TAP A STATION · LISTEN TO THE PLANET
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RADIO · LISTEN TO THE PLANET

Listen to the Planet

Every glyph on the globe above is a real internet radio station, placed where it broadcasts from. Tap one and it plays — live, from the broadcaster’s own servers— while the day/night line sweeps the world and the player tells you the approximate local time where your music is coming from. Spin to Reykjavík for late-night jazz, Lagos for afrobeats at noon, Tokyo for morning news. The planet, as a tuner dial.

What’s on the dial

The globe shows 8,355 stations— the community-verified, precisely-located slice of a much bigger world. Behind it sit 29,280 playable streams from a directory of 59,557 listed stations across 147 countries, maintained by the volunteer-run radio-browser.info project. Internet radio is a living thing — streams die, move and get geo-blocked daily, so some stations won’t answer when you tap. The player says so honestly and offers the next one nearby.

The world’s most-loved stations

BY LISTENER VOTES

Ranked by the radio-browser community’s own votes — the directory’s signal, shown as-is. Tap any of them to land on the globe with the station armed; one more tap plays it.

Colours on the globe

Station glyphs are tinted by their leading genre: pop (3,240), news-talk (2,878), rock (2,046), electronic (1,888), world (1,024), jazz (871), classical (711). The remaining 19,138 stations carry no genre tag in the directory and glow radar-green.

Across the planet