The links below include some annual statistics.
For the Song Bar, there is a selection of stats for each year, including the most featured gurus, the most listed artists and the players with the most A-listers.
For Readers Recommend (The Guardian), the links show the 20 players with the most A-listers each year (with the exception of the first few months in 2005), together with the top 100 A-listers of the full Readers Recommend era.
As of 1 April 2025, there have been:
- 1,120 topics – 651 at Readers Recommend and 469 at the Song Bar
- 13,635 A-listed songs (of which 215 were second- or third-time A-listers), 7,320 at Readers Recommend and 6,315 at the Song Bar
- 1,169 nominators with A-listed songs
- 90 gurus