Bronski Beat
Points show how well known and in demand an act is today in Belgium and the Netherlands, based on public figures such as listeners and hits. They say nothing about the quality of a show. The letter is the level by the festival's own scale. How the points work ›
Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 1 nummer, hoogste #228 (Smalltown Boy)
- in the list since 2019, 7 years
- per song
- Gold and platinum
- the Netherlands: 1 album, 0 singles
- The age of the consent goud, 1984
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Joe 10 2,3 per week NPO 3FM 9 2,1 per week Studio Brussel 3 0,7 per week BBC Radio 6 Music 2 0,5 per week egoFM 2 0,5 per week Willy 2 0,5 per week VRT Radio 1 1 0,2 per week MNM 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationNPO 3FM 114 0,7 per week since Nov 2023 Joe 68 2,5 per week since May 2026 KEXP 42 0,3 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 41 0,4 per week since Dec 2024 BBC Radio 6 Music 40 0,4 per week since Oct 2024 Studio Brussel 39 0,2 per week since Nov 2023 Qmusic 4 0,0 per week since Feb 2025 MNM 3 0,3 per week since Sep 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smalltown Boy | 1984 | 7 (2019–2025) | #228 | #209 (2024) | #494 (2019) |
Records
Albums in the Belgian and Dutch album charts (Ultratop, Dutch Charts) and with gold or platinum (BEA, NVPI).
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Singles Collection 1984/1990 | 1990 | – | #6 (27 wk) | – |
| The Age Of Consent | 1984 | – | #4 (33 wk) | gold NL |
How popular is Bronski Beat compared with other countries?
Much bigger in Poland than you would expect.
Based on search volume and listeners from the various sources. Each country compared with the worldwide figure.
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.
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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Joe | Netherlands | Smalltown Boy 68 |
| MNM | Belgium | Smalltown Boy 3 |
| NPO 3FM | Netherlands | Smalltown Boy 1 |
| Qmusic | Belgium | Smalltown Boy 4 |
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Smalltown Boy 33 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Smalltown Boy 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Smalltown Boy 33 · It Ain't Necessarily So 1 |
| BBC Radio 6 Music | United Kingdom | Smalltown Boy 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Smalltown Boy 17 · Why? 2 · Tell Me Why 1 · Signs 1 |
| egoFM | Germany | Smalltown Boy 1 |