IHEARTRADIO POP: Éxitos en inglés

Out of 444 entries in Mexico, this one ranks 37. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

20 stations in Mexico lead with acir and IHEARTRADIO POP: Éxitos en inglés is one of them, though the tag does not make the country's headline list. Across the whole directory 20 stations use it first, so the rail below runs well past Mexico.

The gap here is large: 48 kbps where Mexico's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

AAC+ here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

The audio comes from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, and 103 other stations in Mexico 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 Mexico's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.