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A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
As part of our continuing efforts to serve the music industry and its creators, Billboard Pro now features a music industry events calendar for readers.
The calendar will act as music’s most complete summary major national and international industry events, from conferences to festivals to networking mixers and more. Just as Billboard is music’s must-read source for news, charts and analysis, now it also is the go-to for business happenings.
August 2026
- Aug. 2-4 – Musikfest Music Industry Conference (Bethlehem, Pa.)
- Aug. 5 – Warner Music Group Q3 earnings call
- Aug. 5-9 – Boardmasters festival (Newquay, England)
- Aug. 6-7 – Volumes: The Music Business Student Summit (virtual)
- Aug. 7-8 – Up in the Sky Music Festival (Aspen, Colo.)
- Aug. 7-9 – Baja Beach Fest (Rosarito Beach, Mexico)
- Aug. 7-9 – Outside Lands (San Francisco)
- Aug. 7-23 – L.A. Jazz Festival (Los Angeles)
- Aug. 8 – Head in the Clouds Music & Arts Festival (Pasadena, Calif.)
- Aug. 8 – National Indigenous Music Awards (The Gardens, Australia)
- Aug. 12-15 – Iceland Eclipse festival (Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland)
- Aug. 12-15 – Stellar+EXP (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Aug. 12-16 – Boomtown Festival (South Downs National Park, England)
- Aug. 14-16 – Flow Festival (Helsinki, Finland)
- Aug. 14-16 – KCON LA (Los Angeles)
- Aug. 15 – Guild of Music Supervisors State of Music in Media conference (Culver City, Calif.)
- Aug. 15 – Reggae Fest (New York)
- Aug. 15 – Stellar Gospel Music Awards (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Aug. 20-22 – Las Vegas Songwriters Festival (Las Vegas)
- Aug. 20-23 – Green Man Festival (Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales)
- Aug. 22 – Just Like Heaven festival (Pasadena, Calif.)
- Aug. 25 – SOURCE Hall of Fame Awards (Nashville)
- Aug. 25-30 – MUTEK Montréal festival (Montreal)
- Aug. 26-30 – Rock en Seine festival (Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, France)
- Aug. 27-30 – Creamfields festival (Daresbury, England)
- Aug. 27-30 – Reading & Leeds Festival (Reading & Leeds, England)
- Aug. 28-29 – All Points East festival (London)
- Aug. 29 – Daisy Chain Fields festival (Irvine, Calif.)
September 2026
- Sept. 1-4 – BIGSOUND (Brisbane, Australia)
- Sept. 3 – Premios Juventud (Marbella, Spain)
- Sept. 3-6 – End of the Road festival (Dorset, England)
- Sept. 4-5 – Vive Latino España (Zaragoza, Spain)
- Sept. 4-6 – Country Splash festival (San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico)
- Sept. 4-6 – Afro Plus Fest (Landover, Md.)
- Sept. 4-6 – Velocity at Field of Dreams festival (Dyersville, Iowa)
- Sept. 4-7 – ARC Music Festival (Chicago)
- Sept. 5-6 – Primetime Emmys pre-telecast ceremonies (Los Angeles)
- Sept. 5-6 – Arre festival (Mexico City)
- Sept. 5-6 – Bumbershoot Arts & Music Festival (Seattle)
- Sept. 11-12 – Goldrush: Midnight Riders festival (Chandler, Ariz.)
- Sept. 14 – Primetime Emmys (Los Angeles)
- Sept. 14-16 – International Festival Forum L.A. (West Hollywood, Calif.)
- Sept. 15 – T.J. Martell Foundation New York Honors Gala (New York)
- Sept. 16 – Americana Honors & Awards (Nashville)
- Sept. 17-20 – Louder Than Life festival (Louisville, Ky.)
- Sept. 18-19 – iHeartRadio Music Festival (Las Vegas)
- Sept. 18-20 – Borderland Music and Arts Festival (East Aurora, N.Y.)
- Sept. 18-20 – Caribbean Music Awards (Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago)
- Sept. 18-20 – Cascade Equinox Festival (Redmond, Oreg.)
- Sept. 18-20 – Making Time ∞ festival (Philadelphia)
- Sept. 18-20 – Riot Fest (Chicago)
- Sept. 18-20 – Shaky Knees Music Festival (Atlanta)
- Sept. 19-20 – Experts Only festival (New York)
- Sept. 19-20 – Sea.Hear.Now Festival (Asbury Park, N.J.)
- Sept. 22 – Nashville Songwriter Awards (Nashville)
- Sept. 22 – Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony (Toronto)
- Sept. 23-27 – Pitchfork Music Festival CDMX (Mexico City)
- Sept. 24-27 – Bourbon & Beyond festival (Louisville, Ky.)
- Sept. 25-26 – Somewhere Festival & Conference (Wichita, Kans.)
- Sept. 25-27 – All Things Go Music Festival (Columbia, Md.)
- Sept. 25-27 – All Things Go NYC (New York)
- Sept. 25-27 – Oceans Calling Festival (Ocean City, Md.)
- Sept. 25-27 – Ohana Festival (Dana Point, Calif.)
