Tomorrowland 2019 is an electronic dance music festival. It is generally celebrated in Belgium. It is mostly observed in the final two weeks of July every year since 2005.
How did the festival start?
Tomorrowland festival is the brainchild of two brothers Manu and Micheil beers. It was their dream to capitate the audience from all around the world like that of mystery land attracting an audience in the Netherland.
In the beginning, the grand festival which sells out today in a second had to struggle. They had to build up their reputation to make their dreams come into reality.
In its first edition, it brought almost 500- 1000 party-goers together. However, the number of audiences increased in every edition. This 2019 edition brought altogether 400000 visitors from all around the world.
Timeline of festival
| Date | Key feature and theme | Number of visitors |
| 2005 | Manu beers and Micheil beers were the organizers. They had not organized theme for this year. | 500-1000 |
| 2006 | Armin van Buuren, Axwell, Marco Bailey, Fred Baker, David Guetta, Ruthless, and DJ Zany were the organizer. | |
| 2007 | The festival expanded for an additional two days. | |
| 2008 | The stage changed unto three dimensional. Also, mote than 100 DJs participated. | 50000 plus |
| 2009 | The practice of keeping the theme started. The theme for this year was “Masker” | 90000 |
| 2010 | The theme for this year was “Zon( sun)”. Interestingly it was nominated for the best music event. | 120000 |
| 2011 | The festival expanded for three days. The theme was ” The tree of life” | 180000 |
| 2012 | “The book of wisdom” was the theme. Also, it won the DJ Award for the best international dance music festival | 185000 |
| 2013 | “The arising of life” was the theme. Ticket sold on 35 minutes and a reminder of ticket sold in reported one second. | 180000 |
| 2014 | It won the International Dance Music Award for Best Global Festival during the ceremony in March 2015. The theme was”The key to happiness” | 360000 |
| 2015 | The theme for the seat was “the secret kingdom of Melodia”. Also, it won Tomorrowland 2015 the Best Global Festival for the fifth consecutive year | 180000 |
| 2016 | The elixir of life was the theme for the year. | 180000 |
| 2017 | Amicorum Spectaculum” | 400000 |
| 2018 | “The Story of Planaxis”. | 400000 |
| 2019 | “The book of wisdom -the return”. | 400000 |
About Tomorrowland 2019
2019’s Tomorrowland festival was the 15th anniversary of the festival. It took place from 19 to 21 and 26 to 28 July. The theme for this year’s celebration was “the book of wisdom-the return”. It is the revival of the theme of the year 2012. The design of mainstage was made in remembrance of late DJ Avicii on died in 2018.
In this pretext, the 2019 edition is considered to be the most expensive in terms of production. It welcomed more than 400000 visitors from every nook of the world.
This festival in 2019 featured over 1000 artists in 18 different stages in 38 hectares area. Over 2 million people registered for the tickets. However only lucky 400000 got the ticket. Also, the festival was sold in 45 minutes.
Furthermore, more than 15000 member staff worked there. Over 500 media members internationally took part in this festival. Also, 2 million beer pints were sold during g the festival.
Tomorrowland also has its social media coverage. They have 14.7 million followers on Facebook. Performers like The Chainsmokers, Armin van Buuren and David Guetta return performed on the stage. Non-EDM artists like Bebe Rexha and ASAP Rocky were also on the lineup. Furthermore, Tomorrowland 2019 also won the best festival award in 2019
In nutshell, from 2005 till present it has made several reformations within it. It has truly branded itself into the world phenomenon it is today.
