NRJ Road Trip

NRJ Road Trip is exactly what its name promises: a station built for long stretches of French autoroute, where the playlist has one job and does it well. The sound is bright, punchy, and unapologetically mainstream. Think Aya Nakamura and Soprano sharing space with David Guetta's festival anthems, plus the kind of chorus you can shout along to with the windows down. There's no deep-cut archaeology here. That's the point. What works is the pacing. Tracks land in short, high-energy bursts, which suits a drive better than most curated playlists do. There's a lighter side too, French pop and the o…