R&B and Soul artists

We track 226 R&B and Soul artists. 106 are booked at festivals still to come, most at Coachella and Whippersnap. 87 have tour dates on sale, 750 shows in all.

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Who to know

Ranked by festivals still to come, then tour dates, then every booking we have on record.

On tour now

87 R&B and Soul artists with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with R&B and Soul artists on the bill, soonest first. The R&B and Soul festival guide ranks them by how deep they book.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1RAYE11Britain'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.
  2. 2Teddy Swims6A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.
  3. 3GRiZ5Saxophone-wielding electro-funk: half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
  4. 4Lola Young4'Messy' made her unavoidable, with raw South London soul-pop, a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
  5. 5Doechii3Switches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters, and the result is theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.
  6. 6FKA twigs3A dancer first, which shows: her records are built like choreography, all negative space and sudden violence in the low end.
  7. 7Kali Uchis3Velvet-toned bilingual soul that drifts between doo-wop pastiche and perreo without ever raising its voice, with 'Telepatía' cool as a permanent state.
  8. 8Chris Stapleton2A songwriter's songwriter with a howl that turns Nashville craft into something closer to Muscle Shoals soul. 'Tennessee Whiskey' is just the entry point of a stacked catalog.
  9. 9Don Toliver2Sings trap like a psychedelic crooner, with a warped, weightless voice floating over beats built for a stadium's worth of low end.
  10. 10Jennie2BLACKPINK's coolest-in-the-room star gone solo, bringing sleek K-pop, R&B, and fashion-week poise at main-stage scale, with solo hits that stand on their own.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1Blood 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.
  2. 2Balu Brigada12Kiwi brothers making slinky, falsetto-led alt-funk: Auckland groove-pop polished to a late-night sheen, with basslines that do most of the flirting.
  3. 3Lola Young12'Messy' made her unavoidable, with raw South London soul-pop, a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
  4. 4RAYE11Britain'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.
  5. 5Midnight Generation10Mexican outfit, active since 2015, reviving glossy eighties boogie and synth-funk with a strong dancefloor pull.
  6. 6GRiZ7Saxophone-wielding electro-funk: half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
  7. 7Jessie Murph7A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty, with genre lines treated as suggestions.
  8. 8Malcolm Todd7Funk-flecked Gen-Z bedroom pop: 'Chest Pain (I Love)' and a fast-rising live rep, Steve Lacy instincts with his own snap.
  9. 9Tiffany Day7Big-voiced confessional pop with a bedroom-recording intimacy that writes about wanting things badly and doesn't dress it up.
  10. 10Doechii6Switches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters, and the result is theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.

Most favorited by readers

The R&B and Soul artists people here actually listen to, booked or not.

  1. 1GRiZSaxophone-wielding electro-funk: half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
  2. 2SZASinger whose 'Ctrl' and 'SOS' made diaristic, unguarded R&B into blockbuster pop, sliding between hazy soul, rap cadences and the occasional guitar ballad.
  3. 3Childish GambinoDonald Glover's music project outgrew the joke a decade ago, now offering psychedelic funk and gospel-sized soul from a writer who treats an album like a screenplay.
  4. 4Chris StapletonA songwriter's songwriter with a howl that turns Nashville craft into something closer to Muscle Shoals soul. 'Tennessee Whiskey' is just the entry point of a stacked catalog.
  5. 5DoechiiSwitches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters, and the result is theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.
  6. 6LettuceBerklee-forged funk played with horn-section precision and zero interest in restraint, a groove institution drifting ever deeper into psychedelia.
  7. 7Olivia DeanThe UK's warmest new pop-soul voice, with effortless, jazz-schooled songwriting that's conquered charts on both sides of the Atlantic and charm fully intact live.

Most saved to a plan

The R&B and Soul artists people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Blood 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.
  2. 2Cory WongThe rhythm-guitar machine of Vulfpeck fame, with relentlessly upbeat, impossibly tight funk, a horn-powered live band, and a clinic's worth of right-hand technique.
  3. 3Balu BrigadaKiwi brothers making slinky, falsetto-led alt-funk: Auckland groove-pop polished to a late-night sheen, with basslines that do most of the flirting.
  4. 4DUCKWRTHGenre-fluid alt-rap showman blending funk, punk energy, and silky R&B into one of the most danceable live sets in hip-hop.
  5. 5ISTABrooklyn collective throwing a cosmic dance party with garage grit, fuzzed-out disco shimmer, and deep-groove psychedelia from a many-limbed live band.
  6. 6Leo Brooks BandGrammy-winning Miami bassist for Pitbull and Lauryn Hill fronting his own band, with country twang filtered through Caribbean roots and island-funk muscle.
  7. 7Big GramatikBig Gigantic and Gramatik pooling their horns and their sample crates into one funk-forward electronic set, a livetronica summit built for instant dancefloor payoff.
  8. 8Daily BreadDusty, hip-hop-rooted electro-soul that would sound at home on a boom-bap record if you slowed it down, with Atlanta sample-craft in the Pretty Lights lineage.
  9. 9Jessie MurphA rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty, with genre lines treated as suggestions.
  10. 10Manic FocusSoul samples and live instrumentation layered into the warm end of the bass-music spectrum, a Chicago electro-soul act with a jam heart.

