Pinkpop Festival

Pinkpop is an annual music festival held in Landgraaf, Netherlands. It is currently the longest-running continuous annual pop music festival in the world. It is usually held on the Pentecost weekend ("Pinksteren" in Dutch, hence the name). If Pentecost falls on an early date in May, the festival is held later in June. The festival began in 1970 and has been held at Megaland, a 27-hectare site, since 1988.

The festival started in 1970 at Burgemeester Damen Sportpark in Geleen. It has been a three-day festival since 1996, with a capacity of 60,000 people per day and performances on four separate stages. From 2006 through 2011, Pinkpop sold out six years in a row. During 44 editions, more than two million people have attended Pinkpop. Some 700 music acts have played at the festival.

The Guinness World Records book names Pinkpop as the longest-running continuous annual pop music festival. The Reading Festival, first held in 1961, holds the record for being the oldest annual pop festival, but as its 1984–85 editions were cancelled by a local council ban, Pinkpop maintains the longest consecutive record.