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