Tears for Fears
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
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Career
- Line-ups
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 3 nummers, hoogste #499 (Everybody Wants to Rule the World)
- in the list since 2020, 6 years
- per song
- Gold and platinum
- Belgium: 1 album, 0 singles
- Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92) goud, 1995
the Netherlands: 2 albums, 0 singles- Songs from the big chair platina, 1989
- The seeds of love goud, 1989
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Joe 27 6,3 per week VRT Radio 1 9 2,1 per week Qmusic NL 6 1,4 per week BBC Radio 6 Music 5 1,2 per week KEXP 5 1,2 per week NPO 3FM 4 0,9 per week Oui FM 4 0,9 per week Willy 4 0,9 per week Since we track the stationKEXP 241 1,5 per week since Nov 2023 Joe 179 6,6 per week since May 2026 NPO 3FM 175 1,1 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 131 1,3 per week since Dec 2024 KINK 116 0,7 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 52 0,3 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 6 Music 43 0,4 per week since Oct 2024 Qmusic NL 21 1,1 per week since Jul 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everybody Wants to Rule the World | 1985 | 6 (2020–2025) | #499 | #308 (2024) | #577 (2020) |
| Shout | 1985 | 5 (2021–2025) | #1457 | #980 (2021) | #1704 (2023) |
| Mad World | 1983 | 5 (2021–2025) | #1770 | #1406 (2024) | #2014 (2022) |
| Sowing the Seeds of Love | 1989 | 1 (2024) | – | #2108 (2024) | #2108 (2024) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Songs For A Nervous Planet | 2024 | #145 (1 wk) | #58 (1 wk) | – |
| The Tipping Point | 2022 | #8 (4 wk) | #5 (2 wk) | – |
| Rule The World - The Greatest Hits | 2021 | #106 (2 wk) | – | – |
| The Seeds Of Love | 2020 | #31 (3 wk) | #7 (38 wk) | gold NL |
| Songs From The Big Chair | 2020 | #95 (4 wk) | #1 (31 wk) | platinum NL |
| Everybody Loves A Happy Ending | 2005 | – | #86 (1 wk) | – |
| Raoul And The Kings Of Spain | 1995 | – | #70 (5 wk) | – |
| Elemental | 1993 | – | #31 (13 wk) | – |
| Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92) | 1992 | – | #22 (11 wk) | gold BE |
| The Hurting | 1983 | – | #30 (12 wk) | – |
How popular is Tears for Fears compared with other countries?
Based on search volume and listeners from the various sources. Each country compared with the worldwide figure.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Joe | Netherlands | Everybody Wants To Rule The World 117 · Shout 59 · Head Over Heels 1 · Woman in Chains 1 · Sowing The Seeds Of Love 1 |
| KINK | Netherlands | Everybody Wants To Rule The World 2 |
| MNM | Belgium | Everybody Wants To Rule The World 1 |
| NPO 3FM | Netherlands | Everybody Wants To Rule The World 1 |
| Qmusic NL | Netherlands | Everybody Wants To Rule The World 20 · Shout 1 |
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Everybody Wants To Rule The World 33 · Shout 4 · Mad World 1 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Mad World 4 · Everybody Wants To Rule The World 3 · Sowing The Seeds Of Love 3 · Pale Shelter 2 · Change 2 |
| Willy | Belgium | Shout 54 · Sowing The Seeds Of Love 19 · Head Over Heels 15 · Everybody Wants To Rule The World 5 · Mad World 4 |
| BBC Radio 6 Music | United Kingdom | Head Over Heels 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Everybody Wants To Rule The World 19 · Shout 16 · Head Over Heels / Broken 12 · Mad World 11 · Head Over Heels 11 |
| Oui FM | France | Pale Shelter 2 · Break It Down Again 1 |