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2023

WCD atlantis edition

Almost 200,000 visitors from 86 nations over three days, 250 music acts and DJs on 25 stages, over 100 celebrities from TV, science and entertainment,600 social media stars with a combined total of over 500 million followers and sunshineat up to 32 degrees - the 10th anniversary of the BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME was a festival of superlatives and the spectacular opening to the open-air summer in Europe.

Immediately after his set, David Guetta congratulated WORLD CLUB DOME: "I had a very great time today. I'm a bit emotional when I think about it. 10years together, that's a lot. I love this. I try to be loyal to the team because they gave me the trust. Today was really crazy. All the best for the anniversary WORLD CLUB DOME. Thanks for letting me be a part of it and here's to another 10 years."

2023

wcd pool sessions

Sold out WCD POOL SESSIONS 2023
Green meadows, blue skies, refreshing pools, bombastic sound, the imposing skyline of the big city in the background and a hint of Ibiza as the planes took off and landed over the partying people from Frankfurt Airport, just a few kilometers away. Those were the WCD Pool Sessions 2023.

2023 meant again three days of Ibiza festival feeling in the Stadionbad Frankfurt with some of the biggest techno artists and brands: Andhim, Boris Brejcha, Claptone, Dubfire, Ilario Alicante, Jamie Jones, Kölsch, Lilly Palmer, Lorenzo Raganzini b2b Paolo Ferrara, Peggy Gou or Reinier Zonneveld (live) were already confirmed.

2022

WCD Winter edition

It was the last major club event of the year - with the Winter Edition of WORLD CLUB DOME, BigCityBeats once again set musical standards in Düsseldorf on Friday and Saturday and brought the festival year 2022 to a close.

18,000 electronic music fans on Friday and 21,000 on Saturday celebrated the sixth edition of the world's biggest winter club in Düsseldorf's MERKUR SPIEL-ARENA. 150 DJs, acts and artists from all over the world were on the big main stage and on the seven smaller club stages in the Club Music Circle.

2022

WCD ISland edition

More than 15,000 visitors spread over three days partied to Steve Aoki, Le Shuuk, Lost Frequencies, Robin Schulz, Glockenbach, Quarterhead, Regard, Stella Bossi and many more DJs in various locations at the Island Edition of the "biggest club in the world".

Thus, the Island Edition of WORLD CLUB DOME set new standards in Malta. Thousands of World Clubbers from Germany, Italy, Malta and many other nations experienced an unforgettable happening of summer, sun, vacation feeling and party atmosphere. They celebrated at epic pool parties, exclusive boat events, hotel parties and magical evening events in Malta's best open-air hotspots and beach clubs.

2022

WCD Las Vegas Edition

BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME returned to Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt to celebrate Europe's first major post-Covid club music event. More than 180,000 electronic music fans from over 70 countries were welcomed to a three-day music marathon featuring some of the world's biggest acts in electronic music, delivering an unprecedented, magical kick-off to the 2022 open-air season.

The entire stadium complex became a giant Vegas-style entertainment palace. Sports fields doubled as helipads where DJ superstars like Steve Aoki, Robin Schulz and Timmy Trumpet flew in, followed by a "walk of fame" where they immortalized themselves on their likenesses of the countless DJ columns amidst the cheering crowds.

2021

WCD Pool Sessions

For exactly 598 days, the festival industry in Germany was in lockdown due to the pandemic. On September 3, 2021, this long period finally came to an end with the opening of the WCD Pool Sessions at Stadionbad Frankfurt.

With the WCD Pool Sessions, the Frankfurt event experts from BigCityBeats were able to realize the first major electronic event after the Corona lockdown and set an example for the much-maligned German cultural industry.

2020

Escalator Edition

Frankfurt's MyZeil Shopping Center is home to the longest indoor, cantilevered escalator in Europe.

A DJ booth was built on top of this escalator so that selected guests could listen and watch from the individual floors under Covid-19 hygiene regulations. The escalator thus offers a club with five floors, which has a height of around 30 meters, and with a DJ who is transported to the individual areas during his show - this has never been seen before anywhere in the world!

