History

Surrounded by a fairy tale decoration, the Tomorrowland festival offers a variety of sub-genres within the electronic music scene. Since 2005, the festival has been held every summer in Boom, Belgium and has hosted performances from international DJs, including Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Ferry Corsten, Bob Sinclar In 2006, there were nine different areas to listen to live performances.

The first edition of the festival took place in 2005 on August 14. Performers included Push (M.I.K.E.), Armin van Buuren, Cor Fijneman, Yves Deruyter

The second festival, on July 30, 2006, hosted Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Fred Baker, DJ Zany, Ruthless, skrillex ,and Marco Bailey. The DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold was also announced on the poster, but canceled at the last moment, as he was on tour with Madonna at the time.
The third year, the festival lasted two days for the first time in its history, taking place on July 28 and 29, 2007.

 For the fifth event, ID&T led to even more venues, one ski, and much more. It has included an "I Love the 90's" stage, where musicians such as Push, Natural Born Deejays and SASH from the dance scene were present. La Rocca performed live at the event for the first time. The special act on the main stage was Moby. Tomorrowland 2009 took place on July 25 and 26 and attracted 80,000 people.

Tomorrowland sold out days before the event, with a record attendance of 120,000 visitors over two days.

2011 marked the festival's expansion to three days. Only a few days after the official pre-sale 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 performed. It was voted the best festival of its kind in the world at the International Dance Music Awards in 2012.

Tomorrowland 2012 took place between from July 27–29, 2012, where the same number of DJ's came up, plus Dimitri Vegas, Steve Aoki and Pendulum, playing in fifteen different stages.

180,000 people from over 75 countries around the world were in attendance, with 35,000 of them staying in Dreamville. 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 pre-sale (80,000 of the 180,000 tickets) on 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 April 7. Within 43 minutes, the other 100,000 tickets sold out.

 

-Yesterday is History, Today is a Gift, Tomorrow is Mystery -

Tomorrowland is one of the largest electronic dance music festivals in the world. It is organized by ID&T, Entertainment and Media Enterprise. Tomorrowland occurs in the town of Boom, close to Antwerp, in Belgium, and has been organized since 2005. The first edition of Tomorrowland, which took place in 2005, on August 14, consisted of some big name performers; such as, Push (M.I.K.E.), Armin Van Buuren, Cor Fijneman, Yves Deruyter, Technoboy and Coone.

The electronic dance music, well known as dance music, is getting more and more listeners, produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered in dance-based entertainment.
The music is largely created for use by disc jockeys and is produced with the intention of it being heard in the context of a continuous DJ.

This Festival, is known for its massive number of audience, featuring a cast of 180.000 festival-goers from over 75 countries around the world, and an all-satr team of DJ's including Avicci, David Guetta, Afrojack, Sweadish House Mafia, Skrillex, Dimitri Vegas, etc.

All the tickets are usually sold out in the first week of its sale, by hosting a numerous number of people between 18-35 years old. Everyone is welcomed to that event, but if you don't like that kind of music, better stay at home.Three days with non-stop of music and dance, sorrounded by people with the same tastes, wanting to have fun, and live their life as if it were the last day. Actually, tomorrowland festival, allows people underage who will be 18 by the end of the year, so that encourages many teenagers to come and have their first amazing party.