As the year comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on a huge year of live music, (770,561 concerts across the globe huge!). In a time honoured tradition, we pay our greatest admiration and respects to the artists and their teams that have spent the lion’s share of the year on the road, powering through sleepless nights, late visas, lost gear, missed flights and true grit.

With the power of Songkick’s live music database and with more than 7 million events listed in our archive, we’re able to crunch the number of shows that every artist has played this year as well as every show’s venue-to-venue miles, to bring you the hardest working bands of 2018!