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 2019
- Active since
- 1990
- Albums
- Instant Holograms on Metal Film 2025
- Not Music 2010
Stature
- Biggest own venue
- Ronda, Utrecht
- ±2.000 plaatsen
- 2023 (Benelux, last three years)
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
BBC Radio 6 Music 9 2,1 per week KEXP 7 1,6 per week FIP Rock 3 0,7 per week FluxFM 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationKEXP 461 2,9 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 6 Music 442 4,0 per week since Oct 2024 Willy 19 0,2 per week since Dec 2024 BBC Radio 1 6 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 FIP Rock 3 0,6 per week since Oct 2026 Studio Brussel 1 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 FluxFM 1 0,2 per week since Oct 2026
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instant Holograms on Metal Film | 2025 | #75 (1 wk) | – | – |
| Not Music | 2010 | – | – | – |
| Chemical Chords | 2008 | – | – | – |
| Eaten Horizons or the Electrocution of Rock | 2007 | – | – | – |
| Margerine Eclipse | 2004 | – | – | – |
| Sound‐Dust | 2001 | – | – | – |
| Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night | 1999 | – | – | – |
| Dots and Loops | 1997 | – | – | – |
| Emperor Tomato Ketchup | 1996 | – | – | – |
| Mars Audiac Quintet | 1994 | – | – | – |
| Transient Random‐Noise Bursts With Announcements | 1993 | – | – | – |
| Peng! | 1992 | – | – | – |
How popular is Stereolab compared with other countries?
Bigger in the United Kingdom 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 2019 | – | C | 23 / 60 | 41 | – | 10 | 12 | 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
- ●06/03/2026 · Cactus Club, Bruges
- ●06/03/2026 · Cactus Club, Brugge
- ●05/03/2026 · L’Orangerie, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●05/03/2026 · Botanique Orangerie, Brussel
- ●01/06/2025 · Doornroosje, Nijmegen
- ●31/05/2025 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
26 earlier dates
- ●12/11/2023 · Ronda, Utrecht
- ●10/11/2023 · DEPART, Kortrijk
- ●22/11/2022 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●21/11/2022 · Club, Borgerhout
- ▲June 2019 · Best Kept Secret
- ●30/05/2019 · L’Orangerie, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●12/11/2008 · L’Orangerie, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●11/11/2008 · Doornroosje, Nijmegen
- ●09/03/2004 · L’Orangerie, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●08/03/2004 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●01/09/2001 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●31/08/2001 · Effenaar, Eindhoven
- ●21/10/1999 · L’Orangerie, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●25/10/1997 · Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
- ●24/10/1997 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●11/04/1996 · Democrazy, Ghent
- ●11/04/1996 · Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht
- ●29/10/1995 · La Chapelle, Liège
- ●28/10/1995 · Oude Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●02/12/1994 · Paard van Troje, The Hague
- ●29/11/1994 · Gemeenschapscentrum De Vaartkapoen, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek / Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
- ●19/03/1994 · Gemeenschapscentrum De Vaartkapoen, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek / Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
- ●02/03/1994 · Melkweg, Amsterdam
- ●27/03/1993 · Pacific Club, Antwerp
- ●05/09/1992 · Groovy Times, Merchtem
- ●11/03/1992 · Groovy Times, Merchtem
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 | Transmuted Matter 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | French Disko 14 |
| BBC Radio 6 Music | United Kingdom | French Disko 1 · Miss Modular 1 |
| FIP Rock | France | The Noise of Carpet 2 · The Flower Called Nowhere 1 |
| FluxFM | Germany | Aerial Troubles 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Aerial Troubles 37 · Fed Up With Your Job 26 · Melodie Is a Wound 25 · Electrified Teenybop! 19 · Transmuted Matter 16 |