Sooriyan Fm Sri Lanka

Sooriyan Fm Sri Lanka heads Sri Lanka's listing here, ahead of 38 other stations from the country. The ordering is the directory's own record of how often each stream is opened, so this is a popularity signal rather than an editorial one, and it is the signal the country hub is built on.

The directory counts 25 opens against this stream. That is well above Sri Lanka's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

The interesting fact about this entry is the pairing. Tamil is not what Sri Lanka's dial mostly speaks, and the directory has two Tamil stations registered in the country against a majority of Sinhala.

The Tamil shelf on this site collects every station in the language regardless of where it transmits from, and the directory's Tamil entries are concentrated in India, Canada and Singapore. Reading the shelf next to this page is the quickest way to see how far the language's dial actually reaches.

Among 39 stations in Sri Lanka here, this is the only one that puts jazz first. The jazz rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

On the same tag worldwide it is 3 of 127, which is inside the top quarter of every jazz station the directory carries.