Metro FM Lagos

In Nigeria's listing Metro FM Lagos lands at 6 of 56, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.

With 3,592 opens recorded, this is one of the directory's heavily played streams. That is the strongest thing the public data says about any station, and it is still a measure of traffic through one directory rather than of audience.

Metro FM Lagos broadcasts in English, which is the language most of Nigeria's stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the English stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Nigeria'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.

Its audio comes from go.webgateready.com. Two other stations in Nigeria stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The broadcaster's own site is go.webgateready.com. A .com address says nothing about where a station is, which is why the country on this page comes from the directory's own country field rather than from the domain.