Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet.
Stromae is a Belgian musician, singer, songwriter, and rapper. He achieved popularity with the release of his song Alors on danse in 2009, which topped several music charts in many European countries. He has won several prestigious awards, such as the World Music Awards. Stromae is often promoted as the face of the New Beat generation.
Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer, actor, director, and songwriter. He is remembered for composing and performing thoughtful, literate, and theatrical songs. Apart from inspiring French musicians, Brel's works have also had a major influence on English-speaking performers like David Bowie, Scott Walker, Rod McKuen, Marc Almond, and Alex Harvey. Brel is the third-best-selling Belgian music artist of all time.
Plastic Bertrand is a Belgian musician, songwriter, producer, and TV presenter. He is best known for his international hit single Ça plane pour moi. Interested in music from a young age, he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music. As a musician, he toured extensively and released many albums and singles. He has also appeared in a few films.
Belgian singer Loïc Nottet first gained recognition with the show The Voice Belgique. He also gained popularity through Eurovision Song Contest and Danse Avec Les Stars. The MTV Europe Music Award winner has also toured around Europe and released a Halloween-themed EP named Candy.
Salvatore Adamo is a Belgian-Italian musician, composer, and singer best known for his romantic ballads. He is counted among the world's most commercially successful musicians, having sold more than 20 million singles and 80 million albums. Salvatore Adamo, who performs in multiple languages like French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and English, is currently the highest selling Belgian musician.
Eddy Wally was a Belgian singer and showman who toured all over the world from Far East to the West. He is best remembered for his song Chérie which was declared a double-platinum in Belgium. Eddy Wally's life and career inspired novelist Deborah Bishop to write a biography titled Wow!
Helmut Lotti is a Belgian singer-songwriter best known for his ability to perform in several languages and styles. Once an Elvis impersonator, Lotti crossed over into classical music during the 1990s before going on to produce hit songs in Latino, African, and Jewish music. Helmut Lotti has many multi-platinum albums under his belt.
Rocco Granata is an Italian-Belgian accordionist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his songs Manuela / Marina which he released as a single in 1959. The B-side of the record became an international hit and sold over a million copies in Germany alone. Granata also received a gold disc for Marina. His life inspired the 2013 movie Marina.
Milow is a Belgian singer-songwriter who has achieved immense popularity in mainland Europe and Canada where one of his albums sold more than 500,000 copies in the late 2000s. Over the course of his illustrious career, Milow has won many prestigious awards such as Music Industry Awards, MTV Europe Music Award, and European Border Breakers Award.
Wim Mertens is a Flemish Belgian countertenor vocalist, composer, guitarist, pianist, and musicologist. A prolific musician, Mertens has released over 60 albums. His musical piece Struggle for Pleasure has achieved an iconic status in Belgium and has been covered by many other popular musicians and bands.
Marka is a Belgian composer, singer, songwriter, and film-maker. First and foremost a live performer, Marka has toured across the world and often uses the exotic locales to shoot his documentary films as well. Marka is also known as the father of well-known performers, Angèle and Romeo Elvis.
Danzel is a Belgian musician who achieved popularity after the release of his 2004 single Pump It Up which became a massive hit across Europe. It also peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Lou Deprijck is a Belgian record producer and singer. An influential personality in the pop scene of the country during the 1970s and 1980s, Deprijck sold over 20 million copies worldwide. He is best known for his collaboration with Yves Lacomblez and his association with a trio named Two Man Sound.
Koen Wauters is a Flemish singer, TV presenter, and occasional race car driver and actor. He is best known for his association with the popular pop group Clouseau. Koen and his brother Kris are credited with making Clouseau the most famous band in Flanders. As a race car driver, Koen Wauters has competed in the Dakar Rally on 11 occasions.
Frédéric François is a French-speaking singer and composer based in Belgium. Over the course of his illustrious career, François has performed at many sold out concerts, apart from selling more than 35 million copies worldwide.
Stef Bos is a Dutch singer who currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Bos fell in love with Afrikaans and South African music after working with South African musicians Tandie Klaasen and Johannes Kerkorrel for an album titled Together as One, which released in 1993. He then decided to move to South Africa where he records songs in Dutch.
Jan Leyers is a singer, television personality, and songwriter. He is best known for his association with a music band called Soulsister which he helped popularize in Belgium in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He then went on to become a solo musician and is currently focused on his television career.
Marc Aryan was a French-Belgian singer, record producer, and songwriter. Aryan achieved international fame in the mid and late 1960s when he enjoyed success and popularity in Lebanon and Syria. He also had a huge impact on music lovers from Turkey where his single Istanbul became a classic. Marc Aryan is also credited with founding a record label named Markal.
Winner of the French realty television show, À la Recherche de la Nouvelle Star, celebrated pop singer Jonatan Cerrada was born and raised in Belgium, but currently resides in Bali, Indonesia. A multilingual and a child progeny, he speaks fluent French, Spanish, English and basic Indonesian.
A Belgian-Canadian singer, writer and record producer, Rick Alison is known for his musical collaborations with one of the bestselling Belgian artists, Lara Fabian. The two together gave hit albums like Carpe Diem, Pure and Nue. He is also known for producing singer Chimène Badi's debut album Entre nous and composing songs for various other French and French-Canadian singers.
Reynaert was a Belgian singer and songwriter best remembered for representing his country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988 where he performed his song Laissez briller le soleil. Reynaert is also remembered for serving as the director of Centre Culturel de Soumagne in Belgium until his death on 5 November 2020 due to COVID-19.
Born Régis Lant, Nornagest is a writer, musician and artist who is most recognised as the lead vocalist of the Belgian black metal band Enthroned. Initially a member of the metal band Heresia, he joined Enthroned as its lead guitarist and later became its lead vocalist. He has also lent his vocals to the American metal band Absu’s self-titled album.
A Flemish singer and musician, Jan Maarschalk Lemmens, better known as Glints, released his first single in 2014 and debut EP the following year. His 2018 hit song Bugatti brought him fame and a couple of years later he released his debut album Choirboy. He is a part of Abattoir Anvers collective and has performed at numerous music festivals too.
