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Untitled Group earns its place among the world’s leading festival promoters with Beyond The Valley and Pitch Music & Arts both appearing in DJ Mag’s Top 100 Festivals list for 2025.
Beyond The Valley rises 92-82 on the frame, while Pitch Music & Arts makes its debut appearance at No. 96 on the global list.
Those Untitled events brace a third domestic festival, Ultra Australia, which appears at No. 88.
Presented for the fifth year, DJ Mag’s Top 100 Festivals list is led by Belgium’s Tomorrowland, with Miami’s Ultra Music Festival and Romania’s Untold Festival respectively completing the podium.
Untitled Group, the Melbourne-based independent concerts and fest specialist, came in at No. 12 on Billboard’s recently-published 2025 mid-year promoter’s list. “This recognition follows a landmark 2024,” a rep explains, “where the group sold more tickets than any previous year.”
Untitled Group’s “historic milestones” in 2024 included 630,000 tickets sold across its events and tours, up from the 500,000 sold in 2023.
The latest edition of BTV featured performances from FISHER, Royel Otis, Chase & Status, Natasha Bedingfield and Tinashe, hosting over 35,000 punters across four days, making it the event’s biggest yet
Pitch Music & Arts 2025 played out across the four days of March 7-11 with a lineup led by Honey Dijon, Funk Tribu, 2manydjs, a back-to-back set from Daria Kolosova and SPFDJ, and more.
Electronic dance music is king of festival-land, accounting for almost one in four music festivals in Australia (23% of festivals), ahead of rock (21%), country (19%) and indie (17%), according to the first-ever Soundcheck report, published in 2024 by Creative Australia.
The DJ Mag poll first started in 2019, when winners were selected by a panel of DJs. The countdown paused due to the pandemic, returning in 2022 with votes opening up to the public for the first time.
Read DJ Mag’s Top 100 Festivals here.