For this edition of The Number Line we take a look at the attendance figures as well as the total gross from each headlining gig Phish played in 2012. All figures within this post were sourced from Billboard’s Box Scores with the exception of the quartet’s three-night stand at Bader Field in Atlantic City.

Whatever you think of the music Phish delivered in 2012, the figures below show it was a successful year at box offices when the band came to town. Bear in mind that the financial figures provided are gross sales and do not represent what Phish took home from each gig. For the just-completed New Year’s Run, we used last year’s figures to give you an idea of what we can expect when Billboard posts the 2012 numbers.

Summer Tour Leg One (Date(s), Venue, Tickets Sold, Capacity, Total Gross):

6/7 and 6/8 @ DCU Center, Worcester MA = 25,346 / 28,666 / $1,520,760

6/15, 6/16 and 6/17 @ Bader Field, Atlantic City NJ = 58,990 / Unavailable / Unavailable

6/19 and 6/20 @ nTelos Wireless Pavilion, Portsmouth VA = 13,780 / 13,780 / $827,400

6/22 @ Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati OH = 11,075 / 20,500 / $581,400

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For this installment of The Number Line, we’ve enlisted the help of Daniel Saewitz, the creator of PhishVids.com to share some statistics about his fantastic site. If you’re unfamiliar with PhishVids, it’s a portal where you can search for Phish Videos by date and setlist. For instance, want to see if there are any clips from the quartet’s October 26, 2010 performance at Manchester, New Hampshire’s Verizon Wireless Arena? Simply head to the 2010 page and then scroll down and click on 10/26 and you’ll see the setlist for that show. When you click on a certain song, you’ll see a list of all available videos of that tune as well as the uploader, length and number of views.

Daniel launched PhishVids.com in 2010 and has indexed thousands of videos ever since, providing a great resource for the fanbase. The following data provides a look at PhishVids.com by the numbers…

524,081 – Total Page Views
40,694 – Most Viewed Year (2011)
11,169 – Total Number of Videos Indexed
3,526 – Most Viewed User (Silverchair97)
2009 – Year With The Most Videos Indexed (3,481)
1989 – Year With Least Videos > 0 (21)
1,668 – Total Number of Users Who Have Uploaded Videos
832 – User With The Most Uploads (Silverchair97)
462 – Total Number of Shows Indexed
246 – Song With The Most Videos (You Enjoy Myself)
155 – Show With The Most Videos (10/31/2010)
105 – Shows With Only Video
67 – Songs With Only One Video Indexed (Spreadsheet)
6 – Years Phish Has Played w/ No Videos Indexed (’83 – ’86, ’88 and 2002)

Thanks to Daniel for all the time and effort, at his own expense, he’s put into PhishVids.com.

In honor of Hidden Track’s fifth anniversary we’re setting our geekery scope on ourselves instead of Phish or Wilco for the latest installment of our The Number Line column. While we knew we’ve churned out a good deal of content since October ’06, some of these numbers surprised us.

Unfortunately we don’t have stats from our first year of existence, so most of these figures are from the end of 2007 onwards. Thanks for reading and for picking up what we’ve been laying down.

• 8,000,000 = Approximate # of Articles Read (10/06 – 10/11)
• 6,000,000 = Approximate # of Visitors (10/06 – 10/11)
• 1,232,283 = Times Front Page Loaded (12/07 – 10/18/11)
• 1,151,912 = Visitors to HT from Google
• 322,062 = Visitors to HT from Phantasy Tour
• 195,457 = Visitors to HT from Facebook
• 36,839 = Total Comments Left
• 22,386 = Times “Phish Festival: Save The Date” Article Viewed
• 19,846 = Most Visitors In One Day (2/22/11)

As we gear up for the Phish Superball IX festival this weekend at Watkins Glen International we thought we’d give you some geeky stats to geek over until the fest gets underway. Thus, we present the latest installment of Number Line, an in-depth examination of the First Leg of Phish’s summer tour as told by numbers. So dig in and let us know in the comments if you came across any interesting figures of your own.

