The world’s largest music festival is undoubtedly the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Taking place in Tennessee over the span of four days, the festival attracts approximately 70,000 attendees each year. The incredible size of the festival allows for an incredible diversity of acts, making Bonnaroo a destination that attendees return to year after year.
Coachella
If you’re looking for a music festival worth the long journey to California, look no further than Coachella. The annual desert gathering of top-tier talent and highly-coveted tickets has drawn crowds of more than one million attendees over the years. That’s over two days of nonstop music, art installations, food, and, of course, the desert sun. To date, the festival has seen two record-breaking attendance years. In 2019, the number of attendees swelled to an estimated 1.8 million people, which broke the previous record of 1.7 million set at the previous year.
Bonnaroo
Bonnaroo is often touted as the biggest music festival in the world, at least in terms of attendance. It attracts about 75,000 people per day over its four-day span. But Bonnaroo actually doesn’t have the world’s largest attendance — that title belongs to the Beale Street Music Festival held in Memphis, Tennessee. Beale Street draws a whopping 400,000 people each year!
Austin City Limits
The remarkable Austin City Limits Music Festival has been an annual institution since 1987, but the festival has also held the title of “world’s largest music festival” on three occasions, according to the Guinness Book of Records. In 2006, over 750,000 people gathered to watch more than 300 acts on the festival’s 15-acre stage along Lady Bird Lake, making it the largest concert in the world at the time.
Firefly
The Firefly Music Festival is the largest music festival in the world. It’s held annually in late June in the beautiful surroundings of Dover, Delaware. The festival has had the official Guinness World Record for the biggest crowd ever gathered at a music festival since 2006. The attendance record was broken in 2016 when over 75,000 people attended the event. The festival is known for its jam-packed schedule of live music performances from top-tier artists like Phish, The Black Keys, and Bruno Mars.
Electric Forest
The world’s largest music festival is the annual Electric Forest. It takes place in the town of Rothbury, North Carolina, and each year, it welcomes more than 60,000 attendees, with over half of those attendees arriving on site via shuttle bus. The weekend-long festival is the brainchild of music promoter SFX Entertainment, which also puts on other large-scale events, such as the Bonnaroo Music Festival and the Governors Ball Music Festival.
Wanderlust
If you love music and you want to experience the energy of a festival, head to Bonnaroo in Tennessee. Over 100,000 people descend on this annual festival, which is held in Manchester, Tennessee every June. The first Bonnaroo was held in 2002.
Shambhala
The first festival to attract more than one million people was Winter Fantasy, which began in California in 1980. In 2006, Shambhala gathered more than a half-million in attendance, making it the most attended music festival in the world.
Conclusion
The world’s largest music festival is the Bonnaroo Music Festival, held annually in Manchester, Tennessee. The festival has drawn an estimated attendance of 300,000 people since its inception in 2002. In 2019, the festival drew over 300,000 attendees from all over the world to celebrate music, art, food, and community.
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