Tomorrowland came back to De Schorre in Boom, Belgium, from July 17 to 19.
The festival ran three days of sets across multiple stages. The lineup covered several corners of electronic music.
So many sets played out over the weekend that patterns emerged in what DJs actually spun.
The most played tracks at Tomorrowland 2026 Weekend 1 mixed brand-new releases with records that have stayed festival staples for years.
Several tracks kept turning up across different artists’ sets.
Data from 1001Tracklists shows four tracks tied for the top spot with seven plays each, including Avicii’s Levels and Faithless’ Insomnia.
Tracks from Dimitri Vegas, Eric Prydz, Martin Garrix, Third ≡ Party, and others also made the Top 10.
What the Top 10 Reveals About Tomorrowland Weekend 1
The Weekend 1 ranking shows just how often DJs reached for older dance records.
Levels, Insomnia, Pjanoo, Payback, In My Mind, and Woops all landed in the Top 10 despite releases that stretch back years, and in some cases decades.
Newer versions helped pull older tracks back into rotation too.
Dimitri Vegas & Pat B’s reworked Turn The Tide featuring Sylver and the updated Woops remixes from Bountyhunter both hit seven plays.
Progressive house held a strong grip on the list through Avicii, Eric Prydz, Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman, Steve Angello, Martin Garrix, and Third ≡ Party.
Innerbloom rounded things out as another familiar record from the past decade.
1. Dimitri Vegas & Pat B ft. Sylver – Turn The Tide
Number of plays: 7
Turn The Tide traces back to Sylver’s 2000 debut single, a Belgian trance record written by Regi Penxten and Wout Van Dessel that became one of the group’s best-known releases.
More than 25 years later, Pat B brought the vocal and melody back through his own harder version.
He then joined Dimitri Vegas and Sylver for the newer rework heard throughout 2026.
The track keeps the parts that made the original instantly recognizable.
At the same time, it updates the sound for the faster, harder styles now filling festival sets.
That combination let it move between nostalgic familiarity and a current release.
The track earned seven plays at Tomorrowland 2026 Weekend 1. That tied it for the highest count of the weekend.
It gave a Belgian dance classic a new chapter more than two decades after it first came out.
2. Bountyhunter – Woops (Dimitri Vegas & Junkie Kid Remix / BRANDON Remix)
Number of plays: 7
Woops dates back to 1993. Bountyhunter released it as part of a four-track EP during the early Belgian rave period.
More than 30 years later, the record found a new audience through Dimitri Vegas and Junkie Kid’s remix.
That version dropped in 2024 after first getting played at Tomorrowland, and it later hit No. 1 on Beatport’s Hard Dance chart.
The 2026 ranking also counts plays of the BRANDON remix, giving DJs another fresh take on the same hook.
Between the two versions, the original record stays active across different styles of sets.
Seven plays at Weekend 1 tied Woops for the weekend’s highest count, more than three decades after its first release.
3. Avicii – Levels
Number of plays: 7
Avicii released Levels in 2011, and it became one of the tracks most closely tied to the rise of electronic dance music in the early 2010s.
Its instantly recognizable melody built around a vocal sample from Etta James’ Something’s Got a Hold on Me helped push it to No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
It went on to become one of Avicii’s biggest releases. More than a decade later, hearing Levels at a festival carries different weight.
Avicii died in 2018, and DJs now play the original, mashups, and edits partly as tribute and partly as a familiar festival record.
The track earned seven plays at Weekend 1. That tied it for the top spot.
It’s a meaningful result for a track that has stayed part of festival culture for nearly 15 years. It also keeps connecting new sets back to Avicii’s legacy.
4. Faithless – Insomnia
Number of plays: 7
Faithless first released Insomnia in 1995. It became a much bigger hit after its 1996 re-release, which reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Maxi Jazz’s spoken vocal and the track’s synth sequence became some of the most recognizable elements in 1990s electronic music.
That’s why DJs keep returning to it through originals, edits, remixes, and mashups across different styles.
Its longevity stands out here.
Seven plays at Tomorrowland 2026 Weekend 1 put a track first released more than 30 years ago among the weekend’s most frequently played songs.
That also makes Insomnia one of several older electronic records high on this list.
Pjanoo and Payback join it in that group. Together, they show how strongly established festival classics still featured across 2026 sets.
5. Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman x Steve Angello – Payback
Number of plays: 6
Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman and Steve Angello released Payback in 2014.
Angello had already tested parts of the track in his festival sets before it officially came out.
The progressive house record became closely tied to the mid-2010s festival era.
