GLOBAL GROWTH

GLOBAL EXTENDS ITS LEAD AS THE UK’S NUMBER ONE COMMERCIAL RADIO COMPANY WITH ITS BEST-EVER AUDIENCE RESULTS

GLOBAL CONTINUES TO LEAD THE UK COMMERCIAL RADIO MARKET GROWING ITS AUDIENCE TO A RECORD-BREAKING 25.8m WEEKLY LISTENERS GROWING ITS SHARE TO 24%  

GLOBAL AGAIN HAS THE TOP THREE COMMERCIAL RADIO BRANDS IN THE UK – HEART, CAPITAL AND SMOOTH 

HEART CELEBRATES ITS HIGHEST EVER LISTENING FIGURES – THE UK’S BIGGEST COMMERCIAL RADIO BRAND GROWS IN REACH, HOURS & SHARE, NOW WITH 10.3m LISTENERS ADDING ALMOST 250,000 LISTENERS IN THE PAST THREE MONTHS ALONE, OVER 2m MORE LISTENERS THAN RADIO 1

HEART BREAKFAST IS THE BIGGEST COMMERCIAL RADIO SHOW IN THE UK & BIGGEST COMMERCIAL BREAKFAST SHOW WITH 3.9m LISTENERS

LBC IS THE UK’S NUMBER ONE COMMERCIAL TALK BRAND WITH 3.2m WEEKLY LISTENERS – THE BIGGEST IN ITS 49-YEAR HISTORY  

LBC NEWS – BRITAIN’S FIRST NATIONAL ROLLING NEWS RADIO STATION – CELEBRATES ITS THIRD INCREASE IN A ROW NOW WITH 882,000 LISTENERS  

CAPITAL IS ONCE AGAIN THE UK’S NO.1 HIT MUSIC BRAND WITH 7.6m WEEKLY LISTENERS

 CAPITAL DANCE DOUBLES ITS AUDIENCE IN JUST THREE MONTHS NOW REACHING 592,000 WEEKLY LISTENERS  

SMOOTH CELEBRATES ITS HIGHEST EVER AUDIENCE – 6m WEEKLY LISTENERS ACROSS THE UK 

RADIO X SMASHES THROUGH THE 2m MARK FOR THE FIRST TIME, ANOTHER ALL-TIME HIGH WITH OVER 2.1M WEEKLY LISTENERS ADDING 166,000 NEW LISTENERS

THE CHRIS MOYLES SHOW ON RADIO X SCORES A NEW HIGH WITH 1.2M LISTENERS TUNING IN AT BREAKFAST GROWING HIS AUDIENCE BY 93,000 NEW LISTENERS IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS 

CLASSIC FM, WHICH CELEBRATES ITS 30TH BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR, NOW REACHES 5.1m WEEKLY LISTENERS

THE OFFICIAL BIG TOP 40 OFFICIALLY REMAINS THE UK’S BIGGEST CHART SHOW WITH 1.4m LISTENERS

NATIONALLY AT BREAKFAST…

GLOBAL HAS THE TOP 2 COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BREAKFAST SHOWS IN THE UK

HEART BREAKFAST – 3.9M

CAPITAL BREAKFAST – 2.6M

HEART BREAKFAST WITH JAMIE THEAKSTON & AMANDA HOLDEN IS THE BIGGEST COMMERCIAL BREAKFAST SHOW IN THE UK WITH A MASSIVE 3.9m WEEKLY LISTENERS

 CAPITAL BREAKFAST WITH ROMAN KEMP
REACHES A MASSIVE 2.6m LISTENERS

RADIO X’S CHRIS MOYLES GROWS HIS BREAKFAST AUDIENCE TO A RECORD-BREAKING 1.3m WEEKLY LISTENERS

LBC BREAKFAST WITH NICK FERRARI REACHES 1.3m WEEKLY LISTENERS

IN LONDON…

GLOBAL HAS THE #1 & #2 COMMERCIAL STATIONS IN LONDON
FOR REACH, HOURS AND SHARE

 LBC REMAINS THE NO.1 COMMERCIAL RADIO STATION IN LONDON
FOR SHARE & HOURS WITH AN 8% SHARE OF THE MARKET
AND 16m HOURS

 HEART IS LONDON’S UNDISPUTED NO.1 COMMERCIAL RADIO STATION REACHING 1.9m WEEKLY LISTENERS

CAPITAL IS LONDON’S NO.1 HIT MUSIC STATION REACHING 1.7M WEEKLY LISTENERS BEATING BOTH RADIO 1 AND KISS

 LONDON BREAKFAST…

GLOBAL HAS THE #1 & #2 COMMERCIAL BREAKFAST SHOWS IN LONDON FOR REACH, HOURS AND SHARE

 LBC’s NICK FERRARI AT BREAKFAST
WINS COMMERCIAL REACH, HOURS AND SHARE
NICK HAS 783,000 WEEKLY LISTENERS IN LONDON

HEART BREAKFAST WITH JAMIE THEAKSTON & AMANDA HOLDEN
IS LONDON’S BIGGEST COMMERCIAL MUSIC BREAKFAST SHOW

 GLOBAL

  • Global grows its audience with its radio brands now reaching a massive 25.8 million people every week through radio alone, with hours up to 242 million hours and taking 24% market share.
  • Global has the top three commercial radio brands in the UK for reach, hours and share with Heart, Capital, and Smooth.

