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In May 2000, BBC Music Live organised a five-day namesake event "National Music Festival" which culminated in a 24-hour broadcast on a bank holiday, Monday 29 May. [27]In 2012, Music Day UK [6] was formed and was both the name of the renewed event, and the organisation that had been coordinating UK events since 2012. [7]
UK music fans spent £2.4bn on streaming and vinyl during 2024, data shows, exceeding the previous record of £2.2bn in 2001. [5] A UK inquest into the death of singer Liam Payne opens, and hears that he died as a result of "polytrauma". [6] 10 January – Chappell Roan wins BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025. [7]
Pages in category "British music television shows" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Transmission (TV programme) TRL UK; W. The Word ...
The original acoustic version of "This Day" was released the same night she performed it on Must Be the Music, and quickly escalated the UK charts. It eventually entered and peaked at #10 in the UK charts, becoming Emma's first top 10 hit. It also peaked at #9 in Ireland and at #7 in the Scottish Charts, and at #2 on the UK Indie Chart.
24 May – The three-day BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend music festival gets underway in Luton, Bedfordshire, headlined by Chase & Status, Coldplay, Vampire Weekend, and Raye. [ 76 ] 29 May – English Touring Opera announces that it is to relocate its headquarters to Sheffield , with the process commencing in the autumn of 2024.
1 January – The first episode of the long-running weekly pop music show Top of the Pops airs on BBC TV. [1] The first programme is produced at the BBC's Dickenson Road Studios in Rusholme, Manchester, presented by Jimmy Savile, and the first two acts featured are Dusty Springfield with "I Only Want to Be with You" and The Rolling Stones with "I Wanna Be Your Man".
This is the American theatrical cut of the film, running 25 minutes longer than the version previously released in the UK. 8 December – Alan Bradley is fatally run over by a Blackpool tram on Coronation Street, getting the soap's biggest ever audience at almost 27 million viewers, a record that remains to this day. [64] [65]
5 May – As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of VE Day, ITV airs A Royal Celebration: 40 Years of Peace, featuring the music of British artists such as Lonnie Donegan, Paul Jones, Brian Poole, Joe Brown, Wayne Fontana, Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard. 7 May – The American action series Street Hawk makes its UK debut on ITV.