The survey conducted by Bauer Radio's Passion Portfolio, which houses radio brands including Kiss, Heat, Q, Kerrang!, Smash Hits and The Hits, found 88% of the listeners who responded through the portfolio's Facebook pages and websites said they had consumed music through radio in the last week.

This put radio significantly above other ways of listening to music, including an iPod/MP3 player (61%), through TV music channels (56%), through internet video sites (50%), through CDs (46%) and on mobile phones ...