The Collaby Awards: The 10 Best Fortnite Collaborations of All Time, Ranked

Fortnite has done more collaborations than any other game, and they are not all equal. Some were a skin in the Item Shop. A few changed what a game could be.

This is the CollabyConnect ranking of the ten that mattered most, scored with the Collaby Score and handed out as the first Collaby Awards. We chose all time over 2026 because the best crossovers are the ones still talked about years later, then added a 2026 award at the end so this year's biggest collaboration gets its due.

Collaby Score

Every collaboration is scored out of 10 on four pillars, and the Collaby Score is the average.

Reach measures how many people played or watched. Fan Love measures how strongly the community responded. Cultural Impact asks whether the collaboration changed Fortnite or the wider culture around it. Depth asks whether it was more than a skin, meaning gameplay, events and world-building.

Reach uses published player figures wherever they exist. Impact and Depth are editorial judgement, and we say so up front because every ranked list is an argument.

1. Travis Scott: Astronomical

• Collaby Score 9.5

Astronomical was not a livestreamed concert. It was a surreal in-game spectacle that ran five times across April 23 to 25, 2020, each show just under ten minutes long, and it debuted a new song. Epic reported more than 12.3 million concurrent players for the opening show, beating the 10.7 million Marshmello drew the year before, plus 27.7 million unique players and 45.8 million total participations across the run. Brief, enormous and endlessly copied, it set the template every in-game concert has followed since.

2. Marvel

•  Collaby Score 9.4

Marvel has been Fortnite's backbone since the Nexus War season of 2020, and it keeps coming back: a full crossover season in Chapter 5 and new skins in Chapter 6. Most ranked lists put it first for one reason, which is consistency. It is the only collaboration that has felt like part of the game rather than a visit to it. Astronomical is bigger on any single night. Marvel is bigger across the years.

3. Dragon Ball

• Collaby Score 9.1

Dragon Ball Power Unleashed treated the whole island as an episode of the show. Players could power up to Super Saiyan and fire Kamehameha attacks, and the event brought Goku, Vegeta, Bulma and Beerus along with themed quests and in-game screenings of episodes. The announcement reportedly overtook Naruto as the most-liked post Fortnite had ever made, which earns it the top Fan Love score in the table. The franchise has returned several times since, proof that the audience never tired of it.

4. Star Wars 

• Collaby Score 9.0

Star Wars is the franchise Fortnite keeps coming back to. It began with a Rise of Skywalker event in December 2019 with director J.J. Abrams involved, added lightsabers to the battle royale, and grew into a month-long Galactic Battle mini-season in 2025 with a Battle Pass full of characters and a second Star Wars LEGO Fortnite pass. In May 2026 the Clone Wars era arrived with a new set of cosmetics. It is the rare collaboration that has stayed fresh by following the franchise's own release calendar.

5. Ariana Grande: Rift Tour 

• Collaby Score 8.9

The Rift Tour was Fortnite's answer to whether an in-game show could be a tour. Ariana Grande performed it five times across August 6 to 8, 2021, with minigames woven through the music and an Icon Series skin to go with it. The audience was estimated at 78 million players across the run, one of the biggest totals ever attached to a Fortnite event. It sits below Astronomical on impact only because Astronomical had to invent the format first.

6. LEGO Fortnite 

• Collaby Score 8.8

LEGO Fortnite changed what the platform was. Launched alongside Chapter 5 Season 1 in December 2023, it was a full survival and crafting mode rather than a skin pack, and Epic made it one of the three pillars of the new Fortnite front page alongside Rocket Racing and Festival. A collaboration that created a standalone game inside the game earns its high Depth score.

7. The Simpsons 

• Collaby Score 8.6

Fortnite built an entire mini-season around Springfield in late 2025, with a Battle Pass full of Simpsons skins and a trail of easter eggs across the island. It was described as one of the most lovingly recreated collaborations the game has seen. Its Cultural Impact score is held back by its short run, but few crossovers have felt so affectionately made.

8. Eminem: The Big Bang 

• Collaby Score 8.3

The Big Bang was a chapter reset, and Eminem's appearance on December 2, 2023 gave it star power. The event closed one era of Fortnite and opened another built around LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing and Festival. It is less a concert than a handover, which is why its Depth score trails the other music entries.

9. Marshmello 

• Collaby Score 8.0

Marshmello was first. In February 2019 the DJ performed a live in-game show that drew 10.7 million concurrent players, a record at the time, and launched a skin and the Marsh Walk emote. It was a single live performance, which is why it scores lower on Depth, but without it there is no Astronomical, no Rift Tour and no Big Bang. Pioneers rarely score highest, and they rarely stop mattering.

10. Naruto 

• Collaby Score 7.9

Naruto showed that anime fans would turn out in huge numbers. Its announcement reportedly produced the most-liked post Fortnite had ever made at the time, a record Dragon Ball later broke, and the franchise has since returned for a second collaboration. It sits tenth because its depth never matched what followed, but its role as an anime door-opener is real.

The Collaby Awards

1. Collab of All Time - Travis Scott: Astronomical -  Highest verified peak audience and the template for every in-game concert since
2. Longevity Award - Marvel - The most consistent crossover since 2020
3. Fan Favourite - Dragon Ball - Reportedly the most-liked Fortnite announcement of its time
4. Biggest Total Audience - Ariana Grande: Rift Tour - An estimated 78 million players across the run
5. Best Gameplay Innovation - LEGO Fortnite - A full mode, not a skin pack
6. Best TV Crossover - The Simpsons - A mini-season built with obvious affection
7. Pioneer Award - Marshmello - First mass in-game concert, 10.7 million concurrent players
8. 2026 Collab of the Year - One Piece - A new island, a Battle Pass and a matching Rocket League event

2026 Collab of the Year (So Far): One Piece

The year has had plenty of crossovers, including Star Wars: The Clone Wars in May, South Park, Honkai: Star Rail and Ben 10. The one on top so far is One Piece. It arrived on November 1 with the Treasure Hunters mini-season, a new Crossbones Isle map featuring Arlong Park and Windmill Village, a Battle Pass led by Ace and Nico Robin, and Luffy, Nami and Usopp in the Item Shop. Fortnite's announcement post had passed 189K likes on Instagram 14 hours after it went up, a strong signal of fan love.

What lifts it above the rest is how it spread across Epic's portfolio, with a matching event in Rocket League on the same day. We give it a provisional Collaby Score of 8.8 (Reach 8, Fan Love 9.5, Impact 8, Depth 9.5) and will revisit it when the season ends.

Rankings are meant to start arguments, and this one is no exception. If you think Marvel should be first or that a collaboration is missing, the scoring method is there to be challenged. What every entry here shares is a collaboration that gave players something to do, not just something to wear. That is the standard the next one will be measured against.

Ten collaborations are ranked, each with a Collaby Score out of 10 built from four pillars: Reach, Fan Love, Cultural Impact and Depth.

Travis Scott's Astronomical (2020) takes the top spot with a Collaby Score of 9.5, backed by a verified peak of 12.3 million concurrent players and 27.7 million unique players.

Marvel is the runner-up at 9.4 and wins the Longevity Award as the most consistent collaboration in the game's history.

The 2026 Collab of the Year (so far) goes to One Piece, which arrived on November 1 with a provisional Collaby Score of 8.8.

Reach figures come from player counts published by Epic Games and press coverage. Impact and Depth are CollabyConnect editorial scores