Free FM Top 100 India

Free FM Top 100 India carries 109 recorded opens in the public directory, which puts it among the small group of streams that directory clients open constantly. Counts at this level are rare: the great majority of the 14,425 stations with pages here are in single or double figures.

English does not make India's list of commonest broadcast languages, which the hub caps at six. A station like this one is invisible on its own country page's language chart and perfectly visible on the English shelf, which is the argument for having both.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from India is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Free FM Top 100 India is the only station in India whose first tag is #freefm, out of 565 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in India does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only #freefm station.

The audio comes from stream.zeno.fm, and 108 other stations in India are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of India's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.