Nouvelle Radio Jeune, (Acronym: NRJ, French pronunciation: [enɛʁʒi], lit.

'energy') is a private French radio station created by Jean-Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini in June 1981.

Widely popularized by its "godmother", singer Dalida, who prevented it from closing in 1984,[1] the radio station currently belongs to the NRJ Group and is the founding station of NRJ International.

The main station only focuses on current chart hits throughout the day and electronic dance music during some weekend late night hours.

In contrast, its web radios are devoted to a vast range of music: rap, RnB, dance, hip-hop, electronic, top 40, urban and rock.

The station was under repeated threat to be shut down by the authorities; however, only with the active intervention of singer Dalida and her connections was this prevented.

[citation needed] In the non-French countries where the station also operates, the radio station is simply called Energy, because NRJ can be pronounced phonetically in French as Energy or NRG.

This is the name of France's no.1 dance and hip-hop mixed show, airing every weekend at late night slot.

Morgan Nagoya was no longer the standalone DJ, but Junior Caldera or Dim Chris also mixed the music for an hour from midnight.

In 2010, 'Mastermix' was added an extra Saturday morning edition from 12.00am to 2.00am, and presented by Big Ali.

Saturday night edition saw the addition of many DJs in the same timeslot, like Tiesto, Martin Solveig, Dim Chris, Bob Sinclar, Junior Caldera, Laurent Wolf.

Friday night/Saturday morning edition now ran from 12.00am to 6.00am and presented by Big Ali till 2.00am, then DJ DMB.

Saturday night edition ran from 8.00pm to 6.00am, excluding 2.00am-4.00am (featuring Better days with Bibi).

In 2012, the show had many changes including: Laidback Luke was given his own slot from 2-3 each Saturday morning; Leo Lanvin left 'Royal Mix'; The team took control from 9-12 Saturday nights was Tiesto, Global Deejays, Afrojack, Avicii; and Monday team consisted of DJ Oriska, Kore, Sarahina, DJ Abdel, Claude Njoya.

NRJ had/has web radios for almost every major artist, every music genres, and every background, but mostly focus on women.

These web radios adopt a motivated (mainly electro and hip-hop) playlist dedicated to sports activities.

This type of web radios focus on the soundtrack on a day's moment or a particular emotion.