P5 Hits streams current pop hits and chart favorites live from Norway, part of the P4 Group's family of radio channels. Press play on Radio Shuffle and it streams instantly, free, with no account or app download required.
Born from the station that broke the public broadcaster's monopoly
P5 Hits belongs to a network with a genuinely significant place in Norwegian media history. Its parent, P4, went on air on 15 September 1993 as the country's first national commercial radio channel, ending the national broadcasting monopoly that public broadcaster NRK had held until then, according to Wikipedia's history of P4. Its broadcast license required the head office to sit outside Oslo, which is why P4 Group's headquarters have stayed in Lillehammer, the small city two hours north of the capital, ever since.
That single station grew into a full group of eight channels covering everything from classic rock to country, and P5 Hits is the pop-focused entry in that lineup, playing current chart hits for listeners who want today's music rather than any particular era or niche.
A breakfast show and a weekly countdown
P5 Hits runs its own daily morning program, Frokostshowet på P5, alongside a weekly chart show, P5 Topp 40, according to the station's own listings on its P4 Group page. Those two fixtures give the station a rhythm built around the hits of the moment, reinforced by on-air contests that keep listeners checking in throughout the day rather than treating the station as background noise.
Listen free on Radio Shuffle
P5 Hits streams around the clock, and Radio Shuffle carries the feed live with nothing to install and no subscription required. Press play for the pop hits defining Norwegian radio right now.