Last year, more than 37 million people settled their behinds into the red-velvet upholstery, plastic chairs or wooden I'll only tolerate this because it's the Globe benches of a theatre. West End attendance has reportedly grown by 11% and regional audiences have increased by 4% since 2019 pretty impressive amid a cost of living crisis and after a pandemic that had us all locked in our houses.
In this general appraisal, there is a generational aspect, unsurprisingly. While AM/FM listening remains stable, that number drops as the age goes down. Even so, the youthful drop in radio listening is hardly catastrophic; all age groups remain above 80% radio listeners for at least an hour per day. This is illustrated in the graphic below, along with a general decline (from 92% to 87%) across the entire surveyed population.