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

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="float:right"
! colspan="2" |Now That's What I Call Music XIII
|-
! colspan="2" |Compilation album by various artists<br>[[File:NOW013UKCover.jpg|200px|center]]
|-
!Released
|21 November 1988
|-
!Label
|Virgin / EMI / Polygram
|-
! colspan="2" |Series chronology
|-
| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable"
|''[[Now That's What I Call Music 12 (UK series)|Now 12]]'' (1988)
|'''''Now 13''''' (1988)
|''[[Now That's What I Call Music 14 (UK series)|Now 14]]'' (1989)
|}
|}
'''''Now That's What I Call Music XIII''''' or '''''Now 13''''' was released in 1988. The album is the 13th edition of the (UK) ''Now'' series. It was released on vinyl, audio cassette and CD formats. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart for four weeks. This would be the last compilation album to be number 1 on the chart, as the UK Compilation Chart was created in January 1989 due to the dominance of compilations in the albums chart over the previous few years. ''Now 13'' was the first number one album on the new chart.

On 18 November 2022, [[Now That's What I Call Music XIII (2022 reissue)|Now 13 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.
|Yazz and the Plastic Population
|"The Only Way is Up" 
|4:03
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|Womack & Womack
|"Teardrops" 
|3:52
|-
|3.
|Erasure
|"A Little Respect" 
|3:30
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|The Christians
|"Harvest for the World" 
|3:58
|-
|5.
|Hue and Cry
|"Ordinary Angel" 
|4:10
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|UB40 with Chrissie Hynde
|"Breakfast in Bed" 
|3:16
|-
|7.
|Robert Palmer
|"She Makes My Day" 
|4:20
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|8.
|Breathe
|"Hands to Heaven" 
|4:19
|-
|9.
|Phil Collins
|"A Groovy Kind of Love" 
|3:30
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|10.
|Bobby McFerrin
|"Don't Worry, be Happy" 
|3:54
|-
|11.
|The Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones
|"Kiss" 
|4:09
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|12.
|Bryan Ferry
|"Let's Stick Together" (Westside '88 Mix)
|2:56
|-
|13.
|Kim Wilde
|"You Came" 
|3:30
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|14.
|Bomb the Bass
|"Don't Make Me Wait" 
|3:46
|-
|15.
|Brother Beyond
|"The Harder I Try" 
|3:27
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|16.
|The Hollies
|"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" 
|4:17
|}

=== CD/record/tape 2 ===

{|
|-style="background-color: #DDDDDD;" |
!<abbr>No.</abbr>
!style="width:40%" | Artist
!style="width:60%" | Title
!Length
|-
|1.
|Fat Boys (Lead Vocal: Chubby Checker)
|"The Twist (Yo, Twist)" 
|4:07
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|Wee Papa Girl Rappers
|"Wee Rule" 
|3:31
|-
|3.
|Salt 'n' Pepa
|"Twist and Shout" 
|3:46
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|Yello
|"The Race" 
|3:19
|-
|5.
|Inner City feat. Kevin Saunderson
|"Big Fun" 
|3:22
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|D-Mob feat. Gary Haisman
|"We Call It Acieed" 
|3:18
|-
|7.
|The Beatmasters with P.P. Arnold
|"Burn It Up" 
|3:24
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|8.
|Milli Vanilli
|"Girl You Know It's True" 
|4:14
|-
|9.
|Level 42
|"Heaven in My Hands" 
|4:08
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|10
|Jane Wiedlin
|"Rush Hour" 
|4:01
|-
|11.
|The Proclaimers
|"I'm Gonna be (500 Miles)" 
|3:36
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|12.
|T'Pau
|"Secret Garden" 
|4:05
|-
|13.
|Transvision Vamp
|"I Want Your Love" 
|3:18
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|14.
|Duran Duran
|"I Don't Want Your Love" 
|3:47
|-
|15.
|The Human League
|"Love is All That Matters" 
|4:06
|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|16.
|All About Eve
|"Martha's Harbour" 
|3:10
|}

=== Video selection ===
A video selection was released on VHS featuring a selection of tracks that featured on the main album release.

# Duran Duran : "I Don't Want Your Love"
# Erasure : "A Little Respect"
# T'Pau : "Secret Garden"
# Brother Beyond : "The Harder I Try"
# Bryan Ferry : "Let's Stick Together"
# Hue & Cry : "Ordinary Angel"
# Wee Papa Girl Rappers : "Wee Rule"
# Yello : "The Race"
# Inner City : "Big Fun"
# Robert Palmer : "She Makes My Day"
# Jane Wiedlin : "Rush Hour"
# Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones : "Kiss"
# Breathe : "Hands to Heaven"
# Level 42 : "Heaven in My Hands"
# Phil Collins : "A Groovy Kind of Love"

== Charts ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1988-1989)
!Peak
position
|-
|UK Albums Chart
|1
|}

{{NOW music albums}}