Paxahau released attendance and operating figures Tuesday from the 24th edition of Movement. The numbers, in plain terms: the festival held.
Total weekend attendance ran roughly 113,000 across three days. The figure is at the upper end of the range Movement has reported in the post-pandemic editions. The 2023 number was 109,000. The 2022 number, the first Memorial Day weekend after the cancellations, was 95,000.
Day-by-day estimates: Saturday roughly 41,000, Sunday roughly 39,000, Monday roughly 33,000. The Saturday number is the largest single-day count Movement has reported since 2019. The Sunday number reflects the Skrillex draw at the Movement Stage, which lifted the day-two count above what an average Sunday hits. The Monday number was up from 28,000 in 2023.
Programming counts. Six stages. Roughly 115 booked artists across the weekend, plus the curator-driven showcases (Detroit Love, KMS Records, House Your Life, Underground Music Academy) which added another twelve names that were not on the original headliner lists. International artists made up roughly 60 percent of the lineup. Detroit-rooted artists made up the other 40 percent.
Pricing. Three-day GA was $225 in advance, rising to $275 closer to the festival. VIP three-day ran $499. Single-day Saturday was $99, Sunday $99, Monday $89. Comparable festivals across the U.S. (Coachella, Lollapalooza, EDC Las Vegas) charge multiples of those numbers. Movement is the most affordable major-market electronic festival in the country, by Paxahau's framing and by the math.
Operations. Two gates, the south entrance and the Atwater entrance, with the Atwater gate added at peak Saturday to manage bag-check wait times. Sixteen water refill stations across the festival grounds. Eighteen food vendors. Two medical tents. The Detroit Police Department reported two arrests across the weekend, both for non-festival-related disturbances on Jefferson Avenue. The Detroit EMS responded to 47 calls inside the festival grounds across three days, most of them heat- and dehydration-related.
Economic impact. Paxahau's reported figure for hotel and restaurant spending across the weekend is $80 million, roughly the same as 2023. The number is sourced from Visit Detroit's tracking and is a directional estimate, not an audited figure. Hotel occupancy in the downtown core ran above 95 percent across the weekend, which is the saturated number; the spillover went into Royal Oak, Ferndale, and Dearborn.
Press credentials issued. Roughly 280 across the weekend, up from 240 in 2023, distributed across roughly 130 outlets. International press accounted for nearly half of the total, which is in line with the festival's pull as a destination event for European and Asian dance-music coverage.
Paxahau confirmed the 2025 dates Tuesday: May 24, 25, and 26, 2025, the 25th anniversary edition. Lineup announcement is scheduled for February 2025. Pre-sale tickets opened Wednesday at $200 for three days, holding the price flat from 2024.
The festival held. The math worked. The 25th edition is on the books.
