From Ariana Grande to Ice Spice: Ranking all the music artist skins in Fortnite

Fortnite has become a place where all pop culture converges into a melting pot of film, TV, video games, sport stars, content creators and music artists – all running around next to Peely and Jonesy. It’s wild. Where else could you hop into a match with a team consisting of Lady Gaga, a Xenomorph, Peter Griffin and Lebron James? Nowhere. It’s part of the magic. With Fortnite Festival launching at the end of 2023, the music artists in Fortnite have had more skins than ever before – so here’s a ranking of all the Icon series pop stars and rappers and metal head gods as we brace for Ice Spice dropping tomorrow.

Because so many of these artists have multiple skins now, I’ve taken all their skins into account and ranked them as one collective. With that said, here’s my ranking of all the Fortnite skins of music artists.

16. Major Lazer

Major Lazer was originally just a rare skin before the introduction of the Icon Series, but was updated accordingly. The skin dropped ages ago, in 2019 – and doesn’t have any other styles. Never really been one of the more popular ones in this bunch and he gets a bit forgotten about.

15. The Kid Laroi

You know when they add an artist and you have to sit there and think about this is meant to be a place for ICONS. Yeah. Anyway.

14. Billie Eilish

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I was so, so excited for Billie Eilish in Fortnite, and yet both her skins absolutely do her dirty. The green one was doing Brat before Charli was and is the better of the two, but the ugly red basketball jersey one is shocking. Both don’t do it for me. They’re like a younger vibe of Billie that doesn’t match her aesthetic of recent. In fact, doesn’t match her aesthetic for bloody ages.

13. Lady Gaga

These ones of Gaga are okay – the Chromatica themed one clearly being the better of the two. I have to have it low in the ranking though, because of the lost potential when it comes to music artists getting Fortnite skins. If any artist has distinct, iconic outfits begging to be Fortnite skins it’s Gaga. And these do not feel like iconic pics. Should have been the skull face suit look from the Born This Way video.

12. The Weeknd

The Weeknd kicked off Fortnite festival, and honestly I think Epic did a great job with both of these styles and I really love The Weeknd. I just feel like they get overshadowed by the skins ahead and I don’t see many people being that arsed about him.

11. Karol G

This might get me boos but I just love both of these skins so much. I think they’re both gorgeous and I run them constantly.Sorry if this offends!

10. Metallica

Kicking off the top 10 of the Fortnite music artists skins ranking with the metal gods. Not my cup of tea, but I like how you basically have eight skins here and they have a regular version and then the more stylised Puppet Master variant. Fun. Makes me excited for the NewJeans collab next month.

9. Ice Spice

ICE SPICE x FORTNITE SKINS pic.twitter.com/v614PC0I1r

— HYPEX (@HYPEX) November 13, 2024

Her inclusion in Remix has got a lot of hate, but I think these two skins are really cool and look like her. I will be getting both just because I like the aesthetic rather than even liking Ice Spice much. I also think it’s cool and plays in her favour that she’s taken over the Shark on the map and is gonna get a full area.

8. Marshmello

There are five skins of Marshmello there and that’s not even the full lot. Have to get him high up here because of how much Fortnite has gone all out with him. He was one of the first music artists to ever join the game, and is the owner of the game changing first concert in game with his live event. Not my vibe but a huge part of history.

7. J Balvin

Another artist with a load of skins, and all of them are a really cool vibe. Every art style Fortnite has gone with for J Balvin feels correct and aesthetically pleasing. You see the skull variant EVERYWHERE.

6/ 5. Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars

Kind of lumping them together because it’s a Silk Sonic bundle, but wow. Both of these skins each have FOUR styles. If Fortnite dropped these skins today you’d be paying for four skins, and be lucky with two styles. So much value for money here and all of the styles are vibey. They ate with this one.

4. Snoop Dogg

One of the most recent skins to join the lineup, they cooked with Snoop. All his styles are fire, and fun that he got an actual dog head variant. I love that the cell shaded version of him too has a diff era of the man himself, and love that there are Snoop inspired cars and a full POI with his branding. And the Snoop drum gun is a nice touch.

The fact that his boss throws stink bombs definitely implied to be weed too – hilarious detail.

3. Travis Scott

The Travis Scott skins are the stuff of myth – easily the set most Fortnite fans are desperately hoping will one day return to the game and of all the music artists’ skins in this ranking it’s his live event heralded as one of the best of all time. One day guys! I feel it.

2. Ariana Grande

The first ever female music artist in Fortnite, Ariana Grande also got her own live event concert and has a huge amount of skins connected to her in the game now. You’ve got her original, the Rift Goddess style which could have been its own skin, the Spacefarer one and the Alien creature variant which ALSO could have been their own skins. And more recently, the Rosy Rift Goddess shop skin. They went all out.

1. Eminem

Taking top place in my ranking of all the Fortnite skins of music artists – it’s going to Eminem. He’s not even been in game for a year yet, and he has four skins. He also has now a full point of interest named after him, and a minigun that fires out Rap God raid fire bars when you shoot it. Fortnite and Eminem went all out for their collaboration – he has his name Hollywood sign style on a mountain right now! You can’t top that I fear.