Now That's What I Call Music! 38 or NOW 38 was released on 17th November 1997 on Compact Disc and Cassette. There are 41 songs on this album.
Tracklist[]
CD / Cassette 1 (22 tracks)[]
- Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
- Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life (Stent Radio Mix)
- Hanson - Where's The Love
- Boyzone - Picture Of You
- Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me
- Eternal - Angel Of Mine
- Lighthouse Family - Raincloud
- Janet Jackson (feat. Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell) - Got 'Til It's Gone
- The Brand New Heavies - You've Got A Friend
- All Saints - I Know Where It's At
- Louise - Arms Around The World
- Gala - Freed From Desire (for Cassette, Side 2 begins here)
- Sash feat. La Trec - Stay
- Dario G - Sunchyme
- Tina Moore - Never Gonna Let You Go (Kelly G Bump-N-Go Vocal Mix)
- Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
- N-Trance feat. Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
- LL Cool J - Phenomenon
- 911 - Party People...Friday Night (Jon Douglas Radio Edit)
- Ricky Martin - María (Pablo Flores Spanglish Radio Edit)
- Bellini - Samba De Janeiro
- DJ Quicksilver - Free
CD / Cassette 2 (19 tracks)[]
- Wet Wet Wet - Yesterday
- George Michael - You Have Been Loved
- The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
- Oasis - Stand By Me
- Embrace - All You Good Good People
- Faithless - Don't Leave (Hard Mix)
- Radiohead - Karma Police
- Moby - James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version)
- PF Project feat. Ewan McGregor - Choose Life
- Robbie Williams - Lazy Days (for Cassette, Side 2 begins here)
- Ash - A Life Less Ordinary
- Texas - Black Eyed Boy
- Meredith Brooks - B**ch
- Jon Bon Jovi - Janie, Don't Take Your Love To Town
- Ocean Colour Scene - Better Day
- Cast - I'm So Lonely
- Conner Reeves - Earthbound
- Peter Andre - Lonely
- Boyz II Men - 4 Seasons Of Loneliness
Trivia[]
- This is the only main series NOW album to feature Ricky Martin, Ash, Jon Bon Jovi and Boyz II Men.
- This is one of the only NOW albums to have a curse word in one of the song titles, this being Meredith Brooks' 'B**ch'. However, this is the only NOW to have it uncensored, although we have censored it here.
- This is 1 of 2 main series NOW albums to feature LL Cool J and Faithless.
- Hot Chocolate's 'You Sexy Thing' was originally released in 1975, but re-released in 1997. The 1987 remix can be found on NOW 9.
- Gala's 'Freed From Desire' and Bellini's 'Samba De Janeiro are both football anthems and both appear on this album.