Artist · chart history
Fleddy Melculy
Band Brussels Belgium Formed 2015 Belgian metal parody band
Fleddy Melculy formed in 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Fleddy Melculy has 10 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2017–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “T-shirt van Metallica”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #16. The station that charted Fleddy Melculy most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 10 appearances.
Fleddy Melculy started as a joke, and the joke got out of hand in the best way. Jeroen Camerlynck, who was already playing in the Flemish rock band De Fanfaar, dreamed up the project with a deliberately daft name that bends Freddie Mercury into something sillier, then went and made actual heavy metal with it.
The debut single, "T-shirt van Metallica", took off immediately, and Sony Music came calling. In 2016 the band put out the EP Wat de fok? and the album Helgië, which climbed to number two on the charts, and they played Pukkelpop. By 2017 they were opening for Guns N' Roses at TW Classic, which is quite a leap for a band that began as a gag.
The second album, De kerk van Melculy, went to number one on the official Flemish chart in February 2018, and their Graspop show that year was released as a live album. Loud, cheerful metal with its tongue firmly in its cheek, and Flemish rock radio has been headbanging along with the T-shirt song for years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Fleddy Melculy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T-shirt van Metallica | 10 | #16 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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