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EDC Las Vegas2026

MAY 16–18, 2026Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayStream on youtube Edition closed
Reported attendance: 175,000 · 3 days · 9 stages · Founded 1997 · 50 artists indexed · house, techno, trance, dubstep, drum and bass, hardstyle, bass · Part of Insomniac Events

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas is the largest dance music festival in North America, drawing roughly 525,000 attendees across three nights each May at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Insomniac Events founder Pasquale Rotella started EDC in Los Angeles in 1997; the festival relocated to the Nevada desert in 2011 and has not looked back. Nine themed stages (kineticFIELD, circuitGROUNDS, cosmicMEADOW, bassPOD, and five more) run simultaneously alongside art cars, carnival rides, and fireworks, making the speedway grounds a city unto themselves for a long weekend. The signature ritual is the sunrise set: kineticFIELD closes each morning as daylight creeps over the infield, a moment that has become shorthand for the festival's identity.

2026 marks the 30th anniversary edition (May 15 to 17), with Hardwell, Charlotte de Witte, Armin van Buuren, and The Prodigy among the headliners. Insomniac has streamed EDC free every year since 2019, expanding from 4 channels to full 8-stage coverage in 2021. This year brings 6 curated feeds plus the first YouTube multiview option, building on the 2023 stream that logged more than 1 million unique viewers. Full sets go up on YouTube after the festival ends.

Source: Wikipedia ↗

Country🇺🇸 United States
VenueLas Vegas Motor Speedway
Founded1997
Capacity~175k
ParentInsomniac Events
Genreshouse, techno, trance, dubstep, drum and bass, hardstyle, bass
Platformyoutube
OfficialVisit ↗
WikidataQ127951117 ↗
WikipediaArticle ↗

Livestream history

EDC Las Vegas has livestreamed every edition for free since at least 2019, anchored on Insomniac's official YouTube channel and tv.insomniac.com. Coverage grew from four curated channels in 2019, to all eight stages in 2021, to six dedicated YouTube feeds with first-ever multiview in the 2026 30th-anniversary edition. The 2023 stream passed one million unique viewers. Every edition has been free with no paywall, and full artist sets are uploaded to YouTube afterward, making the Insomniac channel the de facto archive.

  1. 2026
    YouTube · Insomniac Radio
    Free stream
    Notable: Hardwell, Charlotte de Witte, Armin van Buuren, The Prodigy
    Six dedicated stage feeds, the most ever, with first-ever multiview (four stages at once). Exclusive YouTube partnership.
    Archive 1↗ Archive 2↗
  2. 2025
    tv.insomniac.com · YouTube · Insomniac Radio
    Free stream
    Five dedicated video feeds plus audio channels for three more stages.
    Archive ↗
  3. 2024
    YouTube · tv.insomniac.com · Insomniac Radio
    Free stream
    Notable: John Summit, Peggy Gou, Four Tet, Sara Landry
    Four simultaneous feeds: kineticFIELD, circuitGROUNDS, neonGARDEN, bassPOD.
    Archive ↗
  4. 2023
    tv.insomniac.com · YouTube · Insomniac Radio
    Free stream · 1,000,000+ unique viewers
    Notable: Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Kaskade, Tiesto
    Four feeds; first confirmed million-viewer milestone for an EDC stream.
    Archive ↗
  5. 2022
    YouTube · TikTok · Roblox · Lomotif
    Free stream
    Notable: Porter Robinson, Charlotte de Witte, DJ Snake, FISHER
    Three main stages streamed 8 PM to 8:30 AM ET.
    Archive ↗
  6. 2021
    YouTube · Twitch · TikTok · Roblox · tv.insomniac.com
    Free stream
    All eight stages via 75 cameras, the largest EDC broadcast to that point. Roblox World Party featured three stages.
    Archive ↗
  7. 2019
    tv.insomniac.com · YouTube · LiveXLive · STIRR
    Free stream
    Four channels including full kineticFIELD and cosmicMEADOW feeds, produced with LiveXLive.
    Archive ↗
How to watch
PlatformYouTube / tv.insomniac.com
AccessFree stream
Stages streamed6
Embeddableyes

What sets it apart

01

The largest electronic dance music festival in North America, drawing more than 500,000 attendees across three nights at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a speedway transformed into a neon city under the open desert sky.

