Artist · chart history
Clouseau
Band Sint-Genesius-Rode Belgium Formed 1984 Belgian pop group
Clouseau formed in 1984 in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium. Clouseau has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1989–1990. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Daar Gaat Ze”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #17. The station that charted Clouseau most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1989.
Clouseau are Belgium's great Flemish pop machine, a band from Sint-Genesius-Rode built around Koen and Kris Wauters, with Koen out front on lead vocals and Kris on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals. They sing in Dutch, apart from a brief flirtation with English material in the early '90s, and they have been scoring hits on both sides of the Belgian-Dutch border since the late '80s.
The breakthrough was "Daar Gaat Ze" ("There She Goes"), a bright, bouncing anthem that topped the Dutch charts in 1990 and was later recut in English as "Close Encounters". The album Of zo..., also from 1990, rode that wave, with "Domino" joining it on the countdowns. The early lineup also counted guitarist Tjenne Berghmans, bassist Karel Theys and Bob Savenberg, but the two Wauters have always been the engine.
"Passie" ("Passion") gave them another Dutch number one in 1995, proof that the formula of big choruses and polished, radio-ready pop had legs well beyond one golden summer.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Clouseau on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daar Gaat Ze | 1 | #17 | – | 1989 | |
| 2 | Domino | 1 | #26 | – | 1990 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 26 | Domino | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 1990 |
| 1989 | 17 | Daar Gaat Ze | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 1989 |
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