Now That's What I Call Music! 40 (American series)

This article describes the 40th album in the U.S. 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! 40 and Now That's What I Call Music! discography.
Now That's What I Call Music! 40
Compilation album by
various artists
ReleasedNovember 8, 2011
Length73:27
LabelEMI
Numbered series chronology
Now That's What I Call Music! 39
(2011) 		Now That's What I Call Music! 40
(2011) 		Now That's What I Call Music! 41
(2012)

Now That's What I Call Music! 40 was released on November 8, 2011. The album is the 40th edition of the Now! series in the United States. To celebrate the release of its 40th disc, two versions were released: the standard edition containing "16 of the hottest tracks from the last few months", including the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, "Moves Like Jagger", and a two-disc Deluxe Edition set that "includes all the hits in the standard set, as well as the greatest hits from the last several years featured on previous sets."[1] Also included on the second disc are two songs not featured on prior Now installments - but still reached the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 - "Low" by Flo Rida[2] and "Cry Me A River" by Justin Timberlake.[3]

Now! 40 debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 albums chart.[4] The album has sold 703,000 copies as of May 2012.[5]

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  2. ^ "Who Do You Love (Clean Radio Edit) (Audio) - The Chainsmokers & 5 Seconds Of Summer". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-06.
  3. ^ "Justin Timberlake Chart History | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2017-11-11.
  4. ^ "Billboard 200". Billboard.com. November 26, 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
  5. ^ Mansfield, Brian (May 2, 2012). "'Idol' album sales: Who's up, who's down?". Idol Chatter. USA Today. Retrieved May 2, 2012.