HEART

  • Heart celebrates its highest ever listening figures, extending its reign as the UK‘s biggest commercial radio brand growing in reach, hours and share. Heart now reaches 10.3m people every week, adding nearly a quarter of a million new listeners in the past three months alone.
  • Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden has a massive 3.9 million weekly listeners and remains the UK’s biggest commercial radio show and commercial breakfast show. Heart Breakfast is also London’s biggest commercial music breakfast show with 715,000.
  • Digital station Heart 80s reaches 3m weekly listeners. Heart 70s grows in both reach and hours, with 319,000 listeners now tuning in every week, and Heart Dance reaches 348,000 listeners. Heart 90s reaches 545,000.

LBC

  • The UK’s number one commercial talk brand, LBC, reaches a record 3.2 million listeners across the UK each week – its 8th consecutive record increase and the highest in its 49-year history – adding 151,000 people in the past 3 months.
  • LBC News – Britain’s first national rolling news radio station – celebrates its 3rd consecutive increase, now reaching 882,000 listeners.
  • Nationally, LBC’s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast and James O’Brien both reach 1.3m people across the UK, with Shelagh Fogarty and Eddie Mair attracting 1.1 million listeners each.
  • In London, LBC is the number one commercial station for hours and share, with a huge 16 million hours and an 8% share of the market.
  • Nick Ferrari at Breakfast is London’s number one commercial breakfast show for reach, hours and share, with 783,000 listeners tuning in each week.

Radio X

  • Radio X smashes through the 2m listener mark for the first time ever, celebrating a second consecutive all-time audience high, now reaching 2.1m listeners every week. Radio X adds a massive 166,000 new listeners in the past three months alone, growing in reach, hours and share.
  • The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X also hits an all-time high of 1.2m listeners at Breakfast, adding 93,000 new listeners in the past three months. Chris has grown in reach, hours and share, extending his lead over Virgin Radio at breakfast.
  • Johnny Vaughan and Toby Tarrant set new highs with Johnny reaching a record-breaking 974,000 listeners at drive, and Toby Tarrant reaches 991,000 listeners on weekday mornings.

CAPITAL

  • Capital remains the UK’s no.1 hit music brand with 7.6m weekly listeners, extending its reach over the Kiss brand nationally, with over 3m more listeners tuning in every week.
  • Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp reaches a massive 2.6m weekly listeners. Capital Breakfast – which was voted the best show on UK radio by the public last September at the TRIC Awards, with Roman Kemp also named the nation’s favourite radio personality – is the UK’s second biggest commercial breakfast show, second only to Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden on Capital’s sister station.
  • In London, Capital has 1.7m weekly listeners.

CAPITAL DANCE

  • Capital Dance, the UK’s official dance station which launched in October 2020 with MistaJam at the helm, continues to grow at a colossal rate, more than doubling its audience size in the past three months to 592,000 listeners.
  • Capital Dance grows in reach, hours and share, welcoming 305,000 new listeners in the past three months alone.

CAPITAL XTRA

  • Capital XTRA, the home of RnB and Hip-Hop in the UK, now reaches 1.5m people across the UK every week, more than double the audience of 1XTRA.
  • Capital XTRA Breakfast with Yinka and Shayna Marie reaches 466,000 weekly listeners, again more than double 1XTRA at breakfast.

SMOOTH

  • Smooth confirms its position as the UK’s third largest commercial radio brand with a record-breaking 6 million people tuning in each week.
  • Smooth Chill celebrates an all-time record of 449,000 weekly listeners.

CLASSIC FM

  • Celebrating its 30th birthday this year, Classic FM is the UK’s most popular classical music station with 5.1 million listeners each week, tuning in for a total of 43 million hours.
  • Alexander Armstrong’s flagship morning programme reaches 2.3 million people every week

GOLD

  • Gold reaches an audience of more than 1.3 million listeners every week.

THE OFFICIAL BIG TOP 40

  • The Official Big Top 40 officially remains the UK’s biggest chart show with an audience of 1.4m listeners, ahead of the Radio 1 chart.

IN LONDON…

  • LBC remains the number one commercial radio station for share and hours with 16 million hours and 8% share of the market.
  • In the competitive commercial London market Heart takes the top spot for reach on 1.9m.

“With RAJAR now fully back with enhanced measurement, I’m delighted this has translated into record audiences for our brands and shows.

To not only hold our position as the leading commercial radio group, but to continue to grow is incredible and down to our brilliant teams and globallers.

It’s a great privilege to know that millions are turning to us for news and analysis, feel good entertainment, hit music, relaxation, whatever it may be, and it’s a responsibility we don’t take lightly.

What lies ahead this year is incredibly exciting as Classic FM celebrates 30 years on air, Andrew Marr joins the LBC family and we see the return of live events.

As always, we’ll keep innovating at Global and building out our brands.”
Ashley Tabor-King OBE, Founder & Executive President of Global

“I’m immensely proud of the Global team for achieving our best ever figures. The fact that our brands have continued to grow in these challenging times is testament to the skill of those delivering world class content.

From Capital Dance doubling its audience, to Radio X leaping over 2 million listeners and LBC achieving its highest ever figures, through to Smooth with a record-breaking 6 million listeners I’m delighted that commercial radio continues to play such a vital role in people’s lives each day.”
James Rea, Director of Broadcasting & Content at Global