Month: January 2025

Analysis and updates from the world of high‑resolution and digital audio.

News

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) […]
SuperStereo adds another station to its network
Radio

SuperStereo adds another station to its network

07/01/2025
SuperStereo adds another station to its network making the total number of channels available in HiRes to ten. The new station called SuperStereo 3+ will feature New Wave, New Romantic and Synth Pop and is available as a HiRes 24bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC and a 26kHz AAC stream both as direct links and via a webplayer. The station went live on 1st December 2024 at 1 pm New York/6 pm London time. The links are: Website: https://www.superstereohires.com/ […]
Podcast listening by US Latinos up 72% since 2020
Podcasts

Podcast listening by US Latinos up 72% since 2020

06/01/2025
Podcast listening by US Latinos up 72% since 2020 according to the U.S. Latino Podcast Listener Report 2024 released by Edison Research in association with LWC Studios, Latino Media Network, Libsyn, SiriusXM Podcast Network, and Uforia Podcasts. The report was based on an online study of a nationally representative survey of 2,502 US Hispanic/Latino adults age 18+. According to the study, 43% of US Latinos age 18+ are monthly podcast listeners, a 72% increase since 2020 when the proportion was 25%. […]
UK music consumption achieves a decade of growth
News

UK music consumption achieves a decade of growth

06/01/2025
UK music consumption achieves a decade of growth according to figures released by the BPI. The figures based on Official Charts Company data showed that 200.5 million albums or their equivalent were either streamed or purchased in 2024. The UK consumption total was made up primarily of streams, comprising 199.6 Bn streams, up 11% on 2023 and more than double total achieved five years earlier. UK recorded music consumption across both sales and streams rose 9.7% last year marking a […]
Mr Todd's Radio channels
Radio

Rock Q Radio

06/01/2025
Rock Q Radio was a US internet radio station based in Willow Spring, NC playing Classic Rock with a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream which has been discontinued. The station run by ‘Mr Todd’ who also provides a WordPress and audio streaming hosting service now streams three 192kbps MP3 streams of Christmas, Country and Rock music. The website has a pop-up webplayer, a dedications feature and placeholders for a programme schedule and podcasts. The channels […]
BBC Sounds reveals its Top Ten podcasts of 2024
Podcasts

BBC Sounds reveals its Top Ten podcasts of 2024

02/01/2025
BBC Sounds reveals its Top Ten podcasts of 2024 which contributed to a 12% increase in on demand speech content during the year. The corporations streaming app delivered more than 2.3 Bn plays of radio, music, and podcasts in 2024 (from January to November) aided by round-the-clock coverage of the biggest national moments including the elections both in the UK and the US, an action-packed summer of sport, and a record-breaking BBC Proms season. BBC […]
Zap! FM
Radio

Zap! FM

02/01/2025
Zap! FM is a, oldies, pop music internet radio station in the Netherlands broadcasting CD Quality Lossless FLAC, a 192kbps MP3 and 3 AAC+ (48, 96 and 192kbps) streams. In January 2025 it changed its FLAC stream URL. The station’s website has a 192kbps MP3 web player and is switchable between Dutch and English languages. No further information is available on the website but its metadata title says “ZAP! FM – Non-stop the greatest hits […]