Video: The first Now That's What I Call Music - TV ad December 1983

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05 /11/arts/music/11mercer.html?p artner=rss&emc=rss Link: http://www.thedailyswarm.com/h eadlines/bob-mercer-man-behind -now-s-what-i-call-music-dies/ The NOW that's What I Call Music series is some sort of gimmick where you sell CDs to mainstreamers that contain a compilation of relevant hits from the past several months. I think the concept behind it is that people don't want to buy the albums of performers when they only have 1 good song, they'd rather buy 1 album with 10-20 hits on it, even if they are from 20 different artists. Sorta like 'listening to the [...]