{"id":324838,"date":"2025-12-19T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324838\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:13:09","slug":"watch-live-as-radio-1-counts-down-to-this-years-christmas-number-one-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324838\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch live as Radio 1 counts down to this year’s Christmas number one – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmaspublished at 14:32 GMT<\/p>\n

14:32 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Jamie Whitehead
Live editor<\/p>\n

Is it that time of year again already? A few months ago Olivia
\nRodrigo and The 1975 were headlining Glastonbury, the Lionesses retained their
\nEuropean championship title, oh, and some band called Oasis got back together
\nfor a few (quite successful) gigs.<\/p>\n

Then the nights start drawing in and the next thing you know
\nyou’ve scrolled through your phone for every variation of cooking a turkey and then all of a sudden – it\u2019s time to find out who this year’s Christmas
\nnumber one will be.<\/p>\n

As always, Jack Saunders will be here to count you down
\nthrough this year’s festive – and non-festive – contenders, and we’ll have more
\nfrom him in a moment about what to expect this afternoon – and he’ll be live
\nfrom 15:00 GMT.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the chart we’ve got a live stream for you, hosted
\nby Lilah Parsons, she’ll also be along in a second to give you more information
\non that.<\/p>\n

We’ll also have all your favourite BBC News and Radio 1
\npresenters reminiscing about their favourite Christmas songs and number one
\npredictions, and all the trivia and analysis you could want. It’s going to be a
\nreal Christmas cracker.<\/p>\n

I’ll be on my way to the Radio 1 studio shortly to bring you
\nall the vibes from the eighth floor, and all you have to do is grab a mince pie
\nand settle in as we take you through (what is hopefully) your last afternoon at
\nwork, or the end of your last day of school for a bit.<\/p>\n

Here it is, merry Christmas, let’s all have some fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmaspublished at 14:32 GMT 14:32 GMT Jamie WhiteheadLive editor Is it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-324838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}