Review (August 2025)
Listen live to classic fm radio online. discover classical music and find out more about the best classical composers, musicians and their works.
10.74M
Estimated Revenue
3.13M
Website Visitors
2.9/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about Classic FM?
Estimated Revenue (2020)
$10.74M
Total Employees
69
Founded
1991
Industry
Broadcast Media
Location
London, United Kingdom
About
Classic FM: Listen live to Classic FM radio online. Discover classical music and find out more about the best classical composers, musicians and their works.
What is Classic FM's Revenue?
Classic FM's estimated revenue for 2024 is $10.74M.
What does Classic FM do?
Classic FM is an online radio station which offers listeners diverse selections of classical music.
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Classicfm?
6/mo Traffic Growth
4.30%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
3M
Time on Site
0.9Mins
Pages per Visit
2.0
Bounce Rate
73%
How fast is Classicfm growing?
Classicfm has grown by 6.5% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Classicfm?
Last month, Classicfm received 3M visitors who spent an average of 0.9 minutes on the website and visited 2.0 different pages per session. Overall, 73% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Classicfm?
541.2k people (17%) visit Classicfm directly. 2.2M (71%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 308.4k (10%) discover Classicfm through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 3.4k (0%) visitors come from Classicfm's email newsletters. Finally, 1.5k (0.0%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Classicfm?
Classicfm's top market is the United States and they receive 1M (32.4%) people.Then the 2nd is United Kingdom with 770.8k (24.6%).The 3rd is is Canada with 140.1k (4.5%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What do Classicfm's customers say about them?
Review Score
2.9/5
Total Reviews
5
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Ian Douglas
Classic FM the radio version of watching paint dry.
Reviewed on 2021-05-19T06:56:28
I have to agree with some of the other comments regarding the annoying amount of adverts .Over the last few years a station that I loved listening to (from day one) has become dire. The commercials are extremely irritating and infantile.
The other problem is repetition on the playlist. My small vinyl classical collection has a bigger variety.
So now I listen to Amazon music instead.
Dare I say the listening base now seems to be leaning towards the upper class who have kids called Tarquin and play the trombone and piano forte at the same time and everyone works in an office.
Classic FM you really have lost the plot .
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Tar
Classic FM becoming more and more peculiar.
Reviewed on 2020-10-08T15:26:47
Classic FM used to be bearable.
It IS true they play the obvious choices again and again and again.I could live with that, up to a point.
It’s the advertising that almost has me crashing the car. The ads are even more repetitive than the music. They take up 20 minutes in the hour. They are for goods and services that would never be of interest to me. Loud, annoying, dumbed-down, patronising and singularly lacking wit, genuine humour or intelligence, most of them act as a sort of aversion therapy. I have to ask myself: have we, as a nation, come to this? Is this who we are now? Or is it simply that the advertising companies think this?
What of the other 40 minutes in the hour? Surely that is worthwhile?
Well, no, because at least another 15-20 minutes of that is taken up with phone-ins (who does that? What sort of person telephones a radio station?), Classic FM chart (the nation’s favourites, as voted for by YOU!), Classic FM trying to sell you their own cds, books and merchandise, gardening tips (thank you Alan Titchmarsh), the so-abbreviated-it’s-not-worth-bothering-with news, traffic reports that are more usefully obtained elsewhere, intrusive, hectoring demands for charitable donations and the endless, incessant wittering of most of the presenters. The shocking inanity of this Phil Space c——p still manages to astonish me. And don’t tell me Jane Jones, or any of the others, could really give a t-ss what you are doing in your kitchen or potting shed, that just isn’t credible - the weird, honeyed insincerity is so peculiar it gives me the creeps. Why?
So, 15-20 minutes of music in the hour, but what a price one has to pay for it.
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bee
Oh the monotony... can seem relentless, by day, certainly.
Reviewed on 2020-09-18T07:06:07
1. Arguably lamentable that Classic FM has decided not to comment on any reviews. Having said that,once you start, I suppose and silence is better than a churned out standard reply, for sure. But, will you respond to just this one? Answer: No, we won't!
2. I find advertising nauseating at the best of times. Classic FM seems to encourage the very most irritating adverts I have ever had to suffer. And, oh boy, the repetition of them.
The most irritating ones -as I write- include kazoo, the 'and, and, and Vauxhall Motors offer' and the earlier American Express advert which has helped lower its once considerable esteem (snob value) to the very average credit card it is, these days.
