2027 Festival band booking league table

Which bands are festivals booking for 2027? We read lots of 2027 line-ups announced so far and are regularly adding more to score each act on how many festivals have booked it, where it sits on the bill and how big each festival is. The table changes as more line-ups come out.

5 November 2026last checked

Current top-ten headline bands

Bands with at least one headline slot in 2027, ranked by points for billing and festival size.

#BandPointsBillsWhere, and billing
1Faith No More1466Rock am Ring (top line) Nova Rock (top line) Tons of Rock (top line) Graspop Metal Meeting (top line) Mystic Festival (top line) NOS Alive (billing not shown)
2Turnstile964Rock am Ring (top line) Tons of Rock (top line) Primavera Sound (top line) Rock Werchter (billing not shown)
3Evanescence663Rock am Ring (top line) Graspop Metal Meeting (top line) Nova Rock (billing not shown)
4=Mötley Crüe643Tons of Rock (top line) Graspop Metal Meeting (top line) Sweden Rock (billing not shown)
4=Parkway Drive643Rock am Ring (top line) Graspop Metal Meeting (top line) Sweden Rock (billing not shown)
6Simple Plan625Slam Dunk (top line) Rock am Ring (second line) Tons of Rock (second line) Nova Rock (billing not shown) Southside and Hurricane (billing not shown)
7=blink-182602Rock am Ring (top line) Graspop Metal Meeting (top line)
7=Die Toten Hosen602Rock am Ring (top line) Nova Rock (top line)
9Billy Talent563Rock am Ring (top line) Slam Dunk (top line) Nova Rock (billing not shown)
10Amon Amarth554Tons of Rock (top line) Rock am Ring (second line) Nova Rock (billing not shown) Sweden Rock (billing not shown)

Top-ten non-headline acts

Acts with no headline slot, ranked only by how many festival bills they are on. Billing makes no difference here.

#ActBillsWhere
1=I Prevail4Rock am Ring Tons of Rock Nova Rock Southside and Hurricane
1=The Interrupters4Bearded Theory Nova Rock Slam Dunk Southside and Hurricane
1=Woody Cook4Tunes in the Dunes Snowbombing Wychwood Festival DevaFest
4=14 acts3
Show all 14

Arch Enemy, As December Falls, From Ashes to New, Green Lung, Hypocrisy, Kanonenfieber, Left to Suffer, Mgła, Nothing But Thieves, Orbit Culture, Russian Circles, Showing Teeth, SPEED, Sylosis

How the results are calculated

We read each festival’s 2027 line-up from its own website: the line-up page, its poster, or its announcement posts. Every act on the bill counts as one booking.

Headline bands score points for each booking: billing points times a festival size multiplier. A band’s score adds up all its bookings.

Billing on the line-upPoints
Top line: the names printed largest, or named as headliners10
Second line5
Rest of the main stage, and the top act on other stages3
Everyone else1
Festival lists names without billing2
Festival sizeMultiplier
50,000 or more×3
10,000 to 50,000×2
Under 10,000×1

So a headline slot at a festival of 50,000 or more is worth 30 points, and a second-stage slot at a small festival is worth 1. Some festivals print two or three names a day on their top line, and each of those counts as a headline slot. Where a festival does not publish its capacity, the size band is our estimate.

Non-headline acts are ranked only by the number of festivals they are booked for. Acts sharing a total share a place (marked =).

Tribute acts are left out. A band booked twice at one festival counts once. Line-ups are checked every month while 2027 announcements come in, so the table will move.

Festivals in the table

Also checked, with no readable 2027 line-up yet: 2000trees, Bilbao BBK Live, Black Deer, Cambridge Folk, Cropredy, Download, FIB Benicàssim, Glastonbury, Green Man, Hellfest, Keep It True, Kendal Calling, Latitude, Love Supreme, Mad Cool, Midgardsblot, Motocultor, Pinkpop, Reading, Rock the Mote, Shrewsbury Folk, Summer Breeze, Tramlines, TRNSMT, Truck, Valley Fest, Wacken Open Air.

All 1,205 acts, A to Z

Every act booked so far for 2027, with each festival and its billing. Tribute acts are left out. Names starting with “The” are filed under the next word.

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You missed this festival

Send us a festival’s 2027 line-up page or poster and we’ll consider adding it to the table.