Coachella 2023 was a rollercoaster experience — at the least so far as the headliners have been involved. After Frank Ocean was introduced for the 2023 version of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition even earlier than the 2022 fest came about, Dangerous Bunny and BLACKPINK rounded out the slate of headliners upon the lineup announcement earlier this 12 months. Then, an abrupt change between the primary and second weekend of the fest: Ocean pulled out of the latter as a consequence of an ankle damage, with Blink-182 and the trio of Skrillex, 4 Tet and Fred Once more.. as a substitute closing out the primary stage.
After months of anticipation, Coachella 2023 is within the rearview. Naturally, it’s time to begin questioning who will high the 2024 lineup.
We’ve received a full 12 months till Coachella 2024 and roughly 9 months till its lineup is unveiled, however we are able to begin daydreaming about which A-listers may probably be en path to the desert in April 2024. These 10 artists may feasibly high subsequent 12 months’s lineup, because of a mixture of star standing, latest business wins and/or clues that new music is within the works. For the sake of simplicity, this record doesn’t embrace any previous Coachella headliners who’re at the moment lively, like Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd or Drake — so whereas Beychella Half II can be welcomed by all far and extensive, we’re solely considering of artists who can be making their debuts as Coachella headliners, which is commonly the case for these bookings anyway.
So who’re some names to remember for 2024? Right here’s a preliminary record of A-listers who would headline subsequent 12 months’s Coachella:
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Rihanna
After rocking the Tremendous Bowl halftime present in 2023, may Rihanna lastly be headed to the desert as a Coachella headliner in 2024? Rih was closely rumored to high the 2023 pageant lineup within the spot that in the end went to BLACKPINK, and maybe the newborn bump that she revealed throughout her Tremendous Bowl LVII extravaganza final February may help clarify why.
Rihanna is about to turn out to be a mom of two, however not a lot is in any other case recognized about her subsequent 12 months – together with any timetable for the discharge of recent music, after she issued a pair of Black Panther: Wakanda Without end soundtrack cuts late final 12 months, in addition to any non-Tremendous Bowl reveals deliberate. Anytime she desires to headline the fest, Coachella will presumably be completely satisfied to have her; we’ll see whether or not or not the Navy can discover love in a hopeless place in 2024.
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Dua Lipa
“I gotta get out the studio extra and see some daylight,” Dua Lipa wrote on social media in February – a great indication that new music from the UK pop star, and maybe the follow-up to her 2020 sophomore album Future Nostalgia, are very a lot within the works. Each time Lipa does return, she’ll be capable to add her new music to an arsenal of hits, unfold out throughout her two studio albums (“Don’t Begin Now,” “Levitating,” “New Guidelines”) and one-off collaborations (“Chilly Coronary heart” with Elton John, “One Kiss” with Calvin Harris).
If Lipa’s LP3 is able to roll by this time subsequent 12 months, she would match into the mildew of latest headliners like Ariana Grande, Harry Kinds and BLACKPINK – ultra-cool A-listers with new materials to advertise and/or premiere at Coachella. The shortlist of potential pop headliners at Coachella ought to undoubtedly embrace her identify.
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SZA
The artist behind the most important music within the nation — which hit No. 1 on the Sizzling 100 after eight weeks within the runner-up spot — is on a sizzling streak that extends far past “Kill Invoice.” SZA’s long-awaited sophomore album SOS has been one of many greatest albums of the 12 months to this point and has been showered with vital acclaim, organising a possible awards-season run pushing into 2024.
The success of SOS has additionally pushed SZA into arena-headliner territory, as her tour in assist of the album has added extra dates as a consequence of excessive demand. Headlining Coachella can be the last word victory lap for a singular artist who has lengthy been beloved by R&B followers, however has just lately leveled up her business profile in each conceivable approach.
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Doja Cat
On the 2022 version of Coachella, Ye backed out because the Sunday evening headliner, and Swedish Home Mafia with particular visitor The Weeknd shifted into the empty house on the high of the invoice. Earlier than the substitute turned official, nevertheless, some followers pointed to a different potential headliner already scheduled for the primary stage on Sunday: Why not Doja Cat? In spite of everything, her 2021 album Planet Her spun off 5 high 20 Sizzling 100 hits, along with earlier smashes like “Say So” and “Streets”; moreover, Doja is a pressure of character, and though she hasn’t been within the highlight for too a few years, she instructions its presence.
Since Coachella 2022, Doja Cat has earned one other high 10 entry with the Elvis soundtrack single “Vegas,” and hopped on hits with Publish Malone and SZA. If she releases the follow-up to Planet Her earlier than the top of the 12 months, it is going to be probably the most extremely anticipated albums of 2023. And a Coachella 2024 headlining reserving can be a slam dunk, for each Doja Cat and the pageant itself.
