These 60 concerts represent 38.7% of the tour, an amount low enough that any data analysts will likely start frothing from the mouth. A red box means we are certain the song was not played that night.A green box means the song was definitely played that night.An E means that the song was played in the encore.A x2 means that the song was played twice – once in the main set, once in the encore.An * means that we think the set is complete, but there may have been an encore.Let’s start by comparing all the complete sets: We haven’t included “Carry Me Home”, as it is highly unlikely it was performed more than the two times we know of, or the two covers. What is the basis for our guesses? Well, we aren’t as good at making tour set charts as our friend Mark Peterborough but we’ve tried our best in Excel to illustrate what we know from our database to help visualize any patterns. Remember that this is speculation on our part, but we believe it is fairly accurate. The key to our attempt to fill in those blanks is the consistency on the nights we do know what was played. This is markedly improved from the third leg onwards. Most of the blanks come from the first two legs where at least half of the sets are unknown. Consequently the earlier complete sets were generally no more than 12 or 13 songs while later performances sometimes reached as many as 19 songs. Shorter complete sets are generally when U2 were the opening act while the longer sets tend to line up with when they were the headliner. Of the 155 concerts we believe a total of 60 are complete that comes to just under 39%. Now that we know the general look of the set it is time to try and fill in those blank spaces.
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