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Coachella Lineup in September? Why the Festival Is Going on Sale So Early in 2026
On Tuesday (Sept. 16), concert promotion company Goldenvoice released the lineup for the 2026 Coachella festival, with headliners Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G and Justin Bieber topping a packed bill that also includes Turnstile, Teddy Swims, Devo, David Bryne, Young Thug, Iggy Pop and a set by electronic artist Anyma.
The lineup for this year’s festival was announced far earlier than in past years and reflects a growing trend in the festival business to get on sale early — passes for next year’s edition go on sale Friday (Sept. 19) — and sell as many tickets as possible. Like Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, Coachella is essentially on sale year-round. Less than two weeks after the 2025 festival wrapped on April 20, early bird tickets went on sale for Coachella 2026.
Many fans buy Coachella tickets in advance, knowing they’ll attend no matter who plays the festival. But sales for the event, for which GA tickets are priced at $549 per person, really ramp up after the lineup is announced. For most of the 2010s, the festival’s lineup wasn’t announced until the first week of January. That forced other festivals with artists on their lineup who were also playing Coachella to hold back their lineup announcements until Coachella organizers announced theirs.
That began to change after the pandemic, beginning in 2024, when the lineup was announced one week later than normal, on Jan. 16. Unfortunately, the lineup — which featured headliners Tyler, the Creator, Lana Del Rey and Doja Cat — didn’t click with fans and tickets to the first weekend, which had previously sold out in hours, took weeks to sell through. Ultimately, approximately 160,000 tickets were sold for Coachella in 2024, or 80,000 per weekend, according to a report from government officials in Indio.
For the 2025 festival, headlined by Lady Gaga, