NRJ: Французское радио хитов и рекорды прослушиваний

French radio station

the French radio station NRJ

Nouvelle Radio Jeune, (Acronym: NRJ, enɛʁʒi, ) is a private French radio station created by Jean Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini in June 1981, and was widely popularized thanks to its godmother singer Dalida, who prevented it from closing in 1984. Today radio belongs to the NRJ Group and is the founding station of NRJ International. The main station only focuses on current chart hits throughout the day and electronic dance music during some weekend late night hours. Talk programs are based every evening except Saturday. In contrast, its web radios are devoted to a vast range of music: rap, RnB, dance, hip hop, electronic, top 40, urban and rock.

NRJ was originally the acronym for Nouvelle Radio Jeune (New Youth Radio) or Nouvelle radio pour les jeunes (New Radio for the Youth), and was not invented to be an allograph of "energy". In the non French countries where the station also operates, the radio station is simply called Energy, because NRJ can be pronounced phonetically in French as Energy or NRG.

The bold numbers/figures are at number 1.

Ranking Station Listenership Market share DEA 1 NRJ 6.770.764 4.4% 1h19 2 Skyrock 4.101.520 2.1% 1h08 3 Nostalgie 3.841.110 4.7% 1h36 4 Fun Radio 3.645.800 3.3% 1h29 5 Europe 2 3.125.000 2.8% 1h15 6 RFM 3.645.800 3.2% 1h44

Ranking Station Listenership Market share DEA 1 NRJ 5.012.975 4.7% 1h15 2 Skyrock 3.385.576 2.8% 1h08 3 Nostalgie 3.255.179 4.7% 1h45 4 Fun Radio 2.539.040 3.8% 1h17 5 Europe 2 2.213.521 2.4% 1h03 6 RFM 2.083.314 3.8% 1h48

NRJ broadcasts a non stop program known as "Top 40" or "CHR", centered around the hits of the moment, as demonstrated by its slogan "Hit music only!" and it runs "more than 40 minutes of hits in a row every hour". The concept "10 hits in a row" is again on air since January 9, 2017, on NRJ which characterizes the hit format of the radio, with the current motto "They are 10, they are fresh, they never stop". (French: "Ils sont 10, ils sont frais, ils ne s'arrêtent jamais".) From 2018, NRJ starts carrying "12" or "13 hits in a row".

NRJ had the first web radio in 2006. Later on, there were three (included NRJ's main live stream). In the third quarter of 2006, NRJ added two, and two more at the end of that year. In 12/2013, the station operates about 153 web radios. Here are the list and complete detail of them. (Although NRJ is French, most of web radios' names are in English.) Some of these web radios can also be seen elsewhere worldwide. NRJ had/has web radios for almost every major artist, every music genres, and every background, but mostly focus on women. They also have adverts like the main station, but no announcers heard on the air at all. This list below is refreshed almost monthly.