2020

Drive In Edition

A summer 2020 without big events? Not with BigCityBeats.

We transformed the drive-in theater in Düsseldorf into the first BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Drive-In.
Pyro effects, lasers, CO2 cannons, fire columns and much more give the World Clubbers a real club feeling.
Together with radio partner 1 LIVE, an alternative is created during this extraordinary time to experience club music live.

2020

WCD Winter edition

BigCityBeats brings absolute global players to the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia on January 10, 11 and 12, 2020.

Joining them for the first big party of 2020 will be none other than rap superstar, MC, Hollywood actor and pioneer of gangsta rap: Ice-T. Milestones in music history have also been written by him: Martin Garrix - the undisputed number 1 DJ in the world for three years!

However, it's not only the headliners from the mainstream that WORLD CLUB DOME Winter Edition stands for. No! The very deepe underground is also represented.
In the so-called Club Music Circle, more than 20 small, intimate "clubs" will circle the world's largest club hall over three days. In the main stage over 30,000 party people - and in the clubs also a few hundred.

2019

WCD Snow edition

A club in the Swiss Alps, built at 3,571 meters above sea level, on Switzerland's most popular excursion destination - the Jungfraujoch, Top of Europe, which takes world clubbers on the first BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME cogwheel club train through the Eiger North Face to one of the world's most spectacular viewing platforms.

Europe's highest train station, visited year after year by around a million tourists, will be transformed into a club that Saturday. The viewing platform will become an open-air dance floor, the glass building a two-story indoor club, with Alle Farben, BigCityBeats resident DJ Le Shuuk, Mausio, EDX, MOGUAI and with Korea's number 1 DJSODA.

2019

WCD CRUISE

Barcelona - Ibiza - Sète - Barcelona

Together with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Timmy Trumpet, Robin Schulz, Don Diablo or Lost Frequencies the WCD Cruise Ship sets sail. The musical program took place on 8 floors on and below deck.

Our new floating club hotel is the Norwegian Pearl: Newer, bigger, more modern, more international! The ship was also extensively renovated by the shipping company NCL in 2017 and since then is well prepared for loud music events on the high seas on themed music cruises.

6 restaurants, 15 bars and lounges, large pool and sun deck for dancing and chilling, casino, spa, bowling alley, everything on board!




2019

WCD Space edition

The unique BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Space Edition was sold out with 180,000 World Clubbers. With up to 60,000 visitors a day from 70 different nations, 'the biggest club in the world' was a single success.

With all genres of dance music on 700,000 square meters. WORLD CLUB DOME's new outdoor Main Stage opened, the Zombie Stage offered impeccable design details that were dark, eerie and brutal.

WCD Pool Sessions and the surrounding area offered an authentic Ibiza experience and a dreamy return trip and a welcome retreat for house and techno hedonists.

2019

WCD 15th birthday

On 01.03.2004 a radio show saw the light of day: BigCityBeats was born. The first sentences became the motto: "We make your weekend better". After going on air, smaller parties followed. After 131,400 hours of broadcasting, 160,000 guests visit the BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME on just one weekend.

Nothing is better suited for celebrating the 15th anniversary than a feudal setting: Frankfurt's Festhalle - it is the mother of all festival halls, has that certain charm and esprit, that certain something and that certain flair to host such an event.

2019

WCD ZERO gRAVITY 2.0

On March 25, 2019, history was made again.

50 VIPs are invited and on board - from the fields of music, sports, entertainment, fashion, film and television. They will all be part of it when the ultimate club experience takes place for the second time. BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Zero Gravity - Platinum Edition.

Following its brilliant debut success last year, BigCityBeats is sending celebrities into zero gravity in 2019. An incredible experience they will never forget. In cooperation with the ESA (European Space Agency), they set their sights even higher for 50 celebrities from all over the world - and took off from Frankfurt Airport for the groundbreaking party in zero gravity.

2018

WCD Winter edition

For three years, BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Winter Edition delivered the biggest DJ solo shows from the world's #1 DJs. Now the time has come to move into a new dimension.