- Sept. 26-27 – Portola festival (San Francisco)
- Sept. 27 – MTV Video Music Awards (Los Angeles)
- Sept. 30-Oct. 4 – BreakOut West conference and festival (Victoria, B.C., Canada)
October 2026
- Oct. 1 – Day Zero Tulum festival (Tulum, Mexico)
- Oct. 1 – Rock the Ryman (Nashville)
- Oct. 1-4 – Aftershock festival (Sacramento, Calif.)
- Oct. 2-3 – Country Calling festival (Ocean City, Md.)
- Oct. 2-4 – Austin City Limits Festival weekend 1 (Austin)
- Oct. 2-4 – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival (San Francisco)
- Oct. 3 – Power to the People Festival (Columbia, Md.)
- Oct. 4-6 – IEBA conference (Nashville)
- Oct. 7-9 – Beyond The Music conference (Salford, England)
- Oct. 7-10 – Confluence conference (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Oct. 9-11 – Austin City Limits Festival weekend 2 (Austin)
- Oct. 9-11 – FORM Arcosanti festival (Arcosanti, Ariz.)
- Oct. 10 – Strummingbird festival Victoria (Ballarat, Australia)
- Oct. 10-11 – Head Trip festival (Indio, Calif.)
- Oct. 13-16 – Mondo.NYC conference (New York)
- Oct. 15-18 – Vinyl Summit (Salina, Kans.)
- Oct. 16-18 – Mission Bayfest (San Diego)
- Oct. 17 – iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina (Miami)
- Oct. 17 – Strummingbird festival New South Wales (Newcastle, Australia)
- Oct. 18 – Strummingbird festival Queensland (Sunshine Coast, Australia)
- Oct. 19-22 – Billboard Latin Music Week (Miami)
- Oct. 20 – Marconi Awards Presented by NAB (New York)
- Oct. 20-22 – NAB Show New York (New York)
- Oct. 21-25 – Amsterdam Dance Event (Amsterdam)
- Oct. 22 – Billboard Latin Music Awards (Miami)
- Oct. 22 – IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
- Oct. 22 – Mercury Prize ceremony (Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
- Oct. 24 – Sick New World festival (Fort Worth, Tex.)
- Oct. 24-25 – Bamba Festival (Santiago, Chile)
- Oct. 27 – City of Hope Spirit of Life Gala (West Hollywood, Calif.)
- Oct. 27-29 – Music Tectonics conference (Santa Monica, Calif.)
November 2026
- Nov. 2-8 – Pitchfork Music Festival London (London)
- Nov. 2-8 – Pitchfork Music Festival Paris (Paris)
- Nov. 6-7 – Momentous Music & Arts Festival (Bentonville, Ark.)
- Nov. 7-8- Ultra Mexico (Mexico City)
- Nov. 8-10 – jump.global Summit (Los Angeles)
- Nov. 9 – Latin Recording Academy Special Awards ceremony (Las Vegas)
- Nov. 9 – Music Industry Trusts (MITS) Award ceremony (London)
- Nov. 10 – Billboard Live Music Summit and Awards (West Hollywood, Calif.)
- Nov. 11 – Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year ceremony (Las Vegas)
- Nov. 12 – Latin Grammy Awards (Las Vegas)
- Nov. 14 – Darker Waves festival (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
- Nov. 14 – Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (Los Angeles)
- Nov. 14 – Ultra Taiwan (Taipei City, Taiwan)
- Nov. 14-15 – For You Fest (Irvine, Calif.)
- Nov. 18 – CMA Awards (Nashville)
- Nov. 19 – Music Tech 20/20 Summit (Toronto)
- Nov. 19 – Resonate Music Conference (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Nov. 20-22 – Corona Capital festival (Mexico City)
- Nov. 26-28 – XP Music Futures conference (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
- Nov. 28-29 – Coca-Cola Flow Fest (Mexico City)
- Nov. 28-29 – Primavera Sound Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
December 2026
- Dec. 5-6 – Primavera Sound São Paulo (São Paulo)
- Dec. 7-8 – Live Summit Middle East (Abu Dhabi)
- Dec. 11-13 – Tomorrowland Thailand (Pattaya, Thailand)
- Dec. 28-Jan. 1 – Beyond the Valley festival (Hesse, Australia)
January 2027
- Jan. 7-10 – Out of the Blue Festival (Cancún, Mexico)
- Jan. 13-16 – ESNS conference and festival (Groningen, Netherlands)
- Jan. 17 – globalFEST winter festival (New York)
February 2027
- Feb. 7 – Grammy Awards (Los Angeles)
March 2027
- March 12-14 C2C (Country to Country) Festival (London, Glasgow & Manchester, United Kingdom)
- March 14 – 99th Annual Oscars (Los Angeles)
- March 17-19 – Country Radio Seminar (Nashville)
- March 21-24 – MUSEXPO (Burbank, Calif.)
- March 26-28 – Ultra Music Festival (Miami)
April 2027
- April 9-11 – Coachella weekend 1 (Indio, Calif.)
- April 16-18 – Coachella weekend 2 (Indio, Calif.)
- April 23-25 – Stagecoach festival (Indio, Calif.)
- April 18-20 – HITS Home conference (Nashville)
May 2027
- May 13-24 – EDC (Las Vegas)
- May 16 – Academy of Country Music Awards (Las Vegas)
December 2027
- Dec. 2-12 – FANOMENON (Seoul)
March 2028
- March 5 – 100th Annual Oscars (Los Angeles)
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