[All photos by Joe Ringus]

25,000 – Largest capacity venue (Susquehanna Bank Center)
6,500 – Smallest venue capacity (nTelos Pavilion)
846 – Shows between two instrumental songs opening 1st set (6/18 > 11/22/92′s Oh Kee Pa > Buried Alive)
388 – Total songs played
298 – Shows since the last Been Caught Stealing (12/28/1998)
173 – Individual Songs Played
141 – Shows since the last Lonesome Cowboy Bill (7/30/2003)
137 – Shows since the last Daniel Saw The Stone (8/3/2003)
118 – Shows between two cover songs opening (6/8 > 6/24/04 Loving Cup>Cities)

READ ON for more Phish stats from the first leg…

For this edition of our stat-heavy Number Line column, we’ve enlisted the help of Billy “Sweet River” Hollems for an in-depth look at the Allman Brothers Band’s March Madness run “on paper.” Each year, Hollems puts together a comprehensive list detailing all the sit-ins, songs played and setlists for the AllmanBrothersBand.com forums and this time around he’s kindly sharing the stats with our readers.

[Photo by Rob Chapman]

So without further ado, here’s the ABB Beacon Run ’11 final tally…

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND

BEACON THEATER, NEW YORK CITY 2011

March 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 2010

BACK AT THE BEACON WHERE THEY BELONG

Gregg Allman
Butch Trucks
Jaimoe
Warren Haynes
Marc Quinones
Oteil Burbridge
Derek Trucks

The Sweet River Compilation Lists

TOTAL SHOWS: 13

TOTAL DIFFERENT SONGS: 82

TOTAL SONGS PLAYED: 210

TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 1X: 28
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 2X: 12
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 3X: 20
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 4X: 15
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 5X: 5
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 6X: 2
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 7X: 1

TOTAL DIFFERENT GUESTS: 51

READ ON for a list of songs divided by times played, a full list of guests and every Allman Brothers Band March Madness 2011 setlist…

Trey Week continues on Hidden Track with the return of a feature for the stat geek in us all – The Number Line. This edition of The Number Line takes a close look at Trey Anastasio’s solo career by the numbers. As always, be sure to add your own entries to our list in the comments section.

310 – Different songs played at Trey Solo Shows

145 - Instances of Drifting [The Most Played Trey Solo Song]

143 - Shows since the last Quantegy [5/3/2005]

141 - Instances of Push On ‘Til The Day [The 2nd Most Played Trey Song]

51 - First Tube Encores

READ ON for more of the Trey Week edition of The Number Line…

Now that the first leg of Phish’s Summer Tour has reached its conclusion – and the post-tour haze has worn off – it’s time to look at the recently completed run “by the numbers.” Here’s what we came up with for the latest installment of our ever-popular The Number Line series…

30,000 – Capacity of Largest Venue (HersheyPark Stadium)
8,466 – Number of Days between Fuck Your Face Performances
6,500 – Capacity of Smallest Venue (nTelos Pavilion)
1,413 – Number of shows since last Fuck Your Face
587 – Shows Since The Last Letter To Jimmy Page
180 – Different Songs Played
95 – Onetimers
92 – Number of Songs Played in 2009 not played yet in 2010 (A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing, Access Me, Albuquerque, All Down The Line, All of These Dreams, Anything But Me, Auld Lang Syne, Avenu Malkenu, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Bike, Bittersweet Motel, Blue Moon, Bobby Jean, Cars Trucks Buses, Casino Boogie, Catapult, Cool it Down, Corrina, Crimes of the Mind, Demand, Dixie Cannonball, Dog Faced Boy, Driver, Frankie Says, Freebird, Glide, Glory Days, Golden Age, Gone, Grind, Guelah Papyrus, Ha Ha Ha, Hello My Baby, Highway to Hell, How High the Moon, HYHU, I Been Around, I Just Want To See His Face, I Kissed A Girl, Icculus, If I Could, Invisible, Lengthwise, Let It Loose, Let Me Lie, Lifeboy, Love You, Meat, Middle Of The Road, Mist, Mound, Mustang Sally, My Mind’s Got a Mind of its Own, Nellie Kane, NO2, Oh! Sweet Nuthin’, Old Home Place, On Your Way Down, Paul and Silas, Peaches en Regalia, Pebbles and Marbles, Psycho Killer, Rip This Joint, Rocks Off, Rocky Top, Scent of a Mule, Scents and Subtle Sounds, Secret Smile, Shake Your Hips, She Thinks I Still Care, Sleep, Soul Shakedown Party, Soul Survivor, Stop Breaking Down, Sweet Black Angel, Sweet Virginia, Talk, The Curtain With, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, Tomorrow’s Song, Torn and Frayed, Trainsong, Tumbling Dice, Turd On The Run, Two Versions of Me, Ventilator Blues, Waves, Weigh, What’s the Use, When The Cactus Is In Bloom, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Windy City)

