Artist · chart history
dEUS
Band Antwerp Belgium Formed 1989 Belgian rock band
dEUS formed in 1989 in Antwerp, Belgium. dEUS has 119 chart appearances on 36 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1994–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Suds & Soda”, which appears on 27 lists with a best position of #8. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted dEUS most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 119 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2012.
dEUS came out of Antwerp, Belgium, with Tom Barman on vocals and guitars and Klaas Janzoons on keyboards and violin, and those 2 are the only members who have stayed the whole way. Worst Case Scenario, the 1994 debut, was a gloriously unruly thing, lurching from art-rock racket to lounge-bar sway, with "Suds & Soda" and its scraping, frantic energy and "Hotellounge" showing both sides. Stef Kamil Carlens on bass, Rudy Trouvé on guitar and Jules De Borgher on drums helped make that early noise.
In a Bar, Under the Sea followed in 1996 with "Roses" and "Little Arithmetics", and The Ideal Crash in 1999 brought "Instant Street", a slow-burning beauty, and "Sister Dew". Players came and went, Craig Ward, Danny Mommens and Mauro Pawlowski among them, but Janzoons' violin and Barman's restless voice stayed at the heart of it.
On V2 they kept going with Pocket Revolution in 2005, Vantage Point in 2008 with "The Architect", Keep You Close in 2011 and Following Sea in 2012, and in 2011 they won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Belgian Act. Today Stéphane Misseghers plays drums, Alan Gevaert bass and Simen Folstad Nilsen guitar. On the countdowns, "Suds & Soda" and "Instant Street" are still the ones people reach for.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by dEUS on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suds & Soda | 27 | #8 | – | – | |
| 2 | Instant Street | 27 | #23 | – | – | |
| 3 | Roses | 18 | #13 | – | – | |
| 4 | Hotellounge | 19 | #19 | – | – | |
| 5 | Nothing Really Ends | 13 | #38 | – | – | |
| 6 | Little Arithmetics | 7 | #38 | – | – | |
| 7 | The architect | 1 | #1 | 1 | 2008 | |
| 8 | Keep You Close | 1 | #3 | – | 2012 | |
| 9 | Constant now | 1 | #4 | – | 2011 | |
| 10 | Bad Timing | 1 | #6 | – | 2006 | |
| 11 | Quatre Mains | 1 | #20 | – | 2012 | |
| 12 | Sister Dew | 1 | #97 | – | – | |
| 13 | Favourite game | 1 | #49 | – | 2008 | |
| 14 | Fell Off the Floor, Man | 1 | #98 | – | – |
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.
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