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.
June 2026
- June 7-10 – NIVA ’26 (Minneapolis)
- June 8-11 – A2IM Indie Week (New York)
- June 9 – AIMP Global Music Publishing Summit (New York)
- June 9 – DIMA Summer Members Meeting & Industry Gathering (New York)
- June 9-11 – Hull Music Cities Convention (Kingston upon Hull, England)
- June 10 – Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage opening night (New York)
- June 10 – National Music Publishers’ Association annual meeting (New York)
- June 10-11 – NAMM NeXT Europe (Amsterdam)
- June 10-14 – Download Festival (Leicestershire, U.K.)
- June 11 – Music IP Experiences & Community Connection panel & concert series (New York)
- June 11 – Songs in Stages: A Music Gala Brunch Benefitting The SONA Foundation/NYU Langone Health (New York)
- June 11 – Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction & Awards Gala (New York)
- June 11-13 – Rock the South festival (Decatur, Ala.)
- June 11-14 – Bonnaroo (Manchester, Tenn.)
- June 11-21 – Meltdown festival (London)
- June 12 – The Connie Orlando Foundation Black Women in Music Dinner (Los Angeles)
- June 12-13 – 5 O’Clock Somewhere Fest (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
- June 12-14 – SmashFest music summit (Nashville)
- June 12-14 – Summer Smash festival (Bridgeview, Ill.)
- June 13 – Braves Country Fest (Atlanta)
- June 13 – MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN (Tokyo)
- June 13-14 – All Good Now festival (Columbia, Md.)
- June 16 – ASCAP London Celebrates Songwriters and Composers (London)
- June 18 – Global Citizen Live: Tokyo (Tokyo)
- June 18-20 – Sónar Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
- June 18-20 – Summerfest weekend 1 (Milwaukee)
- June 18-21 – Barefoot Country Music Fest (Wildwood, N.J.)
- June 18-21 – Hellfest (Clisson, France)
- June 18-21 – The Isle of Wight Festival (Newport, England)
- June 18-21 – Tailgate N’ Tallboys festival (Bloomington, Ill.)
- June 19-21 – Green River Festival (Greenfield, Mass.)
- June 19-21 – Sónar Week (Barcelona)
- June 19-20 – Zootown Music Festival (Missoula, Mont.)
- June 19-21 – We Belong Here Brooklyn festival (New York)
- June 25-27 – Summerfest weekend 2 (Milwaukee)
- June 25-28 – Electric Forest festival (Rothbury, Mich.)
- June 25-July 4 – Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (Montreal)
- June 26-28 – Wilco’s Solid Sound festival (North Adams, Mass.)
July 2026
- July 2-4 – Summerfest weekend 3 (Milwaukee)
- July 2-5 – Rock Werchter festival (Rotselaar, Belgium)
- July 3 – Roundhay Festival (Leeds, England)
- July 3-5 – ESSENCE Festival of Culture (New Orleans)
- July 3-5 – Kappa FuturFestival (Torino, Italy)
- July 3-5 – Love Supreme Jazz Festival (East Sussex, England)
- July 3-18 – Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland)
- July 8-11 – Mad Cool festival (Madrid)
- July 8-12 – Windy City Smokeout festival (Chicago)
- July 9 – O2 Silver Clef Awards (London)
- July 9-19 – Festival D’été de Québec (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada)
- July 10 – BST Hyde Park festival (London)
- July 10-11 – Minnesota Country Club Festival (St. Paul, Minn.)
- July 10-12 – Wireless Festival (London)
- July 16-18 – 4848 Festival (Snowshoe, W. Va.)
- July 16-19 – Country Thunder Wisconsin festival (Twin Lakes, Wis.)
- July 17-19 – Inkcarceration festival (Mansfield, Ohio)
- July 17-19 – MATI Festival and Conference (St. Louis)
- July 17-19 – Minnesota Yacht Club Festival (St. Paul, Minn.)
- July 17-19 – Under the Big Sky festival (Whitefish, Mont.)
- July 18-19 – Summer of ’99 and Beyond Festival (Tinley Park, Ill.)
- July 23-25 – Headwaters Country Jam (Three Forks, Mont.)
- July 24 – Hot 97 Summer Jam (Newark, N.J.)
- July 24-25 – Eaux Claires festival (Eau Claire, Wis.)
- July 24-26 – Newport Folk Festival (Newport, R.I.)
- July 28-Aug. 1 – Latin Alternative Music Conference (New York)
- July 30 – AIR Awards (Adelaide, Australia)
- July 30-Aug. 1 – Hinterland Music Festival (St. Charles, Iowa)
- July 30-Aug. 2 – Lollapalooza (Chicago)
- July 30-Aug. 2 – Y Not Festival (Pikehall, England)
- July 31-Aug. 2 – Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, R.I.)
- July 31-Aug. 2 – OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival (Montreal)
August 2026
- Aug. 1-2 – HARD Summer (Inglewood, Calif.)
- Aug. 2-4 – Musikfest Music Industry Conference (Bethlehem, Pa.)
- Aug. 3 – Country Radio Hall of Fame Induction and Dinner (Nashville)
- Aug. 5-9 – Boardmasters festival (Newquay, England)
- 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. 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 – 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)
September 2026
- Sept. 1-4 – BIGSOUND (Brisbane, Australia)
- Sept. 3-6 – End of the Road festival (Dorset, England)
- Sept. 4-6 – Country Splash festival (San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico)
- Sept. 4-5 – Vive Latino España (Zaragoza, Spain)
- Sept. 4-6 – Velocity at Field of Dreams festival (Dyersville, Iowa)
- Sept. 4-7 – ARC Music Festival (Chicago)
- 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. 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 – 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. 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)
October 2026
- Oct. 1 – Day Zero Tulum festival (Tulum, Mexico)
- 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. 3 – Power to the People Festival (Columbia, Md.)
- Oct. 7-9 – Beyond The Music conference (Salford, England)
- 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 – Strummingbird festival New South Wales (Newcastle, Australia)
- Oct. 18 – Strummingbird festival Queensland (Sunshine Coast, Australia)
- Oct. 19-22 – Billboard Latin Music Week (Miami)
- Oct. 21-25 – Amsterdam Dance Event (Amsterdam)
- 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
December 2026
January 2027
February 2027
March 2027
April 2027
May 2027
- May 13-24 – EDC (Las Vegas)
March 2028
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