Artist · chart history
A Brand
Band Antwerp Belgium Active 2004–2013 Belgian indierock band
A Brand formed in 2004 in Antwerp, Belgium and was active until 2013. A Brand has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2006–2009. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hammerhead”, which appears on 1 list and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted A Brand most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
A Brand made their first record the scrappy way: 45 RPM, cut in a garage in 2004 by an Antwerp band built around Dag Taeldeman, with Tom Vermeir alongside him and Frederik Heuvinck hammering the drums. "Riding Your Ghost" got them onto alternative radio, and by 2005 they were working Belgium's festival circuit at Dour, Zeverrock and Ackerrock, moving up to Rock Werchter and Pukkelpop the following year.
That was also the year of Hammerhead, their second album, and the title track is the band at full swagger: lean, wiry rock that grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go. "Beauty Booty Killerqueen" and "A Perfect Habitat For Foxes" kept the singles coming. Judas followed in the summer of 2008 with "Time" and "Mad love sweet love", proof that A Brand had more than one gear, and Future You in 2011 added "What's taking you", "The Mud" and "For blood".
They signed off with a double CD a year later. One disc rounded up every single they had put out, plus two new songs, "Christine" and "Humanoid", and a run at AC/DC's "Thunderstruck"; the other held "Grammar", an hour-long live mash-up of their best-known songs taped at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels in 2012. The band called it quits in 2013.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by A Brand on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hammerhead | 1 | #1 | 1 | 2006 | |
| 2 | Time | 1 | #6 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Mad love sweet love | 1 | #27 | – | 2009 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 27 | Mad love sweet love | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2009 |
| 2008 | 6 | Time | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2008 |
| 2006 | 1 | Hammerhead | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2006 |
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