All 226 R&B and Soul artists

Sized by how many of the festivals we track have booked each act.

Blood OrangeRAYEBalu BrigadaLola YoungMidnight GenerationTeddy SwimsTiffany DayGRiZMalcolm ToddJessie MurphKashus CulpepperRemi WolfDoechiiRochelle JordanDaily BreadDijonLeon BridgesMariah the ScientistSkye Newman

Alabama ShakesBricknastyDon ToliverFKA twigsKali UchisLeon ThomasMaoliRavyn LenaesosocamoThe Marcus King BandAmber MarkAUDREY NUNACelesteDestin ConradDon WestGoldFordJim LegxacyJMSNJorja SmithKelelaKhamariNourished by TimeSlap DragonThe Womack SistersThee Sacred SoulsThundercatTinashe

AjevaAlemedaAnnahstasiaAZULBig GramatikBombargoCA7RIEL & Paco AmorosoChaka KhanChris StapletonClara La SanCory WongCouchDurand Jones & the IndicationsErika de CasierGabrielleIsaiah RashadJalen NgondaJames BlakeJason DeruloJennieJon BatisteKelsey LuMavis StaplesNe-YoNile Rodgers & ChicOdealOlivia DeanOPIUOPawPaw RodPrincesa AlbaSonny MilesSoozaSt. Paul and the Broken BonesSt. Paul & The Broken BonesSteve LacySydTedeschi Trucks BandTemsThe RootsTinashe (DJ Set)Wyatt Waddellaja monetAlicia y las HormigasAmaAmy GerhartzAndy Frasco & The U.N.Annie & the CaldwellsANOHNIBellahBig BoiBLK ODYSSYBlu DeTigerBoomBoxCaitlin Krisko & The BroadcastChildish GambinoClementaumCommon SaintsCopeCorinne Bailey RaeDabeullDandáraDaniel CaesarDanielle PonderDeb NeverDemaeDinner PartyDJ Pee .Wee AKA Anderson .PaakDJ RamemesDJ TamyDUCKWRTHDurand BernarrE'lon JDElla MaiElmieneENNYFabiana PalladinoFernieFLOFlorencia & the FeelingFousheéFujii KazeFunk YouGary Clark Jr.Gavin DeGrawGeezerGiveonGramatikhalf•aliveHermanos IlabacaHoley Miss MoleyInfinity SongISTAJackie VensonJae StephensJamiroquaiJJ Grey & MofroJoé Dwèt FiléJohn “Papa” GrosJustin BieberJustine SkyeKanika MooreKean KavanaghKehlaniKhruangbinKilo KishKool & The GangL’RainLee FieldsLeo Brooks BandLettuceLila IkéLos TetasMaddy O'NealMagnus FerrellManic FocusMarzzMaverick SabreMerebaMeshell NdegeocelloMichael Franti & SpearheadMik PyroMonophonicsNeal FrancisNEZZANicole AtkinsNu GeneaNúbiaPJ MortonPolyrhythmics + Adryon de LeónPretty LightsQur'an ShaheedRaelRanky TankyRebirth Brass BandRed + The RevelersRobert GlasperSarah PotenzaSekouShawnee KishShinyribsSminoSneezySofía MoraSuper Sonic ShortiesSurprise ChefSwae LeeSZAT-PainTasty VibrationsTeezo TouchdownThe AltonsThe Brook & The BluffThe California HoneydropsThe Fairfield FourThe Gospel JubilatorsTheodoraTia WoodTirzahTrombone Shorty & Orleans AvenueTru PhonicTrue LovesTyreseU.S. GirlsValerie JuneVan MorrisonVicky FarewellVictoria MonétVoodoo VisionaryWeird BaileWesley JosephWHATUPRGWho Is CopiousYebbaAmy WinehouseAnderson .PaakErykah BaduJackie WilsonPrinceThe InternetTurkuaz

Other genres

EDM 529Indie 496Alternative 453Rock 390Pop 365Punk 317Hip-Hop 309Folk and Americana 287House 267Metal 261Country 252Hardcore 135Techno 134Dubstep and Bass 124Bluegrass 99Latin 96Jazz 76Emo 66Shoegaze and Dream Pop 62Trance 52Psychedelic 47Reggae and Dancehall 37Blues 32Drum & Bass 32Hardstyle and Hard Dance 22

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