Genre | Top 40 |
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Running time | 180 minutes (4:00 pm – 7:00 pm) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | Global's London studios |
Syndicates | |
Hosted by | Will Manning |
Produced by | Luke Prior |
Original release | 14 June 2009 – present |
Website | www |
History of the UK independent and commercial radio music chart |
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The Network Chart Show |
1984-1993: The Network Chart Show |
The Pepsi Chart |
1996-2002: The Pepsi Network Chart Show 1996-2002: The Pepsi Chart |
Hit40UK |
2003–2009: Hit40UK |
The Official Big Top 40 |
2009–2010: The Big Top 40 Show 2010-2011: The Vodafone Freebees Big Top 40 2011-2017: The Vodafone Big Top 40 2017-2018: The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 2019-2022: The Official Big Top 40 2022-2024: The Sky VIP Official Big Top 40 2024–present: The Official Big Top 40 |
The Official Big Top 40 from Global is a radio chart show broadcast every Sunday from 4 to 7pm on Global's Capital and Heart networks, presented by Will Manning. The show started on 14 June 2009, with "When Love Takes Over" by David Guetta and Kelly Rowland becoming the show's first number 1. There have been 366 number one songs as of 2nd June 2024 with the current being "Houdini" by Eminem.
The Official Big Top 40 begins with a recap of the previous week's Top 10 songs, followed by a countdown of the 40 biggest songs from the last seven days. A recap is broadcast after every 10 songs, apart from the top 10 which is recapped after 9 songs. Interviews with the artists making that particular week's chart, competitions, calls with listeners and advertisements make up the remaining airtime. The number 1 song is announced just before 7pm. The week's chart is subsequently published on the Big Top 40's website after the show.[ citation needed ]
The chart is compiled based on iTunes sales, Apple Music streams, and radio airplay from the stations that broadcast the show. The algorithm differs to that of the Official UK Singles Chart, which includes physical sales, as well as downloads and streaming from all sources, but does not take radio airplay into account. [1] [2]
Will Manning is the programme's current host, having taken over from Marvin Humes and Kat Shoob in January 2019. [3] The show is broadcast from Global's studios in Leicester Square, London. [4]
The chart was launched as The Big Top 40 Show on 14 June 2009. Between 2010 and 2018, the programme was sponsored by Vodafone, becoming The Vodafone Freebees Big Top 40 (later The Vodafone Big Top 40 and The Official Vodafone Big Top 40). For the first time, listeners could change the chart during the show by downloading tracks on iTunes. [5] Songs 40 to 11 are played before the new Top 10 is finalised at 6:10pm, with iTunes sales during the show taken into account. This made it the first real-time chart show broadcast on UK radio.
In September 2018, Bauer announced that their Hits Radio Network would stop carrying the show after the expiration of its contract at the end of 2018. Global, which produced the show, made the decision to withdraw the programme from syndication to the wider commercial radio network. [6] The final show across the commercial radio network aired on 30 December 2018. The relaunched show, The Official Big Top 40, started in January 2019 and is widely available on Capital and Heart. [6]
In March 2022, the show gained a new sponsor and was renamed The Sky VIP Official Big Top 40. [1] After an appeal from the Official Charts Company to the Advertising Standards Authority, Global was ordered not to refer to the show as "The Official Big Top 40", and subsequently updated the name to "The Official Big Top 40 from Global". [7]
Current presenters
Previous presenters
The current Number 1 belongs to Houdini by Eminem (2 weeks). [11]
The song holding the record for most weeks at Number 1 is "Despacito (remix)" by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber with 11 non-consecutive weeks. [12] The song that has spent the most consecutive weeks at Number 1 is "These Days" by Rudimental, Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen with nine consecutive weeks (4 February - 1 April 2018). [13]
The artist with the most Number 1 songs is Ed Sheeran with 20 singles as of 2023, [14] while the group with the most Number 1 songs is Little Mix with 8 songs as of 2021. [15]
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Hit40UK was a networked Top 40 chart show broadcasting on around 130 UK commercial radio stations every Sunday from 4pm to 7pm. It was also a TV programme shown on 4Music. The radio version was produced in house by Global Radio and Somethin' Else.
"Unwritten" is a song by English singer Natasha Bedingfield for her debut studio album of the same name. It was released on 29 November 2004 as the third single from the album. The song was written by Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois, and Wayne Rodrigues and produced by Rodrigues and Brisebois. The single was released as the album's third UK single and second US single. In 2006, "Unwritten" became the theme song for the MTV reality television series The Hills. It reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first top-10 hit in the United States.
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The Commercial Radio Chart Show was a radio programme that was broadcast across commercial adult contemporary and contemporary hit radio stations across the United Kingdom, from 30 September 1984 to 30 December 2018. It had many different names over the years, beginning with The Network Chart Show, before securing sponsorship with Pepsi between 1993 and 2003, which led to the birth of The Pepsi Chart. Since then, it has been known as Hit40UK, The Big Top 40 Show, The Vodafone Freebees Big Top 40, The Vodafone Big Top 40 and, finally, The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 between October 2017 and December 2018.
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