The Digital Dance Music Awards (EDMAs) are returning to Miami with a twist, becoming a member of forces with the resurgent Worldwide Dance Music Awards (IDMAs) to host an “elite expertise for music trade professionals and followers” in 2025.
Touted because the longest-running awards ceremony devoted to the digital music trade, the IDMAs have lengthy been a focus of Miami’s Winter Music Convention. They’re now returning alongside the beloved summit for the primary time in 5 years after an indefinite hiatus precipitated by the influence of COVID-19.
The EDMAs and IDMAs are set to affix forces March 28, 2025 on the Eden Roc Resort in Miami Seaside, in accordance with a press launch shared with EDM.com. What precisely the collaboration entails stays to be seen, however digital music fanatics can count on a lavish, star-studded occasion in celebration of WMC’s thirty fifth anniversary.
“The EDMAs have all the time been about celebrating the followers’ alternative, and the power of the digital music neighborhood,” mentioned iHeartRadio’s Sean “Hollywood” Hamilton, Government Producer of the EDMAs. “By collaborating with the IDMAs, we’re bringing a brand new dimension to the awards, one which now honors the behind-the-scenes expertise that shapes the trade.”
Pushed by a fan-based voting system, the MTV-style EDMA ceremony dishes out distinctive trophies as mementos, which resemble DJ decks and have a practical jog-wheel. Final 12 months’s winners included Martin Garrix, David Guetta, HAYLA, Kx5 (deadmau5 and Kaskade), Armin van Buuren and FISHER, amongst different dance music luminaries. Mark Knight, the influential founding father of Toolroom Information, gained the EDMA Icon Award.
The return of the Winter Music Convention is scheduled for March 26-28, 2025. You’ll find out extra in regards to the EDMAs right here.
