Artists

Booked the most in 2026

The hardest-working names on this year's bills. Go to more than one festival and you have probably already seen a few of these, whether or not you went for them.

1. 1KETTAMA19 festivals in 2026Irish rave-house heat with big-room energy and underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, and Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
2. 2Geese17 festivals in 2026Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
3. 3Hamdi16 festivals in 2026UK bass with a dancehall bounce: the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, with 'Skanka' the breakout.
4. 4Turnstile16 festivals in 2026Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
5. 5Blood Orange15 festivals in 2026Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B, with '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
6. 6Lorde15 festivals in 2026The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
7. 7¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U14 festivals in 2026Osaka-born cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu (genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings) brings anything-goes technique with total joy.
8. 8Frost Children13 festivals in 2026Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents, glitchy, funny, and relentless, with a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
9. 9Levity13 festivals in 2026Trio riding the new melodic-bass wave: riddim with feelings, drops that aim at the chest and the heart at once.
10. 10CMAT12 festivals in 2026Irish country-pop with a wicked sense of humor and a bigger voice, and a riotous live show that swings from comedy to gut-punch inside one chorus.
11. 11sombr12 festivals in 2026Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.
12. 12The Beaches12 festivals in 2026Toronto's gang-of-girlfriends rock band, with 'Blame Brett' and unstoppable momentum, breakup revenge served with a smirk.
13. 13Wet Leg12 festivals in 2026Deadpan, hook-loaded post-punk: the Isle of Wight duo grown into a full-blast rock band, with 'Chaise Longue' just the opening joke.
14. 14Fcukers11 festivals in 2026NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio, with baggy house grooves and downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
15. 15KI/KI11 festivals in 2026Amsterdam's hard-trance revivalist, with acid lines and 150 BPM joy and rave classicism played with total exuberance.
16. 16Lewis Capaldi11 festivals in 2026Scotland's self-deprecating balladeer, who fills arenas with heartbreak delivered between stand-up-quality banter.
17. 17LYNY11 festivals in 2026Textural, psychedelic bass music that is heavy without being blunt about it.
18. 18MPH11 festivals in 2026UK garage revival heat with skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.
19. 19Stella Lefty11 festivals in 2026Los Angeles songwriter pairing pop hooks with country storytelling, whose breakout 'Boston' spread from TikTok to the Billboard Hot 100.
20. 20Subtronics11 festivals in 2026Philadelphia riddim-dubstep heavyweight, all syncopated wobble and abrasive sound design, with a funk streak and a long-running tag-team with GRiZ.
21. 21Zara Larsson11 festivals in 2026Swedish pop machinery at its shiniest, from 'Lush Life' to main-character bangers, delivered with total command.
22. 22ALLEYCVT10 festivals in 2026Fast-rising Denver bass producer with melodic drops that have teeth, riding the front of the dubstep scene's younger, wilder generation.
23. 23Boys Noize10 festivals in 2026Alex Ridha's brand of electro is abrasive by design: hardware-driven, distorted, and consistently ahead of whatever is fashionable, two decades running.
24. 24Dean Turnley10 festivals in 2026Melbourne DJ and producer working in the line of Detroit and Chicago house: stripped-back, functional records built for the floor. 'Actin' Tough' took him from local underground ID to a Beatport number one.
25. 25Disco Lines10 festivals in 2026Technicolor disco-house with relentless fun, zero pretension, and hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage.

Other ways to read the season

The season has more than one main character. Here is who closed the stages, who crossed the most borders, and who the people using this site are actually listening to.

On stage this week

Someone is soundchecking for one of these right now. The closest thing here to a live feed, and the fastest way to find a set worth the drive.

1. 1KI/KISeismic Dance Event 2026Amsterdam's hard-trance revivalist, with acid lines and 150 BPM joy and rave classicism played with total exuberance.
2. 2Brutalismus 3000Seismic Dance Event 2026Berlin's gabber-punk duo, with screamed German vocals over pummeling club tempos, equal parts rave, hardcore show, and performance-art provocation.
3. 3horsegiirLSeismic Dance Event 2026Berlin's masked 'farmcore' phenomenon (giddy barnyard-trance house played dead serious), with 'My Barn My Rules' as manifesto.
4. 4Max StylerSeismic Dance Event 2026Sun-soaked tech house on the rise, with California grooves tuned for pool decks and peak hour alike.
5. 5GRiZBreakaway Houston 2026Saxophone-wielding electro-funk: half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
6. 6Layton GiordaniSeismic Dance Event 2026New York techno raised on Drumcode, driving and melodic rather than austere, built for rooms where techno still has to move a festival crowd.
7. 7Charlotte de WitteCreamfields Argentina 2026KNTXT founder and the most visible face of modern hard techno, relentless, acid-inflected, absolutely locked in, and headlining the global boom she helped create.
8. 8Chris LorenzoSeismic Dance Event 2026UK bass house at its most swaggering, with rolling low end and hip-hop cadence built for a dark room rather than a sunny field.
9. 9Sara LandrySeismic Dance Event 2026Hard techno delivered with genuine showmanship: one of the fastest rises in the genre in years, industrial pressure with headliner presence.
10. 10Steve AngelloWe Belong Here NOLA 2026Swedish House Mafia's dark third, a Size Records boss with the heaviest drop of the trio.

Most upcoming bookings

Everything still ahead of us. If you have festivals left on your calendar, these are the names most likely to turn up on one of them.

