Record listening figures during ‘lockdown’ months with Louis Theroux’s podcast the biggest hit on BBC Sounds

Grounded with Louis Theroux was the most popular podcast during a record period between April-June 2020, which saw 313 million plays of all content on BBC Sounds across radio, podcasts and music mixes.

New data for Q2 2020 shows an average audience of 3.4 million weekly users across the BBC app, website and voice activated devices. There was a record 136 million plays of on-demand radio programmes and podcasts in this quarter, up 13 million on last quarter, and 2.7 million plays of music mixes, a 1.4m increase and over double the previous quarter.