Simply Red
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 ›
Figures
Other / unknown
Career
- Line-ups
- Active since
- 1986
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 2 nummers, hoogste #1590 (Fairground)
- in the list since 2022, 3 years
- per song
- Gold and platinum
- Belgium: 5 albums, 0 singles
- Greatest Hits platina x2, 2006
- Home goud, 2003
- Blue goud, 1998
- Greatest Hits goud, 1996
- and 1 more
the Netherlands: 15 albums, 0 singles- 25 The Greatest Hits goud, 2009
- Stay goud, 2007
- Home platina, 2007
- Stars platina, 2005
- and 11 more
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Joe 68 2.3 a day VRT Radio 1 6 0.2 a day FluxFM 4 0.1 a day Since we track the stationJoe 343 1.8 a day since May 2026 NPO 3FM 22 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 KEXP 11 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 VRT Radio 1 9 0.1 a day since Sep 2026 FluxFM 4 0.1 a day since Oct 2026 BBC Radio 1 2 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 Willy 2 0.0 a day since Dec 2024
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairground | 1995 | 3 (2022–2025) | #1590 | #1322 (2023) | #1590 (2025) |
| If You Don't Know Me by Now | 1989 | 1 (2025) | #1822 | #1822 (2025) | #1822 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 The Greatest Hits | – | – | gold NL | |
| Stay | – | – | gold NL | |
| Home | – | – | gold BE, gold NL, platinum NL | |
| Stars | – | – | gold NL, platinum NL | |
| The Very Best of Simply Red | – | – | gold NL | |
| Greatest Hits | – | – | 2x platinum BE, gold BE, gold NL, platinum NL | |
| Life | – | – | gold BE, gold NL, platinum NL | |
| A new flame | – | – | platinum NL | |
| Men and women | – | – | gold NL | |
| Picture book | – | – | platinum NL | |
| Blue | – | – | gold BE |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Joe | Netherlands | Stars 114 · Fairground 60 · Money's Too Tight 43 · Something Got Me Started 41 · The Right Thing 33 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Stars 3 · Money's Too Tight To Mention 2 · Holding Back The Years 1 · Fairground 1 · Something Got Me Started 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Money's Too Tight 2 |
| FluxFM | Germany | Holding Back The Years 2 |
| KEXP | United States | Holding Back The Years 2 · Money's Too Tight 2 · So Beautiful 1 · Remembering The First Time 1 · Sunrise 1 |