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Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo’s 2021 debut album, Bitter, turned such a business triumph that her sophomore LP, at any time when it arrives, will likely be greeted with feverish enthusiasm. That’s why the Grammy winner for finest new artist may headline Coachella subsequent 12 months even with a restricted catalog: Rodrigo has a finite variety of launched songs, however everybody in a headliner crowd would know all of them by coronary heart, from “Drivers License” to “good 4 u” to “Deja Vu” to no matter she deems to launch subsequent.
Contemplate a possible Rodrigo reserving in 2024 much like Billie Eilish’s headlining gig at Coachella in 2022: a younger famous person with a sky-high approval score, working by the ever-present hits and beloved album cuts that just lately made her a family identify. And as a nod to the pageant’s rock roots, perhaps Veruca Salt can be a part of Rodrigo for her cowl of “Seether,” too!
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Cardi B
Just a few weeks in the past, Cardi B celebrated the five-year anniversary of the discharge of her 2018 debut album, Invasion of Privateness… in addition to the five-year anniversary of followers asking her when the follow-up will lastly arrive. It’s exhausting responsible them: Invasion of Privateness stays probably the most cohesive, engrossing hip-hop debuts in latest reminiscence, that includes No. 1 hits like “Bodak Yellow” and “I Like It.” Whereas the wait continues for Album No. 2, the rap famous person has been in a position to tide followers over with chart-topping one-off singles like “WAP” with Megan Thee Stallion and “Up.”
If a sophomore LP materializes for Cardi B within the subsequent 12 months, count on her identify to point out up within the Coachella Chance dialog. Actually, it may present up even when an album doesn’t arrive — such is her continued, all-encompassing enchantment.
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Shakira
This 12 months, Coachella made historical past by reserving Dangerous Bunny, its first headliner who information predominantly Spanish-language music. The pageant ought to contemplate giving future alternatives to Latin music artists as properly — and who higher to guide the potential 2024 headliners than Shakira, a world famous person at the moment experiencing a renaissance close to the highest of the Sizzling 100?
Shakira may have headlined any latest iteration of Coachella, because of her decades-long observe file of hits. However in 2023, the Colombian star has returned to mainstream pop prominence with a pair of high 10 singles, because of her fiery Bizarrap team-up “BZRP Music Classes, Vol. 53” and her Karol G collaboration “TQG,” which peaked at Nos. 9 and seven on the Sizzling 100, respectively. Though Shakira’s relevance inside the Latin pop group has by no means flagged, that one-two punch has returned her to the U.S. mainstream in thrilling style — and a Coachella slot may punctuate that run.
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Miley Cyrus
Talking of a veteran star coming off a rejuvenating hit: Miley Cyrus scored the most important smash of her profession earlier this 12 months when “Flowers,” the lead single to her Countless Summer time Trip album, logged eight nonconsecutive weeks on the high of the Sizzling 100. Up to now, Cyrus has headlined festivals like Lollapalooza and Austin Metropolis Limits because of a slew of previous hits and audacious stage persona — may she head to Indio subsequent 12 months armed along with her longest-running chart-topper but?
Cyrus has but to announce a tour in assist of Countless Summer time Trip, so we’ll see how precisely she plans to assist her newest full-length on the highway. If she finally ends up snagging a Coachella ’24 headlining slot, although, count on the set to turn out to be one of many extra must-see (and probably star-studded) performances of the pageant.
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BTS Members & Pals
A correct BTS headlining set at subsequent 12 months’s Coachella goes to hit an apparent roadblock: the necessary navy service required of their members, which has already halted bigger group actions in the meanwhile. Whereas members have launched into solo tasks and performances over the previous 12 months, a full-on reunion isn’t doubtless till on the very least 2025, based mostly on the members’ personal feedback on the matter.
Perhaps that precludes BTS from having a presence at subsequent 12 months’s Coachella… or perhaps the members who can carry out on the 2024 pageant get inventive, with a one-of-a-kind set that capabilities as each a showcase to latest solo endeavors and a stopgap salute to ARMY earlier than a globe-conquering group return. Think about a headlining set that includes BTS members taking part in their solo materials off of one another, particular visitors arriving to ship options, and some see-you-soon performances of the collective’s greatest hits to this point. That kind of present is unlikely at this second, however it might even be the last word care package deal to followers if they’ll pull it off.
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Taylor Swift
I imply… this works all too properly, proper? The famous person behind essentially the most in-demand tour of 2023, capping issues off along with her Coachella debut in 2024? The pageant always desires to one-up its assortment of headliners, and after a blockbuster trio in 2023, no artist would elevate the stakes fairly like Taylor Swift would as a 2024 bill-topper.
Swift has lengthy favored headlining excursions over pageant appearances, and this 12 months is not any exception along with her Eras stadium run. So, no, Taylorchella isn’t doubtless for 2024. However we are able to dream.
