band profile
Muse
- 1994–2026
- 1,537 shows
- 99.0% of songs played matched to MusicBrainz
- half of the songs have left the setlist after 480 shows (median survival)
What Muse played at its concerts, night after night, from the setlists on setlist.fm; the discography comes from MusicBrainz.
What stands out
Muse changes its setlist less than it used to, and its debut album has largely left the set.
Rotation, how much the songs change from one concert to the next, fell from 0.36 (1999, 2000 and 2001) to 0.20 (2023, 2025 and 2026) in its first and last three years with enough shows, with a spike of 0.58 in 2018 in between. 11 of 12 eligible songs (those played at least 3 times and found in MusicBrainz) from Showbiz were abandoned (median 932 shows), while Absolution still had 52% after 1,186 shows. 49% of its eligible songs were still in the setlist 500 shows after their live debut, and 5% after 1,530 shows, where its data ends.
Caveats and limits
- Its earliest years are thin: only 24.0% of the songs played in 1995 matched MusicBrainz (see Methodology).
- Survival is counted in shows, not years, and years with fewer than 5 pairs of consecutive shows are left out of rotation (see Methodology).
How old the songs were: repertoire age
Years between a song's first release and the night it is played, averaged over all the songs played that year.
How to read: Each line is one band. Its height is how many years old the songs played that year were, on average. A rising line means the set leans on older songs; a falling line means newer songs took over.
Data table
| Year | Muse |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 0.1 |
| 1999 | 0.3 |
| 2000 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 0.9 |
| 2002 | 1.2 |
| 2003 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 2.3 |
| 2007 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 4.4 |
| 2009 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 8.2 |
| 2015 | 7.1 |
| 2016 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 8.8 |
| 2018 | 8.8 |
| 2019 | 8.3 |
| 2022 | 11.9 |
| 2023 | 10.8 |
| 2024 | 13.1 |
| 2025 | 14.6 |
| 2026 | 13.6 |
Median age by tour
Each bar is one tour in one year: a tour that spans several years appears once per year, because a median cannot be combined across years. The diamond marks the mean. Cells with fewer than 15 shows are left out.
How to read: Each bar is one tour in one year. A longer bar means older songs were typically played (the median age, in years); the diamond marks the average.
Data table
| Tour | Year | Shows | Median age | Mean age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 European Summer Tour | 1999 | 22 | 0 | 0.4 |
| 1999 UK Tour | 1999 | 22 | 0 | 0.4 |
| Showbiz | 1999 | 40 | 0 | 0.3 |
| Showbiz | 2000 | 92 | 1 | 1.1 |
| Origin of Symmetry | 2001 | 96 | 0 | 0.9 |
| Origin of Symmetry | 2002 | 33 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Absolution | 2003 | 40 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Absolution | 2004 | 123 | 2 | 2.2 |
| US Campus Invasion Tour | 2005 | 22 | 2 | 2.5 |
| Black Holes and Revelations | 2006 | 89 | 3 | 2.4 |
| Black Holes and Revelations | 2007 | 99 | 4 | 3.2 |
| Black Holes and Revelations | 2008 | 15 | 5 | 4.4 |
| The Resistance | 2009 | 48 | 3 | 3.4 |
| The Resistance | 2010 | 95 | 4 | 4.6 |
| 2011 Summer Tour | 2011 | 17 | 5 | 5.8 |
| The 2nd Law | 2012 | 25 | 3 | 4.2 |
| The 2nd Law | 2013 | 73 | 4 | 4.9 |
| The Unsustainable Tour | 2013 | 20 | 4 | 5.8 |
| Drones Festivals Tour | 2015 | 38 | 9 | 7.4 |
| Drones Festivals Tour | 2016 | 17 | 10 | 7.9 |
| Drones World Tour | 2016 | 65 | 7 | 6.9 |
| 2017 North American Tour | 2017 | 25 | 11 | 8.6 |
| Simulation Theory World Tour | 2019 | 59 | 7 | 8.3 |
| Will of the People Festivals Tour | 2022 | 21 | 16 | 11.9 |
| Will of the People World Tour | 2023 | 55 | 11 | 10.8 |
| The Wow! Signal | 2026 | 27 | 16 | 13.5 |
How much shows change: rotation
How much the setlist changes from one show to the next within a tour, by year. 0 is the same setlist every night; 1 is no song in common.
How to read: Each line is one band. Height is how different one show is from the next on the same tour: 0 means the same songs every night, 1 means no song in common. A falling line means a more fixed show; a rising line, a more changeable one.
Data table
| Year | Muse |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 0.58 |
| 2000 | 0.36 |
| 2001 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 0.21 |
| 2007 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 0.32 |
| 2012 | 0.34 |
| 2013 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 0.42* |
| 2015 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 0.58 |
| 2019 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 0.18 |
| 2025 | 0.29 |
| 2026 | 0.13 |
How long songs last: survival
Share of the band's songs still in the setlist after t shows since their live debut, by studio album. A curve that stays high is an album whose songs became permanent; one that drops fast is an album that passed through.
How to read: Each line follows one album's songs from the night they were first played live. Height is the share still in the setlist (100% at the start): a high, flat line means the songs stayed, a steep drop means they left quickly. The axis counts shows, not years; the grey line marks half.
Data table
| Album | after 25 shows | after 50 shows | after 100 shows | after 200 shows | after 400 shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolution (13 songs) | 100% | 100% | 92% | 92% | 77% |
| Black Holes and Revelations (11 songs) | 100% | 100% | 100% | 73% | 55% |
| Drones (8 songs) | 100% | 100% | 75% | 50% | 13% |
| Origin of Symmetry (10 songs) | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Showbiz (12 songs) | 100% | 100% | 100% | 92% | 58% |
| Simulation Theory (9 songs) | 78% | 78% | 56% | 44% | – |
| The 2nd Law (12 songs) | 100% | 100% | 92% | 50% | 22% |
| The Resistance (7 songs) | 100% | 100% | 100% | 71% | 43% |
| The Wow! Signal (5 songs) | 100% | – | – | – | – |
| Will of the People (8 songs) | 88% | 88% | 88% | – | – |
| non-album (30 songs) | 80% | 73% | 67% | 50% | 43% |
| All songs (125 songs) | 93% | 91% | 84% | 67% | 50% |
Albums
Eligible discography songs by reference album (the earliest studio album that contains the song). Median survival is in shows.
| Album | Songs | Abandoned | Censored (still played, or came back) | Median (shows) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All songs | 125 | 84 | 41 | 480 |
| Absolution | 13 | 6 | 7 | not reached |
| Black Holes and Revelations | 11 | 6 | 5 | 876 |
| Drones | 8 | 7 | 1 | 250 |
| Origin of Symmetry | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1,112 |
| Showbiz | 12 | 11 | 1 | 932 |
| Simulation Theory | 9 | 5 | 4 | 118 |
| The 2nd Law | 12 | 9 | 3 | 179 |
| The Resistance | 7 | 4 | 3 | 313 |
| The Wow! Signal | 5 | 0 | 5 | not reached |
| Will of the People | 8 | 1 | 7 | not reached |
| non-album | 30 | 29 | 1 | 187 |