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Sun 29 March 2026 2:00, UK
As immensely popular as The Beatles managed to become across the duration of the 1960s, it’s a well-established fact that the better-known they became, the less frequently they would end up performing.
After their brief stint in the late 1950s performing as The Quarrymen, the band’s early years were relentless in the amount of performing they’d do, with them racking up an estimated amount in excess of 1000 shows before the release of their 1963 debut album, Please Please Me.
Obviously, the group spent a lot of time performing in their home city of Liverpool, most notably at the Cavern Club, where they were eventually discovered by manager Brian Epstein and met Ringo Starr, who replaced drummer Pete Best shortly before they achieved fame, but during this period, they were also known for having a strong relationship with the city of Hamburg, Germany, where they played several hundred shows in their formative years.
Their popularity led to them eventually making their way around the world, playing their first shows outside the UK and Germany in Sweden in 1963, before stints in Ireland, France, Denmark and the Netherlands in their early travels of Europe.
This would then develop into a demand in Oceania and in Far East Asia, with the band evidently just as popular in far-flung regions as they were back on home soil. There was no stopping the rapid escalation of Beatlemania once they’d started to release their music to a worldwide audience, and with that, they were jetting off to places that no other British band had previously set foot in to perform to their adoring overseas fans.
However, their strongest connection to any other nation was in the US, where they embarked on some of their biggest tours and played some of their biggest shows, but just how much of the country did they manage to cover before retiring from touring in late 1966?
So, how many US states did The Beatles perform in?
Despite their immense popularity in the USA, the band only ever played a total of 50 shows across three years, although a dozen of these shows had two performances, one earlier in the day, and one later on – their first US appearance was in New York for their infamous performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, and their final was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California, but in between that, they managed to visit numerous other locations on their North American tours.
In 1964, 1965 and 1966, The Beatles covered a decent amount of ground in the US, and out of a total 50 states, the Fab Four managed to make it to 22 of them, with an additional two appearances made in the stateless capital of Washington DC.
Some states they returned to more frequently than others, with them playing eight times in California, seven in New York, four in Ohio, and three apiece in Illinois and Pennsylvania. However, it’s sad to say they never made it to the extremities of Alaska and Hawaii, nor did they hit the remote regions of Montana or Wyoming, and while 22 states is certainly impressive, there were 28 who never got to be able to claim that the famous Liverpudlian outfit graced them with their excellence.
Every US state The Beatles ever performed in:New YorkFloridaCaliforniaNevadaWashingtonColoradoOhioNew JerseyPennsylvaniaIndianaWisconsinIllinoisMichiganMassachusettsMarylandLouisianaMissouriTexasGeorgiaMinnesotaOregonTennessee
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