Denver is guaranteed a certain amount of big concerts each year, given the city’s geographic importance in regional tour-routing.

In other words: If you’re playing this part of the country, performing in the metro area is essential to recouping your travel costs.

But Colorado’s reputation as an all-around stellar market — from multi-night runs along the Front Range to coveted “boutique plays” in mountain towns — has only inflated the size and prestige of Denver’s thousands of annual concerts.

There’s much more to come, given those massive venues such as Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village (capacity: 18,000) haven’t yet revealed a single show for this year. Here are just a few of the metro area’s biggest live music events — meaning crowds of 5,000 people or more — that have been announced for 2020 Concert Tours as of press time, in chronological order.