For twenty years, Bandago has put touring bands, crews, and groups on the American road, and every rental ends with an odometer reading. This is where we publish what that data shows: original, verifiable research on how touring in America actually works. No survey estimates; measured miles.
1,532 verified music tours, one season: how long tours run, how far they go, when they leave, where they start, and how the road changed since before the pandemic. With comparisons back to 2015-16.
Music-industry coverage is rich in box-office data and thin on the road itself: the vans, the miles, the routing. Bandago's rental records are one of the few first-party datasets that measure it directly. Each year we publish a State of Band Touring report built from anonymized, aggregated, odometer-verified rentals, with the methodology stated plainly, medians beside averages, and Bandago-specific effects (our own markets and fleet) disclosed wherever they could color a trend.
Figures may be cited with attribution to Bandago and a link to this page. Key statistics are downloadable as CSV. We can run custom aggregate cuts (a specific market, corridor, or season) for working press; individual customers, artists, and itineraries are never disclosed. Contact: info@bandago.com.