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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Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
- Pukkelpop 2019, Best Kept Secret 2019, Rock Werchter 2022, Best Kept Secret 2022
- Active since
- 2015
- Albums
- Double Infinity 2025
- Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You 2022
- Two Hands 2019
- U.F.O.F. 2019
- Capacity 2017
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 1 nummer, hoogste #1631 (Not)
- in the list since 2023, 3 years
- per song
- Discogs
- 15,799 times in a collection
- 5,694 on a wishlist
- 18 uitgaven
Most collected, times in a collection- Masterpiece 2016 · 5.760
- U.F.O.F. 2019 · 2.922
- Two Hands 2019 · 1.348
- Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 2022 · 1.061
- Double Infinity 2025 · 3.024
- Biggest own venue
- AFAS Live, Amsterdam
- ±6.000 plaatsen
- 2026 (Benelux, last three years)
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
BBC Radio 6 Music 7 1,6 per week Studio Brussel 6 1,4 per week VRT Radio 1 4 0,9 per week KEXP 4 0,9 per week FM4 3 0,7 per week egoFM 2 0,5 per week FluxFM 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationBBC Radio 6 Music 450 4,3 per week since Nov 2024 KEXP 262 1,7 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 180 1,1 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 1 62 0,4 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 46 0,5 per week since Dec 2024 NPO 3FM 33 0,2 per week since Nov 2023 VRT Radio 1 4 0,8 per week since Oct 2026 KINK 4 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 - Similar to
- Boygenius, Phoebe Bridgers, Julia Jacklin, Lucy Dacus, Wednesday, Sufjan Stevens
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not | 2019 | 2 (2023–2025) | #1631 | #1631 (2025) | #2005 (2023) |
| Paul | 2016 | 1 (2024) | – | #1613 (2024) | #1613 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Double Infinity | 2025 | #15 (4 wk) | #18 (1 wk) | – | 3.024 |
| Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | 2022 | #6 (8 wk) | #6 (2 wk) | – | 1.061 |
| Two Hands | 2019 | #20 (4 wk) | #59 (1 wk) | – | 1.348 |
| U.F.O.F. | 2019 | #26 (9 wk) | #80 (1 wk) | – | 2.922 |
| Capacity | 2017 | – | – | – | – |
| Masterpiece | 2016 | – | – | – | 5.760 |
Discogs: 15,799 times in a collection. 5,694 times on a wishlist.
How popular is Big Thief 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pukkelpop 2019 | 12 | D | 48 / 111 | 33 | – | – | 12 | Wikipedia, charts, stature |
| Best Kept Secret 2019 | 11 | C | 19 / 60 | 26 | – | – | 11 | Wikipedia, charts, stature |
| Rock Werchter 2022 | 28 | C | 35 / 83 | 25 | 31 | 25 | 27 | Wikipedia, charts, stature |
| Best Kept Secret 2022 | 26 | A | 10 / 50 | 23 | 30 | 24 | 26 | Wikipedia, charts, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Werchter 2022 | Rock Werchter 2022 (Festivaldag 4): Fonkelend richting ontknoping | Dansende Beren | 04/07/2022 | dagverslag |
| Best Kept Secret 2022 | Best Kept Secret (Festivaldag 2): Weinig geheimen, weinig verrassingen | Dansende Beren | 12/06/2022 | dagverslag |
| Pukkelpop 2019 | Pukkelpop 2019 (Dag 2): Topdag onder een muzikale vlag | Dansende Beren | 17/08/2019 | dagverslag |
| 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
- ●02/06/2026 · Vorst Nationaal / Forest National, Vorst / Forest
- ●21/04/2026 · AFAS Live, Amsterdam
- ●14/08/2024 · Openluchttheater Rivierenhof, Deurne
- ●18/04/2023 · De Roma, Borgerhout
- ●16/04/2023 · Grote Zaal, Groningen
- ●15/04/2023 · TR Schouwburg, Rotterdam
23 earlier dates
- ▲Sunday, July 2022 · Rock Werchter
- ●28/06/2022 · Cirque Royal / Koninklijk Circus, Brussels
- ●27/06/2022 · Grote Zaal, Utrecht
- ▲Saturday, June 2022 · Best Kept Secret
- ●06/03/2020 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●05/03/2020 · Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
- ●16/08/2019 · Domein Kiewit, Hasselt
- ▲Friday, August 2019 · Pukkelpop
- ▲Sunday, June 2019 · Best Kept Secret
- ●28/05/2019 · L’Orangerie, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●12/08/2018 · Julianapark, Venlo
- ●25/03/2018 · La Rotonde, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●23/03/2018 · Ekko, Utrecht
- ●22/03/2018 · Vera, Groningen
- ●13/11/2017 · Rotown, Rotterdam
- ●12/11/2017 · Merleyn, Nijmegen
- ●29/10/2017 · De Kreun, Kortrijk
- ●28/10/2017 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●17/08/2017 · Oude Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●14/08/2017 · Openluchttheater Rivierenhof, Deurne
- ●25/01/2017 · Witloof Bar, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●23/01/2017 · Kleine Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●08/09/2016 · Grote 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 | Los Angeles 33 · Paul 12 · Shark Smile 9 · No Reason 9 · Incomprehensible 8 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Not 1 · Change 1 · Carry (ssi 26) 1 · Forgotten Eyes 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | All Night All Day 30 · Los Angeles 6 · Incomprehensible 4 · Shark Smile 3 · Born For Loving You 2 |
| FM4 | Oostenrijk | Change 1 · Shark Smile 1 · Shark Smile | FM4 Sounds Like FM4 1 |
| FluxFM | Germany | Shark Smile 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Grandmother 58 · Words 29 · Los Angeles 28 · Incomprehensible 23 · All Night All Day 12 |
| egoFM | Germany | Los Angeles 1 |