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Fifty years of the catalogued record, by decade. Switch between formations, releases and documented events, then open a decade to see the acts and shows behind the bar.
127 dated releases · median gap between an act’s releases 5 years · 1 act with no recorded formation year
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Mainstream RockProgressive Rock/MetalHeavy MetalAlternative/IndiePopHip-Hop/RapFolk & Folk Fusion
Click a decade to see what happened in it.
These are counts of the catalogued sample, not of the country. Recent decades have better event coverage and worse formation coverage than older ones — the 2020s bar is low because recent acts have not yet accumulated the documentation this catalogue is built from, not because band formation stopped. Read trends that cross that boundary with care; the findings set out which ones survive it.