Points show how well known and in demand an act is today in Belgium and the Netherlands, based on public figures such as listeners and hits. They say nothing about the quality of a show. 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
- Active since
- 1983
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 2 nummers, hoogste #1836 (Dead or Alive)
- in the list since 2021, 5 years
- per song
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
FIP Rock 2 0,5 per week VRT Radio 1 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationBBC Radio 6 Music 93 0,9 per week since Nov 2024 KEXP 60 0,4 per week since Nov 2023 FIP Rock 2 0,4 per week since Oct 2026 BBC Radio 1 2 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 KINK 2 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 2 0,0 per week since Dec 2024 VRT Radio 1 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 | 2025 | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead or Alive | 1981 | 5 (2021–2025) | #1836 | #1427 (2021) | #1985 (2023) |
| I Keep a Close Watch | 1996 | 4 (2022–2025) | #1938 | #1456 (2024) | #1938 (2025) |
Records
Albums in the Belgian and Dutch album charts (Ultratop, Dutch Charts) and with gold or platinum (BEA, NVPI).
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poptical Illusion | 2024 | #79 (2 wk) | – | – |
| Mercy | 2023 | #14 (4 wk) | – | – |
| Fragments Of A Rainy Season | 2016 | #102 (7 wk) | – | – |
| Music For A New Society / M:FANS | 2016 | #52 (6 wk) | – | – |
| Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood | 2012 | #58 (4 wk) | – | – |
| Circus Live | 2007 | #83 (2 wk) | #58 (1 wk) | – |
| Black Acetate | 2005 | #87 (2 wk) | – | – |
| Songs For Drella | 1990 | – | #14 (15 wk) | – |
| Caribbean Sunset | 1984 | – | #28 (3 wk) | – |
How popular is John Cale 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.
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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Hallelujah 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Adelaide 1 · I Keep A Close Watch 1 |
| FIP Rock | France | Sold Motel 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Spinning Away 6 · House 4 · STORY OF BLOOD 2 · Barracuda 1 · Dirtyass Rock 'n' Roll 1 |