EDM artists now comprise 18% of lineups throughout the highest 100 festivals worldwide, based on the 2025 IMS Enterprise Report, the annual examine of the digital music trade by MIDiA Analysis.
That determine marks a gradual upward trajectory with a two-point enhance since 2023 and a five-point bump since 2021. Practically 10% of the highest 100 festivals at the moment are completely devoted to digital music, per the report, a testomony to its strong market demand and dependable fanbase.
EDM.com final week reported that dance and digital artists took the lion’s share of this year’s Coachella lineup, underscoring the style’s ascendent cultural footprint and business viability. It commanded 39% of the legendary pageant’s 2025 billing, practically doubling the pageant’s subsequent most-represented style grouping: 21% for indie, rock and different acts.
EDM can be erupting off the stage. In 2024, TikTok movies tagged with #ElectronicMusic globally garnered over 13 billion views, a forty five% enhance from the yr prior, far eclipsing content material with indie and different music tags.
Elsewhere within the 2025 IMS Enterprise Report, the digital music trade grew 6% year-over-year in 2024, reaching a world 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.
“World music trade income grew once more in 2024, although at a slower fee than in 2023 as a result of maturing streaming revenues and the post-Covid dwell resurgence lessening,” Mulligan stated, “Digital music nonetheless, continued to extend its share of each revenues and tradition… digital music finds itself at first of a courageous new period of tradition resonance.”
You possibly can obtain the complete 2025 IMS Enterprise Report here.
