Cigarettes After Sex
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 ›
Chances for 2027
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Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
- Rock Werchter 2017, Best Kept Secret 2017, Pukkelpop 2018, Best Kept Secret 2019, Rock Werchter 2022
- Active since
- 2008
- Albums
- X’s 2024
- Cry 2019
- Cigarettes After Sex 2017
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 1 nummer, hoogste #1219 (Apocalypse)
- in the list since 2024, 2 years
- per song
- Discogs
- 3,073 times in a collection
- 1,769 on a wishlist
- 16 uitgaven
Most collected, times in a collection- I. 2012 · 258
- Affection 2015 · 71
- Cigarettes After Sex 2017 · 783
- Cry 2019 · 1.711
- X's 2024 · 107
- Biggest own venue
- Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
- ±17.000 plaatsen
- 2024 (Benelux, last three years)
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
FM4 2 0,5 per week VRT Radio 1 1 0,2 per week FluxFM 1 0,2 per week NPO 3FM 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationStudio Brussel 84 0,5 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 6 Music 58 0,6 per week since Nov 2024 NPO 3FM 36 0,2 per week since Nov 2023 KEXP 31 0,2 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 1 11 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 3 0,0 per week since Dec 2024 KINK 2 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 FM4 2 0,4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apocalypse | 2017 | 2 (2024–2025) | #1219 | #1219 (2025) | #1976 (2024) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X’s | 2024 | #8 (24 wk) | #6 (1 wk) | – | 107 |
| Cry | 2019 | #8 (40 wk) | #37 (2 wk) | – | 1.711 |
| Cigarettes After Sex | 2017 | #5 (377 wk) | #26 (128 wk) | – | 783 |
Discogs: 3,073 times in a collection. 1,769 times on a wishlist.
How popular is Cigarettes After Sex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Werchter 2017 | 12 | D | 47 / 65 | 38 | 11 | 13 | 11 | Wikipedia, Google Trends, charts, stature |
| Best Kept Secret 2017 | – | C | 25 / 53 | 38 | – | – | – | Wikipedia, Google Trends, charts, stature |
| Pukkelpop 2018 | 20 | C | 27 / 113 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 21 | Wikipedia, Google Trends, charts, stature |
| Best Kept Secret 2019 | 25 | A | 8 / 60 | 15 | 25 | 23 | 28 | Wikipedia, Google Trends, charts, stature |
| Rock Werchter 2022 | 27 | C | 37 / 83 | 24 | 25 | 24 | 42 | Wikipedia, Google Trends, charts, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Werchter 2022 | Rock Werchter 2022 (Festivaldag 1): Uitgeregend, maar niet uitgeteld | Dansende Beren | 01/07/2022 | dagverslag |
| Best Kept Secret 2019 | Best Kept Secret 2019 (Festivaldag 1): Opwarmen in stijl | Dansende Beren | 01/06/2019 | dagverslag |
| Pukkelpop 2018 | Pukkelpop 2018: Festivaldag 4, Afsluiten in stijl | Dansende Beren | 19/08/2018 | dagverslag |
| Best Kept Secret 2017 | Best of Best Kept Secret 2017 Dag 2 | Dansende Beren | 20/06/2017 | 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
- ●29/10/2024 · Vorst Nationaal / Forest National, Vorst / Forest
- ●28/10/2024 · Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
- ●09/11/2023 · AFAS Live, Amsterdam
- ●08/11/2023 · AFAS Live, Amsterdam
- ▲Thursday, July 2022 · Rock Werchter
- ●07/11/2019 · Cirque Royal / Koninklijk Circus, Brussels
15 earlier dates
- ●03/11/2019 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●02/11/2019 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ▲Saturday, June 2019 · Best Kept Secret
- ●19/08/2018 · Ronda, Utrecht
- ●18/08/2018 · Domein Kiewit, Hasselt
- ▲Saturday, August 2018 · Pukkelpop
- ●10/11/2017 · The Max, Amsterdam
- ●07/11/2017 · Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
- ▲Thursday, July 2017 · Rock Werchter
- ▲Saturday, June 2017 · Best Kept Secret
- ●14/04/2017 · Club, Borgerhout
- ●13/04/2017 · Concertzaal, Amsterdam
- ●28/11/2016 · Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
- ●26/11/2016 · Beursschouwburg, Brussels
- ●12/03/2016 · Kleine Zaal, Amsterdam
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 | K 4 · Twizzler 2 · Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby 2 · Apocalypse 2 · Heavenly 1 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Falling In Love 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Anna Karenina 2 · Twizzler 1 |
| FM4 | Oostenrijk | K Cigarettes After Sex | FM4 Hallo FM4 1 · Apocalypse | FM4 Sounds Like FM4 1 |
| FluxFM | Germany | Apocalypse 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Twizzler 6 · Apocalypse 5 · Dark Vacay 2 · Motion Picture Soundtrack 1 |