Sioban Finneran didn't do herself any favours associating with Classic FM either. Round and round with that - slightly muted- 'Benidorm' voice. A fine actress -as opposed to 'great'-unwittingly being cheapened, courtesy of Classic FM's insistence at relentless overplay coupled with its inability to shuffle. The remorseless hard-edged female voice pushing Vodafone? Give us a break.
The Vauxhall Mocha? I wouldn't even consider looking at one after utterly its relentless flogging. Get rid of Philip Schofield! Limp, self-pitiful lettuce. Laugh large enough & you'll be sure to get on the next outakes show, matey.
3. I would love to know why Classic FM uses such an inane, weak strap-line as 'The world's "greatest" music.'
It is almost meaningless: 'Greatest ?'
For God sake... try 'Finest' if you have to self-congratulate yourself so regularly.
But honestly, please don't.
The usual utterer of that stupid phrase is done by a woman who sounds like she is close to climaxing as she says it. 'The world's GREATEST music.'
Really?
What makes it so?
It (She) is neurotic, over the top and.. very irritating because the theme is rammed down one's throat - as with the dull cyclic adverts - more often than I could count in each programme.
I switch to Radio 3 when I hear her and, more often of late, I leave it there for the peace of it.
4. Why bl**dy Pachelbel Canon in D major all the time? And why Bolero almost as often?
Some time ago, everything seemed to be one or two of the planets from Holtz. The repetitive ones, naturally.
'Too much, too often. Round and round and round. You're suffering Classic FM.' A better strap-line?Certainly, it's realistic.
Is it so you can a go off and have a cigarette and a sandwich outside since both I mention drone on, both -round and round?
Two very dull pieces of pure monotony played with that self-same repetishousness.
It IS a word now.
Everything rammed down your throat.
Please see it as it is.
It is, at least, better late evening & early hours.
The best of Classic FM?
Your presenters are, mostly, thoroughly listenable, decent types. In this respect Classic Fm has shown skill and wisdom.
Variety, not sameness! Bravo!!
David Mellor, however, although knowledgeable, is also an historical, abusive snob when it suits. I do wish you had let him go when he verbally abused a taxi driver in 2014. It wasn't this chappie's only spiteful 'Don't you know who I am..?' tirade.
Wikipedia refers.
It was a certain justice that the taxi driver had that all on tape; definitely the wiser and cleverer of the two.
He targets the hard-working, unprivileged.
As for the rest of them, I don't know how they stand it; I guess the money helps. Alexander Armstrong chooses to play full time as a 'dandy quaintness of voice' which is irritating, over-presented and veneer-ridden. Why? He is so 'normal' on Have I got News For You. He's a nice fella but I wish he'd either drop that trait or use it less often. When he talks 'as himself' he is relaxed and natural.
I do love him, honest. Just saying.
Bill Turnbull is one of my favourites (all round hero and lovely guy) as is Alan Titchmarsh (but just keep him away from royalty, where he has been known to squirm with oozing sycophancy.)
Sorry, Alan!
I do love you, honest. Just saying.
Aled Jones is fine: just a nice guy really and it has always shone through. Just don't sing. Or bring yet another album of magnolia mulch out.
I love that these characters are all, different.
Time to raise yourself to their own broadcasting standards, 'Global? '
Pretty please.
Solution:
1. insist on adverts that are less likely to irritate on replay
2. vary them
3. drop the most irritating 'jingle' re 'GREATEST music..' Drop them all!
4. buy some more CD's. Lose the more worn out ones.
Ps. Oh my Gawd, guess what's on as I type this...? Pachelbel Canon in D major. Any minute now, Bolero and the one-finger, one-note merchant, Einaudi who is absolutely played to death by this lot.
Was Craig Ogden a couple of years back. Craig Ogden this, Craig Ogden that.
It's the Classic FM way. Like an Orwellian Telescreen. It sits in the corner but winds you down, wears you out.
Relentless.
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P. J. Morgan
Broken Record
Reviewed on 2020-06-06T23:07:04
In past years I used to listen to Classic FM in the car and picked up the titles of quite of few more diverse composers and pieces; not playing the radio much indoors,from last year or thereabouts I began to do so, and have become increasingly put off - most-solemn-subjects, notwithstanding - by 'HMRC's Water & Fireworks Music (& Other Government Scores)' on loop, throughout.
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Graham Seed
Repetitious Beyond Belief
Reviewed on 2018-05-18T16:25:42
"Classic FM - the world's greatest music" played over and over again until you are sick to death ofit.
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