James Masterton is one of the longest-serving music writers online, having written a weekly guide to the UK Charts since 1992. He has written for dotmusic.com and Yahoo! Music and since 2011 his weekly chart new column has featured on top40.about.com with a worldwide readership of thousands. He has appeared on BBC and Channel 4 television as a music critic and spoken on radio stations across Europe about the latest events on the UK charts.
He is host of a weekly podcast discussing all matters relating to the British music charts. Running since 2008, it celebrated its 300th edition at the start of 2015.
He lives in Sidcup, South East London and spends his days making sports radio programmes, although he cannot tell you who won the FA Cup last year.