1. 1Adéla13Slovak pop singer with a club producer's sense of drama, writing hooks that sound built for a strobe.
2. 2Fontaines D.C.13Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
3. 3Angine de Poitrine12Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story.
4. 4Carter Faith12Dreamy neo-traditional country from a fast-rising Nashville transplant, with twang and a soft-focus, retro glow.
5. 5Ninajirachi12Glittering, game-engine electronic from Australia's most inventive young club producer: chiptune sparkle at rave pressure, drops that sparkle as hard as they hit.
6. 6RAYE12Britain's Grammy-and-BRIT-sweeping songwriter freed from label limbo, with big-band soul-pop that has real stakes and a live show that earns every award.
7. 7Violet Grohl12Yes, Dave's daughter, and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
8. 8Blake Whiten10South Carolina songwriter with a rough, low voice and heavy-hearted lyrics; 'Rollin' Stone' carried him from bedroom videos to a major-label debut.
9. 9Slayyyter10Glitter-and-grit dance-pop: Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy.
10. 10sombr10Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type. Playing a lot of festivals and closing them are different careers, and these are the acts trusted to send everyone home.

1. 1Lorde15The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
2. 2Fontaines D.C.14Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
3. 3RAYE11Britain's Grammy-and-BRIT-sweeping songwriter freed from label limbo, with big-band soul-pop that has real stakes and a live show that earns every award.
4. 4Lewis Capaldi10Scotland's self-deprecating balladeer, who fills arenas with heartbreak delivered between stand-up-quality banter.
5. 5Charli xcx9Pop's reigning vanguardist and the brat era's architect, bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage as a decade of underground experiments finally cashes out at scale.
6. 6sombr9Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.
7. 7The Strokes9The band that rebooted New York rock, with a deep catalog of deadpan cool, still untouchable live when the engine catches.
8. 8Excision8The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
9. 9Illenium8The defining voice of melodic bass: emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
10. 10Skrillex8Bass music's shape-shifting elder, who went from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, with reinvention as a permanent state.

Most places played

Acts who spent the year in airports. Their summer reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

1. 1Turnstile19Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
2. 2Geese18Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
3. 3Fontaines D.C.16Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
4. 4Ninajirachi16Glittering, game-engine electronic from Australia's most inventive young club producer: chiptune sparkle at rave pressure, drops that sparkle as hard as they hit.
5. 5sombr16Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.
6. 6Angine de Poitrine15Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story.
7. 7Blood Orange15Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B, with '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
8. 8Lorde15The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
9. 9Violet Grohl15Yes, Dave's daughter, and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
10. 10Adéla14Slovak pop singer with a club producer's sense of drama, writing hooks that sound built for a strobe.

Most favorited by readers

What people here actually listen to. Some of them are not booked anywhere we track, which tells you something about what the festivals are missing.

1. 1Olivia RodrigoGen-Z's laureate of the breakup, whose SOUR bedroom confessionals grew into GUTS pop-punk stadium catharsis.
2. 2Charli xcxPop's reigning vanguardist and the brat era's architect, bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage as a decade of underground experiments finally cashes out at scale.
3. 3Fontaines D.C.Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
4. 4Phoebe BridgersLos Angeles songwriter with a near-whispered delivery and a gift for the devastating small detail, also a third of boygenius.
5. 5Tame ImpalaKevin Parker's Perth psych project, written and played almost entirely alone in the studio then rebuilt on stage as a five-piece under a wall of lasers.
6. 6RadioheadOxford five-piece who abandoned guitar-rock at the height of it for drum programming, Ondes Martenot and Thom Yorke's falsetto over collapsing rhythms.
7. 7Noah KahanNew England folk-pop about small towns and staying put, delivered with the kind of full-throated chorus that turns an amphitheatre into a choir.
8. 8GeeseUnhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
9. 9Sylvan EssoAmelia Meath's plainspoken hooks over Nick Sanborn's modular synth pulses: Durham electronic pop that clicks in a club and still sings in a field.
10. 10DrakeToronto rapper and singer who made the sung-rapped hook standard, moving between dancehall, Memphis rap and late-night confessional over a decade of chart dominance.

Most saved to a plan

The acts people are building a Saturday around. A star is an opinion. A saved act is a plan.

1. 1FcukersNYC's buzziest indie-dance trio, with baggy house grooves and downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
2. 2Four TetKieran Hebden's glowing folk-tronic universe: patient builds that hit like revelation, two decades of textures that make dance music feel handmade.
3. 3GeeseUnhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
4. 4Adult DVDLeeds lads making hardware-driven post-punk bangers about mundane dread, with deadpan vocals over squelching synths, pitched somewhere between a big night out and an existential crisis.
5. 5Blood OrangeDev Hynes's velvety art-R&B, with '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
6. 6HorsegirlYoung Chicago trio channeling '80s and '90s indie, with deadpan harmonies over jangling guitar pop and Sonic Youth homework turned into something their own.
7. 7Wolf AliceMercury-winning UK alt-rock: from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, with Ellie Rowsell commanding every register.
8. 8Mannequin PussyPhilly band swinging between shoegaze tenderness and full-throated hardcore, often inside one song, with catharsis and total dynamic control.
9. 9Sleeping With SirensKellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore: Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.
10. 10SublimeSun-bleached ska-punk-dub hybrid, now carried by Bradley Nowell's son with the songs left intact, and '40oz. to Freedom' forever.

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