Editing Now That's What I Call Music 16 (UK series)

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! colspan="2" |Now That's What I Call Music 16
|-
! colspan="2" |Compilation album by various artists<br>[[File:NOW016UKCover.jpg|200px|center]]
|-
!Released
|20 November 1989
|-
!Label
|Virgin/EMI/PolyGram
|-
! colspan="2" |Series chronology
|-
| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable"
|''[[Now That's What I Call Music 15 (UK series)|Now 15]]'' (1989)
|'''''Now 16''''' (1989)
|''[[Now That's What I Call Music 17 (UK series)|Now 17]]'' (1990)
|}
|}
'''''Now That's What I Call Music 16''''' or '''''Now 16''''' is the 16th edition of the ''Now'' series in the United Kingdom, released in November 1989 on vinyl, audio cassette, compact disc and VHS. The album contains 35 tracks, three of them being bonus tracks which are not on the vinyl and audio cassette releases.

On 17 November 2023, [[Now That's What I Call Music 16 (2023 reissue)|Now 16 was reissued]].

== Track listing ==

=== CD/Record/Tape 1 ===

{|
|-style="background-color: #DDDDDD;" |
!<abbr>No.</abbr>
!style="width:40%" | Artist
!style="width:60%" | Title
!Length
|-
|1.
|Tears for Fears
|"Sowing the Seeds of Love" 
|5:39
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|Belinda Carlisle
|"Leave a Light On" 
|4:13
|-
|3.
|Erasure
|"Drama!" 
|4:06
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|Deborah Harry
|"I Want That Man" 
|3:40
|-
|5.
|Sydney Youngblood
|"If Only I Could" 
|3:29
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|Curiosity Killed the Cat
|"Name and Number" 
|4:02
|-
|7.
|The Beautiful South
|"You Keep It All In" 
|2:52
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|8.
|Wet Wet Wet
|"Sweet Surrender" 
|4:23
|-
|9.
|Queen
|"Breakthru" 
|4:07
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|10.
|Tina Turner
|"The Best" 
|4:09
|-
|11.
|Transvision Vamp
|"Born to be Sold" 
|3:43
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|12.
|Wendy and Lisa
|"Waterfall '89" 
|4:16
|-
|13.
|Kate Bush
|"The Sensual World" 
|3:55
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|14.
|Fine Young Cannibals
|"I'm Not the Man I Used to Be" (CD release only) 
|4:19
|-
|15.
|Then Jerico
|"Sugar Box" 
|3:42
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|16.
|Living in a Box
|"Room in Your Heart" 
|4:35
|-
|17.
|Richard Marx
|"Right Here Waiting" 
|4:05
|}


=== CD/Record/Tape 2 ===

{|
|-style="background-color: #DDDDDD;" |
!<abbr>No.</abbr>
!style="width:40%" | Artist
!style="width:60%" | Title
!Length
|-
|1.
|Milli Vanilli
|"Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" 
|4:24
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|Rebel MC and Double Trouble
|"Street Tuff" 
|3:28
|-
|3.
|Bobby Brown
|"On Our Own" 
|4:12
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|Technotronic feat. Felly
|"Pump Up the Jam" 
|3:39
|-
|5.
|Lil' Louis
|"French Kiss" (CD release only) 
|4:11
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|Adeva
|"I Thank You" 
|3:14
|-
|7.
|D-Mob feat. Cathy Dennis
|"C'mon and Get My Love" 
|3:48
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|8.
|De la Soul
|"Eye Know" 
|3:58
|-
|9.
|Inner City
|"Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin'" 
|4:12
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|10.
|Big Fun
|"Can't Shake the Feeling" 
|3:35
|-
|11.
|Cliff Richard
|"I Just Don't Have the Heart" 
|3:23
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|12.
|Jimmy Somerville feat. June Miles Kingston
|"Comment te dire adieu?" 
|3:34
|-
|13.
|Brother Beyond
|"Drive On" (CD release only) 
|4:05
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|14.
|Shakespear's Sister
|"You're History" 
|4:28
|-
|15.
|Oh Well
|"Oh Well" 
|3:15
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|16.
|Neneh Cherry
|"Kisses on the Wind" 
|3:38
|-
|17.
|Redhead Kingpin and the FBI
|"Do the Right Thing" 
|4:02
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|18.
|Fresh 4 feat. Lizz E
|"Wishing on a Star" 
|3:45
|}

== Video selection ==
A video selection was also available featuring tracks from the main album release.

# Tears for Fears : "Sowing the Seeds of Love"
# Belinda Carlisle : "Leave a Light On"
# Erasure : "Drama!"
# Sydney Youngblood : "If Only I Could"
# Curiosity Killed the Cat : "Name and Number"
# The Beautiful South : "You Keep It All In"
# Wet Wet Wet : "Sweet Surrender"
# Tina Turner : "The Best"
# Kate Bush : "The Sensual World"
# Then Jerico : "Sugar Box"
# Cliff Richard : "I Just Don't Have the Heart"
# Jimmy Sommerville feat. June Miles Kingston : "Comment te dire adieu?"
# Shakespear's Sister : "You're History"
# Neneh Cherry : "Kisses on the Wind"
# Richard Marx : "Right Here Waiting"

{{NOW music albums}}