Tomorrowland (festival)

This article is about the annual electronic dance music festival in Belgium. For other uses, see Tomorrowland.

Tomorrowland
Main stage 2016
GenreElectronic, pop, hip hop, dance, EDM
DatesFinal two weekends of July[1]
Location(s)De Schorre
(Boom, Antwerp, Belgium)
Coordinates51°05′32″N 04°23′08″E / 51.09222°N 4.38556°E / 51.09222; 4.38556
Years active2005–2019, 2022–present
FoundersManu Beers and Michiel Beers
Attendance450,000[2]
Capacity70,000[3]
Organised byWe Are One World
Websitetomorrowland.com
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Tomorrowland is a large-scale annual electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Antwerp, Belgium. Taking place within De Schorre provincial recreational park, it debuted in 2005, from an idea conceived by brothers Manu and Michiel Beers.[4] Since then, Tomorrowland has become one of the best known music festivals in the world. It has won numerous accolades and awards, including being voted five times in a row as "best musical event of the year" at the International Dance Music Awards. It employs 80 people year-round for the organisation and 15,000 people during the event.[5]

Tomorrowland's success has led to the creation of spin-off festivals. From 2013 to 2015, the concept was briefly exported to the United States, near Atlanta, under the name TomorrowWorld.[6][7] In 2015, a festival known as Tomorrowland Brasil was started in a third country, Brazil. Since 2019, the festival has set up a winter edition, Tomorrowland Winter, in the heart of the Olympic resort of Alpe d'Huez, France.[8]

  1. ^ "Tomorrowland 2023 Lineup Announced: More Than 600 Acts Performing Over Two Weekends". Billboard. 28 January 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  2. ^ "These Tomorrowland 2018 Numbers Will Blow You Away". 16 July 2018. Archived from the original on 15 November 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  3. ^ "A Look Inside Tomorrowland: 'It's Beyond a Festival'". www.pollstar.com. 18 July 2018. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  4. ^ Boyle, Robyn (21 October 2013). "TomorrowWorld: Belgium successfully exports its hit dance music festival to the US". The Bulletin. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
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