band profile
Oasis
- 1991–2025
- 884 shows
- 100.0% of songs played matched to MusicBrainz
- half of the songs have left the setlist after 163 shows (median survival)
What Oasis played at its concerts, night after night, from the setlists on setlist.fm; the discography comes from MusicBrainz.
What stands out
Oasis played an almost fixed show, and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the album whose songs stayed in it the most.
Rotation, how much the songs change from one concert to the next, fell from 0.20 (1994, 1995 and 1996) to 0.01 (2008, 2009 and 2025) in its first and last three years with enough shows, and was 0.00 on the 2025 shows. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? lost 1 of 9 eligible songs (those played at least 3 times and found in MusicBrainz) and 89% were still played after 735 shows, while Be Here Now lost 6 of 9 (median 97 shows). Overall 36% of its eligible songs were still in the setlist after 880 shows, and the median survival is 163 shows.
Caveats and limits
- The last three years with enough shows include 2025, after a gap with no shows in the data between 2009 and 2025.
- Dig Out Your Soul (83% after 125 shows, 6 songs) is too short a curve to judge.
- The median survival is 163 shows against 1,235 for Metallica, but 50 shows cover very different stretches of calendar time for the two bands (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 | Oasis |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 0.4 |
| 1993 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0.4 |
| 1995 | 0.8 |
| 1996 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 4.2 |
| 2003 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 7.0 |
| 2005 | 5.9 |
| 2006 | 7.3 |
| 2007 | 10.8 |
| 2008 | 7.4 |
| 2009 | 9.1 |
| 2025 | 30.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Definitely Maybe | 1994 | 84 | 0 | 0.4 |
| (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 1995 | 43 | 0 | 0.6 |
| Definitely Maybe | 1995 | 26 | 1 | 1.3 |
| (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 1996 | 48 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Be Here Now | 1997 | 44 | 2 | 1.2 |
| Be Here Now | 1998 | 35 | 3 | 2.6 |
| Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 2000 | 70 | 5 | 4.2 |
| The Tour of Brotherly Love | 2001 | 19 | 6 | 5.6 |
| Heathen Chemistry | 2002 | 80 | 7 | 4.2 |
| Don't Believe the Truth | 2005 | 84 | 10 | 6.0 |
| Don't Believe the Truth | 2006 | 27 | 11 | 7.3 |
| Dig Out Your Soul | 2008 | 44 | 6 | 7.4 |
| Dig Out Your Soul | 2009 | 72 | 14 | 9.1 |
| Oasis Live ’25 | 2025 | 41 | 30 | 30.1 |
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 | Oasis |
|---|---|
| 1994 | 0.26 |
| 1995 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 0.02 |
| 2025 | 0.00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (9 songs) | 100% | 100% | 89% | 89% | 89% |
| Be Here Now (9 songs) | 100% | 78% | 44% | 33% | 33% |
| Definitely Maybe (11 songs) | 100% | 100% | 100% | 82% | 82% |
| Dig Out Your Soul (6 songs) | 100% | 100% | 100% | – | – |
| Don’t Believe the Truth (9 songs) | 100% | 89% | 78% | 33% | – |
| Heathen Chemistry (7 songs) | 100% | 100% | 86% | 29% | – |
| Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (6 songs) | 100% | 67% | 50% | 17% | – |
| non-album (23 songs) | 83% | 65% | 61% | 35% | 30% |
| All songs (80 songs) | 95% | 84% | 74% | 48% | 42% |
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 | 80 | 49 | 31 | 163 |
| (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? | 9 | 1 | 8 | not reached |
| Be Here Now | 9 | 6 | 3 | 97 |
| Definitely Maybe | 11 | 5 | 6 | not reached |
| Dig Out Your Soul | 6 | 1 | 5 | not reached |
| Don’t Believe the Truth | 9 | 8 | 1 | 122 |
| Heathen Chemistry | 7 | 5 | 2 | 111 |
| Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 6 | 6 | 0 | 117 |
| non-album | 23 | 17 | 6 | 108 |