George Ergatoudis is to leave the BBC to join Spotify in the newly created position of head of content programming for the UK.

Ergatoudis has just celebrated his 10th anniversary as head of music for Radio 1. The exec held the same position at 1Xtra, which he helped set up in 2002.

George Ergatoudis said: "I am leaving BBC Radio 1, the world’s greatest music radio station, to join the world’s leading digital music service and I couldn’t be more ...