09 February 2018

Friday

2018-02-09

Events

 * The 2018 Winter Olympics open in PyeongChang, South Korea.
 * Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson dies, aged 48.

New releases

 * Singles
 * James Bay – Wild Love
 * Calvin Harris ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR - Nuh Ready Nuh Ready
 * Albums
 * Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
 * Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
 * Joan As Police Woman - Damned Devotion
 * MGMT – Little Dark Age
 * Max Richter - Hostiles
 * Toto - Greatest Hits

Charts

 * Singles: N1 Drake - God's Plan, N2 Rudimental - These Days, N3 Ramz - Barking HND/N15 Weeknd ft. Kendrick Lamar - Pray For Me.
 * Albums: HNE/N2 Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods, NE/N4 Simple Minds - Walk Between Two Worlds.
 * Vinyl:NE/N1 Simple Minds - Walk Between Two Worlds, NE/N2 Don Broco - Technology

TV

 * BBC One
 * 10.30 am Winter Olympics Opening Cermony
 * 7.00 pm The One Show Alex Jones and Jeremy Vine are joined in the studio by the stars of Marvel's new superhero film Black Panther. Plus John Simm.
 * BBC Four 7.30 pm Top of the Pops 04 April 1985

Radio

 * BBC Radio 2 6.30 am Chris Evans Breakfast Show. Rudimental join Chris and an all-star guest line-up as they get the weekend started with this cover of Stardust's 1998 hit.
 * BBC Radio 1 4.00 pm The Official Chart