Fortnite Festival Year One Recap—3.6 Billion Jam Loops, 236 Artists Featured

Epic Games is celebrating the first year of Fortnite Festival, which launched December 2023. This game mode is a non-competitive rhythm game mode integrated into Fortnite—similar to Guitar Hero or Rock Band.

Players can choose from a variety of popular and original tracks on the Main Stage with four playable parts including vocals, lead guitar, bass, and drums. The mode can be played solo or with up to three friends or random online players. The Jam Stage is a low-stakes musical sandbox where players can mix and match different song tracks, creating remixes and layering different tracks together.

Epic Games offered players 280 Jam Tracks in its first year, ranging from heavy metal slammers to pop ballads to hip-hop anthems. Players this year hit more than one trillion notes on tracks from 236 artists and jammed with 3.6 billion Jam Loops, keeping the audience on their feet.

To celebrate the first year of Fortnite Festival, every jam track is now available in the Epic Games shop. They’ve all been added to the featured rotation playlist for free play on the Main Stage and Battle Stage during this All Access weekend which runs from December 12 at 7PM ET until December 15 7 PM ET.

The store also includes new Platinum Icon bundles for four Festival Icons featured this year—The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and Karol G. There’s also a new Metallica Jam Bundle in the shop with four iconic Metallica songs waiting to be played. Each of these celebration bundles will be available in the shop until December 19.

Meanwhile, new Jam Tracks added to the shop include:

• Billie Eilish — “Birds of a Feather”
• Lady Gaga — “Disease”
• Metallica — “One”
• The Weeknd — “Dancing in the Flames”

Fortnite is also making jam tracks available in the lobby while waiting for games, so players can jam with up to three friends on any tracks they own. This new feature will work in every Fortnite Lobby with the exception of Fall Guys experiences.