History on 4Music - Channel 4's music channel

4Music is a music and entertainment channel in the United Kingdom that’s is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4. The channel replaced ‘The Hits’.

4Music first launched in August 2008. The channel launched with an on-screen countdown from ten minutes counting down to zero. During the countdown, clips from popular music videos were faded through the screen including clips from promotions for the channel. The channel then launched at 7pm with a promotional advert for the channel then fading into ‘Davina and Steve's 20 Big Ones’. The first song at number 20 that played was ‘The Pretender’ by The Foo Fighters.

Not only were music video broadcasted on this channel, but live coverage of the 2008 V Festival was shown on 16th and 17th August and highlights were shown on subsequent days.

In the present day, a chart is compiled of songs from a particular artist that has released at least 20 singles such as Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and The Black Eyed Peas. The public then get to vote for their favourite song on the 4Music website and the results are shown on the results show.