Tomorrowland

Boom, from 2005. The stage builds, the aftermovies that sold the festival to the world, the two-weekend format, the Mainstage designs and the crowd shots that made it the most-watched dance festival on earth.

Part of The Belgian Sound

27 moments in this segment.

1. 2005 - Tomorrowland begins (2005). The first Tomorrowland is held in De Schorre, Boom. Within a decade it becomes the most famous dance festival on earth and Belgium’s biggest cultural export.
2. 2005 - Tomorrowland - the first edition (2005). The inaugural Tomorrowland in De Schorre, Boom, the start of what became the most famous electronic festival in the world.
3. 2009 - Tomorrowland 2009
4. 2010 - Tomorrowland 2010 - going global. The 2010 edition and its aftermovie began Tomorrowland's explosive international growth.
5. 2011 - Tomorrowland 2011. The 2011 Tomorrowland edition at De Schorre, Boom.
6. 2012 - Tomorrowland 2012 - the aftermovie era. Tomorrowland's 2012 aftermovie went viral worldwide, cementing Boom, Belgium as the global capital of festival dance music.
7. 2013 - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - "Mammoth". A big-room anthem from the Tomorrowland-era brothers.
8. 2013 - Tomorrowland 2013. By 2013 Tomorrowland was a worldwide phenomenon, tickets selling out in minutes across continents.
9. 2014 - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. Brothers from Willebroek, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike rode the big-room EDM wave to repeated "world’s #1 DJ" titles and became the faces of Tomorrowland’s mainstage era (2014).
10. 2014 - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - "Bring the Madness". The brothers' big-room anthems soundtracked the mainstage-EDM peak of the mid-2010s.
11. 2014 - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - "Tremor". A Martin Garrix collaboration, peak big-room from the Belgian brothers.
12. 2014 - Tomorrowland 2014 - 10 years. Tomorrowland's 10th anniversary drew hundreds of thousands and confirmed its status as Belgium's biggest cultural export.
13. 2015 - Tomorrowland 2015
14. 2016 - Tomorrowland 2016
15. 2017 - Tomorrowland 2017
16. 2018 - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - Garden of Madness. The brothers' own headline spectacles, the peak of Belgian big-room EDM.
17. 2018 - Tomorrowland 2018
18. 2019 - Charlotte de Witte - Tomorrowland 2019. Charlotte de Witte's 2019 Tomorrowland appearances confirmed her as the face of the new Belgian techno.
19. 2019 - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - Tomorrowland mainstage. The Willebroek brothers became the faces of Tomorrowland's mainstage and repeat "world's #1 DJ" winners, the commercial peak of Belgium's festival-EDM era.
20. 2019 - Tomorrowland 2019 - 15 years. Tomorrowland's 15th anniversary edition.
21. 2022 - Tomorrowland 2022 - the return. Tomorrowland's return after the pandemic hiatus.
22. 2023 - Tomorrowland today - the global pilgrimage. Two decades on, Tomorrowland remains the world's most coveted dance-festival ticket, drawing 400,000 to Boom each summer from every continent.
23. 2024 - Netsky - Tomorrowland. Netsky bringing melodic drum & bass to the Tomorrowland stages (2024).
24. 2024 - Tomorrowland - the mainstage spectacle. The Tomorrowland mainstage, the most elaborate festival stage in the world, in Boom (2024).
25. 2025 - Charlotte de Witte - Tomorrowland mainstage. Charlotte de Witte headlining the Tomorrowland mainstage symbolised techno's return to the centre of Belgian festival culture (2025).
26. 2025 - Amelie Lens - Tomorrowland. Amelie Lens bringing hard, hypnotic techno to the Tomorrowland stages of the early 2020s (2025).
27. 2025 - Tomorrowland 2025. Tomorrowland into its third decade.