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Each State’s Favorite Music Festival In 2023

By Sky Ariella
Apr. 15, 2022

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The spring and summer seasons bring flowers, warm weather, and possibly best of all, music festivals. There’s nothing quite like throwing caution to the wind and spending a weekend dancing for hours on end at the elaborate venue of a top-tier music festival.

Woodstock and other similar events ushered in the age of crazy music festivals in the ‘60s. Since then, the love of music festivals has only grown. To the point where almost every single state in America has some form of music festival throughout the year.

Today, the biggest music festivals in the country attract hundreds of thousands of attendees. That got us thinking about what each state’s absolute favorite music festival might be. So, we decided to figure it out for sure.

Most Interesting Findings:

  • Every music festival’s biggest fan was their home state. For example, New Yorkers searched for Governor’s Ball and Electric Zoo more than anyone else. Alternatively, Texans were the most interested in Austin City Limits.

  • Many states preferred festivals that were geographically located near them. For instance, Arizona searched for Coachella more than almost any other state. This goes for Indiana too, where there was a clear interest in Lollapalooza located in the neighboring state of Illinois.

  • Bonnaroo is the most popular with southern states, especially Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, and West Virginia.

  • The east coast states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, and New Hampshire searched for Electric Zoo more than any other festival.

  • People all around the country were curious about Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), from Idaho to Alaska.

How We Figured This Out

The first step toward figuring out every state’s favorite festival was creating a list of the top ten biggest music festivals in the United States. We decided to use attendance to determine just how big every festival was.

Here is the list of the top 10 music festivals by attendance in the United States without further ado.

Top 10 Music Festivals in the United States

  1. Austin City Limits – Austin, Texas (450,000)

  2. Summerfest – Milwaukee, Wisconsin (409,000)

  3. Lollapalooza – Chicago, Illinois (385,000)

  4. Coachella – Indio, California (250,000)

  5. Electric Daisy Carnival EDC – Las Vegas, Nevada (230,000)

  6. Voodoo Music + Arts Experience – New Orleans, Louisiana (180,000)

  7. Life is Beautiful – Las Vegas, Nevada (180,000)

  8. The Governor’s Ball Music Festival – New York, New York (150,000)

  9. Electric Zoo – New York, New York (100,000)

  10. Bonnaroo – Manchester, Tennessee (80,000)

Now that we had a list in hand of the country’s most-attended festivals every year, we headed over to Google Trends. Google Trends shows you how much a particular area is searching for a term on Google. So, when we input the search term “Austin City Limits, Music Festival,” Google Trends showed us which states were especially interested (or uninterested) in that event.

For example, when we searched for the term “Bonnaroo” in Google Trends, we found that Tennesee, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia were among the biggest searchers for this particular festival.

We repeated this process for every music festival listed on the top ten list to find every state’s most popular event.

Every State’s Favorite Music Festival in 2022

  1. Alabama: Bonnaroo

  2. Alaska: Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC)

  3. Arizona: Coachella

  4. Arkansas: Voodoo Music + Arts Experience

  5. California: Coachella

  6. Colorado: Austin City Limits

  7. Connecticut: The Governor’s Ball Music Festival

  8. Delaware: Coachella

  9. Florida: Bonnaroo

  10. Georgia: Bonnaroo

  11. Hawaii: Coachella

  12. Idaho: Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC)

  13. Illinois: Lollapalooza

  14. Indiana: Lollapalooza

  15. Iowa: Summerfest

  16. Kansas: Coachella

  17. Kentucky: Bonnaroo

  18. Louisiana: Voodoo Music + Arts Experience

  19. Maine: Electric Zoo

  20. Maryland: Electric Zoo

  21. Massachusetts: The Governor’s Ball Music Festival

  22. Michigan: Lollapalooza

  23. Minnesota: Summerfest

  24. Mississippi: Voodoo Music + Arts Experience

  25. Missouri: Lollapalooza

  26. Montana: Voodoo Music + Arts Experience

  27. Nebraska: Lollapalooza

  28. Nevada: Life is Beautiful

  29. New Hampshire: Electric Zoo

  30. New Jersey: Electric Zoo

  31. New Mexico: Life is Beautiful

  32. New York: The Governor’s Ball Music Festival

  33. North Carolina: Bonnaroo

  34. North Dakota: Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC)

  35. Ohio: Lollapalooza

  36. Oklahoma: Austin City Limits

  37. Oregon: Coachella

  38. Pennsylvania: Electric Zoo

  39. Rhode Island: The Governor’s Ball Music Festival

  40. South Carolina: Bonnaroo

  41. South Dakota: Summerfest

  42. Tennessee: Bonnaroo

  43. Texas: Austin City Limits

  44. Utah: Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC)

  45. Vermont: The Governor’s Ball Music Festival

  46. Virginia: Bonnaroo

  47. Washington: Life is Beautiful

  48. West Virginia: Bonnaroo

  49. Wisconsin: Summerfest

  50. Wyoming: Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC)

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Sky Ariella

Sky Ariella is a professional freelance writer, originally from New York. She has been featured on websites and online magazines covering topics in career, travel, and lifestyle. She received her BA in psychology from Hunter College.

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