In 2018, the winter edition of the "biggest club in the world" transforms into the first winter festival of its kind! On November 16, 17 and 18, the ESPRIT Arena including surrounding outdoor areas in Düsseldorf will become a gigantic club area with 20 floors and over 100 of the best acts of the electronic music scene.



2018

WCD HollyWood Edition

For the first time ever, BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME adds a slogan to its famous event: The Hollywood Edition.
This weekend, "The Greatest Club in the World" meets the Hollywood Dream Factory - a duet between BigCityBeats and Hollywood glamour, united in perfect harmony to create an out-of-this-world atmosphere.

Guests will be greeted with a red carpet upon arrival, high-profile headliners will be transported by helicopter to and from the event, and celebrities are expected to attend the event, bringing the Hollywood experience to life over the famous weekend.
The Hollywood Thrill Area will have bumper cars and break dancers, while models will compete on the WCD catwalk. Last but not least, the VIP Bambi Beats after-show party will fuse club beats and Hollywood glamour.

2018

WCD Cruise

The Mein Schiff 2 docked back in the port of Palma de Mallorca after five days of the second WORLD CLUB CRUISE in the Mediterranean.

The second edition of the cruise by BigCityBeats and TUI Cruises, for which the Mein Schiff 2 was once again transformed into the "biggest club at sea," featured more than 30 DJs on six floors. Among them: DJ superstars like Alle Farben, Gestört aber GeiL, Le Shuuk, NERVO, Robin Schulz, Timmy Trumpet or Ummet Ozcan.

Bright sunshine and perfect weather pleased the guests and acts on all days on board and sprayed summer feeling already in April. The highlights of the first day were the opening set by Le Shuuk, introducing the WORLD CLUB CRUISE anthem "Kaleidoscope Eyes", which celebrated its release just in time for the ship's departure, and the performance by Dutch DJ star Ummet Ozcan, whose set filled the entire port of Palma with sound.

2018

WCD zero gravity

On February 7, 2018, one of the most eagerly awaited events in electronic music took place. WORLD CLUB DOME Zero Gravity took off from Frankfurt Airport and made music history as the world's first club in zero gravity.

It was the official pre-party for BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME "The Hollywood Edition" in Frankfurt(June 1/2/3, 2018). Together with ESA, Fraport AG and the City of Frankfurt, BigCityBeats showed what is possible when the fascination of science and the joy and fun of entertainment meet.

International DJs Steve Aoki and W&W celebrated during the 90-minute flight together with more than 50 chosen people, including winners from many countries around the world such as Australia, Brazil, Korea, India, Germany with the power of music in zero gravity.

2022

WCD Winter edition

It was the last major club event of the year - with the Winter Edition of WORLD CLUB DOME, BigCityBeats once again set musical standards in Düsseldorf on Friday and Saturday and brought the festival year 2022 to a close.

18,000 electronic music fans on Friday and 21,000 on Saturday celebrated the sixth edition of the world's biggest winter club in Düsseldorf's MERKUR SPIEL-ARENA. 150 DJs, acts and artists from all over the world were on the big main stage and on the seven smaller club stages in the Club Music Circle.

2022

WCD ISland edition

More than 15,000 visitors spread over three days partied to Steve Aoki, Le Shuuk, Lost Frequencies, Robin Schulz, Glockenbach, Quarterhead, Regard, Stella Bossi and many more DJs in various locations at the Island Edition of the "biggest club in the world".

Thus, the Island Edition of WORLD CLUB DOME set new standards in Malta. Thousands of World Clubbers from Germany, Italy, Malta and many other nations experienced an unforgettable happening of summer, sun, vacation feeling and party atmosphere. They celebrated at epic pool parties, exclusive boat events, hotel parties and magical evening events in Malta's best open-air hotspots and beach clubs.

2022

WCD Las Vegas Edition

BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME returned to Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt to celebrate Europe's first major post-Covid club music event. More than 180,000 electronic music fans from over 70 countries were welcomed to a three-day music marathon featuring some of the world's biggest acts in electronic music, delivering an unprecedented, magical kick-off to the 2022 open-air season.

