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 line with new information evaluation from ROSTR.

Revealed by Boardroom, the media firm co-founded by NBA celebrity Kevin Durant and enterprise associate Wealthy Kleiman, the findings revealed that dance and digital artists comprised a commanding 39% of the overall lineup for this 12 months’s version of the legendary California competition. 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 huge 2025 digital music billing. This important presence marks a notable pivot within the expertise reserving technique of the competition’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 conflict over which is the competition’s prime raving hub.

Whereas almost 4 in 10 acts booked for the 2025 competition represented digital dance music, none had been headliners, with that distinction going to Woman Gaga, Inexperienced Day, Submit 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 grew to become 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 rather a lot for them,” Becket advised EDM.com on the time. “Massive manufacturing was an important a part of the “EDM” growth within the early 2010s and has at all times been an enormous 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 circumstances 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 modern stars akin 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 competition with Travis Scott, Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, Mustard, T-Ache, Ty Dolla $ign and extra holding down the fort.