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The Official Chart: Everything you need to know about the week ahead
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The next week will be one of huge change for the Official Charts – this weekend will see the final Sunday chart after a 28-year unbroken tenure in that slot, just five days before the chart moves to a new slot on Fridays.
The Official Singles Chart has been counted down every Sunday afternoon since October 1987, when Bruno Brookes was the weekly host for BBC Radio 1.
To mark this move to its new Friday slot, you won’t be able to move for Official Charts shows on BBC Radio 1 over the next 2-3 weeks – starting with a Chart day this Sunday (July 5). The full schedule over the coming couple of weeks is as follows:
Sunday (July 5)
The day of the final Sunday chart. To mark this moment, Radio 1 is also planning to devote the entire day to Official Charts, with a one-off “Chart Day”. This will focus on end of year Top 20 rundowns from 6am in the morning through to 4pm, as follows:
o Dev will kick off the day from dawn, with the following countdowns:
- 6am – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2005
- 7am – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2006
- 8am – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2007
- 9am – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2008
o The Matt Edmondson Show will pick up the baton through the morning:
- 10am – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2009
- 11am – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2010
- 12pm – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2011
o Alice Levine will take over for the lunch and early afternoon shift:
- 1pm – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2012
- 2pm – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2013
- 3pm – Official Singles Chart Top 20, 2014
o Clara Amfo will then host the latest Official Singles Chart, in the Bye Bye Sundays show, in its usual Sunday slot from 4pm to 7pm.
Friday (July 10)
The first new Friday chart hosted by Greg James will run from 4pm to 5.45pm. This will be its new anchor slot moving forward.
Sunday (July 12)
On the first Sunday after the chart move, BBC Radio 1 will offer a round-up of the biggest hits of the year so far, counting down the Official Singles Top 40 for the year-to-date.
Monday (July 13)
From 5.30 to 5.45pm, the Official Chart Update will settle into its new slot immediately before Newsbeat, providing a snapshot of what the Official Singles Chart is looking like immediately after the weekend’s business.
Friday (July 17)
The second Friday chart will be the first to reflect seven days’ sales, again filling the new 4pm to 5.45pm slot, hosted by Greg James.
Sunday (July 19)
A brand new chart show will take over the 6pm to 7pm slot, The Number 1 Show, hosted by Cel Spellman. This show will provide an overview of the week’s Number 1s, whether they are the Number 1 single, rock track, vinyl album, most streamed track.
This two weeks of activity will settle into the following routine, resulting in three Official Charts shows every week – more exposure, on more days via Radio 1 than ever before:
- Official Chart show – every Friday, 4pm to 5.45pm.
- Official Update Show – every Monday, 5.30 to 5.45pm.
- The Number 1 Show – every Sunday, 6pm to 7pm.
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Dave Brown
What a joke. This has ruined the Chart Show. Pointless DJs who are more interested in their own voices and making silly comments rather than actually doing their job and playing records. Bring back Bruno Brookes or Mark Goodier - All is forgiven.
J. Buergo-Rodriguez
This is going to be the end of the BBC Radio 1 Chart Show! Who's going to listen to it on Friday? Teenagers enjoying their usual afternoon free time with friends after the end of the school week? People like me at work? People who have just finished work and usually go to the pub to socialise on Fridays? Apart from that, as other people have already mentioned, if we are not going to be even offered the full chart, what's the point? This is just nonsense and they will pay for their stupidity. Some people, the most passionate ones, will have a look to the chart to see who's number one at 5:45 PM using their mobile phones while having a drink and the rest will see it at home in their next spare time. Listen to the chart show? No way!!! End of the road, same as it was for the vinyl or for physical cd singles.
Karl Macnaughton
...but still because we want to hear the top FORTY, not the top 20 plus whatever fits the Radio 1 playlist (i.e. the same songs they play all day every day anyway). Radio 1 is killing a national institution :-/
If you don't want to play it anymore, move aside and give it to a commercial station or Radio 2 FFS!
David AC
Only an hour 45 minutes? I was led to believe it would be a 4-6 show playing new entries between 40-21 and the entire top 20?
Andrew Smith
1 Hour and 45 minutes is not enough time for a proper chart rundown, it will be Radio 1 only playing what's on their playlist. I hope I'm wrong and artist's who have worked hard to get their song into the 40 have their moment. It's why I listen to the top 40 rundown, so I can hear every song.
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Ian Wilson
That will be the end of me listening to Radio One.