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

Digital dance music claimed the lion’s share of Coachella’s 2025 music programming, based on 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 full lineup for this 12 months’s version of the legendary California pageant. That determine is almost 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 vital 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 Reshapes Coachella as Genre Claims Lion's Share of 2025 Lineup Slots — Boardroom

EDM fans 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 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 exhibits and large moments so it elements in rather a lot for them,” Becket advised EDM.com on the time. “Massive manufacturing was a vital a part of the “EDM” increase within the early 2010s and has all the time been an enormous a part of the EDM expertise. ‘Underground’ exhibits 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 exhibits. 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% enhance in indie, rock and different acts in comparison with earlier iterations, with famed outfits like Inexperienced Day and The Misfits showing alongside modern stars resembling Sam Fender, Nonetheless Woozy and beabadoobee.

Hip-hop and rap additionally noticed modest development 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.