January 2025

UK Record Store Day date announced

10/01/2025

UK Record Store Day date announced returning for its 18th edition on the 12th April 2025. Over 270 independent record shops across the UK, alongside thousands more around the globe, gear up for their biggest celebration of vinyl releases, in-store parties and independent record store culture. In addition to long-time supporters, wine producers Studio by Miraval and HiFi manufacturers Bowers & Wilkins, Record Store Day organisers announced that the DEYA Brewing Company based in Cheltenham […]

Skylegend Radio

09/01/2025

Skylegend Radio which stopped broadcasting in March 2024 resurfaced in October 2024 with a 320kbps MP3 stream. The French internet radio station originally had both a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream and an MP3 stream and now in January 2025 it has resumed its FLAC stream and added a 96kbps AAC stream to its existing MP3 offering. All three streams are available via both the webplayer and direct links. The station’s tagline is La Puissance […]

France continues to buy mainly French music in 2024

09/01/2025

France continues to buy mainly French music in 2024 with 18 out of the Top 20 best-selling albums being made by local artists and in French according to SNEP the French recorded music industry association. The top 3 best-selling albums of the year were by French artists – Werenoi, who climbs to the top step for the 2nd consecutive year, PLK and Indochine 2024 French Recorded Music Highlights 145 French productions are present in the 200 best-sellers […]

WBOR (91.1 FM)

09/01/2025

WBOR (91.1 FM) is a community radio station in Maine, US with both a terrestrial FM transmitter and an internet presence. It has a lossless CD Quality FLAC stream and a 192kbps MP3 stream plus radio aggregator links. The website contains a webplayer together with ‘Now playing’ and ‘Play Again’ functions. According to the station, “WBOR (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial, community public radio station licensed to Bowdoin College. Our team of student and community DJs is […]

UK music revenues highest in over two decades

09/01/2025

UK music revenues highest in over two decades thanks to streaming following a 2.3% increase in overall entertainment sales to £12 Bn in 2024, according to annual figures released by digital entertainment and retail association ERA. Consumption reached the equivalent of 201.4m albums a year. Streaming alone generated the equivalent of 178m albums, exceeding the record of 172m albums sold in 2004 at the tail-end of the CD boom. Meanwhile consumer spending on recorded music – […]

HiRes Internet Radio

08/01/2025

The gold standard for top end audio is HiRes Audio (24bit/96kHz or higher) and although the available music has been limited in comparison to the catalogue available in CD Quality this has gradually been increasing over the past couple of years. 2021 saw Apple Music launch its ‘Lossless’ service which joined Amazon Music, Qobuz and TIDAL all offering CD Quality and 24bit/96kHz or higher streams. Spotify’s much publicised announcement that it would launch its CD […]

Local music in Italy continues to dominate charts in 2024

08/01/2025

Local music in Italy continues to dominate charts in 2024 with 84% of the Top 100 album chart according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The Top Ten Albums of 2024 are all Italian for the fifth year in a row and the Top Ten Singles of 2024 were all Italian as well, an increase from 9 out of 10 in 2023. The results from the FIMI-GFK annual charts (29th December 2023 to 26th December 2024) […]