Tomorrowland (festival)

Tomorrowland is one of the largest electronic dance music festivals of the world. It is organized by ID&T, entertainment and media enterprise.^[1] Tomorrowland occurs in the town of Boom close to Antwerp in Belgium and has been organised since 2005. The first names that showed up were Push (M.I.K.E.), Armin Van Buuren, Cor Fijneman, Yves Deruyter, Technoboy and Coone.^{[citation needed]}

The latest event was the eighth edition of the festival which was held between July 27 and 29, 2012, including Afrojack, Above & Beyond, Basto, Carl Cox, Ferry Corsten, Sander van Doorn, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Fatboy Slim, Hardwell, Nicky Romero, Laidback Luke, David Guetta and Steve Aoki.

2005

The first edition of the festival took place in 2005 on Saturday, August 14. Some big names were: Push (M.I.K.E.), Armin Van Buuren, Cor Fijneman, Yves Deruyter, Technoboy, Coone.

2006

On Sunday, July 30, 2006 was the second edition. The famous names were: Armin Van Buuren, David Guetta, Fred Baker, Zany, Ruthless, Marco Bailey. The DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold was also announced on the poster, but canceled at the last moment, he was on tour with Madonna at the time.

2007

On the third edition in 2007, for the first time the festival filled two days. It continued on Saturday 28 and Sunday, July 29.

2008

In 2008 the festival took place on Saturday 26 and Sunday, July 27. For the first time more than 100 DJs participated. The number of visitors exceeded 50,000 for the first time.

2009

For the fifth edition ID&T led to even more venues, one ski, and much more. Sun has included an "I love the 90's" stage, where famous names (Push, Natural Born Deejays, SASH, ...) from the dance scene were present. La Rocca was there for the first time. The special act on the main stage was Moby. Tomorrowland 2009 took place on Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26 and attracted 80,000 people.

2010

Tomorrowland sold out days before the event. This edition was again good for a new record, 120,000 visitors over two days.

2011

2011 marked the year of the expansion of the festival to three days. Only a few days after the official presale of tickets kicked off, Tomorrowland was completely sold out and had over 180,000 visitors. David Guetta, Nervo, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Tiësto, 2ManyDJ's, Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, Tensnake, Laidback Luke, Brodinski, De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig and dozens of others were performing. It was voted as the best festival of its kind in the world at the International Dance Music Awards in 2012.

2012

The 2012 edition took place on Friday, July 27, Saturday, July 28 and Sunday, July 29. The line-up consisted of 400 DJs, such as Skrillex, Avicii, Skazi, David Guetta, Nervo, Hardwell, Swedish House Mafia,Afrojack, Steve Aoki, Carl Cox, The Bloody Beetroots, Paul van Dyk, Martin Solveig, Chuckie (DJ), Fatboy Slim and Pendulum playing on 15 stages per day. Because of the enormous success of Tomorrowland and the fact that it is a Belgian festival, ID&T decided to give Belgians an exclusive chance with a presale (80,000 of the 180,000 tickets) on Saturday, March 24. In less than one day, all of the tickets sold out and at some moments there were 2,000,000 people on the online waiting list. The worldwide sale started Saturday, April 7 at 11am. Within less than 2 hours, the other 100,000 tickets sold out. The event became the most international one as yet, attracting over 75 nationalities. More than 35,000 people used the camping option at the so called "Dreamville". Other highlights of the festival were the 'Cloud Rider', the highest mobile ferris wheel in Europe, and the fact that 25 air-flights were organised to bring spectators to the festival.