Kylie Minogue's worldwide smash hit (Can't Get You Outta My Head) starts us off, and it is the best choice for the year end Now, kicking off with dance pop! Westlife have their #1 smash (Uptown Girl) next, which, although old, is OK, as Now 44 had the likes of Britney, Steps and Shania Twain from the early part of the year, and Now 47 had the likes of the All Saints and Robbie Williams.
Next we get a bit of novelty with Bob The Builder and DJ Otzi. Pretty harmless, fun songs - but no highlights. My personal favourite on the album, is Steps' hit (Chain Reaction), which starts the way for a trio of great pop songs, followed by Five and Sophie Ellis Bextor. The likes of Blue, Wyclef, Nelly Futardo, Alien Ant Farm and City High make up the mid section of Disc One with popular songs - and all listenable. The good thing about these is that if you are a pop fan - the songs are catchy enough, a rock fan - the songs are rocky enough and so on. Wheatus and Travis round out the rock before J Lo, Emma Bunton, Gabrielle and friends end the disc with easy listening pop ballads.
CD2 starts with Iio's hit, not a favourite of mine, but not horrible. Destinys Child, Superman Lovers and D12 come up next, a weird start of varied songs to the disc. R&B/Pop kicks in for about 10 tracks with the likes of Eve and Gwen, Britney, Mis Teeq's excellent track, the fantastic Mary J Blige song, Samantha Mumba (the album version sadly, not the single version), Liberty, Louise and so on. The disc ends with a bunch of forgettable dance tracks thrown between N Trance's top track, and the amusing Afroman.
Overall a nice CD, but with bad editing in Sophie Ellis Bextor's track, and Samantha Mumba's album version, plus the fact that the album does tire rather quickly - and you only end up listening to about 20 of them a few months down the track.
But still a great Disc to have in your collection! Saved me heaps of $$$ instead of buying CD Singles!
