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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Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
- Best Kept Secret 2023
- Active since
- 1992
- Albums
- Syro 2014
- Concerts per year
- 2026 0
- 2025 0
- 2023 9
- 2022 0
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 1 nummer, hoogste #1703 (Windowlicker)
- in the list since 2025, 1 years
- per song
- Awards
- Grammy Award gewonnen 2015
- Discogs
- 153,146 times in a collection
- 97,579 on a wishlist
- 76 uitgaven
Most collected, times in a collection- Drukqs 2001 · 6.540
- Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt2 (EP) 2015 · 7.834
- Cheetah EP 2016 · 8.406
- Collapse EP 2018 · 6.451
- Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In A Room7 F760 2023 · 5.230
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
KEXP 4 0,9 per week BBC Radio 6 Music 3 0,7 per week Since we track the stationBBC Radio 6 Music 212 2,0 per week since Nov 2024 KEXP 123 0,8 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 1 36 0,2 per week since Nov 2023 KINK 6 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 4 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 NPO 3FM 2 0,0 per week since Nov 2023
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windowlicker | 1999 | 1 (2025) | #1703 | #1703 (2025) | #1703 (2025) |
Records
Studio albums, the highest position in the Belgian and Dutch album charts (Ultratop, Dutch Charts) with the number of weeks, gold and platinum (BEA, NVPI), and how many Discogs members own the record. Data provided by Discogs.
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum | Discogs collections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syro | 2014 | #7 (20 wk) | #19 (3 wk) | – | – |
| Drukqs | 2001 | – | – | – | 6.540 |
| Richard D. James Album | 1996 | – | – | – | – |
| …I Care Because You Do | 1995 | – | – | – | – |
| Melodies From Mars | 1995 | – | – | – | – |
| Selected Ambient Works, Volume II | 1994 | #5 (2 wk) | #14 (1 wk) | – | – |
| Selected Ambient Works 85–92 | 1992 | – | – | – | – |
Other albums in the charts or with gold or platinum (live, compilations, reissues):
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt2 | 2015 | #80 (7 wk) | – | – |
Discogs: 153,146 times in a collection. 97,579 times on a wishlist.
Awards
Awards won and nominations according to Wikidata (major awards only; counted per category).
| Award | Won | Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| Grammy Award | 1 (2015) | – |
How popular is Aphex Twin compared with other countries?
Based on search volume and listeners from the various sources. Each country compared with the worldwide figure.
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 2023 | 19 | B | 11 / 50 | 97 | 21 | 17 | 25 | Wikipedia, charts, setlist.fm, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Kept Secret 2023 | Best Kept Secret 2023 (Festivaldag 3): Tot het einde goed | Dansende Beren | 12/06/2023 | dagverslag |
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
- ▲Sunday, June 2023 · Best Kept Secret
- ●26/11/2011 · Klokgebouw, Eindhoven
- ●04/04/2009 · Klokgebouw, Eindhoven
- ●14/12/2007 · Paard van Troje, The Hague
- ●22/08/2002 · Domein Kiewit, Hasselt
- ●19/11/1998 · Vooruit, Ghent
4 earlier dates
- ●05/03/1996 · Fuse, Brussels
- ●04/03/1994 · Fuse, Brussels
- ●01/01/1994 · VPRO Radio, Amsterdam
- ●26/06/1992 · Loodsen Vliegveld, Grimbergen
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Windowlicker 3 · Pulsewidth 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Windowlicker 12 · Xtal 5 · Alberto Balsalm 5 · Flim 4 · Avril 14th 4 |