 NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Sony BMG Music Entertainment) - The world's best selling multi-artist album series, NOW That's What I Call Music!, is releasing the highly anticipated compilation of today's hottest country hits on August 26. NOW That's What I Call Country will feature 20 hit songs from the superstars of country music as well as the best new artists in the format. This collection contains 15 Top-5 singles. NOW That's What I Call Country is the first country music project for the respected and hugely successful NOW That's What I Call Music! series of compilation albums, which have collectively sold nearly 70 million units in the US in the last 10 years. The NOW That's What I Call Music! series is a compilation joint venture from EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and the Zomba Label Group. The series debuted in the United States in 1998 after the NOW brand had become an enormous, multi-platinum international success for nearly 20 years. To date, the NOW series has generated sales of over 200 million albums worldwide, and has sold almost 70 million copies in the United States since its debut, remaining the only non-soundtrack, multi-artist series to reach No 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
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