The strongest festival bill we have ever indexed is EDC Las Vegas 2021
52 of the 100 most-booked artists since 1993, on one October bill. The fourteen rows under it on the all-time board are EDC events too.
Turn the biggest-lineups board loose on the whole archive — 1,794 editions, back to 1993 — and the top of it stops looking like a ranking. It looks like one festival's yearbook.
| # | Edition | Top-100 artists | Names on the bill |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EDC Las Vegas 2021 | 52 | 206 |
| 2 | EDC Las Vegas 2022 | 49 | 230 |
| 3 | EDC Las Vegas 2019 | 48 | 209 |
| 4 | EDC Las Vegas 2024 | 47 | 188 |
| 5 | EDC Las Vegas 2025 | 45 | 156 |
| 6 | EDC Las Vegas 2018 | 44 | 211 |
| 7 | EDC Las Vegas 2023 | 41 | 216 |
| 8 | EDC Week 2024 | 38 | 85 |
| 9 | EDC Las Vegas 2017 | 37 | 209 |
| 10 | EDC Las Vegas 2016 | 37 | 215 |
Nine of the ten are EDC Las Vegas editions. The tenth is EDC Week 2024 — the club-show run wrapped around the same weekend, in the same city. And it doesn't stop at ten: the first fifteen rows of the all-time board are all EDC events. The first name on it that isn't one is Ultra Music Festival 2019, at #16.
What the board is counting
A headliner here is one of the 100 most-booked artists in the archive — counted by how many festivals have put them on a bill since 1993, nothing else. Kaskade tops that list at 161 bookings. A festival's score is how many of those hundred names it booked, which is a number anyone can check, and we've written before about why we count it that way instead of trusting font sizes on a poster.
So the board doesn't measure the longest bill. It measures which weekends put the most of the scene's most-wanted names in one place. On that question, one festival has been the answer for a decade.
October 2021
The number one bill is not the one you'd guess. Not 2019, the last edition before everything stopped. Not 2022, the biggest EDC bill by raw names at that point. It's EDC Las Vegas 2021 — the comeback.
The 2020 edition never ran. When gates finally opened on October 22, 2021, it was the first EDC Las Vegas in 29 months, and the bill shows exactly what that pause did: 206 names, and 52 of them from the all-time top 100. Excision and Tiësto were on it alongside Kaskade — the three most-booked artists in the whole archive, on the same weekend. Every act that had spent two seasons with almost nowhere to play was suddenly on one bill.
It wasn't even a long lineup by EDC standards. 2022 booked 230 names and 2026 booked 255. Nobody has matched the 2021 bill's weight since.
Top-100 artists on the EDC Las Vegas bill, 2011–2026
The long bills don't come close
The three longest lineups in the catalog are Defqon.1 Weekend Festival 2026 at 407 names, Tomorrowland 2026 Weekend 1 at 397 and Weekend 2 at 372. None of them makes the all-time top fifteen. Booking a long bill and booking the A-list are different jobs, and the board only pays for the second one.
That's the real finding underneath the trivia. Plenty of festivals can fill six hundred slots. Exactly one has spent ten years making sure that whoever the scene's most-booked artists are in any given year, most of them are standing in the same speedway in May.
Next May it happens twice: EDC Las Vegas splits into two weekends for 2027, Dusk on May 14–16 and Dawn the week after. Neither lineup is out yet. When they drop, this board updates itself.
Tickets
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- EDC Las Vegas: Dawn (May 21–23, 2027) — tickets via Front Gate
Dusk, the first weekend, has no ticket link in our feed yet.
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