How to Use Favourites and Build a Listening Routine on 72FM

Updated 18 September 2026

Saving a favourite station on 72FM takes one tap — the heart or bookmark icon next to any station. Free accounts can save up to 10 stations; Premium removes that limit entirely. Once saved, your favourites sit at the front of the player so any regular station is one click away. Building a listening routine around them is straightforward: a morning station, a focus station for the working hours, something slower in the evening. This guide shows how to set it up and how to make the habit stick.

Saving your first favourites

When you find a station you want to return to, tap or click the favourite icon (a heart or star — the exact icon is shown on each station card). The station is saved immediately; no account needed for the first 10.

Where to find stations worth saving:

• Search. Use the search bar (keyboard shortcut: Cmd+K on Mac, Ctrl+K on Windows) to find a station by name, genre, or city.
• Browse by genre or country. Go deep on a genre you already know, or try a country you've been curious about.
• The radio map. Open /map and explore geographically — drop into a city and see what's broadcasting.
• Collections. The 72FM collections are curated around moments and moods. Any station within a collection can be individually favourited — useful for collections with a particular standout.
• Listening history. If you heard something last week and didn't save it, check your history. It records what you've played so you can go back.

Building a routine: the three-station foundation

Most regular listeners end up with a small rotation — rarely more than five stations that actually get played. A useful starting framework:

Save one strong candidate per slot, listen for a week, and replace anything that doesn't hold up. The idea is a small, reliable rotation rather than an exhaustive library — radio works best as a habit, not a catalogue.

For collection-based inspiration, the collections guided tour walks through the mood and genre groupings in detail.

The free tier: 10 favourites and what that means in practice

Ten saved stations is enough for most listeners. If your day has three or four moments — morning, focus, commute, evening — you have room for two or three options per slot without running out. A sensible approach:

1. Save freely at first — bookmark anything that interests you.
2. After a week or two, audit what you actually played back.
3. Remove the ones you skipped. Keep the ones that earned repeat plays.

If you regularly find yourself at the 10-limit and genuinely using all of them, that's a reasonable signal that more favourites would serve you.

Premium: unlimited favourites and what else it adds

72FM Premium removes the 10-favourite cap. For listeners with broad tastes — different stations for cooking, coding, yoga, late nights, mornings, background-while-guests-are-over — the unlimited tier removes an otherwise mild administrative friction.

Premium also includes:

• Cross-device sync — favourites saved on your laptop appear on your phone without any manual transfer (more on this in the cross-device listening guide).
• Similar-stations discovery — the player can recommend stations closely related to ones you've saved, which is useful for extending the rotation without starting from scratch.
• No ads or trackers in the player — nothing between you and the stream.
• A sleep timer for the end of the night.

Premium is £4.99 for 30 days or £29 for a year (as listed on 72fm.com) — approximately £2.42 a month on the annual plan. It comes with a 7-day money-back guarantee, and both are single payments with no auto-renew, so there is nothing to cancel.

Making the routine stick

Saved stations are only as useful as the habit built around them. A few things that help:

Add 72FM to your browser bookmarks bar. One click to open, then another to play your morning station. Friction is the enemy of habits; removing it matters.

Pin the most-used station as the default. If you always start with the same station, having it at the top of your favourites list means you're playing within two seconds of opening the site.

Use different stations for different spaces. A station that works in headphones at your desk might feel wrong through a kitchen speaker. Having a separate kitchen favourite — something with more presence and a faster pace — means the right sound is already saved for the right moment.

Let the listening history work for you. If you can't remember what you were playing last Thursday, your history does — check it before you decide to search again.

Comparing free and Premium for daily listeners

The full breakdown is in our free vs Premium streaming guide.

In short

Favourites are the simplest way to make 72FM feel like home rather than a discovery interface you have to navigate each time. Save a handful of stations that match your daily rhythm, place them in the rotation, and let the habit build from there.

Free listeners have 10 slots — enough for a solid daily rotation. Premium removes the limit, lifts the daily hour and adds every sleep-timer length and your own playlists — the features that make sense once the habit is established; sync, the Mixes and discovery are free.

Start listening on 72FM — or go Premium if you're ready to build something deeper.