Now That's What I Call Music! 41 (U.S. series)

Now That's What I Call Music! 41

Compilation album by various artists

Released

February 7, 2012

Genre

Pop

Length

73:47

Label

EMI

Series chronology

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! 42
(2012)

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Allmusic

Now That's What I Call Music! 41 was released on February 7, 2012. It is the 41st edition of the Now! series in the United States. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 for the week ending February 24, 2012, after selling 142,000 units in its first week of release. A month later, it returned to number three on the chart and jumped to number one on the Billboard Digital Albums chart after a one-day, 25-cent promotion of its downloadable version by Google Play and Amazon.com pushed digital sales up 1,367%.

Now! 41 features the number-one Billboard Hot 100 hits, "Sexy and I Know It" and "Someone Like You".

Allmusic critic Andy Kellman summarizes the chart performance of the songs in Now That's What I Call Music! 41 by noting that three of the songs, "Sexy and I Know It", "The One That Got Away", and "Domino", were in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 at the time of the album's release in February 2012, and calling Lady Gaga's "Marry the Night" and Nickelback's "Lullaby" "duds in comparison". The inclusion of two country songs bring this edition a "more country flavor", at least compared to Now! 40, and "the compilation's highlights" are Coldplay's "Paradise" and J. Cole's "Work Out".

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