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Every performance an artist is known to have given, plotted on a globe. Drag the year slider and the camera drifts to wherever they were that year. Colour the pins by decade to see a career spread out over time, or by kind to separate concerts from festivals and television.

Every artist on the site is listed on the artists page, with how much each archive covers.

What counts as a show

More than concerts, deliberately. Anything an artist walked on stage for belongs here: festivals, award shows, television spots, radio sessions, benefit nights and a great many early-career club gigs. Each is tagged by kind and each kind can be switched off, so the map can be made to show where someone played rather than where the television studios are.

How much that tagging can say varies by artist, and it depends entirely on the sources — see credits. Taylor Swift’s archive has a curated, categorised second source, so 543 of her performances are identifiably something other than a tour concert. No other archive here has an equivalent, so almost everything on every other globe here reads as a concert. That is a limit of what is published, not a claim that those bands never did anything else — and on those archives the colour is better switched to decades, which is what the toggle beside the legend is for.

Where the pins sit

On cities, not venues. The coordinate source records one position per city, so every room in Los Angeles shares a pin — grouping any finer would just stack identical points on top of each other. Switch to Countries and each pin moves to the weighted centre of that country’s own cities, so the United States sits over Tennessee rather than over Kansas.

How complete is it

As complete as the sources can make it, which is not the same for every artist. Where an artist publishes their own tour archive, every tour is counted against it on every update and nothing goes live if a count disagrees — that is true of Taylor Swift’s six headlining tours today. Where no such archive exists, which is the case for every other artist here, there is nothing independent to check against and the page says so rather than implying a verification that never happened.

Three things are known to be missing, and they are listed rather than quietly rounded away:

• setlist.fm files collaborations under separate artist entities — the Def Leppard CMT Crossroads episode, or Metallica & Jerry Cantrell — and those are not picked up by an artist query, so they are missing from every archive here.
• Three online-only Taylor Swift performances and one simultaneous two-city broadcast are known but have no single place to be drawn, so they are not on the globe.
• Where a source files a night under no tour at all, it appears without one — three of the tours Taylor Swift opened are unlabelled at source, for instance. Every archive has some; the artists page gives the count per artist in its No tour column.

Nothing is ever deleted. A performance a source stops listing is marked absent and kept, because a cancellation and an upstream hiccup look identical from here.

How it is built

Concerts on a globe: a fully automated workflow with some AI- a technical write-up of how the data is gathered, processed and displayed, with a few notes on the design decisions that shaped the site. It is a blog post rather than a page here because it is a story about the process rather than a reference for the reader.

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