02

Nine themed stages (kineticFIELD, circuitGROUNDS, cosmicMEADOW, neonGARDEN, quantumVALLEY, bassPOD, wasteLAND, stereoBLOOM, bionicJUNGLE) plus roaming art cars, carnival rides, and large-scale art installations.

03

Sunrise sets are a defining ritual: each morning the kineticFIELD stage closes as daylight breaks over the speedway, producing some of the most emotional crowd moments in dance music.

Headliners
50 artists indexed across the lineup. Top 30 shown by 2026 touring rank.
🇳🇱 Maddix 🇧🇪 Charlotte de Witte 🇮🇹 Joseph Capriati Serafina 🇦🇺 Restricted 🇳🇱 Brennan Heart 🇳🇱 Armin van Buuren Billy Gillies KI/KI Cloudy 🇫🇷 I Hate Models 🇳🇱 Mau P Max Dean 🇺🇸 Fisher 🇳🇱 Martin Garrix 🇳🇱 Warface 🇳🇱 Angerfist 🇳🇴 Da Tweekaz 🇦🇺 The Saints 🇬🇷 Argy 🇧🇷 Vintage Culture 🇳🇱 Sub Zero Project 🇺🇸 Sara Landry 🇩🇪 DJ Gigola Interplanetary Criminal 🇮🇪 KETTAMA Adrián Mills 🇫🇷 Anetha DYEN Eli Brown
🇩🇪 Innellea Malugi 🇫🇷 Nico Moreno 🇩🇪 Sidney Charles 🇳🇱 Vieze Asbak VTSS 🇬🇧 Hybrid Minds 🇮🇹 Rooler 🇩🇪 Boys Noize 🇺🇸 Steve Aoki Peggy Gou Chloe Caillet 🇸🇪 Adam Beyer Adiel 🇳🇱 Colyn Dax J Funk Tribu 🇳🇱 HI-LO Josh Baker 🇩🇪 Kevin de Vries
Hear the lineup
Maddix · Spotify
Charlotte de Witte · Spotify
Joseph Capriati · Spotify
Serafina · Spotify

Gallery

kineticFIELD stage during Tiesto's set at EDC Las Vegas 2024
Eric Polk · CC BY-SA 4.0
Panoramic overview of EDC Las Vegas at the Motor Speedway
Eric Polk · CC BY-SA 4.0
EDC Las Vegas festival grounds from above
Eric Polk · CC BY-SA 4.0
The iconic EDC Ferris wheel at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Eric Polk · CC BY-SA 4.0
EDC Las Vegas crowd, 2013
Fastily · CC BY-SA 3.0

Venue

The festival takes place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in United States. It typically hosts crowds in the 175,000+ range across 3 days.

NameLas Vegas Motor Speedway
Country🇺🇸 United States

History

EDC Las Vegas was founded in 1997, making this its 29th year.

The festival is part of Insomniac Events's portfolio of electronic music events.

Founded1997
Years running29
ParentInsomniac Events

Signature moments

  1. 202630th-anniversary edition introduces YouTube multiview, four stages on one screen for the first time.
  2. 2023Attendance reaches 520,000 and the YouTube livestream passes one million unique viewers.
  3. 2021EDC returns after the pandemic with its largest broadcast to date: all eight stages streamed via 75 cameras, plus a parallel event in Roblox.
  4. 2018Tiesto performs a 10-minute tribute to Avicii at kineticFIELD.
  5. 2016Above & Beyond dedicate their set to the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, a touchstone of EDC community values.
  6. 2013Release of the documentary 'Under the Electric Sky', which gave EDC its lasting tagline.
  7. 2011Inaugural Las Vegas edition at the Motor Speedway draws about 230,000 after the festival relocated from Los Angeles.
Follow EDC Las Vegas
Official site ↗ Wikipedia ↗ Wikidata ↗ Updated 2026-06-12