How to watch Lollapalooza 2026 live on Hulu and Disney+, with the full schedule, lineup, and streaming details
Lollapalooza returns to Chicago’s Grant Park this weekend, and for the first time in the festival’s streaming history, you can watch it live on two platforms at once. The 2026 edition runs Thursday, July 30, through Sunday, August 2, bringing more than 170 artists across eight stages, and Hulu and Disney+ will co-simulcast select sets all four days. For anyone who missed out on tickets, or simply prefers a couch to a crowd of 100,000, the barrier to entry has never been lower.
The headliners alone justify the login. Lorde and John Summit anchor Thursday, Charli XCX and The Smashing Pumpkins take Friday, Olivia Dean and JENNIE lead Saturday, and Tate McRae and The xx close things out Sunday. Around them sits a lineup that refuses to sit still stylistically, spanning pop, rock, hip-hop, EDM, K-pop, and indie, with Turnstile, Lil Uzi Vert, Ethel Cain, Clipse, Wet Leg, aespa, MUNA, beabadoobee, and Major Lazer all in the mix.
How and When to Watch
The logistics are refreshingly simple. The Lollapalooza livestream is available on Hulu (US only) and Disney+ (US and select international markets), and no Hulu + Live TV subscription is required. A standard Hulu, Disney+, or bundled subscription gets you in. Coverage began Thursday afternoon, and on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the broadcast starts at 3:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. CT), running through the end of each night’s headline set across two channels. One important caveat: the streams are live-only, with no replay or on-demand access once a day wraps, so plan around the sets you actually care about.
Friday’s stream is stacked. Beyond Charli XCX and The Smashing Pumpkins, the day’s broadcast includes Major Lazer, Mustard, SIDEPIECE, Lil Uzi Vert, YUNGBLUD, and Suki Waterhouse. Saturday brings JENNIE, Geese, Ethel Cain, The Neighbourhood, Clipse, Leon Thomas, Khamari, Wolf Alice, and CORTIS. Sunday’s closing run pairs Tate McRae, Turnstile, The Chainsmokers, and The xx with aespa, beabadoobee, JADE, MUNA, and YOASOBI. Set times are subject to change, so the official Lollapalooza app remains the safest source of truth.
A Streaming Milestone Hiding in Plain Sight
What makes this year different is happening behind the scenes. This is the first time Hulu and Disney+ have jointly livestreamed Lollapalooza, part of a broader push after Disney acquired full control of Hulu from Comcast in 2025 and began preparing a unified Disney+/Hulu app for a late-2026 rollout. The two platforms already ran Bonnaroo together in June, but a multi-stage outdoor festival at global scale is a far heavier technical lift, arguably more demanding than most live sports given the number of simultaneous feeds and the length of the broadcast window. In that sense, Lollapalooza doubles as a stress test for the future of Disney’s live-streaming ambitions.
If you are heading to Grant Park in person, the festival has expanded its footprint too. New this year is a free Ferris wheel courtesy of Motorola, alongside the usual sprawl of brand activations like Ulta Beauty’s Beat Suite and the Coca-Cola Roller Ring. As always, “free” tends to translate to long lines, but there is downtime to fill between sets.
The cultural timing is hard to ignore. Lollapalooza has spent recent years cementing Grant Park as its permanent home, and the shift to a two-platform global stream reflects how festival culture and streaming economics have fully fused. Whether you are watching Charli XCX from the field or from your living room, the 2026 edition is built to reach you either way. Check the official Lollapalooza website and app for the most current set times before you tune in.
