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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 2018
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2024
- 1 nummer, hoogste #1501 (Sugar Man)
- in the list since 2021, 4 years
- per song
- Gold and platinum
- Belgium: 0 albums, 1 single
- Ecuador goud, 1997
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Studio Brussel 1 0,2 per week VRT Radio 1 1 0,2 per week FIP Rock 1 0,2 per week Radio Nova 1 0,2 per week KEXP 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationKEXP 60 0,4 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 12 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 6 Music 11 0,1 per week since Oct 2024 Willy 3 0,0 per week since Dec 2024 VRT Radio 1 1 0,1 per week since Sep 2026 FIP Rock 1 0,2 per week since Oct 2026 Radio Nova 1 0,2 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 | 2024 | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Man | 1970 | 4 (2021–2024) | #1501 | #1346 (2021) | #1985 (2022) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coming From Reality | 2013 | #109 (7 wk) | #91 (1 wk) | – |
| Cold Fact | 2013 | #50 (38 wk) | #54 (13 wk) | – |
| Searching For Sugar Man | 2013 | #28 (114 wk) | #32 (44 wk) | – |
singles met goud of platina: Belgium 1, the Netherlands 0.
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 2018 | 14 | B | 21 / 55 | 100 | – | – | 14 | Wikipedia, charts, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Kept Secret 2018 | Best Kept Secret 2018: Festivaldag 3 | Dansende Beren | 11/06/2018 | 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, June 2018 · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Sugar Man 4 · Crucify Your Mind 3 · Ecuador 2 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Can't Get Away 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Sugar Man 2 |
| FIP Rock | France | Hate Street Dialogue 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Sugar Man 4 · Inner City Blues 3 · I Wonder 3 · This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues 2 · Hate Street Dialogue 2 |
| Radio Nova | France | Crucify Your Mind 1 |