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Highest attended and most popular artists, musical/live events & festivals of 2025 are revealed by ZAMP. Among the festivals, electronic music events sold the most tickets last year.
The list of bestsellers, contributed to continuously by ZAMP, reveals the latest sales of concerts, festivals, and music events based on ticket sales. The credible source offers an overview of who fills the halls, squares, and arenas. The data, beyond commercial success, clearly reflects trends, audience interests, and the dynamics of the domestic concert industry based on high levels of accuracy and relevance provided by ZAMP.
The title of the most successful festival in Croatia goes for the fourth time to Ultra Music Festival, which held its 11th edition last year. It featured performances from some of the biggest names in dance music, including Armin Van Buuren, Martin Garrix, Tiësto, Carl Cox, Hardwell, Solomun, and Amelie Lens.
Followed by Zagreb’s INmusic festival, the second year in a row on the list, marked with a superb atmosphere and energetic performances by Kasabian, Kim Deal, Michael Kiwanuka, Sailor Honeymoo, and many others.
In the third spot, The Sea Star brought by Loreen, the most successful hitmaker of the last decade, Lost Frequencies, Tommy Cash, Indira Paganotto, I Hate Models, Patrick Mason, Paolo Ferrara, Senidah and Grše, Miach, Voyage, and many more.
Fourth spot went to Hideout Festival, one of the leading electronic music festivals since 2011, on Croatia’s famous Zrce Beach. Hideout brought over 100 of the world’s best artists together, which has seen Hideout sell out year after year.
Fifth came Dekmantel a Amsterdam label and promoter, which hosted its 11th edition of their flagship event where Four Tet, Jeff Mills, Honey Dijon, Avalon Emerson, and Richie Hawtin led the line-up, as well as Floating Points and many others.
For the events of 2025, Candlelight pushed the popular Lollipop parties to second place, followed closely by BSH which is symbolic for the Croatian scene hosting significant events such as Gates of Agartha & Black Coffee at Cave Romane in Pula, Hot Since 82 at Jarun, Dia de Los Muertos, Ski Beat festival, opening of HNK 2, and many more knowledgeable events in the last year.
In the number one spot in domestic musicians is Mark Perković Thompson, followed on the list by tireless names of the domestic concert scene – Severina, Parni Valjak, and Dalmatino.
On the list of regional musicians with the highest ticket sales, Dino Merlin is in first place. Lepa Brena took the second position as well as the second year in a row, followed by Plavi orkestar, Bijelo dugme, and Saša Matić.
The list of international best-selling concerts was topped by André Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra, performing in Arena Zagreb for the second year in a row.
This is proof that electronic music industry events have a high impact on culture and the music genre.
