Whispering Sons
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 ›
Chances for 2027
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Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
- Pukkelpop 2016, Pukkelpop 2018, Rock Werchter 2019, Best Kept Secret 2019, Rock Werchter 2024, Pukkelpop 2025
- Active since
- 2013
- Albums
- The Great Calm 2024
- Several Others 2021
- Image 2018
- Hits since 2015
- Alone BE #49, 2019
- Concerts per year
- 2026 0
- 2025 22
- 2024 58
- 2023 22
- 2022 63
- 2021 33
- 2019 100
- 2018 45
- 2017 61
- 2016 52
- 2015 5
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 1 nummer, hoogste #744 (Alone)
- in the list since 2020, 6 years
- per song
- Gold and platinum
- Belgium: 1 album, 0 singles
- Image goud, 2021
- Discogs
- 2,124 times in a collection
- 683 on a wishlist
- 9 uitgaven
Per album, times in a collection- Whispering Sons 2014 · 28
- Endless Party 2015 · 51
- Performance / Strange Identities 2016 · 172
- White Noise 2017 · 126
- Image 2018 · 359
- On Image A Live Session 2019 · 264
- Several Others 2021 · 606
- Surface / Blank 2021 · 364
- The Great Calm 2024 · 154
- Biggest own venue
- Cactus, Brugge
- ±400 plaatsen
- 2022 (Benelux, last three years)
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Willy 7 1,6 per week Studio Brussel 6 1,4 per week VRT Radio 1 3 0,7 per week Since we track the stationStudio Brussel 490 3,1 per week since Nov 2023 Willy 190 1,9 per week since Dec 2024 KINK 13 0,1 per week since Nov 2023 VRT Radio 1 4 0,4 per week since Sep 2026 NPO 3FM 2 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 KEXP 1 0,0 per week since Nov 2023 - Similar to
- The Soft Moon, The Haunted Youth, Tramhaus, Deadletter
- Home act
- 74% of worldwide search volume comes from Belgium and the Netherlands (typically a few percent)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alone | 2018 | 6 (2020–2025) | #744 | #339 (2020) | #882 (2023) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Great Calm | 2024 | #2 (7 wk) | – | – | 154 |
| Several Others | 2021 | #1 (18 wk) | #84 (1 wk) | – | 606 |
| Image | 2018 | #6 (62 wk) | – | gold BE | 359 |
Discogs: 2,124 times in a collection. 683 times on a wishlist.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pukkelpop 2016 | – | – | – | – | – | – | charts, setlist.fm, stature | |
| Pukkelpop 2018 | – | – | – | – | – | – | charts, setlist.fm, stature | |
| Best Kept Secret 2019 | – | – | – | – | – | – | charts, setlist.fm, stature | |
| Rock Werchter 2019 | – | – | – | – | – | – | charts, setlist.fm, stature | |
| Rock Werchter 2024 | – | – | – | – | – | – | charts, setlist.fm, stature | |
| Pukkelpop 2025 | – | – | – | – | – | – | charts, setlist.fm, stature |
Reviews and reports
Reviews by Dansende Beren and Festileaks.
| Edition | Titel | Bron | Date | Soort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pukkelpop 2025 | Pukkelpop 2025 (Festivaldag 3): A volonté | Dansende Beren | 17/08/2025 | dagverslag |
| Rock Werchter 2024 | Rock Werchter 2024 (Festivaldag 4): Sterren tellen | Dansende Beren | 08/07/2024 | dagverslag |
| Rock Werchter 2019 | Rock Werchter 2019 (Festivaldag 2): Vergunning voor een geslaagde dag | Dansende Beren | 29/06/2019 | dagverslag |
| Best Kept Secret 2019 | Best Kept Secret 2019 (Festivaldag 2): Verrassingen onder de warme zon | Dansende Beren | 02/06/2019 | dagverslag |
| Pukkelpop 2018 | Pukkelpop 2018: Festivaldag 3 | Dansende Beren | 18/08/2018 | 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
- ▲August 2025 · Pukkelpop
- ▲July 2024 · Rock Werchter
- ●17/03/2024 · Cactus Club, Brugge
- ●02/04/2022 · Cactus, Brugge
- ▲July 2019 · Rock Werchter
- ▲June 2019 · Best Kept Secret
3 earlier dates
- ●08/03/2019 · Cactus, Brugge
- ▲August 2018 · Pukkelpop
- ▲August 2016 · Pukkelpop
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 | Alone 126 · Surface 20 · Walking, Flying 2 · The Talker 2 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Walking, Flying 2 · Alone 1 · The Talker 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | The Talker 49 · Alone 47 · Something Good 32 · Hollow 12 · Satantango 1 |