VA - Now That's What I Call Music! 58 (2016)

Released in late April 2016, Now That's What I Call Music! 58 is front-loaded with six singles that had recently reached the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100. Among that half-dozen is a pair that went to the top. Neither one of them -- ZAYN's trudging neo-R&B slow jam "Pillowtalk" and Justin Bieber's petulant, sparse ballad "Love Yourself" -- is among the decade's best pop songs. After the big hits, the program quickly slides into selections that peaked within or just outside the Top 40. Alessia Cara's number 51 not-quite-hit "Wild Things" is the lowest performing single of the lot, while some other songs, including Taylor Swift's "Out of the Woods" and Ellie Goulding's "Something in the Way You Move," seem to be present more for the names of the artists than the popularity of the songs. This is among the slightest Now volumes of the mid-2010s. (Cheeky compiler alert: "Love Yourself" is immediately followed by Selena Gomez's "Hands to Myself.")

The album peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 Charts.