BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds smash festive recordsEastEnders, Call the Midwife, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The Traitors and Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve topped the list of most watched programmes and on BBC Sounds, there were a record 57.7 million plays of all content between 20 December and 2 January, boosted by three new Miss Marple stories, new drama The Dark Is Rising and the hugely popular Christmas Sounds music offerOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY BBC iPlayer Viewers and listeners flocked to BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds in record numbers over the festive period with millions also watching on BBC TV and listening on BBC Radio. On BBC iPlayer, every day across the ‘festive fortnight’ – 20 December to 2 January - programmes were streamed more times on iPlayer this year than last year - with 23 December, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day showing the highest growth year on year (+25% or more). The week of Boxing Day to New Year’s Day marked iPlayer’s best-ever ‘festive week’ with programmes streamed 165m times. EastEnders, Call the Midwife, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The Traitors and Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve topped the list of most watched programmes On BBC Sounds, there were a record 57.7 million plays of all content between 20 December and 2 January, boosted by three new Miss Marple stories, new drama The Dark Is Rising and the hugely popular Christmas Sounds music offer. Every day across the festive period, programmes were listened to more times on BBC Sounds this year than last year – with an overall increase of 9% compared with the same period in 2021. BBC Sounds also recorded its best festive day ever, with over 4.7 million plays on 20 December. Charlotte Moore, BBC’s Chief Content Officer says: “Over the festive season, audiences chose the BBC in record breaking numbers on BBC iPlayer and Sounds for our world class content signalling a brilliant start to 2023 on the BBC.” Additional data revealed by the BBC today shows: On BBC iPlayer • The week of Boxing Day to New Year’s Day saw programmes streamed +17% more times than the same period last year On BBC Sounds: • Marple: Three New Stories was the most listened to title on BBC Sounds, and it made up seven of the top ten most popular episodes over the festive period Today’s news follows the announcement that across both broadcast and on-demand viewing, the BBC secured the top six most watched programmes, and seven out of the top ten programmes on Christmas Day – with the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special winning Christmas Day ratings in 2022. BBC iPlayer The top 20 most streamed programmes (titles) The top 20 individual episodes streamed on BBC iPlayer between 20 December 2022 and 2 January 2023 are: BBC Sounds The top ten on demand radio programmes between 20 December 2022 and 2 January 2022 were: The top ten podcasts between 20 December 2022 and 2 January 2022 were: The top ten episodes between 20 December 2022 and 2 January 2022 were: The top ten music mixes between 20 December 2022 and 2 January 2022 were:
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