Now That's What I Call Music 8 (UK series)

This article describes the 8th album in the U.K. Now! series. It should not be confused with identically-numbered albums from other Now! series. For more information, see Now That's What I Call Music! 8 and Now That's What I Call Music! discography

Now That's What I Call Music Volume 8
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	December 6, 1986
Recorded	Various times
Genre	Pop
Length	1:08 (CD)
Label	Virgin / EMI / Polygram
Series chronology
Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 7 (1986 Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 8 (UK series) (1986) Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 9 (1987)

Now That's What I Call Music 8 or Now 8 was released in 1986. The album is the 8th edition of the (UK) Now! series. This was the second of the series to be released on vinyl, audio cassette and on a single CD, the first being Now 4. It reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart, the fourth consecutive album of the series to do so, and stayed there for six weeks.

Vinyl track listing

Side one

1. Duran Duran : "Notorious"
2. Pet Shop Boys : "Suburbia"
3. Run D.M.C. : "Walk This Way"
4. Communards : "Don't Leave Me This Way"
5. Swing Out Sister : "Breakout"
6. Steve Winwood : "Higher Love"
7. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark : "(Forever) Live and Die"
8. Genesis : "In Too Deep"

Side two

1. Cameo : "Word Up!"
2. Grace Jones : "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)"
3. Mel & Kim : "Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"
4. Jermaine Stewart : "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off"
5. Jaki Graham : "Step Right Up"
6. Janet Jackson : "What Have You Done for Me Lately"
7. The Human League : "Human"
8. Boris Gardiner : "I Want to Wake Up with You"

Side three

1. Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush : "Don't Give Up"
2. The Housemartins : "Think for a Minute"
3. Madness : "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train"
4. Status Quo : "In the Army Now"
5. Huey Lewis and the News : "Stuck with You"
6. Big Country : "One Great Thing"
7. Billy Bragg : "Greetings to the New Brunette"
8. Cutting Crew : "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"

Side four

1. Kim Wilde : "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
2. It Bites : "Calling All the Heroes"
3. Doctor & The Medics with Roy Wood: "Waterloo"
4. Debbie Harry : "French Kissin' in the USA"
5. Robert Palmer : "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On"
6. Paul Hardcastle : "The Wizard"
7. Gwen Guthrie : "(They Long to Be) Close to You"
8. Nick Berry : "Every Loser Wins"

CD track listing

1. Duran Duran : "Notorious"
2. Pet Shop Boys : "Suburbia"
3. Run DMC : "Walk This Way"
4. Cameo : "Word Up"
5. Grace Jones : "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)"
6. Mel & Kim : "Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"
7. Jaki Graham : "Step Right Up"
8. Swing Out Sister : "Breakout"
9. Kim Wilde : "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
10. It Bites : "Calling All the Heroes"
11. Doctor & The Medics with Roy Wood : "Waterloo"
12. Debbie Harry : "French Kissin' in the USA"
13. Huey Lewis and the News : "Stuck with You"
14. Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush : "Don't Give Up"
15. Madness : "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train"
16. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark : "(Forever) Live and Die"
17. Genesis : "In Too Deep"

Video selection

A VHS video selection was also released.

1. Duran Duran : "Notorious"
2. Pet Shop Boys : "Suburbia"
3. Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark : "Forever Live and Die"
4. Erasure : "Sometimes"
5. The Communards : "Don't Leave Me This Way"
6. Mel & Kim : "Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"
7. Bananarama : "Venus"
8. Jaki Graham : "Step Right Up"
9. Swing Out Sister : "Breakout"
10. The Housemartins : "Think For A Minute"
11. Madness : "Waiting for the Ghost Train"
12. The Damned : "Anything"
13. Big Country : "One Great Thing"
14. Ultravox : "All Fall Down"
15. Status Quo : "In the Army Now"
16. Glass Tiger : "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)"
17. Frankie Goes to Hollywood : "Warriors of the Wasteland"
18. Kim Wilde : "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
19. Boris Gardiner : "I Wanna Wake Up With You"

See also

• Now That's What I Call Music
• List of Now That's What I Call Music! albums

External links

• Now That's What I Call Music 8 front- and backcover

Preceded by Hits 5 by Various Artists

UK number one album December 6, 1986 – January 16, 1987

Succeeded by The Whole Story by Kate Bush