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Big news for the radio industry this morning, as the latest RAJAR figures were published.

"What in the name of a fuzzy FM reception is a RAJAR?" you are probably wondering.

Well, they are the listening figures for UK radio. They're published every three months and let us know how many people are listening to all national and local stations, from Capital to Classic FM.

The latest figures cover January-March of this year, and, in a nutshell show that lots of people like Chris Evans, fewer people like Nick Grimshaw, and more people are tuning into BBC Radio 3.

BBC Radio 3 has three-year high for listeners

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One particularly interesting stat to come out of this quarter are the latest figures for Radio X.

The station, previously known as XFM, launched in September, with a whole load of big name signings including Johnny Vaughn, Ricky Wilson and Vernon Kay.

Nationally, the station has gone up a whopping 40.1% since this time last year, when it was still XFM. Pretty good right?

Well, not as good as it sounds - because that increase is mainly down to the fact that the station became available nationally when it rebranded. Previously it was only available in Manchester in London.

And when you look specifically at the London figures, it's much worse news. The station has actually gone down 34.8% since the last quarter.

Breakfast show host Chris Moyles has made light of the loss of Londoners on Twitter:

It can take a long time for a new radio station to bed in, so it may take a few more months before the figures recover from the XFM fans abandoning the station.

We'll keep an eye out and bring you the next batch of RAJARs in three months.

By the way, RAJAR stands for Radio Joint Audience Research. If you remember that by the time of the next ones, you win a prize*.

*Editor's disclaimer: Prize is a dodgy cup of tea made by Steven in the office, so it's more of a punishment than a prize, really.