Now That's What I Call Rock

This article is about the 2016 compilation album in the U.S. series. For the British television channel, see Now Rock.

Now That's What I Call Rock is a compilation album released on January 22, 2016, by the distributors of the popular Now That's What I Call Music series in the United States. The collection brings together a diverse group of artists from a range of styles such as "EDM textures, summer festival blues-rock chug, arena alternative, post-Tool hard rock, triumphant psych-pop and cosmopolitan retro experiments."^[1]

Now That's What I Call Rock
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	January 22, 2016 (2016-01-22)
Genre	Rock
Length	72:58
Label	UMG Sony
Series chronology
Now That's What I Call a Workout 2016 (2015) Now That's What I Call Rock (2016) Now That's What I Call Music! 57 (2016)

Development

Despite the popularity of the Now albums, rock compilations have been an area of neglect by record companies. To reach out to a broad audience, the first rock volume of Now features contemporary pop acts with rock roots and takes a "big-tent" approach to the genre. Cliff Chenfeld, co-owner of the Razor & Tie and a consultant for Now That’s What I Call Rock, feels "most music listeners are pretty open"^[2] and this release "is a means of introducing some of those bands to that broader audience who I think would embrace it."^[1]

The compilers of the set wanted to avoid defining what rock music is in 2016, but instead tried to give what people think it is, "as opposed to using a term for rock that might have defined what rock" used to be.^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Throne"	Bring Me the Horizon	3:09
2.	"Cut the Cord"	Shinedown	3:41
3.	"Uma Thurman"	Fall Out Boy	3:31
4.	"Little Monster"	Royal Blood	3:31
5.	"Words as Weapons"	Seether	3:59
6.	"Mess Around"	Cage the Elephant	2:52
7.	"Could Have Been Me"	The Struts	3:06
8.	"I Bet My Life"	Imagine Dragons	3:11
9.	"First"	Cold War Kids	3:17
10.	"Shut Up and Dance"	Walk the Moon	3:16
11.	"Renegades"	X Ambassadors	3:14
12.	"Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart"	Chris Cornell	3:52
13.	"S.O.B."	Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats	4:05
14.	"Ex's & Oh's"	Elle King	3:20
15.	"Ship to Wreck"	Florence and the Machine	3:52
16.	"Electric Love"	Børns	3:36
17.	"Failure"	Breaking Benjamin	3:33
18.	"The Otherside"	Red Sun Rising	3:39
19.	"Paralyzed"	Failure Anthem	3:08
20.	"Lightning in the Sky"	Devour the Day	3:22
21.	"Bros"	Wolf Alice	3:44

Reception

James Christopher Monger of AllMusic notes the "wide range of rock subgenres" represented in this compilation.^[3]

Chart performance

Chart (2016)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[4]	137
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[5]	10