The historical score shows how big an act was at the time of that edition, on a scale of 100 against the biggest acts of all editions. The letter is the level by the festival's own scale. How the points work ›
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Career
- Line-ups
- Best Kept Secret 2016
- Active since
- 1971
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 2 nummers, hoogste #553 (All I Need)
- in the list since 2020, 6 years
- per song
- Gold and platinum
- Belgium: 1 album, 0 singles
- Moon Safari platina, 2007
the Netherlands: 1 album, 0 singles- Moon Safari goud, 2000
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Willy 16 3,7 per week Studio Brussel 13 3,0 per week KINK 8 1,9 per week BBC Radio 6 Music 6 1,4 per week FluxFM 6 1,4 per week VRT Radio 1 3 0,7 per week Radio X 3 0,7 per week FIP 2 0,5 per week Since we track the stationKINK 500 3,2 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 395 2,5 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 335 3,3 per week since Dec 2024 BBC Radio 6 Music 263 2,5 per week since Nov 2024 KEXP 223 1,4 per week since Nov 2023 NPO 3FM 78 0,5 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 1 47 0,3 per week since Nov 2023 FluxFM 6 1,2 per week since Oct 2026
De Tijdloze on StuBru
De Tijdloze is the all-time list of Studio Brussel, the Flemish rock station. Listeners vote for their favourite songs every year, and since 1987 StuBru has broadcast the top 100 at the end of December. Since 2019 the rest of the vote is known as well: 500 places in 2019, around 2,000 since 2021. A place above 100 did not make the broadcast. The figures come from tijdloze.rocks, an independent site that keeps every list since 1987. Click a column header to sort.
| Song | From | Years in the list | 2025 | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All I Need | 1998 | 6 (2020–2025) | #553 | #539 (2023) | #768 (2022) |
| Sexy Boy | 1998 | 3 (2021–2025) | #2036 | #1860 (2021) | #2232 (2024) |
| Cherry Blossom Girl | 2004 | 2 (2022–2024) | – | #1929 (2022) | #2238 (2024) |
| La Femme d’argent | 1998 | 1 (2024) | – | #2219 (2024) | #2219 (2024) |
Records
Studio albums, the highest position in the Belgian and Dutch album charts (Ultratop, Dutch Charts) with the number of weeks, and gold and platinum (BEA, NVPI).
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Show No. 1 | 1986 | – | – | – |
| 80° Below ’82 | 1982 | – | – | – |
| Air Mail | 1981 | – | – | – |
| Live Air | 1980 | – | – | – |
| Air Lore | 1979 | – | – | – |
| Open Air Suit | 1978 | – | – | – |
| Air Time | 1978 | – | – | – |
| Air Raid | 1976 | – | – | – |
| Air Song | 1975 | – | – | – |
Other albums in the charts or with gold or platinum (live, compilations, reissues):
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon Safari - The Athens Concert | 2026 | #108 (1 wk) | – | – |
| Twentyears | 2016 | #23 (22 wk) | – | – |
| Le voyage dans la lune | 2012 | #19 (7 wk) | #40 (3 wk) | – |
| Love 2 | 2009 | #15 (6 wk) | #43 (2 wk) | – |
| Pocket Symphony | 2007 | #4 (10 wk) | #30 (6 wk) | – |
| Talkie Walkie | 2004 | #2 (17 wk) | #17 (12 wk) | – |
| 10000 Hz Legend | 2001 | #20 (4 wk) | #54 (4 wk) | – |
| The Virgin Suicides (Soundtrack / Air) | 2000 | #37 (2 wk) | #89 (3 wk) | – |
| Moon Safari | 1998 | #15 (33 wk) | #27 (38 wk) | gold NL, platinum BE, platinum NL |
Best-known songs (Deezer)
Per edition, historical
Score measured in the twelve months before each edition, place = rank in that line-up. The letter differs per festival: an A at Best Kept Secret can be a C at Rock Werchter.
| Edition | Score | Level | Rank | Exceptional | Belgium | Netherlands | World | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Kept Secret 2016 | 22 | B | 16 / 64 | 100 | – | – | 22 | Wikipedia, charts, stature |
Over the years
◆ purple = album, ▲ red = festival in Belgium, ▲ green = festival in the Netherlands, ● grey = own concert. Click the legend to switch them on or off.
Festivals and own concerts
- ▲Saturday, June 2016 · Best Kept Secret
Place among all acts on this site: 80 = viewed or searched more than 80% of the other acts that month. The thick line is the average.
Studio Brussel since August 2023, NPO 3FM and KINK since 2020, the other stations since late October 2026. "Compare countries" shows the average per station.
Songs per station, last 18 months
| Station | Country | Most played |
|---|---|---|
| KINK | Netherlands | Playground Love 1 · All I Need 1 |
| Qmusic NL | Netherlands | All I Need 1 |
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | All I Need 71 · Kelly Watch The Stars 44 · Sexy Boy 39 · Cherry Blossom Girl 14 · Playground Love 8 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Playground Love 1 · Kelly Watch The Stars 1 · Sing Sang Sung 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Kelly Watch The Stars 80 · Playground Love 68 · Cherry Blossom Girl 51 · All I Need 34 · Sexy Boy 30 |
| FIP | France | Le soleil est près de moi 1 · Talisman 1 |
| FIP Rock | France | Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks) 1 |
| FluxFM | Germany | You Make It Easy 1 · Playground Love 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Surfing on a Rocket 14 · Sexy Boy 13 · Radio #1 8 · La Femme d’argent 6 · Kelly, Watch the Stars! 5 |
| Radio Nova | France | Kelly Watch the Stars 1 |
| egoFM | Germany | All I Need 1 · Sexy Boy 1 |