How to Use listenership in a Sentence

listenership

noun
  • This is the second straight year that comedy and sports have led the pack, outranking news in third place, in terms of listenership.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024
  • Launching audiobooks on the back of its podcast platform has helped grow listenership faster.
    — Sara Fischer, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Now the two of you are direct competition for morning drive time listenership.
    — Bennett Kogon, Billboard, 18 June 2019
  • His listenership more than doubled to 50 million people a month.
    — CBS News, 1 June 2022
  • New episodes usually drop once or twice a week; listenership for each usually numbers in the thousands.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a lot of overlap between that publication and maybe my listenership.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 20 Sep. 2018
  • But despite the boom of podcast listenership, some companies are cutting back.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, as Welch and Sullivan spoke more frankly, their listenership grew.
    — Rachel Monroe, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
  • To survive, and build listenership, the station needed a younger and more diverse audience.
    — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In recent years, both companies have leaned into podcasts as a growth engine amid a decline in radio listenership.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The success of this series, and many others, has greatly boosted podcast listenership.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
  • The company shares membership fees with partners based on the level of monthly listenership.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Sep. 2022
  • When this band first started, the female listenership on Spotify would be, like, 10%.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But whether the dads, Brads, and Chads like it or not, the Swifties tuning in are going to bring the podcast’s listenership to new heights.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This led to the aforementioned controversial figures (with high listenership) landing a spot on the initial list.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
  • To Gioia, the low listenership was evidence of the record industry’s efforts to smother new talents.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
  • Revenue is up, listenership is climbing and new players are getting into the game as the industry spots another chance to broaden its scope.
    — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Conversations about the dip in radio listenership of female artists and the breakthrough potential of women creators in the genre aren't heard here.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2024
  • This Hot 100 debut doesn’t happen without that type of widespread listenership.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2025
  • According to the Gimlet and Parcast unions, the staffers were told their shows were getting axed because of low listenership numbers.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The growth in the listenership of regional music is expected to only rise as more people in smaller cities and towns get online and form the next wave of the services' customers.
    — Amit Gurbaxani, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2019
  • That's one-seventh of Post Malone's listenership, but the recent country crossover star has had almost a decadelong head start.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2024
  • This year, Apple introduced more sharable designs for social media, while musicians can also share stats on their own listenership too.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Female listenership was at 32%.
    — Nicole Kraft, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • On the artist side, new metrics available on Replay ‘25 include listenership growth and year-over-year performance summaries.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025
  • At the time of their two-decade anniversary, they were syndicated to 125 cities around the country with a listenership of nearly 5 million.
    — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 12 June 2019
  • Data suggests the staple campaign moment drove the song up the charts, with search interest and listenership soaring on Election Day.
    — Kaitlyn Schwanemann, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • In this mode, the need for pushback is less important than getting the candidate to respond to the anxieties and interests of the podcaster’s listenership.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Rogan was among the list of top 25 most popular podcasts that were eligible to be nominated, based on listenership data.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Building an audience and listenership or even developing your flow takes time and can ebb and flow but staying spot on with your intention and the ‘why’ is the one of the critical elements of it all.
    — Nj Falk, Forbes, 10 June 2021

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