The entire stadium complex became a giant Vegas-style entertainment palace. Sports fields doubled as helipads where DJ superstars like Steve Aoki, Robin Schulz and Timmy Trumpet flew in, followed by a "walk of fame" where they immortalized themselves on their likenesses of the countless DJ columns amidst the cheering crowds.

2021

WCD Pool Sessions

For exactly 598 days, the festival industry in Germany was in lockdown due to the pandemic. On September 3, 2021, this long period finally came to an end with the opening of the WCD Pool Sessions at Stadionbad Frankfurt.

With the WCD Pool Sessions, the Frankfurt event experts from BigCityBeats were able to realize the first major electronic event after the Corona lockdown and set an example for the much-maligned German cultural industry.

2020

Escalator Edition

Frankfurt's MyZeil Shopping Center is home to the longest indoor, cantilevered escalator in Europe.

A DJ booth was built on top of this escalator so that selected guests could listen and watch from the individual floors under Covid-19 hygiene regulations. The escalator thus offers a club with five floors, which has a height of around 30 meters, and with a DJ who is transported to the individual areas during his show - this has never been seen before anywhere in the world!

2020

Drive In Edition

A summer 2020 without big events? Not with BigCityBeats.

We transformed the drive-in theater in Düsseldorf into the first BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Drive-In.
Pyro effects, lasers, CO2 cannons, fire columns and much more give the World Clubbers a real club feeling.
Together with radio partner 1 LIVE, an alternative is created during this extraordinary time to experience club music live.

2020

WCD Winter edition

BigCityBeats brings absolute global players to the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia on January 10, 11 and 12, 2020.

Joining them for the first big party of 2020 will be none other than rap superstar, MC, Hollywood actor and pioneer of gangsta rap: Ice-T. Milestones in music history have also been written by him: Martin Garrix - the undisputed number 1 DJ in the world for three years!

However, it's not only the headliners from the mainstream that WORLD CLUB DOME Winter Edition stands for. No! The very deepe underground is also represented.
In the so-called Club Music Circle, more than 20 small, intimate "clubs" will circle the world's largest club hall over three days. In the main stage over 30,000 party people - and in the clubs also a few hundred.

2019

WCD Snow edition

A club in the Swiss Alps, built at 3,571 meters above sea level, on Switzerland's most popular excursion destination - the Jungfraujoch, Top of Europe, which takes world clubbers on the first BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME cogwheel club train through the Eiger North Face to one of the world's most spectacular viewing platforms.

Europe's highest train station, visited year after year by around a million tourists, will be transformed into a club that Saturday. The viewing platform will become an open-air dance floor, the glass building a two-story indoor club, with Alle Farben, BigCityBeats resident DJ Le Shuuk, Mausio, EDX, MOGUAI and with Korea's number 1 DJSODA.

2019

WCD CRUISE

Barcelona - Ibiza - Sète - Barcelona

Together with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Timmy Trumpet, Robin Schulz, Don Diablo or Lost Frequencies the WCD Cruise Ship sets sail. The musical program took place on 8 floors on and below deck.

Our new floating club hotel is the Norwegian Pearl: Newer, bigger, more modern, more international! The ship was also extensively renovated by the shipping company NCL in 2017 and since then is well prepared for loud music events on the high seas on themed music cruises.

6 restaurants, 15 bars and lounges, large pool and sun deck for dancing and chilling, casino, spa, bowling alley, everything on board!




2019

WCD Space edition

The unique BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Space Edition was sold out with 180,000 World Clubbers. With up to 60,000 visitors a day from 70 different nations, 'the biggest club in the world' was a single success.

With all genres of dance music on 700,000 square meters. WORLD CLUB DOME's new outdoor Main Stage opened, the Zombie Stage offered impeccable design details that were dark, eerie and brutal.

WCD Pool Sessions and the surrounding area offered an authentic Ibiza experience and a dreamy return trip and a welcome retreat for house and techno hedonists.

