Gramophone in 2014

Gramophone
Friday, December 19, 2014

It's been another wonderfully enjoyable year celebrating classical music - here is some of what we've achieved

In 2014 we produced 13 issues of Gramophone, three free digital magazines, six EFG Milestones podcasts, one Awards show and hosted three conversations at Foyles.

✯ We have reviewed over 1575 recordings this year.

✯ The Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2014 increased sales of the winning discs by 266 per cent, and the Recording of the Year by 1000 per cent.

✯ 450,000 reviews have been read since the introduction of our new website in March.

✯ At least 130,000 individual classical music enthusiasts visit our website every month.

✯ We have 28,600 Facebook fans and 33,100 Twitter followers.

✯ In December we launched a new initiative, the ‘EFG Gramophone Conversations at Foyles’, with an interview and performance with our 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Sir James Galway.

✯ Our free Herbert von Karajan digimag (published in July) was read by 5,642 people who viewed 87,000 pages in total.

✯ Our free Gramophone Awards Shortlist digimag (containing the reviews of the 72 Second Round discs) was read by 10,249 people who viewed 145,000 pages in total.

✯ We have nearly 1000 members of The Gramophone Club receiving the full Gramophone offering, both paper and digital).

✯ Our guide to the Top 10 symphony recordings has been read by 19,100 individuals since it was published in April.

✯ When we shared a video of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra learning who their new conductor would be, it reached 108,000 people.

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