Monthly Archives: December 2008

Christmas Choir by Tim Vernon

09Dec

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 [...]

Categories: Absolute Radio Music 1

Posted by carrie on December 9, 2008

Interesting Radio Statistics

05Dec

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.

Categories: Guest posts 3

Posted by adam on December 5, 2008

Search Traffic by Adrian Fitch

04Dec

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 [...]

Categories: Brands marketing Media 2

Posted by adam on December 4, 2008

Absolute Radio Listeners Love Mr Paul Weller by Tim Vernon

04Dec

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 [...]

Categories: Music 2

Posted by adam on December 4, 2008

Open Playlist Meetings By Marty Edelstein

02Dec

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 sometimes detract [...]

Categories: Guest posts Music playlist 6

Posted by adam on December 2, 2008