Top of the Pops to return for Christmas and new year

Ed Sheeran, Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne are among the acts performing in new editions of Top of the Pops at Christmas and new year.

Jim Ottewill
  • By Jim Ottewill
  • 28 Nov 2014
  • min read
Ed Sheeran, Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne are among the acts performing in new editions of Top of the Pops at Christmas and new year.

Hosted by Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates, the one hour shows will air on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve and celebrate the last year in pop.

Tom Odell, Sigma, Gorgon City feat. MNEK and La Roux will be among a number of artists performing and helping mark the holiday season.

Both programmes will finish with a performance of the Christmas number one and final number one of 2014.

Band Aid 30’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? and Take That’s new single, These Days, are among the frontrunners to take the festive top spot.

Top of the Pops Christmas will broadcast on BBC One at 14:00 on 25 December.

Top of the Pops New Year will broadcast on BBC One on 31 December with a time still to be confirmed.