EDM Reshapes Coachella as Style Claims Lion's Share of 2025 Lineup Slots

Digital dance music claimed the lion’s share of Coachella‘s 2025 music programming, in keeping with new knowledge evaluation from ROSTR.

Revealed by Boardroom, the media firm co-founded by NBA celebrity Kevin Durant and enterprise companion Wealthy Kleiman, the findings revealed that dance and digital artists comprised a commanding 39% of the full 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 various 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 large 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.

EDM fanatics might 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 struggle over which is the pageant’s high raving hub.

Whereas practically 4 in 10 acts booked for the 2025 pageant represented digital dance music, none had been headliners, with that distinction going to Girl Gaga, Inexperienced Day, Publish Malone and Travis Scott. Nevertheless, 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 which 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 need huge reveals and massive moments so it elements in so much for them,” Becket instructed EDM.com on the time. “Huge manufacturing was a necessary a part of the “EDM” increase within the early 2010s and has all the time been a giant a part of the EDM expertise. ‘Underground’ reveals with no manufacturing emerged in response to that, and now you are seeing the pendulum swing again the opposite means in lots of instances with underground artists constructing huge reveals. On this means we’re seeing huge productions with higher music and it is a successful combo.”

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Elsewhere in ROSTR’s Coachella 2025 lineup evaluation was a 4% improve in indie, rock and various acts in comparison with earlier iterations, with famed outfits like Inexperienced Day and The Misfits showing alongside up to date stars equivalent to Sam Fender, Nonetheless Woozy and beabadoobee.

Hip-hop and rap additionally noticed modest development with a 2% improve 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.