Its long melodic buildup and instantly recognizable lead melody drove that connection. Those same qualities kept it in rotation well past that period.
More than a decade later, DJs still bring Payback into progressive house sets and festival throwback sections.
The melody stays familiar even when only part of the track gets played.
Its six plays at Weekend 1 show how strongly that era of progressive house held on across the weekend.
Payback ranked among the festival’s most played tracks. That came 12 years after its original release.
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6. Eric Prydz – Pjanoo
Number of plays: 6
Eric Prydz released Pjanoo in 2008, and it became one of the most recognizable tracks of his career.
It reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and topped the UK Dance Chart.
The piano hook has stayed the track’s defining element, which explains why it still works so well in festival sets, even when only a brief section plays.
Over the years, DJs have kept bringing Pjanoo back. They’ve used progressive house sets, mashups, and throwback moments to do it.
Yet the track never feels locked to the late 2000s.
Its six plays at Weekend 1 show the record still held a strong presence at the festival, nearly two decades after its original release.
7. Pupa Nas T & FOVOS ft. Denise Belfon – Work Edit
Number of plays: 5
Pupa Nas T and FOVOS released Work Edit in June 2026, with Denise Belfon providing the vocal.
The track reworks material connected to Pupa Nas T and Belfon’s earlier Work.
It builds the repeated vocal hook into a much faster electronic production, one that DJs have classified across techno, hard dance, and neo-rave.
The edit dropped only weeks before Tomorrowland 2026 Weekend 1, yet it had already started appearing in DJ sets before the festival began.
Its short vocal phrases make it easy to spot when mixed into harder sections of a set.
With five plays recorded across the weekend, Work Edit stood as one of the newest releases in the Top 10.
That result shows just how quickly the 2026 version got picked up by DJs after release.
8. Martin Garrix & Third ≡ Party ft. Oaks & Declan J Donovan – Carry You
Number of plays: 5
Martin Garrix and Third ≡ Party released Carry You in February 2024, with vocals from Oaks and Declan J Donovan.
The track had already become a regular part of Martin Garrix’s live sets before its official release through STMPD RCRDS.
He started playing its recognizable intro during performances. That early exposure built momentum ahead of the release.
The progressive house production and vocal-led breakdown connected closely with a specific style.
Both Martin Garrix and Third ≡ Party have carried that style across their festival sets.
Carry You earned five plays at Weekend 1. It stayed one of the more frequently played progressive house tracks of the weekend.
That came more than two years after its release.
9. Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl ft. Georgi Kay – In My Mind
Number of plays: 5
Ivan Gough and Feenixpawl released In My Mind in 2012, with vocals from Georgi Kay, before Axwell’s mix became the version most closely tied to the track.
Released through Axtone Records, the song grew into a major progressive house record of that era.
The Axwell mix later appeared on Swedish House Mafia’s 2012 album Until Now.
The vocal remains one of the track’s most recognizable parts. That recognizability has let DJs work it into different sets over the years.
They’ve used the original, the Axwell mix, or the acapella in various mashups.
In My Mind earned five plays at Weekend 1. It was still getting regular use more than a decade after release.
That extended the strong presence of older progressive house records among the weekend’s most played tracks.
10. RÜFÜS DU SOL – Innerbloom
Number of plays: 4
RÜFÜS DU SOL released Innerbloom in 2016 as part of their second studio album, Bloom.
The track runs nearly ten minutes in its original form.
Its long instrumental sections, gradual build, and recognizable vocal turned it into one of the group’s best-known releases.
Later remixes from artists including What So Not, Lane 8, and Sasha kept it active in DJ sets years after release.
DJs can pull different sections of Innerbloom into melodic house, progressive house, and other electronic sets without needing to play the full original.
Innerbloom earned four appearances at Weekend 1. That made it one of the weekend’s 10 most played tracks.
It shows the 2016 release was still getting regular play a decade later.
Older Records Still Dominate DJ Sets
The ranking makes one thing clear. The most played tracks of the weekend weren’t simply the newest releases.
Several older records kept appearing because their melodies, vocals, and hooks stay instantly recognizable in DJ sets.
Others came back through remixes, edits, and newer versions that give DJs fresh ways to use them.
That’s why music from the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s could sit alongside much newer tracks within the same Top 10.
The list gives a broader view of what DJs actually played across the first weekend, rather than just reflecting what came out recently.
Tomorrowland Weekend 2 is still ahead. It will be worth watching which songs hold their Top 10 spots and which keep gaining plays.
It’s also worth seeing whether a different mix of tracks starts showing up once the second weekend’s data gets added to 2026’s totals.