Preservation

Archive progress

Years covered: 1991 — 2026. These numbers are not a score. They describe how much of a live history has survived, and how much has not.

Where the archive stands

Documented setlists71%

Any recording16%

Full concert audio/video2%

1,252 known performances have nothing surviving in the archive beyond their date and place. That is the part of the work that still matters most.

What is known

Every figure below is counted from the archive database, which is built from setlist.fm. It records that a performance happened and what was played — not that anything of it survives.

1,494: known performances
1,055: with a documented setlist
16,554: documented song performances
853: distinct songs
872: venues
346: cities
33: countries
30: named tours

What survives

Recordings count individual published videos, while song coverage counts the individual setlist performances those videos document. One long video can cover many songs, and several recordings can document the same song performance.

242: performances with a recording
26: with a full-concert recording
1,497: song performances with video footage
1,279: published video recordings
292: original audio recordings preserved
275: photographs archived
24: memories preserved

Known playing time preserved

176 hours

166 hours: Concert performance
5.1 hours: Interview
1.4 hours: Documentary
1.3 hours: Television
48 min: Other
27 min: Tribute
19 min: Guest appearance
13 min: Busking
4 min: Rehearsal / soundcheck
2 min: Backstage

Based on 1,524 published recordings with a known duration. Recordings without reliable timing metadata are preserved in the counts above but are not estimated here.