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Jul. 6th, 2025 12:33 am🎧 About Maxie
👋 Hi, I’m Maxie!
💿 29 · they/them · Huddersfield, UK
💻 Night-shift supermarket gremlin with a glitter-stained scrapbook and too many opinions about 2001
💿 What is this blog?
Welcome to Now That’s What I Call a Breakdown—a deeply chaotic, emotionally over-invested attempt to make my way through every single Now That’s What I Call Music album, in order, from 1983 to now.
No skips. No shame. Just pop.
❓Why am I doing this?
It started with a list.
I found it one night when I was doomscrolling instead of sleeping—a full archive of every UK #1 single, ever, from 1952 onward. Then I found a list of the UK’s top-selling songs of all time. Then I found the Now discography.
Reader, I spiralled.
Because the thing is: I’ve always loved pop music. Not coolly, but ferociously. And when you work the night shift at a supermarket and the radio plays the same 200 songs on loop, you start hearing ghosts in the synth lines. Nostalgia in the ad-libs. Regret in “Bleeding Love.”
So now I’m listening to every Now album from the beginning. Blogging about it. Scrapbooking it. Feeling too many things. Posting through it.
🧠 What You’ll Find Here
Posts for every Now volume
Deep dives into UK chart history (did you know “Barbie Girl” was never a #1? Because I do, and I’m mad about it)
Annotated Top 10s with Maxie’s chaotic commentary
Cultural context rabbit holes: what were we wearing in 1999? Why was there so much harmonica in the mid-00s??
Mixtapes like “NOW 2006 But You’re Crying in the Rain”
Occasional liveblogging from the soft drinks aisle at 3am
💌 Talk to Me About:
Which songs you associate with breakups or glitter or GCSE revision
Forgotten girlbands that live rent-free in your head
Whether “Push the Button” was ahead of its time (it was)
Your most unhinged pop music opinion (please, I want to know)
✨ Things I Know Too Much About Now:
UK chart trivia I will never need professionally
Which Now albums have a disproportionately high amount of heartbreak bangers
The exact BPM of “Call On Me” by Eric Prydz
The top-selling single of 1997 (no spoilers)
👋 Hi, I’m Maxie!
💿 29 · they/them · Huddersfield, UK
💻 Night-shift supermarket gremlin with a glitter-stained scrapbook and too many opinions about 2001
💿 What is this blog?
Welcome to Now That’s What I Call a Breakdown—a deeply chaotic, emotionally over-invested attempt to make my way through every single Now That’s What I Call Music album, in order, from 1983 to now.
No skips. No shame. Just pop.
❓Why am I doing this?
It started with a list.
I found it one night when I was doomscrolling instead of sleeping—a full archive of every UK #1 single, ever, from 1952 onward. Then I found a list of the UK’s top-selling songs of all time. Then I found the Now discography.
Reader, I spiralled.
Because the thing is: I’ve always loved pop music. Not coolly, but ferociously. And when you work the night shift at a supermarket and the radio plays the same 200 songs on loop, you start hearing ghosts in the synth lines. Nostalgia in the ad-libs. Regret in “Bleeding Love.”
So now I’m listening to every Now album from the beginning. Blogging about it. Scrapbooking it. Feeling too many things. Posting through it.
🧠 What You’ll Find Here
Posts for every Now volume
Deep dives into UK chart history (did you know “Barbie Girl” was never a #1? Because I do, and I’m mad about it)
Annotated Top 10s with Maxie’s chaotic commentary
Cultural context rabbit holes: what were we wearing in 1999? Why was there so much harmonica in the mid-00s??
Mixtapes like “NOW 2006 But You’re Crying in the Rain”
Occasional liveblogging from the soft drinks aisle at 3am
💌 Talk to Me About:
Which songs you associate with breakups or glitter or GCSE revision
Forgotten girlbands that live rent-free in your head
Whether “Push the Button” was ahead of its time (it was)
Your most unhinged pop music opinion (please, I want to know)
✨ Things I Know Too Much About Now:
UK chart trivia I will never need professionally
Which Now albums have a disproportionately high amount of heartbreak bangers
The exact BPM of “Call On Me” by Eric Prydz
The top-selling single of 1997 (no spoilers)