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Career
- Line-ups
- Rock Werchter 2018
- Active since
- 1988
- Albums
- 2000-05-18: The Lakeland Center, Lakeland, FL, USA 2020
- Ghosts VI: Locusts 2020
- Ghosts V: Together 2020
- Bad Witch 2018
- Hesitation Marks 2013
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 4 nummers, hoogste #729 (Hurt)
- in the list since 2020, 6 years
- per song
- Awards
- Grammy Award gewonnen x2 1992, 1995
- Grammy Award genomineerd x11 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013
- MTV Award genomineerd x9 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000
- American Music Award genomineerd x2 1995, 1996
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
KEXP 21 4,9 per week Kerrang! Radio 10 2,3 per week KINK 5 1,2 per week Oui FM 1 0,2 per week BBC Radio 6 Music 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationKEXP 399 2,5 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 111 1,1 per week since Dec 2024 BBC Radio 6 Music 104 1,0 per week since Nov 2024 KINK 65 0,4 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 33 0,2 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 1 13 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 Kerrang! Radio 10 2,0 per week since Oct 2026 NPO 3FM 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurt | 1994 | 6 (2020–2025) | #729 | #519 (2022) | #940 (2020) |
| Right Where It Belongs | 2005 | 1 (2025) | #925 | #925 (2025) | #925 (2025) |
| Closer | 1994 | 5 (2021–2025) | #1192 | #878 (2021) | #1317 (2023) |
| The Hand That Feeds | 2005 | 1 (2025) | #1880 | #1880 (2025) | #1880 (2025) |
| Head Like a Hole | 1989 | 1 (2021) | – | #1638 (2021) | #1638 (2021) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-05-18: The Lakeland Center, Lakeland, FL, USA | 2020 | – | – | – |
| Ghosts V: Together | 2020 | – | – | – |
| Ghosts VI: Locusts | 2020 | – | – | – |
| Bad Witch | 2018 | #21 (8 wk) | #43 (1 wk) | – |
| Hesitation Marks | 2013 | #6 (19 wk) | #9 (3 wk) | – |
| The Slip | 2008 | #34 (3 wk) | #54 (1 wk) | – |
| Ghosts I–IV | 2008 | #54 (4 wk) | – | – |
| Year Zero | 2007 | #14 (6 wk) | #25 (4 wk) | – |
| With Teeth | 2005 | #15 (11 wk) | #34 (5 wk) | – |
| The Fragile | 1999 | #36 (2 wk) | – | – |
| The Downward Spiral | 1994 | – | – | – |
| Pretty Hate Machine | 1989 | – | – | – |
Other albums in the charts or with gold or platinum (live, compilations, reissues):
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tron Ares: Divergence | 2026 | #89 (1 wk) | – | – |
| Nine Inch Noize | 2026 | #140 (1 wk) | – | – |
| Tron - Ares | 2025 | #6 (4 wk) | #51 (1 wk) | – |
Awards
Awards won and nominations according to Wikidata (major awards only; counted per category).
| Award | Won | Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| Grammy Award | 2 (1992, 1995) | 11 |
| MTV Award | – | 9 |
| American Music Award | – | 2 |
How popular is Nine Inch Nails 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 2018 | 38 | B | 12 / 82 | 67 | 33 | 35 | 61 | Wikipedia, Google Trends, charts, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Werchter 2018 | Rock Werchter 2018: Festivaldag 4 | Dansende Beren | 09/07/2018 | 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, July 2018 · Rock Werchter
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 | Closer 1 · As Alive as You Need Me to Be 1 |
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | The Hand That Feeds 9 · Closer 3 · Heresy (nine Inch Noize Version) 2 · As Alive As You Need Me To Be 2 · We're In This Together 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | As Alive As You Need Me To Be 77 · The Hand That Feeds 6 · Closer 6 · Closer (Album Version) 3 · Shadow Over Me 3 |
| KEXP | United States | As Alive as You Need Me to Be 45 · Head Like a Hole 19 · Dead Souls 15 · Down in It 15 · Shadow Over Me 10 |
| Kerrang! Radio | United Kingdom | Head Like A Hole 3 · Less Than 3 · Into the Void 1 · As Alive As You Need Me To Be 1 · The Hand That Feeds 1 |
| Oui FM | France | The Hand That Feeds 1 |