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Viewers will be able to choose the tracks they want to see during Top of The Pops Plus, which launches on BBC Two in October.
The show, which replaces music news programme The O-Zone will feature highlights from the main Friday show, as well as backstage chats.
Presenters will include Josie D'Arby - currently to be seen on Channel 4's The Bigger Breakfast - and Vernon Kay, who presents Saturday morning children's show FBi.
The hour-long show starts on 8 October.
 First Pops: Jimmy Savile hosts the first show |
Top of The Pops at Play will be three hours long, and run five times a week.
'Exciting progamme'
The new shows spearhead a further expansion of the Top of The Pops name, which has been on British screens since 1964.
A BBC Two show, TOTP2, shows archive footage, while Top Of The Pops magazine has been a huge success.
The programme's producer Chris Cowey said: "This is yet another exciting development of the Top of the Pops brand.
"It gives us an opportunity to do lots of things that we can't do on Top of The Pops and Top Of The Pops 2 and it will develop into an exciting and watchable programme."
The BBC also announced that new TOTP shows will launch in the Netherlands and Italy next week, based on their own domestic charts.
These add to the established German version of the show, which is virtually identical to the UK original.
Cowey is in ongoing talks to sell the Top Of The Pops format to the US market.
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