Beam FM

Out of 25 entries in Singapore, this one ranks 6. 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.

English is the station's language and the country's commonest, one of four Singapore's listing records.

Hits is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Singapore uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

Across every country, Beam FM is 14 of the 114 stations leading with hits, by the same open count the country list uses.

64 kbps matches Singapore's median almost exactly. Most stations cluster here because most of them are using the same handful of hosting providers with the same default settings.

Encoded as AAC, one of the three formats Singapore's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

Its audio comes straight from beamfm.streeemer.com, an address unique to this entry in Singapore's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.