Black Country, New Road
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
- Best Kept Secret 2023, Best Kept Secret 2025
- Active since
- 2018
- Albums
- Forever Howlong 2025
- Ants From Up There 2022
- For the First Time 2021
- Concerts per year
- 2026 70
- 2025 75
- 2024 45
- 2023 77
- 2022 56
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Stature
- Discogs
- 21,270 times in a collection
- 6,249 on a wishlist
- 8 uitgaven
Most collected, times in a collection- Sunglasses 2019 · 227
- Athen's, France 2019 · 166
- For The First Time 2021 · 7.737
- Ants From Up There 2022 · 11.181
- Forever Howlong 2025 · 1.815
- Biggest own venue
- Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
- ±2.000 plaatsen
- 2025 (Benelux, last three years)
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
FIP Rock 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationBBC Radio 6 Music 64 0,6 per week since Nov 2024 KEXP 60 0,4 per week since Nov 2023 NPO 3FM 9 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 5 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 2 0,0 per week since Dec 2024 FIP Rock 1 0,2 per week since Oct 2026 BBC Radio 1 1 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 KINK 1 0,0 per week since Nov 2023
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forever Howlong | 2025 | #69 (2 wk) | #53 (1 wk) | – | 1.815 |
| Ants From Up There | 2022 | #11 (4 wk) | #9 (2 wk) | – | 11.181 |
| For the First Time | 2021 | #52 (2 wk) | – | – | 7.737 |
Discogs: 21,270 times in a collection. 6,249 times on a wishlist.
How popular is Black Country, New Road compared with other countries?
Bigger in the United Kingdom than you would expect.
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 2023 | 25 | A | 6 / 50 | 29 | 27 | – | 23 | Wikipedia, charts, setlist.fm, stature |
| Best Kept Secret 2025 | 22 | B | 12 / 85 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 31 | Wikipedia, search volume, charts, setlist.fm, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Kept Secret 2023 | Best Kept Secret 2023 (Festivaldag 2): Door het stof gehaald | Dansende Beren | 11/06/2023 | 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
- ●05/08/2026 · Openluchttheater De Goffert, Nijmegen
- ●04/08/2026 · Openluchttheater Rivierenhof, Deurne
- ●28/10/2025 · Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
- ●13/10/2025 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●12/10/2025 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ▲June 2025 · Best Kept Secret
14 earlier dates
- ●30/10/2023 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●27/10/2023 · De Roma, Borgerhout
- ▲Saturday, June 2023 · Best Kept Secret
- ●15/04/2023 · BRUTUS, Rotterdam
- ●14/04/2023 · TR Schouwburg, Rotterdam
- ●13/04/2023 · Arminius Kerk, Rotterdam
- ●03/12/2022 · Doornroosje, Nijmegen
- ●13/11/2022 · DEPART, Kortrijk
- ●24/10/2021 · L’Orangerie, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●16/01/2020 · Martinikerk, Groningen
- ●15/01/2020 · Vera, Groningen
- ●10/11/2019 · DEPART, Kortrijk
- ●02/08/2019 · Espace 251 Nord, Liège
- ●14/07/2019 · Valkhofpark, Nijmegen
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 | Besties 3 · Strangers 1 |
| FIP Rock | France | Instrumental 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Besties 13 · Happy Birthday 5 · For the Cold Country 4 · Chaos Space Marine 3 · Forever Howlong 2 |