Hitradio RTL Chemnitz

In Algeria's ordering this is number 24 of 52, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

A German station transmitting from Algeria is a rarity in this data: one of the country's entries carry that language, against a listing whose commonest is Arabic. Combinations like this are the reason the site indexes language separately from country.

The shelf for the language holds 2,099 stations, led by Germany. A station like this one broadcasting from Algeria is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Hitradio RTL Chemnitz shares its leading tag, pop, with one other Algeria entry. Across every country the directory has 343 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

Across every country, Hitradio RTL Chemnitz is 82 of the 343 stations leading with pop, by the same open count the country list uses.

The station's site is at hitradio-rtl.de, which sits under the .de country domain rather than Algeria's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.