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 2019
- Active since
- 2005
- Albums
- Help Us Stranger 2019
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2022
- 2 nummers, hoogste #1835 (Many Shades of Black)
- in the list since 2022, 1 years
- per song
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
KINK 7 1,6 per week Studio Brussel 3 0,7 per week Radio X 2 0,5 per week VRT Radio 1 1 0,2 per week Oui FM 1 0,2 per week BBC Radio 6 Music 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationKINK 355 2,3 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 156 1,0 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 6 Music 26 0,2 per week since Oct 2024 BBC Radio 1 12 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 KEXP 11 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 VRT Radio 1 2 0,2 per week since Sep 2026 Radio X 2 0,4 per week since Oct 2026 Oui FM 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 | 2022 | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Many Shades of Black | 2008 | 1 (2022) | #1835 | #1835 (2022) | #1835 (2022) |
| Steady, As She Goes | 2006 | 1 (2022) | #1845 | #1845 (2022) | #1845 (2022) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Help Us Stranger | 2019 | #8 (11 wk) | #10 (3 wk) | – |
| Consolers of the Lonely | 2008 | #8 (16 wk) | #29 (6 wk) | – |
| Broken Boy Soldiers | 2006 | #15 (21 wk) | #40 (14 wk) | – |
How popular is The Raconteurs 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 2019 | 22 | B | 9 / 60 | 99 | 20 | 22 | 28 | Wikipedia, charts, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Kept Secret 2019 | Best Kept Secret 2019 (Festivaldag 2): Verrassingen onder de warme zon | Dansende Beren | 02/06/2019 | 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 2019 · Best Kept Secret
- ●27/05/2019 · Cirque Royal / Koninklijk Circus, Brussels
- ●01/07/2008 · The Max, Amsterdam
- ●18/08/2006 · Domein Kiewit, Hasselt
- ●30/06/2006 · The Max, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| KINK | Netherlands | Steady As She Goes 5 |
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Steady As She Goes 79 · Many Shades Of Black 11 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Steady As She Goes 1 · Help Me Stranger 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Broken Boy Soldier 1 · Steady As She Goes 1 · Top Yourself 1 · Level 1 |
| Oui FM | France | Salute Your Solution 1 |
| Radio X | United Kingdom | Steady As She Goes 1 |