2019

WCD 15th birthday

On 01.03.2004 a radio show saw the light of day: BigCityBeats was born. The first sentences became the motto: "We make your weekend better". After going on air, smaller parties followed. After 131,400 hours of broadcasting, 160,000 guests visit the BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME on just one weekend.

Nothing is better suited for celebrating the 15th anniversary than a feudal setting: Frankfurt's Festhalle - it is the mother of all festival halls, has that certain charm and esprit, that certain something and that certain flair to host such an event.

2019

WCD ZERO gRAVITY 2.0

On March 25, 2019, history was made again.

50 VIPs are invited and on board - from the fields of music, sports, entertainment, fashion, film and television. They will all be part of it when the ultimate club experience takes place for the second time. BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Zero Gravity - Platinum Edition.

Following its brilliant debut success last year, BigCityBeats is sending celebrities into zero gravity in 2019. An incredible experience they will never forget. In cooperation with the ESA (European Space Agency), they set their sights even higher for 50 celebrities from all over the world - and took off from Frankfurt Airport for the groundbreaking party in zero gravity.

2018

WCD Winter edition

For three years, BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Winter Edition delivered the biggest DJ solo shows from the world's #1 DJs. Now the time has come to move into a new dimension.

In 2018, the winter edition of the "biggest club in the world" transforms into the first winter festival of its kind! On November 16, 17 and 18, the ESPRIT Arena including surrounding outdoor areas in Düsseldorf will become a gigantic club area with 20 floors and over 100 of the best acts of the electronic music scene.



2018

WCD HollyWood Edition

For the first time ever, BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME adds a slogan to its famous event: The Hollywood Edition.
This weekend, "The Greatest Club in the World" meets the Hollywood Dream Factory - a duet between BigCityBeats and Hollywood glamour, united in perfect harmony to create an out-of-this-world atmosphere.

Guests will be greeted with a red carpet upon arrival, high-profile headliners will be transported by helicopter to and from the event, and celebrities are expected to attend the event, bringing the Hollywood experience to life over the famous weekend.
The Hollywood Thrill Area will have bumper cars and break dancers, while models will compete on the WCD catwalk. Last but not least, the VIP Bambi Beats after-show party will fuse club beats and Hollywood glamour.

2018

WCD Cruise

The Mein Schiff 2 docked back in the port of Palma de Mallorca after five days of the second WORLD CLUB CRUISE in the Mediterranean.

The second edition of the cruise by BigCityBeats and TUI Cruises, for which the Mein Schiff 2 was once again transformed into the "biggest club at sea," featured more than 30 DJs on six floors. Among them: DJ superstars like Alle Farben, Gestört aber GeiL, Le Shuuk, NERVO, Robin Schulz, Timmy Trumpet or Ummet Ozcan.

Bright sunshine and perfect weather pleased the guests and acts on all days on board and sprayed summer feeling already in April. The highlights of the first day were the opening set by Le Shuuk, introducing the WORLD CLUB CRUISE anthem "Kaleidoscope Eyes", which celebrated its release just in time for the ship's departure, and the performance by Dutch DJ star Ummet Ozcan, whose set filled the entire port of Palma with sound.

2018

WCD zero gravity

On February 7, 2018, one of the most eagerly awaited events in electronic music took place. WORLD CLUB DOME Zero Gravity took off from Frankfurt Airport and made music history as the world's first club in zero gravity.

It was the official pre-party for BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME "The Hollywood Edition" in Frankfurt(June 1/2/3, 2018). Together with ESA, Fraport AG and the City of Frankfurt, BigCityBeats showed what is possible when the fascination of science and the joy and fun of entertainment meet.

International DJs Steve Aoki and W&W celebrated during the 90-minute flight together with more than 50 chosen people, including winners from many countries around the world such as Australia, Brazil, Korea, India, Germany with the power of music in zero gravity.

STimmen to the Glam .

Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus; post iucundam iuventutem, post molestam senectutem nos habebit humus.

Ubi sunt, qui ante nos in mundo fuere? Vadite ad superos, vadite ad inferos ubi iam fuere.Vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur.

Venit mors velociter, rapit nos atrociter, nemini parcetur.

Max Mustermann
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