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This list of performers on ''Top of the Pops'' includes
popular music
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recording artist
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s and
musical ensemble
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s who have performed on ''
Top of the Pops
''Top of the Pops'' (''TOTP'') is a British Record chart, music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was the world's longest-running weekly music show ...
'', a weekly
BBC television programme that featured artists from the
UK Singles Chart
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.
The
BBC transmitted new installments of the programme weekly from January 1964 through July 2006, and from then on, only as Christmas and New Year Specials. It was also converted it into a
radio programme
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Radio networ ...
(not included here).
Although several artists appeared multiple times on the show over the years, the list notes just their first appearance. This list also only comprises artists who performed in the show's studio, not video clips shown.
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Cat Burns
"Go" is a song by English singer Cat Burns. It was released as a single on 31 July 2020, through Since 93 and RCA Records. Written by Burns, Tannergard, George Morgan and Jonah Stevens, the song rose to popularity in early 2022, eventually peaking ...
(24 December)
See also
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List of performances on ''Top of the Pops''
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Top of the Pops 2
''Top of the Pops 2'' (also known as ''TOTP2'') is a British television music show broadcast on BBC Two showing archive footage from the long-running ''Top of the Pops'' show, some dating back to the 1960s when the programme first aired on Britis ...
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