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\n Global is the number one commercial radio group in the UK breaking records for hours and share
\nGlobal has the top three commercial radio brands in the UK Heart, Capital & Smooth<\/p>\n

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A strong set of RAJAR figures for Global in Q2 2025 (31st March 2025 \u2013 22nd June 2025), with a record-breaking share (27.7%), record-breaking hours (283 million), and 29 million people still tuning in every week to live radio across Global\u2019s brands. Here are some key headlines:<\/p>\n

GLOBAL<\/p>\n

With 29 million listeners every week, Global is the UK\u2019s number one commercial radio group.
\nGlobal achieves record-breaking share and hours.
\nGlobal holds the top spots with the three biggest commercial radio brands in the UK \u2013 Heart<\/a>, Capital<\/a>\u00a0and Smooth<\/a>.
\nIn London, Global has the top 3 commercial stations for reach, hours and share \u2013 Heart, Capital and LBC<\/a>.
\nCommercial radio celebrates its highest ever share of 55.7%, further extending its lead over the BBC.<\/p>\n

HEART <\/p>\n

Heart\u00a0brand extends its lead as the UK\u2019s biggest commercial radio brand with a huge 13 million weekly listeners.
\nHeart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston & Amanda Holden is the biggest commercial breakfast show in the UK with 4.2 million weekly listeners.
\nHeart brand extends its lead against Radio 2 with 415,000 more listeners each week.
\nHeart\u2019s decade stations, Heart 80s<\/a> (1.9m), Heart 90s<\/a> (1.3m) and sister station Heart Love<\/a> (272,000) all celebrate record-breaking figures. \u00a0<\/p>\n

CAPITAL <\/p>\n

Capital\u00a0is the UK\u2019s biggest hit music station, with 9.3 million weekly listeners across the Capital brand.
\nCapital brand beats Radio 1 for reach, hours and share.
\nCapital Anthems<\/a>\u00a0sees record-breaking figures with 479,000 weekly listeners.
\nCapital XTRA<\/a>, home to the biggest hip-hop and RnB, has 2 million listeners tuning in across the UK every week, 1.3 million more than Radio 1Xtra.
\nCapital XTRA Breakfast with Robert Bruce & Shayna Marie has record-breaking reach of 666,000 weekly listeners.
\nCapital Dance<\/a>\u00a0reaches 998,000 dance fans every week.<\/p>\n

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LBC<\/p>\n

With 3.4 million weekly listeners, news talk brand LBC\u00a0has continued to lead the news agenda, increasing in reach, hours and share both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter.
\nLBC\u2019s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast\u00a0is celebrating 1.4 million listeners, increasing in reach, hours and share in the past year.
\nLBC News<\/a>, the UK\u2019s only rolling news radio station, has 1.1 million\u00a0weekly listeners, up year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter for reach and hours.<\/p>\n

MORE FROM GLOBAL<\/p>\n

Smooth reaches more than 7.7 million weekly listeners and is the third biggest commercial radio brand in the UK. Smooth 80s<\/a> (664,000) celebrates its highest ever audience.
\nClassic FM\u00a0<\/a>has 4.7 million weekly listeners, with Classic FM Calm<\/a>\u00a0(348,000) and Classic FM Movies <\/a>(210,000) both celebrating record-breaking figures.
\nRadio X\u00a0<\/a>has 2.4 million weekly listeners, plus Radio X\u2019s decade stations Radio X 90s<\/a>\u00a0(243,000), Radio X 00s<\/a>\u00a0(157,000) and sister station Radio X Chilled<\/a>\u00a0(175,000)\u00a0all have record figures.
\nNewly refreshed Gold Radio<\/a>\u00a0has added 48,000 listeners in the past three months, with a new weekly audience of more than 1.6 million listeners.
\nThe\u00a0EE Official Big Top 40 from Global is the UK\u2019s biggest chart show with 1.7 million listeners tuning in every week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was a huge moment last quarter to see Heart overtake Radio 2 as the UK\u2019s biggest radio brand, and this quarter I\u2019m delighted to see Heart extend its lead even further.<\/p>\n

For Global to continue to grow and extend its lead is a considerable achievement, and I want to thank every single globaller for their hard work, and our incredible listeners, be they on FM, DAB or Global Player, for their incredible loyalty. This is all helping commercial radio celebrate its highest-ever share of listening.\u201d
Ashley Tabor-King CBE, Founder & Executive President of Global<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredible to see the audience growth across Global, another record share, and record hours. The market is hugely competitive, so to be leading the pack and delivering growth is not something we would ever take for granted.<\/p>\n

A heartfelt thank you to the world class teams at Global and the millions who tune in every day.\u201d
James Rea, Chief Broadcasting & Content Officer at GlobaL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Global is the number one commercial radio group in the UK breaking records for hours and share…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,21046,21047,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-35477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-radio-advertising","11":"tag-rajar","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}