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The Van Jets
Band Oostende Belgium Active 2003–2019 Belgian indie rock
The Van Jets formed in 2003 in Oostende, Belgium and was active until 2019. The Van Jets has 8 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2007–2015. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The future”, which appears on 1 list and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted The Van Jets most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
The Van Jets were Ostend's own glitter-flecked rock and roll machine, a Belgian band formed in 2003 that stirred glam, garage rock and pure pop into one sweaty cocktail. Johannes Verschaeve sang and played guitar, Michaël Verschaeve drummed, Frederik Tampere played bass and Wolf Vanwymeersch joined on guitar in 2005. Their first EP, Belvedere Records Presents the Van Jets, came out ahead of their win at Humo's Rock Rally in 2004, and the stage was always where they lived: sets at Rock Werchter and Pukkelpop made them a live act people talked about.
Electric Soldiers, their full-length debut, landed in 2007, all strut and stomp. Cat Fit Fury! in 2010 turned up the swagger with "The Future" and "Down Below", and that same year they were up for the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Dutch & Belgian Act. After Halo in 2012, with "Broken Bones" and "Here Comes the Light", the guitars started giving ground to synthesizers.
Welcome to Strange Paradise in 2015 made that turn complete, recorded with producer Leo Abrahams and mixed by Tchad Blake, who also mixed the follow-up, Future Primitives. The band called it a day in 2019, and Johannes Verschaeve went solo as Johannes Is Zijn Naam, singing in Flemish.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Van Jets on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The future | 1 | #1 | 1 | 2010 | |
| 2 | Broken Bones | 1 | #3 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Two Tides of Ice | 1 | #7 | – | 2015 | |
| 4 | Down below | 1 | #9 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | Carpet Man | 1 | #17 | – | 2015 | |
| 6 | Danger Zone | 1 | #30 | – | 2012 | |
| 7 | Here Comes The Light | 1 | #31 | – | 2012 | |
| 8 | Electric Soldiers | 1 | #55 | – | 2007 |
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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