Artist · chart history
The Subs
Band Ghent Belgium Formed 2006 Belgian electro band
The Subs formed in 2006 in Ghent, Belgium. The Subs has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2011–2015. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The face of the planet”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #27. The station that charted The Subs most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
The Subs are a Ghent electro outfit started in 2006 by Jeroen "Papillon" De Pessemier and Wiebe "Tonic" Loccufier, and they made their name the hard way, on underground club floors with tracks like "You Make Me Spill" and "Substracktion". The real breakthrough came in 2008 with "Kiss My Trance", a raw slab of punk-trance that shot up the commercial charts and landed in the sets of Boys Noize, T. Raumschmiere, Laurent Garnier and Tiësto.
Remix work followed for Alex Gopher, the Lotterboys, Plump DJs, Telex and Cassius, and at the end of that year the Belgian label Lektroluv put out their debut album, Subculture, to strong reviews, with "Music Is The New Religion" as its second single. By May 2009 Rob da Bank had them cooking up an hour-long mixtape for his BBC Radio 1 show.
The sound is electro for the small hours: distorted, pumping and gleefully rude. Decontrol, in 2011, gave them "The face of the planet", Hologram followed in 2014 with "Trapped", and "Close To Faith" kept the lights flashing in 2015.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Subs on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The face of the planet | 1 | #27 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Trapped | 1 | #36 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Close To Faith | 1 | #43 | – | 2015 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | Close To Faith | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2015 |
| 2014 | 36 | Trapped | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2014 |
| 2011 | 27 | The face of the planet | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2011 |
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