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Chances for 2027
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Career
- Line-ups
- Best Kept Secret 2018
- Active since
- 2015
- Albums
- Liminal 2026
- Solipsism Redux 2025
- Vision of Contentment 2024
- Hermetism 2022
- Trilogy 2021
Stature
- Gold and platinum
- the Netherlands: 1 album, 1 single
- Prehension goud, 2019
- Biggest own venue
- Grote Zaal, Utrecht
- ±2.000 plaatsen
- 2022 (Benelux, last three years)
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Today
- Radio
- Since we track the station
Studio Brussel 1 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 KEXP 1 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 - Home act
- 37% of worldwide search volume comes from Belgium and the Netherlands (typically a few percent)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liminal | 2026 | #145 (1 wk) | – | – |
| Solipsism Redux | 2025 | – | – | – |
| Vision of Contentment | 2024 | – | – | – |
| Hermetism | 2022 | #169 (1 wk) | – | – |
| Trilogy | 2021 | – | – | – |
| ZERO (Hanging D Remixes) | 2021 | – | – | – |
| Henosis | 2019 | – | #79 (1 wk) | – |
| Conatus | 2018 | – | – | – |
| Prehension | 2017 | #88 (8 wk) | #18 (8 wk) | gold NL |
| Solipsism | 2015 | #135 (2 wk) | #27 (3 wk) | – |
singles met goud of platina: Belgium 0, the Netherlands 1.
How popular is Joep Beving compared with other countries?
Much bigger in the Netherlands 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 2018 | 20 | B | 12 / 55 | 24 | 12 | 30 | – | 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
- ●30/10/2026 · Centrale Markthal, Amsterdam
- ●29/10/2026 · Centrale Markthal, Amsterdam
- ●22/05/2026 · De Vereeniging, Nijmegen
- ●21/05/2026 · Grote Zaal, Utrecht
- ●12/05/2026 · Theaterzaal, Ghent
- ●22/11/2025 · Cultuurcentrum De Grote Post, Ostend
34 earlier dates
- ●18/11/2025 · Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam
- ●17/04/2025 · TR Schouwburg, Rotterdam
- ●28/09/2024 · Amare, The Hague
- ●01/12/2022 · Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam
- ●27/08/2022 · Openluchttheater Rivierenhof, Deurne
- ●26/08/2022 · Bosspot, Amersfoort
- ●10/05/2022 · Grote Zaal, Utrecht
- ●15/04/2022 · Henry Le Bœufzaal / Salle Henry Le Bœuf, Brussels
- ●29/02/2020 · Grote of Lebuïnuskerk, Deventer
- ●08/01/2020 · Theaterzaal, Ghent
- ●12/12/2019 · Schouwburg Odeon, Zwolle
- ●11/12/2019 · Nieuwe Kerk, Groningen
- ●23/11/2019 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- ●27/09/2019 · Cultureel Centrum, Hasselt
- ●08/08/2019 · Binnenplein Belfort, Bruges
- ●08/08/2019 · Cactus, Brugge
- ●13/07/2019 · Provinciedomein Bergelen, Wevelgem
- ●16/05/2019 · Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
- ●30/04/2019 · Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
- ●28/04/2019 · Grote Zaal, Utrecht
- ●26/04/2019 · De Doelen, Rotterdam
- ●25/04/2019 · De Vereeniging, Nijmegen
- ●01/07/2018 · de Bijloke, Ghent
- ▲Sunday, June 2018 · Best Kept Secret
- ●31/03/2018 · Cultureel Centrum, Hasselt
- ●01/03/2018 · De Doelen, Rotterdam
- ●25/11/2017 · De Duif, Amsterdam
- ●19/07/2017 · Sint-Stevenskerk, Nijmegen
- ●08/04/2017 · Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam
- ●06/04/2017 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●11/01/2017 · Der Aa-Kerk, Groningen
- ●10/12/2016 · Paard van Troje, The Hague
- ●02/07/2016 · Jaap Edenbaan, Amsterdam
- ●06/03/2016 · Center Parcs De Eemhof, Zeewolde
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.