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VOTING HAS WRAPPED, WEEKND WINS ROUND 1! Please go to the current round that’s live

HELLO! Today I’m starting something new, we’re gonna let this reddit decide IT’S favorite artist together, through THIS BRACKET! Every day, till we decide a winner, I’ll post a round of this. Everyday 2 artists will go head to head, you get one comment to vote each day (make your vote clear), UPVOTES DO NOTHING, and whoever gets the most votes moves onto the NEXT ROUND!

Phase 1 has 12 rounds, each 2 artists that have been released after Festival dropped. SO LET’S GET STARTED WITH ROUND 1!

THE WEEKND VS BILLIE! Comment your vote, and at 9pm EST tomorrow, I’ll tally them and post the next round here!

Vote counter: (I’ll try to update frequently)

W: 15 and B: 9 (seems like this will be a weeknd landslide lol)

My vote though today is going to…The Weeknd!

I got 6 that I have a story with it, that makes me tend to play those songs more frequently.

1- Beautiful Day by U2. This is a song Ive always heavily associated with Matpat leaving YouTube. Idk why but the lyrics have always led my mind to that, and since he was one of the my favorite creators of all time that I’ve watched since my childhood. Well that’s gonna bump it up

2- Starboy by Weeknd & Daft Punk. The first daft and Weeknd song I’ve ever listened to, and the first time I ever heard it was a Henry Stickmen animation meme. Since that’s like my favorite Indie oat, mix that with introducing me to 2 fantastic artists. Yep a forever memory song right there

3- Rain On Me by Lady Gaga. I don’t like Gaga, never have, this song I make a huge exception for now though. My senior year spring musical was Singing In The Rain and we would sing that song every day during tech week to warm us up. So since that was my last hora with my school’s drama team, it holds a place in my heart lol

4- Take My Breath by Weeknd. The first ever song revealed for Festival and since Festival is the one thing that kept me on Fortnite through Ch5, it always brings nostalgic memories when I hear it.

5- From The Start by Laufey. The ONE SONG I know on guitar. I never heard about Laufey until I had a crush on this girl. Her friend told me she liked big romcom confessions, so I learned that song guitar, and did a rendition of it, she somehow said yes. And we dated for 2 years after that. We broke up like 2 weeks ago, but I cherish the song for that alone lol

6- I’ll Believe In Anything by Wolf Parade. I completely forgot this song existed until today, but this was my mom’s favorite song when I was like 5. She would play it all the time, so when I heard it today HOLY the memories came rushing back

What are some song stories you have?

Bro my mom used to play this song all the time when I was like 5, I completely forgot it even existed until I played it just now lol, but damn did the memories comes flooding back. This is def an instant buy for me

Well Fortnite has done a shit ton of artist collabs, even before Festival. so obviously some have to rise above the others quality wise

so which would you say were the best of the best artist collabs? Mine (no particular order):

- Daft Punk. They put a shit ton of effort into them. Great skins, that fantastic experience with 30+ songs and reference after reference, decent jam track selection (although I wish they did more). If I’m being honest, if these guys were headliners, they would’ve likely went down as one of the best among the community imo

- Metallica. 14 songs, 8 skins, a creative concert, BR island, BR mythic, and a rocket racing map. They really went all in on this collab and you could tell, to bad they didn’t sell very well seemingly. Probably over bet their hand with them and didn’t make back as much as they were expecting. However was still a 10/10 artist collab none the less

- Juice Wrld. Love or hate the Remix season, I think everyone can agree that the Juice Wrld collab was pure bliss. They respected that man to hell and back and it was really sweet seeing his legacy continue in a game that he loved years after his death. Good skins, great concert, and decent number of songs were just the icing on the cake.

Funny story I got about Juice, when I was on a call for the prelude event with my friends, right before it started I said: “they used the Marshmello Juice intro in the teaser. They’re teasing a collab 100%.“ they called me insane. And then we were all screaming like school girls in hype when that trailer ended lol

- Marshmello. I know some will disagree with me when it comes to putting him here. However this one collab really changed everything when it came to how games were perceived in general. The tech they also used for him was revolutionary in 2018 and it was a miracle that it went off without a hitch at all

just for that alone, I think he deserves a spot up their with the best music collabs. He really changed everything for Fortnite, and without him Festival likely wouldn’t have even come out years later

Who would you pick?

If I’m basing it purely off of skin potential, and nothing else like: songs, charting, popularity, etc. I would have 4 main ones.

1- Iron Maiden. A lot of Eddies to do, and they could pull a Miku and even make a Fortnite original one. Just so much to pull from for these guys

2- Ado. I don’t really listen to her a lot, but the designs she gave her persona are just phenomenal. Especially that suit one, would instant cop that

EDIT: I’ve already gotten 2 comments about this and not gonna keep on repeating myself so: yes Eddie and Ado are not “real people”. However these are the personas that the artists choose to present themselves with. If Epic would do a collab with either they would do the persona and not the actual outfits. Therefore the personas themselves act like the outfits in a way. Thank you

3- Gesaffelstein. Now I know probably at least half of you just said “WHO?!” right now. So he’s an older EDM artists that’s starting to come back into the spotlight slowly but surely. His 2024 album was just fantastic at least, would recommend listening to it if you like Daft Punk at all. But he also just has a look, and his suits with the all black mask really stand out imo (and also, before people say I’m saying he should be a headliner. No. I think he would fit way more as a store artist)

4- BBno$. This is probably the artist on this list I know the most. But he does have a wide variety of colorful outfits to pick from, he def would make for good skins

We are now around a year and half from Remix, and I can’t be the only one who thinks that doing the idea but with a different genre would be cool, right? This was a really nice way to get a ton of artist skins, and also promote Festival at the same time

I mean imagine a Ch3 season with rock/metal artists! You could do bands like: Slipknot, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Linkin Park, etc with pretty cool gameplay weapons imo

I mean with the launch of the feature they already have 3 that were in ballistic: the impulse, shield bubble, and medmist grenade. Why not just port over the others as well?

The nitro would at the minimum be a fun one to have in zero build, and it would also add a ton to the pocket item system without requiring much work

from a jazz pop singer as the headliner, to a freaking English gangster rap artist one month later😭

I know Festival is always advertised as a variety rhythm game, but sometimes the genre switches are really jarring lol