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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Career
- Line-ups
- Best Kept Secret 2016
- Active since
- 1993
- Albums
- HEY WHAT 2021
- Double Negative 2018
- Ones and Sixes 2015
- The Invisible Way 2013
- C’mon 2011
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
BBC Radio 6 Music 6 1,4 per week KEXP 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationBBC Radio 6 Music 134 1,3 per week since Nov 2024 KEXP 111 0,7 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 6 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 1 5 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, and gold and platinum (BEA, NVPI).
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEY WHAT | 2021 | #11 (5 wk) | #27 (1 wk) | – |
| Double Negative | 2018 | #31 (7 wk) | – | – |
| Ones and Sixes | 2015 | #50 (8 wk) | #34 (2 wk) | – |
| The Invisible Way | 2013 | #55 (9 wk) | #99 (1 wk) | – |
| C’mon | 2011 | #60 (2 wk) | – | – |
| Drums and Guns | 2007 | #60 (3 wk) | – | – |
| The Great Destroyer | 2004 | #67 (3 wk) | – | – |
| Trust | 2002 | – | – | – |
| Things We Lost in the Fire | 2001 | – | – | – |
| Christmas | 1999 | – | – | – |
| Secret Name | 1999 | – | – | – |
| The Curtain Hits the Cast | 1996 | – | – | – |
| Long Division | 1995 | – | – | – |
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 2016 | 30 | A | 9 / 64 | 100 | 28 | 30 | 32 | Wikipedia, charts, stature |
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 2016 · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Just Like Christmas 2 |
| BBC Radio 6 Music | United Kingdom | California 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Witches 5 · Just Like Christmas 4 · Monkey 3 · Days Like These 3 · Sunflower 3 |