2021 Archives

79% of Irish people listen to live radio everyday

07/09/2021

79% of Irish people listen to live radio everyday compared to 25% who stream music and 5% who listen to podcasts daily. This is according to the JNLR Radio and the Irish Audio Market report compiled by Ipsos/MRBI. The JNLR (Joint National Listenership Research) is a joint industry research project conducted on behalf of the Irish radio industry from a national sample of 3100 interviews of 15+ individuals between Q4 2020 and Q2 2021. Key […]

80 million Americans listen to podcasts weekly

13/03/2021

80 million Americans listen to podcasts weekly, a 17% increase over 2020 reaching 28% of the US 12+ population according to the Infinite Dial 2021. The Infinite Dial is produced by Edison Research and is America’s longest-running survey of digital media consumer behaviour in the US, published annually since 1998. It provides survey data on a number of important media channels, including streaming audio, podcasting, and social media from a representative sample of the US population aged 12 and over. The overall […]

UK National Album Day returns for 2021

08/03/2021

UK National Album Day returns for 2021 on Saturday, 16th October and its theme will be Celebrating Women in Music, shining a light on the huge contribution made by women to music and album making. National Album Day also reveals the Top Ten women album artists since the start of 2000 according to Official Charts Company data, with Adele named the best-selling women album artist of the century. The list also features such icons as Amy Winehouse, Kylie, Madonna and Britney Spears. […]

Valentine’s Day music, podcasts and gifts

13/02/2021

Valentine’s Day music, podcasts and gifts are some of the offerings from streamers Spotify, Deezer and Qobuz this year. Tinder anthems and podcasts on Spotify Spotify and Tinder rounded up some of the top tracks that speak most to finding a match. Tinder found that adding an ‘anthem’ to your dating profile improves your swiping experience, leading to more matches. Since music is the number one ‘Passion’ that members include on their profiles globally, adding […]

Spotify plans to launch in South Korea

22/12/2020

Spotify plans to launch in South Korea with a rollout expected in first half of 2021 according to a recent announcement by the streamer. Since Spotify debuted its first K-Pop playlist in 2014, listeners have streamed more than 180 Bn minutes of the genre and added K-Pop tracks to more than 120 million playlists. In the last six years, the share of K-Pop listening on Spotify has increased by more than 2,000%. Launching in South […]