Radio 1 Discussion

December 31, 20187 yr

There's also a Dynasties feature with music selected by Daniel P Carter and Phil Taggart which has been on and off the red button for the past week too. Most probably on iPlayer too.

December 31, 20187 yr

I didn't realise it had been on so long just noticed today!!

January 21, 20197 yr

Jack Back (David Guetta) is covering for Danny Howard on Friday night! Pretty high profile for that... just not sure why he needs to use his alias :lol:

Any news on the start date for Rickie, Melvin and Charlie? Poor Dev needs to have a break

January 21, 20197 yr

Jack Back (David Guetta) is covering for Danny Howard on Friday night! Pretty high profile for that... just not sure why he needs to use his alias :lol:

Any news on the start date for Rickie, Melvin and Charlie? Poor Dev needs to have a break

I’m pretty sure I saw somewhere that they are going to be starting Mid April! Not sure what’s taking them so long to start but maybe they’re still contracted to Kiss at the moment or they’re on gardening leave.

January 24, 20197 yr

I’m pretty sure I saw somewhere that they are going to be starting Mid April! Not sure what’s taking them so long to start but maybe they’re still contracted to Kiss at the moment or they’re on gardening leave.

Maybe they’re just taking an extended break then. They left Kiss the week before Christmas.

January 28, 20197 yr

Anyone else find they're just using Radio 1 as a guide to find out what's worth adding to their playlists? This has been the case for me since Greg left teatime. I loved that show, it was glorious post-work listening and I just CANNOT get into the breakfast show. Probably because it's a bit less irreverant, there tends to be too much music/hits that I'm sick of and it badly misses Chris Smith. I would love to listen to Mills on an afternoon but it's too distracting from my work. So it just tends to be 15-30 minutes here and there. I have enjoyed the bits of teatime Grimmy I have heard but that time of day is now largely consumed by toddler-related stuff, and I'm also doing family things during Annie Mac and a lot of the weekend. So what I do is just add their daytime playlist to mine then see what's popular with on the specialist shows. I've had Spotify Mobile for many years but it seems to have made actually listening to R1 a bit redundant for me, especially with songs staying on the playlist for way too long. But I still need someone to help me find out which new music is worth bothering with, so they are doing a good job in that respect!

Edited January 28, 20197 yr by Hiyaluv

January 31, 20197 yr

New C List additions if anyone wants to know early

CHVRCHES - Graffiti

Florence + The Machine - Moderation

Friend Within - The Truth

Jorja Smith - Don’t Watch Me Cry

Rudimental feat. RAY BLK & Stefflon Don - Scared Of Love

Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall

January 31, 20197 yr

Probably don't need to spoiler tag them as we'll know tomorrow morning anyway. Glad they're not waiting around with Harmony Hall, it's such a tune. Hopefully someone can post the playlist in my absence tomorrow morning.

January 31, 20197 yr

Thought

Graffiti

had been and gone tbh. Not that I'm complaining, I love it!

January 31, 20197 yr

Probably don't need to spoiler tag them as we'll know tomorrow morning anyway. Glad they're not waiting around with Harmony Hall, it's such a tune. Hopefully someone can post the playlist in my absence tomorrow morning.

I can do it around 4pm ish, so if no one else has done it by then, then I will :)

February 7, 20197 yr

It's Rajar day! https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/23...r-q4-2018-19/p2

Despite Radio 1’s falling audience, Greg James added 231,000 listeners to his Radio 1 breakfast show in the final quarter of 2018. The number rises to more than 300,000 when adding in listeners aged between 10 and 15. For 15+ audience, Greg’s reach has gone from 4.88m in Q3/18 to 5.111m in Q4/18. But a year ago in Q4/17, Grimmy had 5.722m weekly listeners. Radio 1 says the number of under 25s listening is up 20% since the previous quarter, and that Matt and Mollie on Friday to Sunday breakfast reach 4m a week.

