Originally, the series captured extended 12" mixes of dance hits of the time, but from 1991 onwards, all Now Dance compilations featured 7" edits with only occasional extended versions or mixes included.

The latter contains a new retro-70s Now logo design and artwork which complements its 80s sister Yearbook series. Not to mention Radio 1 had by this point got the God awful JK and Joel on to do the chart show, who made a point of talking all over/laughing at new entries outside the top 20 that weren't on the Radio 1 playlist in a worrying display of incompetence. The year 1984 followed, but after this, the series rewound its year of focus, issuing collections that went from 1982 and backwards into the late 1970s. The 4-CD series follows the same general format of the original Special Editions series, with genre, era, and decade collections, but over four compact discs (there is also an abridged vinyl version of Punk and New Wave and Rock), meaning they contain more tracks than the original special editions, but fewer than the Now 100 Hits, which preceded this series.Indie highlights include The Killers' "Somebody Told Me", Sereophonics' "Dakota", Keane's "This Is The Last Time", Bloc Party's "So Here We Are" and Athlete's "Wires". Tracks with an asterisk (*) next to their title have also been included in special releases from the series.

The frequency in which they were released also varied from year to year; initially, and most frequently across the series, there would be one Now Dance volume per year, but in 1994 for example, there were four volumes released, and in 1996, there weren't any Now Dance compilations released.These were all released on CD and magnetic cassette, but with the 1993 and 1994 volumes also being released on the vinyl format. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Not quite as good a disc as we come to expect now, and lets down the average a bit, but there are a few gems here particularly the start of the disc (up until and including 'Wires' before the quality takes a complete nosedive, briefly recovering for 'Black and White Town'/'An Honest Mistake' and then 'Amarillo' right at the end). Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. Peter Kay really made this song come to life with an all star audience in the music video all for comic relief.