The SHOUTcast TTSL Stats are refreshed monthly. TTSL Stats are generelly used to detect, whether the own figures were improved or not.

Especially during the winter season, the figures of radios are increasing enormously, because people like to be at home and infront of the computer, instead of being outside in the cold. As a result of that, it is not astonishing that radios reach higher peaks at present.

But when I had a look at the figures of the TTSL Archive of November 2009, December 2009 and January 2010, which are listed in the TTSL Archive, one thing is very conspicuous:

The Tune-In figures of all radios had increased in December enormously!

In November for instance, HOT 108 JAMZ had been tuned in for 10 million times, but in December for over 46 million times! That is an increase of over 460 % – that would be great!

In November, 5 million listeners were listening to RauteMusik.FM Goldies, but in December, there were 57 million listeners! Well, that is an increase of 1100 %!

Certainly it woul be appreciating, if the topic “web radios” enjoys such a great popularity within one month, but that cannot be possible. I was wondering about a reason for such an increase…

It is obvious, that actually only the radios were increasing so enormous, which are listed on top of the list of the most famous genres, because they are in a function of a precursor!

HOT 108 JAMZ for instance, is the leading radio for the genre “HipHop”.
RauteMusik.FM Goldies is also the leader of a genre: Oldies!
Additionally, .977 The Hitz Channel is the number one, if you are looking for the genre “Pop” and that already for several years.

But what happened? SHOUTcast had been programming the Flash Player lately and this one is now often appearing in the results of a search engine.

I assume, that already the note of the name of the radio on the Flash Player’s display is enough, to be counted as a TuneIn. Another possibility could be, that the Flash Player is checking again for itself, whether the radio is still functioning or not, to stop the query for old servers. By now, I am still not sure, what it is, that causes these increases.

But to believe, that your radios are well-established and got such a popularity would be a nice thinking, right? I’m sorry for disappointing you with that.

If there are any further news, maybe even from the SHOUTcast Team, I will pass it on to you!