Guided By Voices
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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Career
- Line-ups
- Best Kept Secret 2019
- Active since
- 1983
- Albums
- Crawlspace of the Pantheon 2026
- Thick Rich and Delicious 2025
- Universe Room 2025
- Strut of Kings 2024
- Nowhere to Go but Up 2023
- New album
- Crawlspace of the Pantheon · 29/05/2026
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
BBC Radio 6 Music 2 0,5 per week KEXP 2 0,5 per week Since we track the stationKEXP 75 0,5 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 32 0,3 per week since Dec 2024 BBC Radio 6 Music 23 0,2 per week since Nov 2024
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawlspace of the Pantheon | 2026 | – | – | – |
| Thick Rich and Delicious | 2025 | – | – | – |
| Universe Room | 2025 | – | – | – |
| Strut of Kings | 2024 | – | – | – |
| Nowhere to Go but Up | 2023 | – | – | – |
| Welshpool Frillies | 2023 | – | – | – |
| La La Land | 2023 | – | – | – |
| Tremblers and Goggles by Rank | 2022 | – | – | – |
| Crystal Nuns Cathedral | 2022 | – | – | – |
| It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! | 2021 | – | – | – |
| Earth Man Blues | 2021 | – | – | – |
| Styles We Paid For | 2020 | – | – | – |
| Mirrored Aztec | 2020 | – | – | – |
| Surrender Your Poppy Field | 2020 | – | – | – |
| Sweating the Plague | 2019 | – | – | – |
| Warp and Woof | 2019 | – | – | – |
| Zeppelin Over China | 2019 | – | – | – |
| Space Gun | 2018 | – | – | – |
| How Do You Spell Heaven | 2017 | – | – | – |
| August By Cake | 2017 | – | – | – |
| Please Be Honest | 2016 | – | – | – |
| Cool Planet | 2014 | – | – | – |
| Motivational Jumpsuit | 2014 | – | – | – |
| English Little League | 2013 | – | – | – |
| The Bears for Lunch | 2012 | – | – | – |
| Class Clown Spots a UFO | 2012 | – | – | – |
| Let’s Go Eat the Factory | 2012 | – | – | – |
| Half Smiles of the Decomposed | 2004 | – | – | – |
| Earthquake Glue | 2003 | – | – | – |
| Universal Truths and Cycles | 2002 | – | – | – |
| Isolation Drills | 2001 | – | – | – |
| Do the Collapse | 1999 | – | – | – |
| Mag Earwhig! | 1997 | – | – | – |
| Under the Bushes Under the Stars | 1996 | – | – | – |
| Tonics & Twisted Chasers | 1996 | – | – | – |
| Alien Lanes | 1995 | – | – | – |
| For All Good Kids | 1995 | – | – | – |
| Bee Thousand | 1994 | – | – | – |
| Vampire on Titus | 1993 | – | – | – |
| The Corpse Like Sleep of Stupidity | 1992 | – | – | – |
| Propeller | 1992 | – | – | – |
| Same Place the Fly Got Smashed | 1990 | – | – | – |
| Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia | 1989 | – | – | – |
| Devil Between My Toes | 1987 | – | – | – |
| Sandbox | 1987 | – | – | – |
How popular is Guided By Voices 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 | – | C | 37 / 60 | 100 | – | – | – | Wikipedia, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Kept Secret 2019 | Best Kept Secret 2019 (Festivaldag 1): Opwarmen in stijl | Dansende Beren | 01/06/2019 | 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
- ▲Saturday, June 2019 · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Willy | Belgium | Hold On Hope 16 · We Outlast Them All 3 · Teenage Fbi 2 · Lost In The Sun 1 · Motor Away 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Glad Girls 4 · I Am a Scientist 4 · Bulldog Skin 3 · Jane of the Waking Universe 3 · I Am a Tree 3 |