TOP40__ by rautemusik ( )

In Germany's ordering this is number 568 of 1,409, 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.

TOP40__ by rautemusik ( ) broadcasts in German, which is the language most of Germany's stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the German stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

The station's leading tag is charts, shared with 25 other entries in Germany. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

192 kbps, which puts TOP40__ by rautemusik ( ) above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in Germany runs at.

TOP40__ by rautemusik ( ) streams from top40-high.rautemusik.fm. No other station in Germany is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.

The station's own site is rm.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.