• Hidden Track Summer Tour Leg One Wrap Ups: Just The Facts, Survey Results, From A-Z

45 – The number of times somebody says Dr. Gabel in that song
27 – Days Until The Greek
24 – Songs Played in 2010 but not in 2009 (Alumni Blues, Dr. Gabel, Cold Water, Free Man in Paris, Fuck Your Face, Halfway to the Moon, Have Mercy, I Am The Walrus, Idea, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Instant Karma, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Killing in the Name, Letter to Jimmy Page, Light Up or Leave Me Alone, Lit O Bit, Look Out Cleveland, Mellow Mood, Saw it Again, Show Of Life, Summer of ’89, The Rover, Time Loves a Hero, Walfredo)

READ ON for more Phish Summer Tour stat geekery…

Bonnaroo Week rolls on here at Hidden Track with a feature for the stat geeks everywhere. Now in its ninth year the fine folks at Superfly have again crushed it with a diverse offering that’s sure to please even the pickiest of music snobs. As we took a look at this year’s lineup we were struck by the amount of the ‘Roo alumni that have routed their summer tours to include a stop in Manchester in 2010. So we figured we’d once again lay out a list of the folks who just can’t stay away from Bonnaroo, followed by a few fun facts to help keep you busy on your way into the festie…

Two-Timers Performing at Bonnaroo 2010:

Dave Matthews Band, Norah Jones, Phoenix, Regina Spektor, John Prine, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley (solo, w. Nas), Blues Traveler, Against Me!, Clutch, Calexico, Brandi Carlile, Langhorne Slim, Chromeo, Red Cortez (formerly as The Weather Underground), Everest, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Jessie Baylin

Three-Timers Performing at Bonnaroo 2010:

The Avett Brothers, The Flaming Lips, The Black Key, Dr. Dog, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Ozomatli, Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Dead Weather), Dave Rawlings (Dave Rawlings Machine, 2 w. Gillian Welch), Gillian Welch (2 solo, Dave Rawlings Machine) Chris Thile (2 Nickel Creek, 1 Punch Brothers), Dave Matthews (2 DMB, 1 Dave Matthews & Friends), M. Ward (solo, She & Him, as a member of Beth Orton’s band), Zac Brown Band, Big Sam (2 Funky Nation, 1 Elvis Costello w/ Allen Toussaint)

Four-Timers Performing at Bonnaroo 2010:

Kings Of Leon, The Disco Biscuits, John Butler Trio, Medeski Martin & Wood, Ween

Five-Timers Performing at Bonnaroo 2010:

Billy Martin (4 MMW, Mago)

Six-Timers Performing at Bonnaroo 2010:

Umphrey’s McGee, Les Claypool (Primus, Colonel Claypool’s Bucket Of Bernie Brains, w. Gabby LaLa, Oysterhead, SuperJam 2008, 4 solo sets),

Seven-Timers Performing at Bonnaroo 2010:

John Medeski (4 MMW, 2 The Wood Brothers, Mago, The Word)

Eight-Timers Performing at Bonnaroo 2010:

Galactic (7 Galactic, 1 w/ Chali 2na)

Other Quick Festival Facts:

• Les Claypool has played nine different sets of music at Bonnaroo
• Three of Bob Marley’s sons have played the fest – Ziggy, Stephen and Damian
• Technically this will be Nas’ second time at Bonnaroo, he sat in with the Beatie Boys for one song in ’09
• Norah Jones, Galactic, John Butler Trio, the Disco Biscuits, Umphrey’s McGee and Les Claypool all shared the bill at the inaugural Bonnaroo in 2002
• This is the second year in a row that no member of the Grateful Dead is performing, after at least one had appeared in the first seven years
• This is also the second time in fest history that no member of Phish is on the bill after at least one being on it, the other year was 2008

Just as quickly as it started, My Morning Jacket’s ten-show Spring Tour came to a close on Sunday night at the LC Outdoor Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio. Over the course of the run, the group stuck pretty close to the vest in terms of setlists although the order of songs did change from night to night. But that’s not to say they didn’t treat each audience to a one-timer or two.

