The Live Lounge is a segment on the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 radio station BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...

. Originally hosted by Jo Whiley

Jo Whiley

Johanne "Jo" Whiley is a British radio disc jockey and television presenter. She was the host of the long running weekday Jo Whiley Show on Radio 1.-Early life and education:...

 on her mid-morning radio show and now hosted by Fearne Cotton

Fearne Cotton

Fearne Cotton is an English television and radio presenter who is known for presenting a number of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethon. In 2007, she became the first regular female presenter of BBC Radio 1's Chart Show...

, it exhibits well-known artists usually performing one song of their own and one by another artist, in an acoustic format. The 'Live Lounge' itself is also a physical room in the Radio 1 studios, from where some of the performances are broadcast; however, due to its size, many are done from the BBC Maida Vale Studios

Maida Vale Studios

Maida Vale Studios is a complex of seven BBC studios on Delaware Road, Maida Vale, London.It has been used to record thousands of classical music, popular music and drama sessions for BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 from 1946 to the present...

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The songs chosen as cover versions are often a completely different genre to that which the artist usually performs, and offer a new perspective on the original. Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has been presenting a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.- Early...

's cover of Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams , commonly known simply as Pharrell, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, composer, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing hip hop and R&B music...

's "Frontin'

Frontin'

"Frontin", is a 2003 song by producer Pharrell. The title refers to putting up a facade , typically to impress peers. The song features rapper Jay-Z, is written by Pharrell and produced by The Neptunes. At the time he insisted the single was a one-off, and that he was purely a producer and not a...

" led to Cullum being signed to Pharrell's label Star Trak when played to him at a later visit to The Jo Whiley Show, and was added to his 2003 album Twentysomething

Twentysomething (album)

Twentysomething is the third album by Jamie Cullum. It was released in 2003 in his native UK, and in May 2004 in the United States.On this release Cullum performs some original material as well as some covers and standards...

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Performances and albums

For a list of all the covers performed on the Live Lounge, see List of Live Lounge cover versions.

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK UK Compilation Chart The UK Compilation Chart is a record chart based on sales of various artist compilation albums in the United Kingdom. It is compiled weekly by The Official Charts Company , and each week's new number one is published online on the official websites of the OCC, BBC Radio 1 and MTV, and in the...	IRE Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...
Volume 1	Released: 16 October 2006 Label: Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation.... Formats: CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	1	—
Volume 2 Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 2 Radio 1's Live Lounge: Volume 2 is a collection of live tracks played on Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show. The album is the second in a series of Live Lounge albums. It consists of both covers and the bands' own songs...	Released: 22 October 2007 Label: Sony Music Entertainment Formats: CD, digital download	—	—
Volume 3 Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 3 Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 3 is a collection of live tracks played on Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show. The album is the third in a series of Live Lounge albums. It consists of both covers and the bands' own songs...	Released: 20 October 2008 Label: Sony Music Entertainment Formats: CD, digital download	—	—
Volume 4 Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 4 -See also:*Live Lounge*Radio 1's Live Lounge*Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 2*Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 3*Radio 1's Live Lounge - Volume 5*Radio 1: Established 1967...	Released: 26 October 2009 Label: Sony Music Entertainment Formats: CD, digital download	1	—
Volume 5	Released: 25 October 2010 Label: Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations... Formats: CD, digital download	1	—
The Best Of	Released: 6 June 2011 Label: Sony CMG Formats: CD, digital download	2	—
Volume 6	Released: 31 October 2011 Label: Song CMG Formats: CD, digital download	1	—
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released

Live Lounge Features

Over the years of Live Lounge, various Radio 1 features have involved this segment, these include:

• Live Lounge Tour
  Live Lounge Tour
  The Live Lounge Tour is a tour taken by Radio 1 since 2006. This features Jo Wiley/Fearne Cotton going to the Live Lounge artists' house, houseboat, local pub, mum's house, etc. to have a look around at a place that means something to the artist...
  
  
• Ultimate Live Lounge
  Ultimate Live Lounge
  Ultimate Live Lounge was a competition ran by Radio 1 in 2009 to find the best Live Lounge performance to date. Over the previous 10 years there had been more than 500 Live Lounge sessions with hundreds of artists performing their single and an exclusive cover on air...
  
  
• Live Lounge of 2010
  Live Lounge of 2010
  Live Lounge of 2010 was a competition to find the best Live Lounge cover of 2010. After the success of the Ultimate Live Lounge, BBC Radio 1 ran the competition for a second year but only live lounges of the previous year could enter. The competition had a similar format with listeners voting for...
  
  
• A-Z of the Live Lounge
  A-Z of the Live Lounge
  A-Z of the Live Lounge is a competition ran by BBC Radio 1, between archive live lounge performances with the same first letter of their name . It began in January 2011 and followed on from Live Lounge of 2010 , as the competition style was popular with the...