NRJ Pop Rock

NRJ Pop Rock isn't trying to be a discovery station, and that's exactly why it works. The playlist sits where French pop collides with guitar rock: Angèle and Aya Nakamura next to Indochine, Shaka Ponk, and the occasional Foo Fighters or Arctic Monkeys cut. Nothing here will surprise a crate digger. Not the point. Put NRJ Pop Rock live on in the car and it does precisely what it's built for: momentum, big choruses, no dead air. What the station does well is flow. The sequencing keeps energy up without hammering the same three hits every hour, and French-language tracks get equal weight with th…