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How to see your most-seen artists on Banded

Once you've logged a few gigs, Banded automatically calculates who you've seen most often and where — useful for settling arguments, building lists, and the year-in-review.

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The “who have I seen most” question gets surprisingly addictive once your diary has some depth. Banded calculates it automatically — here’s where to find it.

The basic view

  1. Tap your profile tab (the rightmost one)
  2. Scroll past your gig diary to the Stats section
  3. The top three cards show your Top Artist, Top Venue, and Total Gigs
  4. Tap Top Artists to see the full ranking

The full list is sorted by number of times seen, descending. You can scroll the whole thing — for prolific gig-goers this can be a long list.

Tap any artist to drill in

From the Top Artists list, tap any artist to open their page. That shows:

The “every gig” list is in chronological order, so it’s easy to see whether they’ve been getting better or worse live over time.

Most-seen venues

Same logic applies to venues. From your profile’s Stats section, tap Top Venues to see ranked by visit count. Tapping a venue shows:

This is particularly useful for people who have a “home” venue — a small place they’ve been to fifty times. The page becomes a mini personal archive.

How counting works

A few details that come up:

Year-in-Review

At the end of every calendar year (December 31st), Banded generates a Year-in-Review card with:

If you logged a particularly thin year, this can be a useful nudge to get to more shows next year. If you logged a stacked year, it’s an excuse to brag.

The “I want to see this band a 50th time” people

There’s a small but vocal community on Banded who specifically use the most-seen list as a goal-setting tool. Get to 100 Springsteen gigs. See a band in every UK city they tour. Etc. Banded doesn’t push you towards this — but it’s there if you want it.

If something looks off

If your stats look wrong (e.g. an artist you’ve seen seven times only shows six), it’s usually because one of the gigs has a typo in the artist name and isn’t matching. Tap into the offending gig record and re-search for the artist; once you match the canonical record, the stat updates immediately.

For anything that still looks broken, email [email protected] and we’ll dig in.

FAQs

How many gigs do I need before stats start showing?
Stats show from your first logged gig — but they become genuinely interesting after about 10 or 20. The 'most-seen artist' line is most useful once you've got a real history in there.
Does it count an artist as 'seen twice' if they were the support act both times?
Yes. Banded counts any time the artist appears in a gig record — as headliner, support, or festival act. If you specifically want to filter, the breakdown view lets you split headliner appearances from support.
What about year-by-year stats?
Every December, Banded generates a Year-in-Review card with your top artist, top venue, total gigs, and highest-rated show of the year. You can share it as an image or post it directly to Instagram Stories.

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