The Digital Dance Music Awards (EDMAs) are returning to Miami with a twist, becoming a member of forces with the resurgent Worldwide Dance Music Awards (IDMAs) to host an “elite experience for music industry professionals and fans” in 2025.
Touted because the longest-running awards ceremony devoted to the digital music trade, the IDMAs have lengthy been a focus of Miami’s Winter Music Convention. They’re now returning alongside the beloved summit for the primary time in 5 years after an indefinite hiatus precipitated by the affect of COVID-19.
The EDMAs and IDMAs are set to affix forces March 28, 2025 on the Eden Roc Lodge in Miami Seaside, in line with a press launch shared with EDM.com. What precisely the collaboration entails stays to be seen, however digital music fanatics can anticipate a lavish, star-studded occasion in celebration of WMC’s thirty fifth anniversary.
“The EDMAs have always been about celebrating the fans’ choice, and the energy of the electronic music community,” mentioned iHeartRadio’s Sean “Hollywood” Hamilton, Government Producer of the EDMAs. “By collaborating with the IDMAs, we are bringing a new dimension to the awards, one that now honors the behind-the-scenes talent that shapes the industry.”
Pushed by a fan-based voting system, the MTV-style EDMA ceremony dishes out distinctive trophies as mementos, which resemble DJ decks and have a useful jog-wheel. Final 12 months’s winners included Martin Garrix, David Guetta, HAYLA, Kx5 (deadmau5 and Kaskade), Armin van Buuren and FISHER, amongst different dance music luminaries. Mark Knight, the influential founding father of Toolroom Data, gained the EDMA Icon Award.
The return of the Winter Music Convention is scheduled for March 26-28, 2025. You will discover out extra concerning the EDMAs right here.
