EDM artists now comprise 18% of lineups throughout the highest 100 festivals worldwide, based on the 2025 IMS Business Report, the annual examine of the digital music business by MIDiA Analysis.
That determine marks a gentle upward trajectory with a two-point improve since 2023 and a five-point bump since 2021. Almost 10% of the highest 100 festivals are actually solely devoted to digital music, per the report, a testomony to its sturdy market demand and constant fanbase.
EDM.com final week reported that dance and digital artists took the lion’s share of this yr’s Coachella lineup, underscoring the style’s ascendent cultural footprint and industrial viability. It commanded 39% of the legendary competition’s 2025 billing, practically doubling the competition’s subsequent most-represented style grouping: 21% for indie, rock and different acts.
EDM can also be erupting off the stage. In 2024, TikTok movies tagged with #ElectronicMusic globally garnered over 13 billion views, a forty five% improve from the yr prior, far eclipsing content material with indie and different music tags.
Elsewhere within the 2025 IMS Business Report, the digital music business grew 6% year-over-year in 2024, reaching a worldwide valuation of $12.9 billion. Mark Mulligan, MIDiA Analysis’s Managing Director, credit an increase in genres like Afro home and drum & bass in addition to main developments in fan engagement, amongst different catalysts.
“Global music industry revenue grew again in 2024, though at a slower rate than in 2023 due to maturing streaming revenues and the post-Covid live resurgence lessening,” Mulligan stated, “Electronic music however, continued to increase its share of both revenues and culture… electronic music finds itself at the start of a brave new era of culture resonance.”
You’ll be able to obtain the total 2025 IMS Business Report right here.
