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Milow
Solo artist Borgerhout Belgium Belgian indie pop singer & songwriter
Milow is an artist from Borgerhout. Milow has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2007–2011. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “You Don't Know”, which appears on 2 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Milow most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Milow, the Borgerhout singer-songwriter born Jonathan Vandenbroeck in 1981, built his career the do-it-yourself way. His debut album, The Bigger Picture, came out in 2006 on his own Homerun Records, and after "One of It" drew a modest amount of airplay, "You Don't Know" became one of the biggest hits in Belgium in 2007. The album then parked itself on the Belgian albums chart for 110 weeks.
The sound is warm, unfussy acoustic folk rock: a guitar, a gentle, confiding voice and songs that feel like a conversation with an old friend. Coming of Age, self-released in 2008 and repackaged the next year as Milow, took that sound across mainland Europe and sold more than 500,000 copies there and in Canada.
The door-opener abroad was an unlikely one. His own version of "Ayo Technology", a song first cut by 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, became his international breakthrough, going to number one in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Belgium. In 2012 he won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Belgian Act.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Milow on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You Don't Know | 2 | #1 | 1 | 2007 | |
| 2 | Ayo technology | 1 | #16 | – | 2008 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 99 | You Don't Know | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2011) |
| 2008 | 16 | Ayo technology | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2008 |
| 2007 | 1 | You Don't Know | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2007 |
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