{"id":550962,"date":"2026-07-15T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:55:08","slug":"bbc-radio-1s-the-official-chart-first-look-just-levelled-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550962\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart: First Look just levelled up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The programme will also leave London behind and broadcast live from Birmingham, becoming the first Radio 1 show of its kind to come from the city.<\/p>\n

\"Lauren
\n MORE: Every presenter of The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Already a familiar voice to First Look listeners, Lauren will now have even more time to deliver an exclusive early peek as to how the week’s Official Singles Chart<\/a> is shaping up, using the weekend’s sales and streaming data.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first chance to find out which songs are climbing, which are losing ground and, most importantly, who’s in the running for that coveted Number 1 spot.<\/p>\n

Think of it as the warm-up to the main event, before the reveal of the\u00a0only\u00a0Official UK Top 40 every Friday from 4pm on The Official Chart with Jack Saunders on BBC Radio 1.<\/p>\n

New presenter, new home, bigger show: your Sunday afternoons are getting a full glow-up!<\/p>\n

Listen to The Official Chart: First Look on BBC Sounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen to The Official Chart with Jack Saunders on BBC Sounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The programme will also leave London behind and broadcast live from Birmingham, becoming the first Radio 1 show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,43],"class_list":["post-550962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}