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

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! colspan="2" |Now That's What I Call Music! 40
|-
! colspan="2" |Compilation album by various artists<br>[[File:NOW040UKCover.jpg|200px|center]]
|-
!Released
|3 August 1998
|-
!Length
|2:37:19
|-
!Label
|Virgin / EMI / Polygram
|-
! colspan="2" |Series chronology
|-
| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable"
|''[[Now That's What I Call Music! 39 (UK series)|Now 39]]'' (1998)
|'''''Now 40''''' (1998)
|''[[Now That's What I Call Music! 41 (UK series)|Now 41]]'' (1998)
|}
|}
'''''Now That's What I Call Music! 40''''' or '''''Now 40''''' is the 40th edition of the ''Now'' series in the United Kingdom. It was released on 3 August 1998 on audio cassette and compact disc.

== Track listing ==
{|
! colspan="4" |CD/tape 1
|-style="background-color: #DDDDDD;" |
!<abbr>No.</abbr>
!style="width:60%" | Title
!style="width:40%" | Artist(s)
!Length
|-
|1.
|"The Grease Megamix" (You're the One That I Want/Greased Lightning/Summer Nights)
|John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
|4:49
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|"Viva Forever"
|Spice Girls
|4:13
|-
|3.
|"Looking for Love"
|Karen Ramirez
|3:53
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|"Because We Want To"
|Billie
|3:46
|-
|5.
|"Lady Marmalade"
|All Saints
|3:55
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|"Horny '98"
|Mousse T. vs. Hot 'n' Juicy
|3:39
|-
|7.
|"Feel It"
|The Tamperer feat. Maya
|3:13
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|8.
|"Doctor Jones"
|Aqua
|3:22
|-
|9.
|"Last Thing on My Mind"
|Steps
|3:04
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|10.
|"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
|The Groove Generation feat. Leo Sayer
|3:53
|-
|11.
|"Kung Fu Fighting"
|Bus Stop feat. Carl Douglas
|3:51
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|12.
|"New Kind of Medicine"
|Ultra Naté
|3:36
|-
|13.
|"Stranded"
|Lutricia McNeal
|3:26
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|14.
|"Lost in Space"
|Lighthouse Family
|5:23
|-
|15.
|"All That I Need"
|Boyzone
|3:42
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|16.
|"Under the Bridge"
|All Saints
|5:00
|-
|17.
|"All My Life"
|K-Ci & JoJo
|3:43
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|18.
|"I Get Lonely" (TNT Remix Edit)
|Janet Jackson feat. BLACKstreet
|4:17
|-
|19.
|"Be Careful"
|Sparkle feat. R. Kelly
|5:10
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|20.
|"Kiss the Girl"
|Peter Andre
|2:55
|-
|}

{|
! colspan="4" |CD/tape 2
|-style="background-color: #DDDDDD;" |
!<abbr>No.</abbr>
!style="width:60%" | Title
!style="width:40%" | Artist(s)
!Length
|-
|1.
|"The Boys of Summer"
|Don Henley
|4:47
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|"Dance the Night Away"
|The Mavericks
|4:22
|-
|3.
|"Save Tonight"
|Eagle-Eye Cherry
|3:59
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|"Road Rage" (Radio Edit)
|Catatonia
|3:45
|-
|5.
|"Big Mistake"
|Natalie Imbruglia
|4:33
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|"Come Back to What You Know"
|Embrace
|4:10
|-
|7.
|"Sonnet"
|The Verve
|4:22
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|8.
|"Teardrop"
|Massive Attack
|4:39
|-
|9.
|"Legacy"
|Mansun
|4:40
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|10.
|"Three Lions 98"
|Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds
|3:58
|-
|11.
|"Vin-Da-Loo"
|Fat Les
|3:40
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|12.
|"The Rockafeller Skank"
|Fatboy Slim
|4:01
|-
|13.
|"Needin' U" (Radio Edit)
|David Morales pts. the Face
|3:31
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|14.
|"I Can't Help Myself"
|Lucid
|3:04
|-
|15.
|"Keep on Dancin' (Let's Go)"
|Perpetual Motion
|3:21
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|16.
|"Everybody Dance (The Horn Song)"
|Barbara Tucker
|3:47
|-
|17.
|"Where are You"
|Imaani
|3:17
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|18.
|"Night Fever"
|Adam Garcia
|3:35
|-
|19.
|"Do You Love Me Boy?"
|Kerri-Ann
|3:22
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|20.
|"No Tengo Dinero"
|Los Umbrellos
|3:36
|-
|}

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