Leading radio formats in the U.S. in 2015-2021, by number of stations

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Marie Charlotte Götting,
Aug 18, 2022
Country music stations were most frequent radio formats in 2021, with 2,200 unique stations in the United States that year, 2 stations less than the previous year. Also popular were news and talk shows, with over 2,000 stations falling in this category for the first time in 2020.

Leading radio formats in the United States from 2015 to 2021, by number of stations

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Release date

August 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

2015 to 2020

Special properties

data accessed on November 5, 2020

Supplementary notes

Data prior to 2021 comes from previous reports.
Release date is the date data was accessed.

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