Billboard’s Music Industry Events Calendar

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.

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July 2026

July 28-Aug. 1 – Latin Alternative Music Conference (New York)

July 30 – AIR Awards (Adelaide, Australia)

July 30 – SiriusXM Q2 earnings call

July 30 – Sphere Entertainment Q2 earnings call

July 30 – Universal Music Group Q2/H1 earnings call

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 – Sony Q1 earnings call

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. 6 – Warner Music Group Q3 earnings call

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 – 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 con...

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