10 Rock Music Songs That Have Been Played The Most Live
These famous songs have all been trotted out well over a thousand times on stage.
Is there anything better in this life than getting to see your favourite rock band play live? The experience is so good that people will pay insane amounts of money to cram into a hot, sweaty stadium and watch some rough-looking middle-aged performers murder their most famous tunes for three hours.
Whilst they may shake things up from time to time, major touring acts usually keep the same dozen or two songs in regular rotation. These are the biggest hits, the best-selling singles, and the ones that will be stuck in people's heads for hours after the curtain falls.
Some legacy rock acts have been touring for donkeys years and must have played these famous tracks many times. How many? Well, let's find out.
This list is of songs that have been played an obscene number of times live. There's only room for one song per artist and all the data comes from Setlist.fm, a fantastic resource for anyone interested in live music stats.
If you've got tickets to see any of the following massive bands live, then you can bet your house that they'll be playing these songs.
10. Master Of Puppets - Metallica (1,731 Times)
In 1986, Metallica secured their place as one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time with their third studio release, Master of Puppets.
This record brought everything together; the group's hard-hitting playing style, their creative use of imagery in their lyrics, and their expert command of melody and rhythm.
Whilst so many of the songs from this album have become classics, the one everyone remembers is the track that gave it its name.
The song Master of Puppets, an eight-and-a-half-minute-long symphony of violence and despair, captured the imagination of metal fans across the world, and its popularity has only grown in the years since its release.
At the time of writing, Metallica have unleashed the song on live audiences 1,731 different times. That's over 100 times more than their next most-played song, Creeping Death.
It crops up on almost every single Metallica live album and setlist, making it one of the most performed heavy metal songs in the entire world. And that's without getting into all the times it's been covered.
With its inclusion in Stranger Things only adding to its legend, don't expect Master of Puppets to go away any time soon.