[All photos from 4/21 by Derek Martinez]

For this edition of The Number Line we’ve compiled all ten setlists – via the MMJ Archive – threw them into a spreadsheet and came up with a bunch of stats that we think you’ll find interesting. Not only that, we also looked at every YouTube clip from the tour and linked only the best ones in the setlist section of the post after the jump along with links to the available audio on the Live Music Archive. Basically, we put together everything you need to know about MMJ’s Spring Tour. Enough from me, let’s get to the stats…

212 – Total Songs Played
37 – Different Songs Played
25 – Most Songs Played at One Show (4/21 and 4/28)
20 – Fewest Songs Played at non-New Orleans Show (4/23)
11 – Fewest Songs Played at One Show (4/24b)
10 – Shows on the tour
9 – Songs From The Z LP Played This Tour (Wordless Chorus, It Beats 4 U, Gideon, What A Wonderful Man, Off The Record, Anytime, Lay Low, Knot Comes Loose, Dondante)
8 – Shows That Closed With Move On Up

READ ON for more stats from MMJ’s recently completed tour…

In February, Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB completed a highly successful 16 show tour. While certain songs were played every night, there were plenty of tunes that made sporadic appearances over the three week jaunt. For this edition of The Number Line we took a close look at the setlists from each of those shows to compile a few statistics you might find interesting.

[Photo by Joe Ringus]

Here’s what we came up with…

400 – Total Songs Played
50 – Different Songs Played With Full Band
30 – Songs Also Performed Live by Phish (First Tube, Sand, Gotta Jibboo, Mozambique, Alaska, Drifting, Mr. Completely, Let Me Lie, Wilson, Backwards Down the Number Line, Bathtub Gin, Brian and Robert, Chalkdust Torture, Magilla, Sample in a Jar, Water in the Sky, Back On The Train, Kill Devil Falls, Sleep Again, Strange Design, Waste, Windora Bug, Beauty of My Dreams, Driver, Farmhouse, Heavy Things, I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome, Joy, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, The Inlaw Josie Wales)
18 – Different Songs Played Solo Acoustic
18 – Most Songs Played in a Set (2/21/10 Set 1)
16 – Shows Played
14 – First Tube Encores
10 – Shine Openers
9 – Shows That Featured A Solo Acoustic Portion
8 – Black Dog Set 2 Closers
7 – Lowest Number of Songs Played in a Set (2/25/10 Set 2, 2/21/10 Set 2, 2/16/10 Set 2)
7 – Number of Band Members
7 – Different Covers Played (Sultans Of Swing, Black Dog, Small Axe, Sweet & Dandy, Beauty Of My Dreams, I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome, Rocky Mountain Shuffle)
6 – Full Band Songs Played Only Once (Flock of Words, Heavy Things, Love Is Freedom, Moesha, Peggy, Rocky Mountain Shuffle)

READ ON for more Trey and Classic TAB stats…

It’s time for the finale of our week-long look at Phish Fall Tour statistics. Each day this week we’ve been sharing a new installment of our geekiest column, The Number Line, where we analyze the setlists from Phish’s recently completed Fall Tour. On Monday we examined the Fall Tour one-timers, on Tuesday we looked at the songs played on the tour by studio album, on Wednesday we detailed the covers Phish performed and yesterday we shined a light on the originals. Today, we’ve got a mixed bag…

[Photo by Pietro Truba]

46 – Songs with one word titles
31 – Minutes between last song title tweeted by @Phish and tweet about that night’s LivePhish recording being available (quickest of tour)
29 – Most letters in a song title (Stealing Time, BBFCFM)
25 – Most Songs Played in a Show (11/29 – Maine)
18 – Least Songs Played in A Show (11/25 – Philly 2)
13 – Number of different songs that opened the second set (no song opened the 2nd set more than once)
11 – Different Sources of Audience Recordings of the Charlottesville show (most of any show) available for download on bt.etree.org [via db.etree.org Source List]
8 – Most words in a song title (MMGAMOIO)

READ ON for more Phish Fall Tour stats…

Each day this week we’ve been sharing a new installment of our geekiest column, The Number Line, where we analyze the setlists from Phish’s recently completed Fall Tour. On Monday we examined the Fall Tour one-timers, on Tuesday we looked at the songs played on the tour by studio album and yesterday we detailed the covers Phish performed. Today, we’ll look at the originals the quartet performed on the 13-show run.

