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BBC Radio 2 and Official Charts team up to present UK's most-streamed singles from the last 70 years
04.10.2022 - 20:57 / officialcharts.com
BBC Radio 2 has announced a series of shows to mark the 70th anniversary of the Official Singles Chart.
14th November 2022 marks 70 years since the publishing of the first ever Singles Chart in the UK, and Official Charts has created a bespoke chart featuring the most-streamed song released in each year since 1952, offering a fascinating insight into how we judge the music of the past in the modern day.
The chart will be available on BBC Sounds from Friday 4 November as a BBC Sounds collection called The UK’s Official Most Streamed Songs.
On-air, Radio 2 will broadcast each decade's charts from 1960-1999 during the Sounds Of The 60s/70s/80s/90s shows on Saturday and Sunday 11 and 12 November, alongside a one-off BBC Sounds programme hosted by Paul Gambaccini - Most Streamed Songs of the 50s - showcasing the tracks from 1952-1959.
Covering the most-streamed songs released between 2000-2022 will be our own Official Chart Show host Jack Saunders over on BBC Radio 1.
Also marking the 70th anniversary, Steve Wright will present The Listener's Charts, telling the story of the UK's affinity with the charts over the last seven decades; the part they played in our childhoods, and how friends and family would gather together to listen every week.
Following a request for stories, listeners have sent in their own memories and stories about the charts including big chart battles between The Beatles and Rolling Stones, Blur and Oasis, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Victoria Beckham.
Steve Wright will also be presenting a special National Album Day show, celebrating the art of the debut album.
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14.10.2022 / 13:32
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