An early line-up for the first TRNSMT festival was revealed in January 2017, two months after the announcement that T in the Park (also organised by DF Concerts) would not be staged that year.

[1] The first festival took place over three days in July 2017[2] and the organisers said that 120,000 people attended.

[6] In 2019 the event returned to being three days covering a single weekend, with a daily capacity of 50,000.

In response the festival announced they would have a female-only 'Queen Tut's' stage.

[11] When the first acts were announced for the 2020 festival the head of DF Concerts, Geoff Ellis, defended the lack of female acts announced, saying "we'd love there to be a higher representation of females but there isn't, certainly on the acts we're announcing today, it will be a while until there's a 50/50 balance" and "we need to get more females picking up guitars, forming bands, playing in bands”.