[Photo by Jake Krolick]

1991 – Days after the release of Undermind that Tomorrow’s Song was first played
283 – Times Llama – the most common song not played on Fall Tour – has been performed
78 – Shows since last Meat
67 – Shows since last Crimes Of The Mind
33 – Songs Played on Leg Two of the Summer Tour but not on Fall Tour (Grind, While My Guitar, Middle of the Road, Anything But Me, Billy Breathes, Bittersweet, CTB, Catapult, Forbin’s, Crosseyed, Mockingbird, Crowd Control, Destiny, Drums, HaHaHa, Harpua, Highway to Hell, HYHU, How High The Moon, I Didn’t Know, I Kissed a Girl, Icculus, Llama, Makisupa, Mound, Paul & Silas, Psycho Killer, Rift, Roses, Sleep, Sloth, Waves, Windy City)
25 (out of 26) Sets that closed with an original song

READ ON for more Phish Fall Tour Stats…

Each day this week we’ll share a new installment of our geekiest column, The Number Line, where we analyze the setlists from Phish’s recently completed Fall Tour. On Monday we examined the Fall Tour one-timers and yesterday we looked at the songs played on the tour by studio album. Today, we’ll look at the covers the quartet performed on the 13-show run.

[Photo by Adam Kaufman]

187 – Show Gap From Last Peaches Until MSG1 [via m.phish.net]
39 – Total Instances of a Cover Being Performed on Fall Tour
31 – Different Covers Performed At Least Once on Fall Tour
25 – Total Covers Played Only One Time on Fall Tour (doesn’t include Crimes)
16:52 – Length of Longest Cover According to LivePhish (Cincy Rock & Roll)
8 – Shows With Cover Song Encores (12/5, 12/4, 12/2, 11/29, 11/27, 11/25, 11/24, 11/22)
8 – Songs From Albums Phish Covered on Halloween Performed on Fall Tour (Torn & Frayed, Sweet Virginia, Shine a Light, Loving Cup, Drowned, Rock and Roll, Cool It Down, Oh! Sweet Nuthin’)

READ ON for more Phish Fall Tour Stats geekery…

As we mentioned yesterday, each day this week we’ll be sharing a new installment of our geekiest column, The Number Line, in which we analyze the setlists from Phish’s recently completed Fall Tour. Today’s TNL column looks at the songs played by album. One thing you’ll notice is the lack of songs from the group’s two post-hiatus albums, Round Room and Undermind.

[Photo by Jake Krolick]

Junta (1989): Played 10 songs, Did Not Play 4 (Fee, Contact, Union Federal, Icculus)

Lawn Boy (1990): Played 7 songs, Did Not Play 2 (My Sweet One, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony)

A Picture of Nectar (1992): Played 8 songs, Did Not Play 8 (Llama, Eliza, Manteca, Guelah Papyrus, Magilla, The Landlady, Faht, Catapult)

Rift (1993): Played 10 songs, Did Not Play 5 (Rift, Lengthwise, All Things Reconsidered, Mound, Lengthwise #2)

Hoist (1994): Played 5 songs, Did Not Play 6 (Riker’s Mailbox, Axilla [Part II], Lifeboy, Scent Of A Mule, Dog Faced Boy, Demand)

Billy Breathes (1996): Played 7 songs, Did Not Play 6 (Cars Trucks Buses, Talk, Bliss, Billy Breathes, Swept Away, Steep)

READ ON for the rest of our list of songs played by album…

Welcome to the first of five The Number Line columns looking back at the figures and stats of Phish Fall Tour 2009. Today, we’ll start by listing the one-timers – aka songs the group only played once all tour – at each and every show the band played on their recently completed jaunt.

[Photo by Tim Hara]

Total Songs Played at least once – 144
Total Shows Played – 13
Total One-Timers – 70

Fall Tour 2009 One-Timers:

Detroit: 4 (Horn, Mist, Runaway Jim, Bug)
Cinci 1: 1 (Fast Enough For You)
Cinci 2: 7 (Torn & Frayed, Strange Design, Ginseng Sullivan, Albuquerque, Dirt, If I Could, Sleeping Monkey)
Syracuse: 6 (Beauty Of A Broken heart, Drowned, BBFCM, Tube, Theme From The Bottom, GTBT)
Philly 1: 6 (Bathtub Gin, Camel Walk, The Curtain With, Twenty Years Later, The Mango Song, Simple)
Philly 2: 7 (Sugar Shack, Sleep Again, Train Song, Birds Of A Feather, Farmhouse, Esther, Oh! Sweet Nuthin’)

READ ON for the rest of the Fall Tour one-timers list…