Local music continues to top the album charts in France in the first half of 2023 according to figures released by SNEP, the French music industry association. In an analysis of the top 200 albums in the first six months of 2023: 17 of the Top 20 albums are French productions Three quarters of the Top 200 albums are French productions 33 first albums rank in the Top 200 with more than three quarters produced in France. […]
Ultimix is a pop music genre internet radio station based in France which started broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC, a 128kbps MP3 and a 64kbps AAC stream in April 2023. The FLAC and AAC streams have now been discontinued and only a 128kbps MP3 stream is available via a direct link and the webplayer. Details of the last six tracks played are available on their website. Website: https://ultimix.fr/maintenance/index.html Web player: https://ultimix.fr/maintenance/index.html MP3 128kbps: http://stream.ultimix.fr:1050/stream […]
H2O Radio is a local radio station serving 3 localities in the Lac D’Annecy region in the North East corner of France close to the Swiss border. It has an FM and DAB+ terrestrial transmitter network and an internet radio presence broadcasting a mixture of local news, information and music with CD Quality Lossless FLAC streams as well as AAC and MP3 streams. They also have 5 music ‘webradios’ streaming 192kbps MP3 streams. The website […]
French music sales are up 6.4% in 2022 achieving a turnover of €920 million, a sixth consecutive year of growth according to figures released by SNEP, the French music industry association. Revenues from sales have returned to their level of 15 years ago, but only reached 52% of the historical peak of 2002. Three quarters of them are generated by digital operations and a quarter by physical media – exactly the reverse of 10 years ago. […]
ForEver La Radio is a local radio station serving the Gironde region in the South West corner of France with a terrestrial FM and DAB+ network and an internet radio presence. The station has three regional channels in Bordeaux, Libourne and Arcachon for local news and other programming opt outs. The station broadcasts a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream and an MP3 stream for the Bordeaux and Arcachon channels. Their website contains a webplayer, local […]
Up to 3 Bn streams in France are fake according to a recently published study by the Centre national de la musique (CNM). The study, Stream Manipulation 2021 estimated that that the share of fraud detected on the major streaming platforms in France was between 1% and 3% in 2021. In relation to market figures, this represents between 1 and 3 Bn streams detected as being fraudulent. The study was commissioned by the French Minister […]
CN’O is a French local radio station broadcasting from Valenciennes in the North East corner of France. It broadcasts in the districts of Valenciennes and Avesnes-sur-Helpe in DAB+ and 128kbps AAC streams. The station had a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream in early February 2023 but this now gone off-air. The station has ambitions to expand its broadcasting area towards Cambrésis, Thiérache and South Avesnois. Their website contains a webplayer (AAC stream), local news, podcasts […]
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