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September 2024 The show gained a new sponsorship and was renamed to The EE Official Big Top 40 from Global.
March 2022 The show gained a new sponsor and was renamed The Sky VIP Official Big Top 40.
January 2019 The show was relaunched as The Official Big Top 40, becoming widely available on Capital and Heart radio stations.
January 2019 Will Manning became the new host of the Big Top 40 show, taking over from Marvin Humes and Kat Shoob
2018 Marvin Humes and Kat Shoob completed their roles as presenters of the show.
December 30 2018 The final show across the commercial radio network aired.
September 2018 Bauer announced that their Hits Radio Network would stop carrying the show after the end of 2018.
April 1 2018 Rudimental, Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen's song 'These Days' completes its record of 9 consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the EE Official Big Top 40 chart.
February 4 2018 Rudimental, Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen's song 'These Days' begins its record-breaking 9 consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the EE Official Big Top 40 chart.
2014 Marvin Humes joined the presenting team of the EE Official Big Top 40.
2013 Rich Clarke concluded his tenure as a presenter of the show.
2010 The programme began sponsorship by Vodafone, becoming The Vodafone Freebees Big Top 40.

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