NRJ Hits For Running

NRJ Hits For Running does one job and does it without apology. The parent network's pop instincts get sharpened into tempo-driven sets, mostly French pop and Anglophone hits, all picked to keep legs moving. Aya Nakamura turns up often. So does David Guetta, which tracks: his productions have always been built around a pulse. Angèle and Stromae surface in the cooler stretches. The slower mid-tempo picks are where it gets interesting. Better than a workout feed has any right to be. Pop radio in France rarely commits this hard to a single purpose. This one does. The repetition is the weak spot. H…