With the exception of the World Service, every single one of the BBC’s national networks saw its audience size drop year on year. When looking at quarterly figures, the only rises are for Radio 4 Extra, the World Service, 1Xtra and Radio 2.

Compared with a year ago, the BBC Asian Network is down 20% (527k reach compared with 661k in Q4/17).

5 live and 5 live Sports Extra combined drop by 10%, losing more than half a million listeners. The main station falls from 5.4m a year ago to 4.9m (its second-lowest ever reach), while the digital-only sports channel drops from 1m to 667k (the lowest it’s been since 2014, and more than a million listeners fewer than Q3/18).

Radio 1’s audience is down from 9.8m at the end of 2017 to 9.37m at the end of 2018 (rises to 10.19m when listeners aged 10-15 are included)

Radio 2 is down from 15.49m a year ago to 14.89m; Radio 3 down from 1.95m to 1.83m and Radio 4 down from 11.25m to 10.48m (a drop of 769,000).

1Xtra had a reach of 1.06m weekly listeners compared with 1.07m last year, 6 Music posts 2.29 million listeners (down from 2.34m last year) and Radio 4 Extra attracted 2.13 million listeners per week (from 2.01m last quarter and 2.26m last year).

The BBC World Service is the only success story among the networks in this RAJAR release, recording a weekly UK audience of 1.55 million (up from 1.47m last quarter and 1.51m last year).

The BBC’s combined Local Radio network also drops – from 8.2m in Q4/17 to 7.79m in Q4/18.

Greg James’ arrival on Radio 1 breakfast has seen him add around 230,000 listeners in his first full quarter, with the show back over 5m listeners.

Chris Evans’ final quarter on Radio 2 breakfast saw an increase of 241,000 listeners, though the 9.065m reach was down almost 400k from the end of 2017.

5 live Breakfast has lost 316,000 listeners over the year (2.245m down to 1.929m), while Radio 4’s Today Programme drops from 7.146m to 6.798m – a loss of 348,000.

Bob Shennan, Director of BBC Radio and Music, said: “It’s brilliant that our new and fresh Radio 1 Breakfast Show is doing so well, on air as well as digitally on BBC Sounds, social media and YouTube. Greg James is a superb DJ and we know his listeners love the show. We can see that a busy few months for listeners in the run up to Christmas has impacted on all radio listening in the UK, but despite that our radio breakfast shows demonstrate what an important role live radio still plays in people’s daily lives with millions waking up to BBC Radio, whether it’s for brilliant music, great guests or comprehensive news coverage.

“Nearly 9 in 10 people continue to listen to radio in the UK but as we know listening habits are changing. We’ve made great strides in reinventing our overall audio offer so that audiences now and in the future can discover the very best of the BBC, whenever they want to. This is paying off and increasing numbers of people are listening to music, radio and podcasts on BBC Sounds with recent record figures.”

Ben Cooper, Controller BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra & Asian Network, said: “It’s a fantastic start for both Breakfast Shows with Greg James putting on over 300,000 new listeners for a total of 5.59 million, and Matt & Mollie with the Weekend Breakfast Show reaching 4 million weekly listeners. RAJAR figures are only part of the story, and as well as over 10 million listeners, Radio 1 had record highs of 14 million weekly views on Radio 1’s YouTube channel.”

The link above also gives information about Commercial Stations, but I've only extracted Radio 1 and BBC stations here.

Seems everything is down across the board, so most likely it's a blip and will go up for Q1 2019. Pleased Gregg has given an increase of listeners for the breakfast show, not as many as I was expecting given the positive comments about the show, but as radio listening across the board is down, we'll hopefully see a better picture for the next set of figures.

Edited February 7, 20197 yr by gavindeejay

February 15, 20197 yr

BRITs British Breakthrough Act nominees performances from the Live Lounge this week - with the exception of Ella Mai, so they broadcast her performances from 1Xtra Live 2018 instead

Ella Mai 1Xtra Live (22nd September 2018)

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