Tomorrowland Festival

Tomorrowland Festival

Tomorrowland festival is the world's largest electronic dance music festival which is held in Boom, Antwerp, Belgium every year in the final weekends of July. This festival has so much craze among people of a different country that the tickets get sold out within minutes of its release.

History

Tomorrowland festival was started by 2 brothers, namely Manu and Michiel Beers. They dreamed of giving a magical and blissful experience to the concert goers and that’s how it all started. Tomorrowland festival history dates back to 2005, the year when it began.

The 1st edition of the festival took place in the year 2005, and since it was their debut show the organizers distributed free tickets to fill the ground and the attendance rate was 10,000 people. Though this festival was started as a 1-day festival, over the years, the duration has prolonged to 2 weekends.

The first edition featured the DJ's Armin van Buuren, Justice, Mike Dierickx, Erol Alkan, Sasha and Sven Väth. In the third edition, only the festival was extended from 1day to 2days.

In 2011, Tomorrowland festival was again expanded to 3days and so many celebrity singers like Avicii, David Guetta, Carl Cox, Swedish House Mafia, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Nervo, Hardwell, Laidback Luke, Paul van Dyk, Tiësto and many more featured in it. This edition's tickets were also sold out within a few days and it attracted a large crowd of about 180,000.

In 2012, when the tickets for this festival were released, the server crashed, as too many people were trying to buy the tickets at the same time.

Since this Belgian festival was a major success, the organizers decided to give the Belgians exclusive pre-sale access to the festival tickets (about 80,000 tickets out of 1,80,000). And as usual, the tickets got sold out within one day.

Since 2017, more than 400000 people are attending this festival. They started with 10,000 people in the first event to 400000 people in 2019 which shows how amazing this show is.

Some amazing facts about this festival are

The festival organizers rent a place in Boom, Belgium from 20 local farmers to set up the festival grounds.

Every year, this festival has a unique theme and gives a magical experience for the fans.

Drugs are extremely restricted in this festival and all the fans undergo a complete check.

One of the best things about this Tomorrowland festival is that it has received the "Best Music event" at the International Dance Music Awards, continuously for a period of 5 years. It also has won the inaugural award from DJ Mag for the "World's No.1 festival."

At present, Tomorrowland has 26 official partners who work together to promote this festival worldwide. Since 2011, the festival events, videos and updates are posted on Youtube.

This festival also has a great fan following in social media, where Youtube has 9.1 million subscribers and over 6.3 million followers on Instagram and 2.4 million followers on Twitter.

This festival has bought great revenue for Belgium. In 2016 and 2017, this festival’s revenue was about 100 million and it seems during 2017, the event organisers employed around 12,000 people during the festival.

Take a look at how the days were extended from the first event till now.

2005-2006: One Day

2007-2010: Two Days

2011-2013: Three Days

2014: Six Days, Two Weekends (10th Anniversary Edition)

2015-2016: Three Days

2017: Six Days, Two Weekends

Wrapping Up

This festival is one of the best-known and most-loved music festivals on the planet. So if you are a music freak, then it is a must that you should attend this festival at least once in your lifetime. We hope you find this article interesting and comment on your experience if you have been to Tomorrowland festival in the comment section below.

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