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BBC 6 Music now attracts its biggest ever weekly audience with a massive 2million listeners, while the fortunes of Radio 1 continue to struggle - according to the latest figures.
The latest Rajar figures shows that the increasingly awesome 6 Music pulled a sweet 1.99 million listeners in the third quarter of 2014, pushing further ahead of Radio 3 - backing up Labour MP Tom Watson's argument that 6 should replace 3 and be available on FM analogue radio rather than just digital.
We agree. Not least for Lauren Laverne, whose mid-morning show is most popular with 868,000 listeners. Not bad for a station that was threatened with closure in 2010.
It's not such a rosey scene for BBC Radio 1 however, whose figures have fallen 2.5% on the same time last year to 10.6 million. Nick Grimshaw is up from 5.6 to 5.82 million listeners he had last year, but down on the previous quarter.
Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper told The Guardian that the Rajar figures "only tell part of the story".
"I’m very pleased that in the traditionally difficult summer quarter, the Radio 1 Breakfast Show has 240,000 new listeners in the year," he said. "1Xtra reaches over 1 million people, and our audience is listening for longer."
Meanwhile, Radio 2 remains the UK's biggest station with 15million listeners.
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