Digital dance music claimed the lion’s share of Coachella‘s 2025 music programming, in accordance with new knowledge evaluation from ROSTR.
Revealed by Boardroom, the media firm co-founded by NBA celebrity Kevin Durant and enterprise accomplice Wealthy Kleiman, the findings revealed that dance and digital artists comprised a commanding 39% of the whole lineup for this 12 months’s version of the legendary California pageant. That determine is sort of double the following most-represented style grouping, 21% for indie, rock and different acts.
Zedd, Sara Landry, Above & Past, The Prodigy and EDM.com Class of 2025 stars Beltran and Layton Giordani solely scratched the floor of Coachella’s huge 2025 digital music billing. This important presence marks a notable pivot within the expertise reserving technique of the pageant’s organizer, Goldenvoice, which traditionally trended towards pop and rock music.
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EDM lovers may learn the tea leaves in 2024 after Goldenvoice launched the groundbreaking Quasar stage, which now locks horns with longtime Coachella favourite Do LaB in an Empire Polo Membership turf conflict over which is the pageant’s high raving hub.
Whereas almost 4 in 10 acts booked for the 2025 pageant represented digital dance music, none have been headliners, with that distinction going to Girl Gaga, Inexperienced Day, Put up Malone and Travis Scott. Nonetheless, Gaga’s lone onstage visitor was the French digital music icon Gesaffelstein.
Previous to 2023’s shock last-minute headlining set by Skrillex, Fred once more.. and 4 Tet, Goldenvoice counted solely Calvin Harris and Swedish Home Mafia as Coachella’s solely different DJ headliners within the final decade. However that will quickly change.
CAA’s Alex Becket, who turned the powerhouse company’s first digital music agent over a decade in the past, prophesied the style’s swelling affect in main festivals previous to final 12 months’s Coachella.
“Festivals want big shows and big moments so it factors in a lot for them,” Becket instructed EDM.com on the time. “Big production was an essential part of the “EDM” boom in the early 2010s and has always been a big part of the EDM experience. ‘Underground’ shows with no production emerged in response to that, and now you’re seeing the pendulum swing back the other way in many cases with underground artists building big shows. In this way we’re seeing big productions with better music and it’s a winning combo.”
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Elsewhere in ROSTR’s Coachella 2025 lineup evaluation was a 4% enhance in indie, rock and different acts in comparison with earlier iterations, with famed outfits like Inexperienced Day and The Misfits showing alongside up to date stars similar to Sam Fender, Nonetheless Woozy and beabadoobee.
Hip-hop and rap additionally noticed modest progress with a 2% enhance from final 12 months, sustaining substantial illustration throughout all three days of the pageant with Travis Scott, Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, Mustard, T-Ache, Ty Dolla $ign and extra holding down the fort.
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