[]
- Queen's 1975 song "Bohemian Rhapsody" was re-released in 1992, following its appearance in the 1992 comedy film Wayne's World, starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey.
- Queen's guitarist also makes an appearance on this album, with his solo single "Driven By You".
- The Temptations' 1964 song "My Girl" was given a re-release in 1992 as the title theme song from the 1991 romance film My Girl.
- MC Hammer's "Addams Groove", from the 1991 children's horror film The Addams Family, won a Razzie Award for Worst Original Song.
- The ad for NOw 21 became the first ad to feature English radio personality Mark Goodier, who would reguarlly voice the ads until NOW 94 twenty-four years later in 2016.