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With Splendour in the Grass sold out it’s time to focus on who’s playing where and just how much time you’ll be spending in the tipi forrest.

That and a chance to crunch some of the stats on you’re favourite artists and figuring out what they’re likely to be playing made easier thanks to the boffins at Finder.com.au

They’ve scrapped data from setlist.fm and Spotify to figure out what originals all the headliners likely be banging out, what covers there’s a chance you’ll be hearing and who’s recycling what when it comes to their live performances.

Didn’t quite get that? We put it all down in black and white for you as well.

High level insights:

● Only 19 artists are likely to have completely unique setlists based on their most recent performances

● 16 bands recycled at least 50% of their set lists over their past 3 sets (though no one completely played the same music!)

● There’s only a 1 in 3 chance that, at any given point during the festival, you’ll be experiencing a unique set – i.e. a set they haven’t played quite recently elsewhere.

○ This means that two thirds of artists at splendour this year will likely play something from their other recent sets – based on the fact they’re already mashing them together.

What years do the most common covers come from?

● It looks as though nostalgia might be a key player when it comes to the most covered songs by splendour bands, with 54% of all covers being of songs recorded before the turn of the millennium.

○ 26% of these songs were recorded even before the 1980’s – quite aged indeed.

● Most songs won’t even be as recent as 2010 onwards – our research showed that 69% of all covered music from our Splendour sweethearts was recorded over five years ago. If you’ve got rihanna’s ‘work’ in your mind, don’t get your hopes up.

Most covered songs:

● Boy and bear come in with the highest reported number of repeated covers, having performed “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” by Hambone Willie Newbern 245 times

● Mark Lanegan comes in with the second highest number of repeated covers on the Splendour lineup, with 183 renditions of “Creeping Coastline of Lights” by Leaving Trains

● Third up was Tegan & Sara, who have busted out “Feel it in my bones” by Tiesto a reported 179 times during their careers.

● Fourth on the list was James Blake, who has covered “Limit to your love” by Feist a total of 129 times

● Band Of Horses rounds out the top 5, having played “Am I a Good Man” by Them Two 113 times.

Most unique playlists

The 19 artists who mixed up every one of their 3 most recent set lists are:

● Ball Park Music

● Lido

● Years And Years

● Plus

● Flume

● The Cure

● James Blake

● Sui Zhen

● Courtney Barnett

● Montaigne

● Boy & Bear

● Remi

● Banoffee

● Harts

● Ngaiire

● Sampa The Great

● Snakehips

● Twinsy

● World Champion

Most recycled playlists (if you need to pee and have seen these guys before, go for it)

● The bands that recycled the most songs in the past three recorded tours were:

○ Spring King, with 64% repeated songs

○ At the drive-in, with 63% of songs appearing multiple times in the past 3 sets

○ Fat White Family, who used 62% of the same music as the last 3 sets they played

○ Matt Corby has recycled around 61% of his most recent sets, coming in fourth

○ Lapsley comes in fifth on the artists with the most recycled setlists, having kept 60% of her mix the same.

Full Data: Repeated Setlists