It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmaspublished at 14:32 GMT
Jamie Whitehead
Live editor
Is that time of year again already? A few months ago Olivia
Rodrigo and The 1975 were headlining Glastonbury, the Lionesses retained their
European championship title, oh, and some band called Oasis got back together
for a few (quite successful) gigs.
Then the nights start drawing in and the next thing you know
you’ve scrolled your phone for every variation of cooking a turkey and now
you’ve nearly finished work and it’s time to find out who this year’s Christmas
number one will be.
As always, Jack Saunders will be here to count you down
through this year’s festive – and non-festive – contenders, and we’ll have more
from him in a moment about what to expect this afternoon – and he’ll be live
from 15:00 GMT.
Ahead of the chart we’ve got a live stream for you, hosted
by Lilah Parsons, she’ll also be along in a second to give you more information
on that.
We’ll also have all your favourite BBC News and Radio 1
presenters reminiscing about their favourite Christmas songs and number one
predictions, and all the trivia and analysis you could want. It’s going to be a
real Christmas cracker.
I’ll be on my way to the Radio 1 studio shortly to bring you
all the vibes from the eighth floor, and all you have to is grab a mince pie
and settle in as we take through (what is hopefully) your last afternoon at
work, or the end of your last day of school for a bit.
Here it is, merry Christmas, let’s all have some fun.
