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Career
- Line-ups
- Pinkpop 2016
- Active since
- 2012
- Albums
- Sun In California 2025
- Identity Crisis 2022
- After the Landslide 2019
- Catch & Release 2014
- Pieces 2012
- Hits since 2015
- Catch & Release (Deepend Remix) BE #1, 2015
- Catch & Release (Deepend Remix) NL #5, 2016
- Breng me naar het water (Marco Borsato & Matt Simons) NL #22, 2016
- Lay Your Worry Down (Milow feat. Matt Simons) BE #28, 2018
- We Can Do Better BE #29, 2018
- We Can Do Better NL #47, 2018
Stature
- Gold and platinum
- Belgium: 0 albums, 2 singles
- Catch & Release (Deepend Remix) platina, 2016
- Catch & Release (Deepend Remix) goud, 2015
the Netherlands: 1 album, 4 singles- Catch & Release goud, 2017
- Biggest own venue
- Grote Zaal, Utrecht
- ±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
Qmusic NL 5 1,2 per week VRT Radio 1 1 0,2 per week MNM 1 0,2 per week Qmusic 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationNPO 3FM 18 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 Qmusic NL 12 0,7 per week since Jul 2026 Qmusic 2 0,0 per week since Feb 2025 Studio Brussel 1 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 VRT Radio 1 1 0,1 per week since Sep 2026 MNM 1 0,1 per week since Sep 2026 - Home act
- 34% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun In California | 2025 | – | – | – |
| Identity Crisis | 2022 | – | – | – |
| After the Landslide | 2019 | – | #24 (2 wk) | – |
| Catch & Release | 2014 | #167 (3 wk) | #12 (44 wk) | gold NL |
| Pieces | 2012 | – | #23 (15 wk) | – |
singles met goud of platina: Belgium 2, the Netherlands 4.
How popular is Matt Simons 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinkpop 2016 | 41 | B | 14 / 48 | 21 | 55 | 66 | 33 | 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
- ●24/11/2025 · Grote Zaal, Groningen
- ●22/11/2025 · Grote Zaal, Utrecht
- ●11/09/2022 · Openluchttheater Caprera, Bloemendaal
- ●10/09/2022 · Het Rutbeek, Enschede
- ●02/09/2022 · Openluchttheater Nijverdal, Nijverdal
- ●28/05/2022 · Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
51 earlier dates
- ●17/10/2021 · Club Nine, Utrecht
- ●13/10/2021 · Radio 538, Hilversum
- ●10/10/2021 · Wex, Marche-en-Famenne
- ●15/02/2020 · Lotto Arena, Merksem
- ●28/11/2019 · Kleine Zaal, Haarlem
- ●27/11/2019 · Saxion Zaal, Enschede
- ●25/11/2019 · De Oosterpoort, Groningen
- ●24/11/2019 · Kleine Zaal, The Hague
- ●21/11/2019 · Club, Brussels
- ●19/11/2019 · Doornroosje, Nijmegen
- ●17/11/2019 · Hedon Grote Zaal, Zwolle
- ●16/11/2019 · Kleine Zaal, Eindhoven
- ●23/10/2018 · The Max, Amsterdam
- ●22/10/2018 · Ronda, Utrecht
- ●21/10/2018 · De Oosterpoort, Groningen
- ●16/04/2017 · Manegeclub De Molenheide, Schijndel
- ●13/04/2017 · AFAS Live, Amsterdam
- ●27/01/2017 · Ahoy, Rotterdam
- ●10/10/2016 · L’Orangerie, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●09/10/2016 · Ronda, Utrecht
- ●01/10/2016 · De Oosterpoort, Groningen
- ●11/09/2016 · VRT TV De Zevende Dag, Schaarbeek / Schaerbeek
- ●07/08/2016 · Plan Incliné, Ronquières
- ▲Saturday, June 2016 · Pinkpop
- ●15/04/2016 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●07/12/2015 · Club, Brussels
- ●28/11/2015 · De Doelen, Rotterdam
- ●25/11/2015 · Q-Studios, Vilvoorde
- ●06/11/2015 · Grote Zaal, Zwolle
- ●31/10/2015 · Oude Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●30/10/2015 · Grote Zaal, Eindhoven
- ●29/10/2015 · Paard van Troje, The Hague
- ●22/08/2015 · Almere Strand, Almere
- ●20/08/2015 · Kunstberg / Mont des Arts, Brussels
- ●27/06/2015 · Brouwersdam, Renesse
- ●21/04/2015 · Huis 23, Brussels
- ●20/04/2015 · Huis 23, Brussels
- ●04/04/2015 · Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam
- ●03/03/2015 · BNN Studios, Hilversum
- ●07/12/2014 · Cloud Nine, Utrecht
- ●05/12/2014 · Doornroosje, Nijmegen
- ●04/12/2014 · Oude Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●01/03/2014 · Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
- ●26/11/2013 · Rabozaal, Amsterdam
- ●24/11/2013 · De Doelen, Rotterdam
- ●13/07/2013 · Ahoy, Rotterdam
- ●24/04/2013 · Kleine Zaal, Eindhoven
- ●20/04/2013 · Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
- ●19/04/2013 · Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
- ●17/04/2013 · Paard van Troje, The Hague
- ●29/01/2013 · Kleine Zaal, Amsterdam
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MNM | Belgium | Catch & Release 2 |
| Qmusic | Belgium | Catch & Release 2 |
| Qmusic NL | Netherlands | With You 6 · Catch & Release 6 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Catch And Release 1 |