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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Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
- Best Kept Secret 2018, Best Kept Secret 2025
- Active since
- 2011
- Albums
- Tigers Blood 2024
- Saint Cloud 2020
- Out in the Storm 2017
- Ivy Tripp 2015
- Cerulean Salt 2013
- Concerts per year
- 2026 3
- 2025 68
- 2024 83
- 2018 78
- 2017 99
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Stature
- Discogs
- 13,688 times in a collection
- 2,916 on a wishlist
- 14 uitgaven
Most collected, times in a collection- American Weekend 2012 · 1.134
- Cerulean Salt 2012 · 806
- Great Thunder 2018 · 761
- Saint Cloud 2020 · 7.002
- Much Ado About Nothing 2025 · 980
- Biggest own venue
- Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ±1.500 plaatsen
- 2024 (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 5 1,2 per week KEXP 4 0,9 per week Studio Brussel 1 0,2 per week FIP Rock 1 0,2 per week Since we track the stationKEXP 256 1,6 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 6 Music 224 2,0 per week since Oct 2024 Studio Brussel 33 0,2 per week since Nov 2023 BBC Radio 1 13 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 4 0,0 per week since Dec 2024 NPO 3FM 2 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 VRT Radio 1 1 0,1 per week since Sep 2026 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tigers Blood | 2024 | #101 (2 wk) | – | – | – |
| Saint Cloud | 2020 | – | – | – | 7.002 |
| Out in the Storm | 2017 | – | – | – | – |
| Ivy Tripp | 2015 | – | – | – | – |
| Cerulean Salt | 2013 | – | – | – | 806 |
| American Weekend | 2012 | – | – | – | 1.134 |
| Waxahatchee / Chris Clavin | 2011 | – | – | – | – |
Discogs: 13,688 times in a collection. 2,916 times on a wishlist.
How popular is Waxahatchee 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 2018 | – | C | 28 / 55 | 17 | – | – | 13 | Wikipedia, charts, setlist.fm, stature |
| Best Kept Secret 2025 | 15 | B | 22 / 85 | 26 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 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 3): Rood stof | Dansende Beren | 16/06/2025 | dagverslag |
| Best Kept Secret 2018 | Best Kept Secret 2018: Festivaldag 3 | Dansende Beren | 11/06/2018 | 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
- ▲Sunday, June 2025 · Best Kept Secret
- ●14/07/2024 · Minnewaterpark, Bruges
- ●11/07/2024 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●16/04/2023 · Bourla, Antwerp
- ●15/04/2023 · Zonnehuis, Amsterdam
- ●14/04/2023 · Arminius Kerk, Rotterdam
11 earlier dates
- ▲Sunday, June 2018 · Best Kept Secret
- ●01/10/2017 · Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
- ●08/09/2017 · Massembre, Heer
- ●31/10/2015 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●19/08/2015 · Extase, Tilburg
- ●18/08/2015 · Concertzaal, Amsterdam
- ●01/02/2015 · Kleine Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●31/01/2015 · Witloof Bar, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode / Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- ●30/10/2013 · Winston Kingdom, Amsterdam
- ●26/06/2013 · Grote Zaal, Amsterdam
- ●15/06/2013 · Ekko, Utrecht
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 | Right Back to It 8 · Site Unseen 3 · Bored 2 · Farewell Transmission 1 · Light of a Clear Blue Morning 1 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Site Unseen 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Right Back to It 2 · Bored 1 |
| BBC Radio 6 Music | United Kingdom | Streets of Philadelphia 1 |
| FIP Rock | France | War 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Right Back to It 16 · Site Unseen 16 · Crowbar 9 · Light of a Clear Blue Morning 8 · Where’s Your Love Now 3 |