The Rock n Roll Sport Podcast 2008. Ed Draper is joined by Russ Williams to talk about the year in sport. You can also listen again to interviews with Lewis Hamilton, Chris Hoy, Pat Cash and many others. There are also cameo appearances from Christian O’Connell and Vicki Butler-Henderson. It’s worth a listen to hear [...]

So, it is the first Absolute Christmas and the fact that things are going so well is the best present of all.  That being said, we’re not done yet. Aristotle (and a google search) said
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”  Absolute Radio is off to [...]

Hello, and welcome to the totally not ripped off ‘Blogication’ to this latest dive into the worrying depths of the mind of Jack McMorrow.
I’d like to blogicate this piece to everyone at Absolute Radio. This is partially because I can’t help being a horrible little suck up, but it’s also because I would like to [...]

There’s news today that Apple has bought a small stake in a company called Imagination Technologies. Why should that concern anyone who reads this blog?
At first glance, as The Register story notes, this seems to be all about taking a stake in a company whose products Apple already uses. In particular, some graphics technology already [...]

With any luck, you’ll have heard the DAB digital radio adverts on Absolute Radio. You may well have heard the same adverts on other stations. And you may have seen or heard similar promos on BBC radio and television.
So the question is: has it worked? Has there been a massive surge of sales of digital [...]

For weeks I’ve been convincing myself that it must be some kind of joke; a cruel hoax perpetrated by arch-populist Simon Cowell in vengeance against those he probably considers to be music snobs. I was certain that there was surely no way the limited range of the X Factor winners would take on the beautiful [...]

1. SONG 2
2. PARKLIFE
3. TENDER
4. THE UNIVERSAL
5. CHARMLESS MAN
6. GIRLS AND BOYS
7. BEETLEBUM
8. FOR TOMORROW
9. THERE’S NO OTHER WAY
10. THIS IS A LOW
Just missed out:
BLUE JEANS
END OF A CENTURY
TO THE END
SHE’S SO HIGH
COFFEE AND TV
ABSOLUTE SONG COMMENTS…
Huw Williams in Holyhead on Song 2;
Its a turn the radio up, jump around, 2 minutes and 2 [...]

Yesteryday I went along to Broadcasting House - home of BBC radio - to present at an internal BBC departmental conference about what Absolute Radio has been doing since we rebranded.
In particular, the theme was about listening to our listeners. That means this blog, our VIP community, the podcast we did with Alistair, publishing [...]

Us chaps in the Absolute Radio Digital Media team like to think we’re full of good ideas. Unfortunately we can’t claim the credit for The Rock-Off; our battle of the music forums which is proving a hit with online music fans. No, this one has to go to the clever chaps at i-Level.
There are about [...]

This Christmas at Absolute Radio you can hear some choral arrangements of some of our favourite songs, recorded by the MEDICI CHOIR at the Church of Scotland in Convent Garden.
As well as some of the biggest songs of the year - from the likes of Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Duffy, The Killers and Elbow - [...]

James Cridland, who used to work here, and now works for the BBC, maintains a popular radio blog. He’s just published some interesting radio statistics, that are definitely worth reading.

In mid-October Clive asked me to forecast what I thought our search traffic would be by the end of the year. It had only taken six weeks for searches containing “absolute” to overtake those containing “virgin” so how high would it climb over the next eleven weeks?
This wasn’t the most robust of forecasts. I didn’t [...]

TOP 10 WELLER SONGS
Voted by ABSOLUTE RADIO LISTENERS
The 1st poll of its kind to celebrate The Jam, The Style Council and Paul Weller’s solo material
It was a tight voted but we have a clear winner at #1
There are two suprises in the Top 10;
- the inclusion of Jam b-side The Butterfly Collector
- and the omission [...]

Introduction
The most revealing thing that always strikes me about the Open Playlist is the enthusiasm of our listeners for music - their passion is unbridled . For us so called ‘music professionals’ our analysis of music can be a somewhat sanitised one where statistical expressions like ‘burn’ , ‘familiarity’ and ‘potential’ can [...]