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National Album Day 2020 returns on 10th October

25/08/2020

National Album Day 2020 returns on 10th October celebrating the Eighties arguably music’s greatest decade. This year’s 80s theme is a first in a series of musical themes for National Album Day that will be rolled out annually and coincides with the current resurgence of 80s popular culture that is loved by audiences both young and old. The Eighties has been voted the UK’s favourite music decade and gave us artists like Madonna, Eurythmics, Culture […]

Younger listeners in UK turn to Classical music

19/08/2020

Younger listeners in UK turn to Classical music with 37% of UK Classical music fans on Deezer under 35 years old and global streams from this age group rising by 17% in the last year. This is according to a joint report The Classical Revival in 2020 from the BPI, Deezer and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) using official streaming data and market research. Research showed that 18-25 year olds accounted for a third (34%) […]

Coronavirus lockdown produced a boom in subscriptions to video, music and games services

16/08/2020

The coronavirus lockdown produced a boom in subscriptions to video, music and games services according a guide from the Entertainment Retailers’ Association (ERA) about how the UK entertained itself in the first half of 2020. The data comes from ERA’s tracking study which has measured the entertainment choices of a representative panel of up to 2,000 consumers each quarter for the past seven years. The latest 28th wave of the research commenced on 25th May 2020, […]

Radio listening declined in UK during pandemic

06/08/2020

Radio listening declined in UK during pandemic because of lockdown according to Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. In Ofcom’s third annual Media Nations research report it reviews trends in the TV and online video sectors as well as radio and other audio sectors. Radio listening key findings Radio listening was broadly resilient during lockdown, but the sector will need to weather the advertising market downturn exacerbated by COVID-19. • 14% of online adults stopped listening […]

Children in UK mainly listen to music on their phone

07/07/2020

Children in UK mainly listen to music on their phone and typically through platforms like Spotify and YouTube according to a study by YouGov. The study of 8 to 15-year-old children showed that most listen to music (84%), and on average they spend eight hours and 22 minutes doing so per week. Most commonly children listen to music on their phone (63%), on the radio (36%) or on a tablet (29%). Physical formats are much […]

UK commercial analogue radio to get 10 year extension

05/07/2020

UK commercial analogue radio to get 10 year extension to their licences when they start to expire in early 2022 according to new government plans. Media Minister John Whittingdale set out how commercial radio will be licensed over the next decade so that listeners to popular radio stations such as Classic FM and TalkSport can continue to enjoy their stations of choice for another ten years. Nearly 60% of all radio listening is now via […]

Specialist Jazz streamer jazzed's introductory offer

Specialist Jazz streamer launched in UK

21/05/2020

UPDATE: 21/05/2020 – jazzed launched successfully in February and is now offering its jazzed+ service for an introductory offer of £0.99/month for 3 months. After your 3 month introductory offer your subscription will continue at £5.99/month. ∼ Jazzed is a specialist Jazz streamer set to launch in UK on the 12th February with a Free and jazzed+ paid for service. According to the streamer jazzed is ‘more than a music streaming service. it’s a virtual […]