Coachella 2025 is about to kick off later this afternoon, and with it, this 12 months’s live performance pageant season is lastly underway.
CAA has a clear sweep over this 12 months’s headliners, as music business listing Rostr’s annual Coachella breakdown reveals, with the company representing Woman Gaga, Inexperienced Day and Submit Malone (its music division is run by companion Rob Gentle). Wasserman, nonetheless, is on the high of this 12 months’s Coachella leaderboard total, reserving essentially the most acts of all of the companies with 32 listed on the invoice. (Rostr’s checklist doesn’t embrace Coachella’s ancillary music occasions such because the Do Lab).
CAA is in second-place with 28, UTA‘s received 21 (although they’d 23 earlier than Anitta and Gel needed to cancel their units) together with with William Morris Endeavor, which additionally has 21 artists as Weezer got here onto the invoice final week with Wasserman’s Ed Sheeran.
Other than the headliners, this 12 months’s Coachella lineup boasts a star-studded roster together with Travis Scott, Missy Elliot, The Misfits, Charli xcx and Megan Thee Stallion amongst others. As The Hollywood Reporter first reported this week, Weezer remains to be anticipated to play the pageant on Saturday simply days after bass participant Scott Shriner’s spouse Jillian Lauren was shot by police whereas authorities had been chasing down suspects in a hit-and-run case.
Sheeran, in the meantime, will take a Saturday afternoon set for weekend two. The famous person is in full help mode for his newest single “Azizam,” and his upcoming eighth album is on the way in which as properly. This 12 months’s pageant received off to a little bit of a chaotic begin earlier than doorways have even opened, as festival-goers had voiced their frustration about excessively lengthy traces to get into the automotive tenting space, with some reporting waits so long as 12 hours.
