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TikTok stars to take over BBC Radio 1 on Christmas Day

For four hours in the afternoon, 11 stars from the app will take over the airwaves in a Radio 1 first

Jack Saunders named as new host of BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show

"I can’t believe my name gets added next to the endless list of legends who have presented The Official Chart"

Watch Coldplay’s dazzling ‘Higher Power’ performance for Radio 1’s Big Weekend

The band played in front of a lit-up, firework-strewn Whitby Abbey

Radio 1 announces Big Weekend 2020 “remote festival” line-up

Biffy Clyro, Sam Smith, Rita Ora and more are set to appear

Charlie Sloth is leaving Radio 1 immediately after insulting Edith Bowman at awards ceremony

Charlie Sloth has announced he is leaving Radio 1 immediately, following his stage invasion at an awards show earlier this week. Sloth had been due...

Clara Amfo tells us why pop music needs Charli XCX at the VO5 NME Awards 2018

Watch Vic Mensa cover Radiohead’s ‘Karma Police’

Vic Mensa covered the Radiohead classic 'Karma Police' on BBC Radio 1 yesterday (November 1). The Chicago rapper sung his version of the 'OK Computer' track on...

Radio 1 boss George Ergatoudis: ‘Playlists are the new albums’

The station's Head Of Music has clarified his recent comments that albums are "heading closer to extinction"

Edith Bowman, Nihal, Jen Long, Rob da Bank to leave Radio 1 and 1Xtra in major shake-up

BBC has announced a raft of new shows across its pop stations

Nick Grimshaw’s BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show loses half a million listeners

However, the host has increased his younger audience by 130,000