ATEEZ’s Complete Festival History: Every Major Music Festival They’ve Performed At
June 6th 2026
From debut-era underdogs to headline acts at the world’s biggest stages — this is how ATEEZ built one of the most remarkable festival résumés in K-pop history
There is a version of ATEEZ’s story where none of this happens. A small company. An eight-member group with no label backing from the Big Four. A debut in 2018 that flew under the radar in Korea while quietly building a fanbase overseas. That version of the story ends somewhere modest.
Instead, ATEEZ are now the first K-pop boy group to headline Coachella, the first K-pop act to headline Mawazine, and — as of June 28, 2026 — the first K-pop act to headline BST Hyde Park. The festival circuit, it turns out, was always where they were headed.
Here is every major stop on that journey, and why each one matters.
KCON: The Foundation Years (2019–2023)
Before the headline slots and the historic firsts, there was KCON — and for a group like ATEEZ, early in their career and coming from outside the industry’s established power structures, it was exactly the right proving ground.
KCON is CJ ENM’s flagship K-pop convention-and-concert hybrid, designed to bring K-pop to international audiences in a concentrated, festival-adjacent format. For newer groups, an appearance on its lineup is both an exposure opportunity and a rite of passage. ATEEZ embraced it.
Their KCON history spans multiple editions across multiple continents, from early appearances that helped establish them with international fans to a headlining-level slot at KCON LA 2023 — an event that drew 140,000 fans over its run and was streamed live across 176 countries.
At that edition, ATEEZ performed alongside acts like Stray Kids, Taemin, and ITZY, but it was the fourth-generation boy groups — ATEEZ among them — who drew the sharpest attention from global media covering K-pop’s evolving international reach.
What KCON gave ATEEZ, more than any individual moment, was a fanbase calibrated for exactly what they are: a group that performs at a level that converts casual observers into committed fans within a single set. Those ATINY built through KCON became the engine that powered everything that came after.
Coachella 2024: The Moment That Changed Everything
On April 12, 2024, ATEEZ took the stage at the Sahara Stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California — and made history as the first K-pop boy group ever to perform at the event.
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The significance of that milestone cannot be overstated. Coachella is not simply a large festival; it is a cultural institution, a barometer of where artists stand in the global music conversation.
BLACKPINK had headlined in 2023, becoming the first K-pop act to do so, but ATEEZ’s appearance carried its own specific weight: they were the only K-pop act performing at Coachella who did not come from one of the industry’s four major entertainment conglomerates.
Their 50-minute set on the Sahara Stage — accompanied by a live band, laser production, and a crowd whose energy was audible in livestreams from the Main Stage — drew widespread critical praise. Songs like “Arriba,” “Django,” and “Say My Name” were performed for American festival audiences, many of whom were encountering the group live for the first time. The ATINY fandom, predictably, made themselves known throughout; their lightsticks were visible throughout the livestream.
ATEEZ performed across both Coachella weekends, and in the days between, they opened a pop-up exhibit at the Grammy Museum — an additional layer of cultural legitimacy that underlined exactly what kind of moment this was. As member San put it at the time: “We want to make stages where everyone can enjoy, and everyone can have fun.” At Coachella, they did.
Mawazine 2024: First K-Pop Act on the Main Stage in Rabat
Two months after Coachella, ATEEZ made another kind of history — this one with a personal dimension that gave it particular resonance.
On June 23, 2024, they headlined the OLM Souissi main stage at Mawazine in Rabat, Morocco, becoming the first K-pop act ever invited to perform at the festival. Mawazine, which launched in 2001 and draws over 2.5 million attendees annually, sits alongside the world’s largest music events — its past headliners have included Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Shakira, and Bruno Mars. For ATEEZ to join that list was, by any measure, extraordinary.
What made it more extraordinary: ATEEZ’s debut music video had been filmed in the Moroccan Sahara Desert. Returning to Morocco as the first K-pop headliners of its biggest festival carried a symbolic weight that the group acknowledged directly in their closing remarks to the crowd.
Their one-hour set opened with a flag routine and moved through a setlist that included “Win,” “Say My Name,” “Guerrilla,” “Crazy Form,” and “Bouncy,” among others. The performance demonstrated something ATEEZ had been proving for years: that their stagecraft translates completely across cultural and linguistic contexts. A crowd that had never encountered K-pop before found themselves drawn in regardless.
Summer Sonic 2023 & 2024: Conquering Japan’s Biggest Festival
Japan has long been one of ATEEZ’s strongest international markets, and their Summer Sonic appearances have been among the most celebrated performances of their career.
Summer Sonic is Japan’s largest annual outdoor music festival, drawing approximately 200,000 attendees across its Osaka and Tokyo venues each year.
ATEEZ performed at the festival in both 2023 and 2024, appearing across multiple cities on both occasions. Their 2024 Summer Sonic dates in Osaka and Tokyo in August cemented a relationship with Japanese festival audiences that had been building since their earliest international touring years.
For ATINY in Japan — one of the group’s largest and most active fan communities — these performances have represented milestone shared experiences. For ATEEZ, they represent the kind of recurring festival presence that signals genuine belonging in a market rather than a one-off novelty booking.
BST Hyde Park 2026: The European Crown
On June 28, 2026 — two days after the release of GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 — ATEEZ will take the headline stage at American Express Presents BST Hyde Park in London. It is the logical next chapter of a live narrative that has been building for years, and the most significant European milestone of their career.
BST Hyde Park is not simply a large outdoor venue. It is a statement. Previous headliners have included some of the most globally recognized names in music, and the guest lineup typically draws tens of thousands of fans from across the UK and continental Europe.
For European ATINYs, many of whom have made travel arrangements from across the continent to attend, this show carries the weight of years of waiting for their group to reach this particular stage.
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The support act lineup reflects the scale of the occasion. ATEEZ will be joined by UK R&B trio FLO, SHINee’s Taemin — himself one of K-pop’s most celebrated solo performers — alongside Midnight Til Morning, ALTÉGO, dearALICE, Tommy Lyon, Girl Group, and Jazzie Martian, with further acts still to be announced.
The presence of Taemin in particular gives the bill a distinctly K-pop character, turning the show into something of a landmark moment for the genre’s foothold in European festival culture.
It will also not be the only European festival date of the summer. ATEEZ have confirmed a headline slot at Rock in Roma in Italy for July, extending a run that underlines a clear strategic intention: to establish a permanent presence on the European festival circuit, not simply pass through it.
What the Festival Circuit Has Done for ATEEZ
Stepping back and looking at the full picture, what emerges is not simply a list of impressive bookings but a coherent story about how a group builds global relevance outside the conventional K-pop machinery.
ATEEZ have now topped the Billboard 200 twice, performed on three continents at flagship festivals, and built a fanbase — the ATINY — whose geographic spread is genuinely global. Their Spotify streaming data tells the story plainly: their most-streamed cities span Jakarta, Bangkok, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, with strong numbers across Europe and the Americas.
Each festival appearance has functioned as a conversion engine. Coachella brought them to mainstream American audiences who might never have encountered K-pop otherwise. Mawazine opened North Africa and the Arab World in a way that no K-pop act had before. Summer Sonic deepened an already strong Japanese fanbase. And BST Hyde Park is set to do the same for Europe at scale.
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In Conclusion :
The pattern is unmistakable. ATEEZ have used the festival circuit not as a victory lap but as infrastructure — systematically building international presence, market by market, stage by stage. As GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 approaches and the European summer begins, that infrastructure is about to be tested at its highest level yet.