Not Fade Away
Single first · 1964
Written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty.
Played live
218 documented appearances
Setlists through 21 July 2024
- Earliest listed
- 16 October 1963
- Latest
- 30 August 1995
By tour
Songwriting
Key & tempo
226 BPM · score marking
Musicnotes · MN0134456Arrangements and recordings can differ. These values describe the cited versions.
Catalogue details21 editions · 2 recordings
Versions sharing this title may be different recordings.
In the album catalogue
Album association comes from any included Official edition, not necessarily the selected programme on its album page.
Sources & recording details
Counts use distinct setlist.fm concert records; historical setlists are incomplete.
setlist.fm concert recordsSome references come from the supplied archive and have not been independently rechecked.
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
Core metadata only. Exact release-group, edition and recording links appear on the relevant pages. Artwork, annotations, genre associations and ratings are excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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