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The 100 most popular Music Festivals in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest music festivals in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 917 music festivals tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Lollapalooza, American Music Award and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 24M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 1M, and the largest, Lollapalooza, reaches around 9.6M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each music festival, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are updated quarterly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated quarterly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Lollapalooza 9.6M 32.4 59.2% Music festival
2 American Music Award 8.2M 44.0 60.7% Music festival
3 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 6M 32.1 60.5% Music festival
4 Woodstock 5.8M 49.9 52.1% Music festival
5 Burning Man 5.2M 32.5 53.2% Music festival
6 Tomorrowland 4.8M 31.6 47.2% Music festival
7 Black Girls Rock! 4.5M 31.5 71.5% Music festival
8 Ultra Music 4.4M 37.6 51.4% Music festival
9 Grand Ole Opry 3.9M 48.5 53.1% Music festival
10 Country Music Association Awards 3.4M 45.7 57.4% Music festival
11 Bonnaroo Music Festival 3.2M 38.3 58.4% Music festival
12 Electric Daisy Carnival 2.8M 32.1 52.3% Music festival
13 Echo (music award) 2.6M 49.0 63.2% Music festival
14 CMA Music Festival 2.4M 42.8 56.4% Music festival
15 Academy of Country Music Awards 2.2M 47.3 58.8% Music festival
16 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1.8M 46.3 57.4% Music festival
17 Austin City Limits Music Festival 1.7M 38.7 57.6% Music festival
18 Warped Tour 1.5M 30.5 49.6% Music festival
19 Stagecoach Festival 1.4M 42.3 61.6% Music festival
20 Governors Ball Music Festival 1.3M 34.8 57.3% Music festival
21 ATMOS (festival) 1.1M 29.5 12.0% Music festival
22 Budweiser Made in America Festival 985k 41.3 44.4% Music festival
23 Summerfest 925k 43.4 61.1% Music festival
24 Beyond Wonderland 924k 32.1 50.0% Music festival
25 Eurovision Song Contest 872k 41.4 53.9% Music festival
26 Hangout Music Festival 858k 35.1 57.3% Music festival
27 Brit Awards 750k 37.9 63.9% Music festival
28 Lightning in a Bottle 635k 33.3 51.7% Music festival
29 Essence Music Festival 621k 39.0 69.3% Music festival
30 Firefly Music Festival 581k 38.1 57.0% Music festival
31 Awakenings 573k 37.9 49.8% Music festival
32 Glastonbury Festival 557k 33.0 54.7% Music festival
33 Essence Festival 507k 34.4 81.4% Music festival
34 Edinburgh Festival Fringe 492k 34.4 57.7% Music festival
35 Monsters of Rock 467k 51.1 19.3% Music festival
36 Lost Theory Festival 455k — — Music festival
37 Falls Festival 438k 34.5 52.8% Music festival
38 Riot Fest 437k 38.6 43.1% Music festival
39 Amsterdam Dance Event 428k 34.9 39.8% Music festival
40 Electric Zoo Festival 425k 33.9 46.7% Music festival
41 Global Citizen Festival 424k 40.9 63.5% Music festival
42 Montreux Jazz Festival 405k 49.3 52.9% Music festival
43 Ministry of Sound 402k 38.1 47.7% Music festival
44 Ozora Festival 391k 33.6 48.8% Music festival
45 Country Fest 387k 38.9 54.6% Music festival
46 Headbanging 383k 33.2 28.2% Music festival
47 Mnet Asian Music Awards 379k 35.9 68.7% Music festival
48 Hard (music festival) 367k 30.8 49.8% Music festival
49 Lovebox Festival 362k 33.8 44.7% Music festival
50 BottleRock Napa Valley 361k 43.7 61.6% Music festival
51 Champions Tour 359k 47.7 15.1% Music festival
52 Ultra Music Festival 358k 31.9 49.0% Music festival
53 Summer Camp Music Festival 341k 36.2 54.0% Music festival
54 Laundry Day 323k 39.3 58.9% Music festival
55 YouTube Live 314k 30.0 44.6% Music festival
56 Shambhala (music festival) 313k 35.1 53.0% Music festival
57 BET Hip Hop Awards 306k 32.5 61.1% Music festival
58 Dominator 305k 34.7 18.5% Music festival
59 May Day 295k 38.2 59.3% Music festival
60 IHeartRadio Music Festival 293k 38.0 46.6% Music festival
61 The Big E 285k 35.9 57.0% Music festival
62 JUMP Dance Convention 273k 32.3 79.9% Music festival
63 Thunderdome (music festival) 272k 32.5 33.8% Music festival
64 Record Store Day 263k 37.0 37.4% Music festival
65 Primavera Sound 254k 31.6 48.8% Music festival
66 Festival Corona Capital 237k 40.5 82.8% Music festival
67 Newport Folk Festival 236k 45.2 56.6% Music festival
68 Soul Train Music Awards 234k 39.7 68.1% Music festival
69 Groovin' the Moo 228k 33.7 48.9% Music festival
70 Creamfields 216k 33.1 47.1% Music festival
71 Knotfest 215k 32.7 44.5% Music festival
72 National Quartet Convention 211k 52.6 65.2% Music festival
73 Nocturnal Festival 211k 33.4 40.4% Music festival
74 Rock Fest 209k 40.1 44.5% Music festival
75 Live Aid 204k 43.6 48.2% Music festival
76 Fuji Rock Festival 199k 35.1 52.1% Music festival
77 Boston Calling Music Festival 196k 34.8 58.3% Music festival
78 Country Stampede Music Festival 194k 39.4 57.6% Music festival
79 Telluride Bluegrass Festival 191k 47.5 44.1% Music festival
80 Rock in Japan Festival 191k 39.1 56.7% Music festival
81 North Coast Music Festival 191k 32.5 46.0% Music festival
82 Beautiful Days (festival) 188k 41.3 50.6% Music festival
83 Music Midtown 188k 34.7 58.8% Music festival
84 Soundwave (Australian music festival) 187k 34.4 57.8% Music festival
85 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 184k 39.1 59.4% Music festival
86 Rock in Rio 179k 34.5 52.3% Music festival
87 Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival 175k 37.3 59.6% Music festival
88 Final Fantasy concerts 173k 34.7 28.5% Music festival
89 KCON (music festival) 171k 37.0 68.5% Music festival
90 green valley 166k 44.7 81.7% Music festival
91 Summer of Love 164k 45.9 68.1% Music festival
92 Maryland Renaissance Festival 161k 40.1 66.5% Music festival
93 Summer Sonic Festival 159k 35.6 60.0% Music festival
94 Electric Forest Festival 156k 30.5 54.5% Music festival
95 Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend 149k 36.3 56.7% Music festival
96 International Chopin Piano Competition 147k 41.7 53.3% Music festival
97 California Roots 146k 37.9 49.5% Music festival
98 Billboard Music Award 144k 46.1 57.4% Music festival
99 North Sea Jazz Festival 140k 41.9 50.7% Music festival
100 Treefort Music Fest 139k 41.4 41.7% Music festival

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular music festivals compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each music festival by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is updated quarterly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest music festival in United States?

Lollapalooza currently leads with an estimated audience of 9.6M people in United States.

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