Scott Mills to leave as host of BBC Radio 1's Official Chart show: Replacement to be confirmed
Scott Mills is vacating his position as host of BBC Radio 1's Official Chart show, it's been announced.
Scott previously took over from previous host Greg James in 2018. His replacement in the role has not yet been announced.
Alongside Scott, his much-loved co-host Chris Stark will also be leaving the station.
Following the news today, it's been announced that Scott will not be leaving radio forever - instead, he'll be hopping over to BBC Radio 2, where he'll be replacing Steve Wright as the host of the station's landmark afternoon show.
The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 is broadcast each Friday from 4pm, where the UK's only Official Singles and Albums chart are announced, live to the nation, compiled by the Official Charts Company.
Re-visit every host of the Official Chart Show below, and keep your eyes peeled on OfficialCharts.com for news on Scott's incoming replacement.
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Piran
Thanks for all the amazing chart shows, Scott!
Even though the Greg James era will always be my favourite because of the particular music & memories associated with it, you still did an absolutely fantastic job with them & I really enjoyed listening in every Friday afternoon.
Best of luck for the future! ❤️
BleeUK
wes butters was the best for the charts he gone to hits network, for audience there should have the charts in the morning on Friday and repeated on Sunday or weekday morning, as that the prime time on
radio where there more listeners from 3 million to nearly 6 million,
anytime from 1pm to 7pm is it weak spot infact its below 2 million
audience for the charts, just saying,
Blank
As the chart is essentially a news item. Breaking news, as the calculations are completed, that takes precedence over radio scheduling. Although I thought moving from Sunday (week ending Saturday) to Friday (week ending Thrusday) was a bad idea anyway. At any other time than the evening, the news would no longer be current. By playing the chart in the morning, it would literally be yesterday's news and out of date at the time of broadcast.
David AC
It should be moved to a Saturday afternoon slot, only one day after its announced but in a slot that could get more listeners and where they can play the full Top 40. It's barely listenable now.
BleeUK
i think it should be in the morning the charts as that the prime time on radio where there more listeners from 3 million to nearly 6 million, anytime from 1pm to 7pm is it weak spot infact its below 2 million audience for the charts, also the best DJ on radio 1 for the charts was wes butters who now gone to hits network
Karl Macnaughton
I'd prefer the afternoon and at the weekend but right now I'd settle for a show of its own and / or the chart played in full. Personally I hated Wes as he only played the top 20 and a couple of the new entries outside it. It felt like the end, but the subsequent presenters rescued it until it moved to Fridays.
BleeUK
To be fair radio doesn’t play the top 40 in full anyway as only for 1 hour and 45mins. Also Wes was amazing miss those days , also morning should be for the charts as it million more listeners than afternoon
Karl Macnaughton
The other shows with their made up charts play the top 40 in full in a show of their own though. And that's where the audience is nowadays, which I think says a lot.
I'm intrigued as to what you liked so much about Wes, though. What was it that made him a good chart show presenter? I feel he destroyed the show completely by only playing half the tracks and waffling on about nothing for most of the show. He could have had another show for that but it was supposed to be the Chart Show. Thankfully, Ferne & Reggie turned it around eventually. it all went south when it moved to this terrible Friday slot.
GS
bring Greg back
BleeUK
bring back wes butters who now gone to hits network,he was the best hardly no mistakes and true!
Half Giant- Ethan
Let's be honest, Jack Saunders will replace
BleeUK
he a lot better than scott doing the charts, but Wes Butters, was just the bussiness and the best, but jack will make a good replacement as he doing a good job, the thing is has anyone notice scott always kept saying it the only one that counts other charts are lying it not official, the official charts is compiled by just this charts,(the only time he misses that is in mid december) but scott the official charts does lots of charts with the company from asian network radio charts, download, sales, special charts etc.also other radio charts is official to what there system is there dont do acr but radio 1 does so.
Karl Macnaughton
Jack is terrible :-/ I'd rather it were Katie.
Rob Parkinson
Jordan North for replacement, he is probably the most well known now since appearing on TV and doing things for charity
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HazDaSprinter
i hope the replacements good
thierry henon
Good luck to you Scott! Wish you the best and you will be missed!
Karl Macnaughton
I hope whoever replaces him cares about the Chart 'Show' part of their show as much as Scott does. He's done a good job. I'm not hopeful though! The various people who fill in sometimes seem to have little idea what they're doing and some don't seem to care that it's a chart at all. They get the stats and positions wrong all the time. One of them even played the same song twice recently (why not just swap them round if you played the wrong one earlier?).
Can I dream that one day it'll have its own show at the weekend again rather than being tacked on as a 'feature' of somebody else's in an awkward afternoon slot? Seems unlikely, sadly, but I hope so...
Blank
I feel the same way about every main host after Mark Goodier too, including Scott. They don't seem to care, even if they are competent at getting the numbers and stats right.
Not blaming the DJs, as I think the format has a lot to do with it. The Official Chart show seems to be doing what late TOTP did once it was moved from it's Thursday evening slot - getting thrown around the schedules and format changed by desperate producers trying to make an impact and having exactly the opposite effect of losing any importance it once had.
I hope it's not me being a grumpuy old man, but playing the full top 40 in full every week is the only way to give the Chart Show the importance and impact it deserves. It consolidated my knowledge of the records at that time by having even the 20+ week runners played in full every time it charted.
Skipping through the long runners to cover the new entries makes the positions and changes less clear to me. I would say climbers into new peak positions, but at the back at the end of the late 90's there weren't any!
The few records that climbed above their entry position were as newsworthy as Kate Bush being #1 is today. It was that rare of an event.
Karl Macnaughton
Yes, Mark Goodier did the best job of any host I've known, but Ferne and Reggie were pretty good too. The worst one BY FAR was Wes. Dear god, he played about 2 songs outside of the top 20 every week and I stopped listening properly until he finally did us all a favour and buggered off. At least they're rotating around what they play a bit more now and fitting more tracks in (albeit often depressingly heavily-edited; what's wrong with the second verse of Space Man, for example?). Before Scott, they missed out anything that didn't comply with the playlist. Maybe they should just edit down the ones that have been in forever and play the rest properly. But the biggest problem is that it just needs more time. And preferably a show of its own. Ideally at the weekend.
Blank
Yeh Wes was terrible.
Aqua
awwwwww no