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Moby poses beside a frosted glass wall wearing black glasses and a gray T-shirt.

Current conditions

#98 Moby

Wildcard • 10°TEMPERATURE

Moby grade out well because of active cycle, agency relationship, fresh booking opportunity. There are no major penalty conditions dragging the profile down at the moment.

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Genre Fit

1/3

Agency

UTA

Last Shaky

Never

Festival Fronts

0

Booking outlook

A broad alternative legacy name that would be weird, but weird in a compelling way.

Artist Bio

Moby is associated with New York, New York and emerged from the city’s punk and dance underground in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The project is known for electronic music spanning rave, ambient, techno, rock, and downtempo. Play became a global breakthrough in 1999 with songs including “Porcelain” and “Natural Blues,” while his later work has continued to move among multiple electronic and live-band formats. That combination of a distinctive catalog, recognizable musical identity, and established live presence is why Moby remains relevant in conversations about major alternative and festival bookings.

Signal report

Why This Forecast Works

Not a conventional pick, but the alternative legacy angle is interesting enough to watch.

  • High-variance wildcard
  • Research Batch 11 (PARTIAL): Management and label resolved; active 2026 campaign strengthened.
  • Research Batch 11 remaining fields: image_credit.

Forecast factors

Pressure Breakdown

This is the weighted case behind the ranking. It explains where the Forecast Index comes from without pretending the number is a literal probability.

  • Agency relationship+3

    UTA has a meaningful recent Shaky/C3 footprint.

  • Active Cycle+4

    Correlated activity evidence is bundled with diminishing returns: release (3), festival (1).

  • Shaky genre fit+1

    A broad alternative legacy name that would be weird, but weird in a compelling way.

  • Fresh booking opportunity+2

    Never playing Shaky keeps the booking fresh without losing genre fit.

Forecast Index: 10

Routing map

Festival Fronts

  • No festival fronts are currently on the desk.

Release climate

Music Weather

Album

Future Quiet

Status

2026 Album

Release

Feb 20, 2026

2027 Touring

No confirmed 2027 North American tour is currently on the desk

Moby released Future Quiet on February 20, 2026 through BMG, which gives the forecast desk a real but modest new-music condition.

Forecast Impact

+1 release-climate points

Moby carry verified new-music momentum, which helps explain why the forecast keeps them active in the 2027 booking conversation.

BMG release note for Moby's Future Quiet
  • No tour conditions are currently on the desk.

Historical conditions

Shaky History

Never playedShaky Knees

Receipts

Sources

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