We’re solely three and a half months away from the 2023 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Competition, which suggests this 12 months’s headliners must be introduced any day now.
Nonetheless, earlier than that huge reveal comes, we wish to know who you suppose ought to take the principle stage in Indio, Calif. this April.
Frank Ocean is, clearly, the most effective guess for this 12 months’s competition within the desert, contemplating he was initially presupposed to headline the 2020 iteration together with Rage Towards the Machine and Travis Scott earlier than it was canceled by the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic. He’s additionally beforehand been introduced as one of many primary acts this April, so if that holds true, two different headliners will probably be becoming a member of him on the lineup.
Each Unhealthy Bunny and Rihanna are additionally sturdy contenders amongst Billboard‘s predictions. The previous capped off 2022 as the highest touring act of the 12 months, together with his mixed El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo & World’s Hottest Tour grossing a complete of $373.5 million and promoting 1.8 million tickets throughout 65 reveals whereas the latter will make her triumphant return to performing simply two months forward of Coachella by headlining the Tremendous Bowl LVII halftime present. May Unhealthy Bunny stroll again his plan for a quiet 2023 to convey Un Verano Sin Ti to the desert? Will Rihanna double down on her hotly anticipated Tremendous Bowl present by turning Coachella into RiRichella?
Different prospects for headliners embody Dua Lipa, SZA and Drake — the latter of whom final headlined again in 2015 earlier than he ever had a single Sizzling 100 No. 1 below his belt. BLACKPINK might additionally make a victorious return to the Empire Polo Membership in between the Asia dates of the Born Pink World Tour after making historical past on the competition 4 years in the past. Even nonetheless, much less seemingly candidates similar to Olivia Rodrigo, Kate Bush or another person completely might function this 12 months’s largest shock.
Vote for who you wish to see headline Coachella 2023 in Billboard‘s ballot under.
