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Now That's What I Call Music! 3 (American series)

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Now That's What I Call Music! 3

Compilation album by

various artists

Released

December 7, 1999

Length

70:15

Label

Universal

Series chronology

Now That's What I Call Music! 2
(1999)

Now That's What I Call Music! 3
(1999)

Now That's What I Call Music! 4
(2000)

Now That's What I Call Music! 3 is the third volume of the Now That's What I Call Music! series in the United States. It was released on December 7, 1999, debuting at number nine on the Billboard 200 albums chart.^[1] It has been certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA.

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]

"There isn't anything tying these singles together musically, except for the fact that they were hits," says Steve Huey of AllMusic, "but all in all, it makes for a pretty entertaining and diverse snapshot of pop music circa the turn of the millennium."

Track listing[edit]

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"All Star"	Smash Mouth	3:19
2.	"American Woman"	Lenny Kravitz	3:49
3.	"What's My Age Again?"	Blink-182	2:28
4.	"Bailamos" (from Wild Wild West)	Enrique Iglesias	3:30
5.	"Sometimes"	Britney Spears	3:54
6.	"All I Have to Give"	Backstreet Boys	4:33
7.	"Tell Me It's Real"	K-Ci & JoJo	3:40
8.	"The Rockafeller Skank"	Fatboy Slim	3:27
9.	"Nookie"	Limp Bizkit	4:26
10.	"Special"	Garbage	3:43
11.	"If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time"	R. Kelly	4:56
12.	"Get Gone"	Ideal	4:29
13.	"Chanté's Got a Man"	Chanté Moore	4:23
14.	"Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me for Me)"	Blessid Union of Souls	3:24
15.	"Why I'm Here"	Oleander	3:58
16.	"Happily Ever After"	Case	4:36
17.	"The Hardest Thing"	98°	4:33
18.	"Out of My Head"	Fastball	2:32

Charts[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Chart (1999)	Peak position
USBillboard 200^[1]	4

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (1999)	Position
US Top Billboard 200 Albums^[3]	26

Certifications[edit]


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[4]	2× Platinum	2,000,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Now 3 by Various Artists | Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-10-11.

^ Now That's What I Call Music! 3 – ReviewatAllMusic. Retrieved October 12, 2020.

^ "Billboard 200 Albums - Year-End". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-10-11.

^ "American album certifications – Various – NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC!, VOL. 3". Recording Industry Association of America. January 14, 2000. Retrieved October 11, 2020.

v t e Now That's What I Call Music! albums
United Kingdom and Ireland	Now That's What I Call Music
United States	Now 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 19 20 22 23 24 27 32 34 35 36 37 39 40 41 47 48 49 50 53
Australia	Now 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 Winter 2005 Spring 2005 Summer 2006 Autumn 2006 Winter 2006 Spring 2006 Summer 2007 Autumn 2007 Winter 2007 Spring 2007 Summer 2008 Autumn 2008 Winter 2008 Spring 2008 Autumn 2011 Spring 2011 Summer 2012
Asia	Now 2 3

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