Now That's What I Call Music! 42 (U.S. series)

Now That's What I Call Music! 42

Compilation album by Various Artists

Released

May 1, 2012

Genre

Pop

Length

1:14:18

Label

EMI

Numbered series chronology

Now That's What I Call Music! 41
(2012)

Now That's What I Call Music! 42
(2012)

Now That's What I Call Music! 43
(2012)

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Allmusic

Now That's What I Call Music! 42 was released on May 1, 2012. It is the 42nd edition of the Now! series in the United States and debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The album has sold 422,000 copies as of August 2012.

Now! 42 features two number-one Billboard Hot 100 hits, "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" and "Somebody That I Used to Know".

Andy Kellman of Allmusic notes that when Now! 42 was released in May 2012, two songs from the collection had topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, several others had reached the Top Ten, "a few selections came close to the Top Ten while a couple stalled nowhere near it." With the final fours tracks once again occupied by songs from potentially upcoming artists, "the time when each volume compiled 20 charting singles is increasingly distant."

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