Have you ever wondered, “What are the best music festivals in the world?” or “What is the most popular Music Festival?” Maybe you just wanted to know if there was an awesome music festival in a country you want to visit, or wanted to find the best music
festivals closest to you. If you’ve wondered these things and come up empty handed in your searches for enlightenment, we have too. It’s incredibly frustrating that there isn’t an accurate and unbiased online source for real music festival rankings and
reviews. Our larger goal with festival fling is to create a ‘Yelp’ or ‘Rotton Tomatoes’ of music festivals, concerts, and performances, but before we begin working on the complex API for such a monstrous task we have begun to compile a database of information
on Music Festivals.

FAQ: How is this list is ranked?

Honorable Mentions

There are far more than 10 best music festivals in the world. Narrowing down only the top ten based on their facebook likes doesn’t give the full picture of what the best music festivals in the world really are. These festivals below deserve just as much
attention as some of those in the top 10, so don’t pass them by! If you are ever going to be in the area where some of these festivals are held, try and time your trip so that you might be able to visit one of the best music festivals in the world.

South by Southwest (Austin, Texas)

South by South West actually is slightly deceiving in it’s numbers. It is technically partly a music festival, however it is mainly the technology trade-show of the Southern United States. This is
not your typical music festival with gigantic crowds around a series of stages. It does have a large musical side to the trade show, primarily with famous artists playing at small venues in Austin, Texas. Aside from bring the best technology trade-show in
the southern US, SxSW is also one of the best music festivals as well.

Stereosonic (Australia Tour)

Like many of the Music Festivals in Australia, Stereosonic is held on a multi-city tour and visits the larger cities in the country including Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, and Melbourne.
It is one of the best Music Festivals in Australia and is held in early December (Australia’s summer.)

Roskilde Festival (Denmark)

Roskilde was started in the early 70′s by three high school students and has since grown into one of the largest music festivals in Europe. While it doesn’t compete with the top 10 festivals
on this list on the level of social media rank, it is vastly popular with over 100,000 attendees for the three day event. The Roskilde Festival is one of the best music festivals in Europe.

Future Music Festival (Australia Tour)

Future Music Festival is another Australian Music Festival that tours the country. From February to March (Australia’s Summer) the festival roams through the
cities of Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, and is one of the few festivals that travels to Asia where it is held in Malaysia.

Sziget Festival (Budapest, Hungary)

The Sziget Festival is another dark horse when it comes to looking at its social media impact. It is one of Europe’s largest and most unique music festivals that the United States
rarely hears about. Allegedly Sziget has brought in as many as 250,000 attendees over the 3 days festival in some recent years, however it’s standings on facebook show it to be far behind many other festivals on this list. The festival’s uniqueness
stems from it’s title. “Sziget” translates to “Island” which is exactly where the music festival is held: on a wooded island in the middle of the Danube River in Hungary. Sziget is considered to be the best music festival in Europe, however their
facebook page doesn’t stack up to their attendance claims.

Summerfest (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

Summerfest claims to be the world’s largest music festival, however for the numbers that it allegedly brings it doesn’t have a very heavy social media impact. Organizers claim that nearly
1 million people attend the massively long 11 day music festival. As their like counts and twitter follows indicate, many of those 1 million attendes are likely counted more than once giving the festival and attendance record of around 70,000+
per day, which is on the average side of ‘per-day’ attendance of many other music festivals. Summerfest is considered to be one of the best music festivals in the US.

Sonisphere (European Tour)

Sonisphere is the largest Hard Rock/Heavy Metal music festival in the world, and tours European cities between June and August. The organizers have plans to expand the music festival
to a worldwide-tour for Heavy Metal enthusiasts. Sonisphere is the best music festival int he world for Heavy Metal Music.

Paléo Festival Nyon (Switzerland)

Paléo Festival Nyon is reportedly the 2nd largest music festival in Europe behind Sziget (Hungary.) The festival takes place just outside of Lake Geneva and is a massive 6 days long, taking place
in the last six days of July. The festival originated back in the mid 1970′s as a folk music festival, but has grown into a festival covering all of the most popular artists in relevant genres of any given year.

Rock Werchter (Belgium)

Rock Werchter is one of the top 5 most attended Rock Music Festivals in Europe. It is based out of Belgium and is 4 days in length over a weekend in the beginning of July. It covers Mostly
Rock and Indie Rock music, but has recently begun to feature Electronic dance Music and Dubstep artists as well.

Exit Festival (Serbia)

Exit Festival is one of the most unique festival settings out there. It is held over a 4 day period in the Petrovaradin Fortress of Novi Sad, Serbia (an 18th century fortress on the Danube
River.) By far one of the most picturesque settings for a music festival that exist in the world, and since the Exit Music Festival’s founding in 2000, it has been recognized as one of the best music festivals in Europe.

Oxegen (Ireland)

Oxegen is the largest and most famous Music Festival in Ireland and is held over 4 days during the second weekend of July. It usually has a similar lineup as England’s Glastonbury Music Festival.

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