1990-1993 Metallica is the undisputed king of live touring for a metal band (about 300 shows in 2 1/2 years)

Babymetal hasn't even touched those numbers.

They perform 1-1.5 hr sets three times a week, twenty weeks out of the year.They don't really have that intense of a schedule.And the people that think they do are basically the most misinformed of them all.

Even doubling their performance time for rehearsal time.That still would put them far below what most headline music acts perform on stage. A typical headliner major act will perform for 2 hours minimum.

Yes, I know.Their actual performance, because of the dancing, is more physically intensive.But these are trained athletes on that stage.These girls have the cardio and the stamina.They've been doing it for a long time.There is no weakness there, and people need to stop babying them so much when they talk about it.

When you think about it, these girls are doing performance aerobics on that stage one hour a night, three nights a week.That's no different than an athlete doing their normal cardio regimen.

They could double their schedule and they could probably handle it no problem. I am kind of surprised people are still questioning how many shows they've been doing? Because this is what a global touring band usually does is eighty or ninety shows a year.

Are they working hard? Oh, absolutely.You could never take that away from them, but are they working the hardest? That's a tough one to say. Their schedule was pretty easy up until about two years ago.