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Monday by the Numbers: EDC and its confetti-helicopter dance fest

EDC 2014: Day 3

Steve Marcus

Fans pack the Circuit Grounds stage as Calvin Harris performs during the final night of the 2014 Electric Daisy Carnival on Sunday, June 22, 2014, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

2014 EDC: Night One

Attendees dance during the first night of the Electric Daisy Carnival early Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Launch slideshow »

2014 EDC: Night Two

A costume parade takes to the grounds during the second night of EDC at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday, June 21, 2014. Launch slideshow »

2014 EDC: Night Three

Performers, a queen bee and worker bees, attend the final day of the 2014 Electric Daisy Carnival on Sunday, June 22, 2014, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Launch slideshow »

On this Memorial Day, Monday By the Numbers is focusing on the upcoming Electric Daisy Carnival, which is set for June 19-21 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

LVMS, lest we forget, was originally conceived and built as a motorsports facility. But the only high-RPM behavior during EDC will be the blaring sights and sounds of the festival, which is like dumping Omnia at Caesars Palace into Disneyland and shaking it really hard.

Some numbers as they pertain to the event and that famed facility:

8: Number of one-of-a-kind stage designs being built for this year’s festival.

30: Hours of music scheduled.

1,500: Pounds of confetti to be dumped across the crowd during this year’s event.

200: Approximate number of artist booked to appear.

5: Number of years of EDC at LVMS.

$5,000: Cost of a privately chartered Maverick Helicopters round-trip flight for seven passengers to and from the event.

$800: Cost of a single-person, round-trip flight aboard a Maverick aircraft.

60: Number of flights each night by Maverick.

400,000: Number of attendees at 2014 EDC in Las Vegas.

80,000: Number of people who watched Armin Van Buuren’s set last year, which lasted past 2 a.m.

67,000: Estimated crowd at the first event at LVMS, an Indy Racing League race in September 1996.

$338 million: Estimated economic impact for the Las Vegas Valley from last year’s EDC event.

$1 billion: Economic impact from EDC since moving its event from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2011.

$329: Cost of a three-day, general-admission pass.

$699: Cost of a three-day VIP pass.

$100-$134: Cost of a ticket to “Absinthe” at Caesars Palace.

15: Years since Tiesto’s remix of Delerium’s “Silence,” featuring Sarah McLachlan, moved EDM toward a more mainstream audience.

$112 million: The amount, according to Forbes, earned by EDC regular and Las Vegas resident DJ Calvin Harris in 2013 and 2014, making him the highest-paid DJ in the world over the past two years.

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