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The Official Chart, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and MTV Official UK Top 40 , is the UK music industry's recognised official measure of singles and albums popularity because it is the most comprehensive research panel of its kind, today surveying over 15, retailers and digital services daily, capturing The OCC website contains the Top chart. The chart week runs from Friday to midnight Thursday. The Official Big Top 40 is based on Apple data only, Apple Music streams and iTunes downloads plus commercial radio airplay across the Global radio network. The UK Singles Chart began to be compiled in The company regards a select period of the New Musical Express chart only from to and the Record Retailer chart from to as predecessors for the period up to 11 February , where multiples of competing charts none official coexisted side by side.

Official chart

In July The Official Chart moved from its traditional Sunday slot to Friday afternoons, to coincide with the global change in new music release dates from Sundays to Fridays. Tom Browne took over in with Solid Gold Sixty. In April , Simon Bates took over as presenter. From November the Sunday chart show was extended to a two-hour countdown of the entire top At first, every record was played, but as there was insufficient time to play the whole of each record, during the s some songs dropping in the chart were excluded. Tony Blackburn , who had been removed from weekday programming, hosted the show from to From 6 January , every song in the top 40 was played [5] and in March the programme was extended to three hours to allow for each song again to be played in full. The programme now ran from 4pm until 7pm. The programme has run consistently every week, with the exceptions of 31 August , 9 April , and 9 September when it was cancelled as Radio 1 suspended programming due to the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales , Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , and Queen Elizabeth II respectively. Due to coverage of Gregathlon for Sport Relief , the show on 12 February was presented by Scott Mills at the earlier time of 2 to 4pm. In recent years the show has reflected changes in the music industry. In downloads began to be included as part of the top 40, and from July the show has also included audio streaming alongside physical sales. Between February and August the show also streamed visually with music videos of the top 10 singles aired simultaneously on the Radio 1 website.

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Official chart

In July The Official Chart moved from its traditional Sunday slot to Friday afternoons, to coincide with the global change in new music release dates from Sundays to Fridays. Tom Browne took over in with Solid Gold Sixty. In April , Simon Bates took over as presenter.

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Shoogle 16th February In , the BBC Radio 1 chart show was rebranded for the chart week ending 16 April, with the first singles chart now combining physical-release sales with legal downloads. The first number-one hit never released physically was " Run " by Leona Lewis , the 11th song in total to reach number one on downloads alone. Join the conversation by joining the Official Charts community and dropping comment. The show was launched on 14 July Scott Mills [14]. Retrieved 5 January She also replaced Cher at the top of the list of oldest female artist chart-toppers at 63 years and 11 months, [] compared to the 52 years that Cher was when "Believe" topped the chart in So you know, just your average week in the albums then. Article Talk.

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BBC Corp. Since advertising on the BBC is prohibited under the BBC Charter and the government was attempting to reduce childhood obesity , the decision was widely criticised. Contents move to sidebar hide. Number 4. On 7 January , after it had returned to number one for an additional week, "Merry Christmas" became the first record with SCR streaming status Standard Chart Ratio to completely drop out of the Top from number one, exiting at the same time as "Sausage Rolls For Everyone". The company regards a select period of the New Musical Express chart only from to and the Record Retailer chart from to as predecessors for the period up to 11 February , where multiples of competing charts none official coexisted side by side. Archived from the original on 1 December Digital downloads were included in the chart from 17 April Given it's currently second to Noah Kahan's albatross of a smash, expect a duel to the death next week. Simultaneous with single. That's all that matters. The sales diaries were translated into punch cards so the data could be interpreted by a computer. None [b] [13]. Dave McAleer 's website.