Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Popular music Audience in Belgium

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Popular music in Belgium — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Popular music has an estimated audience of 1,995,548 people in Belgium.

The average Popular music fan in Belgium is 40.2 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in East Flanders.

The audience is concentrated in East Flanders, Antwerp, Hainaut.

Top brand affinities include Bass guitar, Piano, Blues music, with strongest over-indexing on Bass guitar (3.15× the country average).

Demographically, the Popular music audience skews balanced with an average age of 40.2, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Risk Appetite, Sustainability.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 11 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical Popular music fan in Belgium is balanced, around 40.2 years old, with strong Risk Appetite tendencies and a notable affinity for Bass guitar.

Category: Music & Radio · Type: Topic · Subtype: Musical genre

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-13.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Popular music profile in Belgium.

Audience size
2M
in Belgium
Gender
50.9%
49.1% male
Age
40.2
average years
Country rank
#328
Topic in Belgium
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-21%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Popular music fans

50.9% are female, 49.1% are male, average age 40.2.

Fig. 02

Gender split

50.9%
Female
49.1%
Male
Demographic split for Popular music audience in Belgium
MetricValue
Female50.9%
Male49.1%
Average age40.2
Estimated audience size1,995,548
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 40.2
average years
Age distribution of the Popular music audience in Belgium
Age bracketShare%
16-1919%
20-2920%
30-3916%
40-4920%
50+25%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.5%

of the worldwide Popular music audience comes from Belgium.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Popular music
CountryShare
United States20.9%
Japan6.5%
China6.1%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Belgium average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Popular music audience in Belgium is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Popular music fans by region: top regions in Belgium
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Flemish Brabant~200K1.14×
02Brussels~200K1.11×
03East Flanders~200K1.05×
04Antwerp~200K1.01×
05Luxembourg~50K1.01×
06West Flanders~200K1.00×
07Liege~200K0.98×
08Walloon Brabant~50K0.98×
09Province of Namur~90K0.97×
10Hainaut~200K0.96×
11Limburg~90K0.96×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Popular music audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Popular music audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01CelloMusic & Radio3.60×
02ViolinMusic & Radio3.43×
03Acoustic guitarMusic & Radio3.26×
04Bass guitarMusic & Radio3.15×
05PianoMusic & Radio2.73×
06Electric guitarMusic & Radio2.71×
07LivemusicMusic & Radio2.17×
08UniqloShopping2.04×
09Contemporary R&BMusic & Radio1.91×
10Blues musicMusic & Radio1.84×
11MangaLiterature1.76×
12Musical filmMovies & TV1.70×
13Modern artArts & Culture1.66×
14TwitchGames1.64×
15Michael JacksonMusic & Radio1.61×
16Sustainable energyHome & Garden1.58×
17House musicMusic & Radio1.57×
18Music videosMusic & Radio1.56×
19Retro styleFashion & Accessoires1.56×
20ComicsLiterature1.51×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Popular music audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Popular music audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Risk AppetiteTHRILL1.24×
SustainabilityBALANCE1.23×
TraditionCONSERVATISM1.22×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Popular music audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.88×
CreativityOPEN0.90×
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM0.90×
1.00× baseline
Section 06

Frequently asked questions

01

How many fans does Popular music have in Belgium?

Popular music has an estimated audience of 1,995,548 people in Belgium, concentrated in East Flanders and Antwerp.

02

What is the gender split and age of Popular music fans?

50.9% of Popular music fans are female, 49.1% are male, with an average age of 40.2 years.

03

Which brands do Popular music fans like most?

Popular music fans show strongest brand affinity for Bass guitar (3.15×), Piano (2.73×), and Blues music (1.84×) over the country average.

04

Where do Popular music fans live in Belgium?

Popular music fans in Belgium are most concentrated in East Flanders (reach ~200K), Antwerp (reach ~200K), and Hainaut (reach ~200K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.

05

What other brands do Popular music fans also like?

Beyond Popular music itself, the audience over-indexes on Piano (2.73×), Blues music (1.84×), Acoustic guitar (3.26×), and Music videos (1.56×) compared to the Belgium average.

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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Belgium who actively search for Popular music. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Belgium. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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