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 ›
Chances for 2027
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Career
- Line-ups
- Best Kept Secret 2025
- Active since
- 2001
- Albums
- Seeds 2014
- Nine Types of Light 2011
- Concerts per year
- 2026 2
- 2025 47
- 2024 13
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Stature
- Discogs
- 16,395 times in a collection
- 4,209 on a wishlist
- 19 uitgaven
Most collected, times in a collection- Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes 2004 · 1.619
- Return To Cookie Mountain 2006 · 2.176
- Dear Science 2008 · 2.712
- Nine Types Of Light 2011 · 3.316
- Seeds 2014 · 3.192
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
KEXP 10 2,3 per week BBC Radio 6 Music 8 1,9 per week egoFM 4 0,9 per week FM4 4 0,9 per week Willy 2 0,5 per week FIP Rock 1 0,2 per week FluxFM 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationKEXP 297 1,9 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 6 Music 208 1,9 per week since Oct 2024 Willy 9 0,1 per week since Dec 2024 egoFM 4 0,8 per week since Oct 2026 FM4 4 0,8 per week since Oct 2026 NPO 3FM 3 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 Studio Brussel 2 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 FIP Rock 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, gold and platinum (BEA, NVPI), and how many Discogs members own the record. Data provided by Discogs.
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum | Discogs collections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seeds | 2014 | #100 (1 wk) | – | – | 3.192 |
| Nine Types of Light | 2011 | #51 (3 wk) | #82 (1 wk) | – | 3.316 |
| Dear Science | 2008 | #20 (9 wk) | #27 (6 wk) | – | 2.712 |
| Return to Cookie Mountain | 2006 | #52 (10 wk) | – | – | 2.176 |
| Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 2004 | – | – | – | 1.619 |
Discogs: 16,395 times in a collection. 4,209 times on a wishlist.
How popular is Tv on the Radio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Kept Secret 2025 | 14 | B | 24 / 85 | 96 | 13 | 13 | 22 | Wikipedia, search volume, charts, setlist.fm, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Kept Secret 2025 | Best Kept Secret 2025 (Festivaldag 2): Gezien en gezien worden | Dansende Beren | 15/06/2025 | dagverslag |
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 2025 · Best Kept Secret
- ●24/08/2015 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●04/07/2011 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●06/12/2008 · Maassilo, Rotterdam
- ●03/12/2008 · The Max, Amsterdam
- ●01/10/2008 · Desmet Studio's, Amsterdam
7 earlier dates
- ●12/11/2006 · Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
- ●18/08/2006 · Domein Kiewit, Hasselt
- ●05/09/2004 · 4AD Muziekclub, Diksmuide
- ●04/09/2004 · Club, Brussels
- ●21/08/2004 · Domein Kiewit, Hasselt
- ●08/07/2004 · Kleine Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●04/07/2004 · Zuiderpark, Rotterdam
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Willy | Belgium | Wolf Like Me 5 · Staring at the Sun 1 |
| FIP Rock | France | Keep Your Heart 1 |
| FM4 | Oostenrijk | Wolf Like Me 2 · Happy Idiot 1 · Staring at the Sun 1 |
| FluxFM | Germany | Happy Idiot 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Wolf Like Me 36 · Staring at the Sun 17 · I Was a Lover 10 · Trouble 9 · Careful You 7 |
| egoFM | Germany | DLZ 2 · Wolf Like Me 1 |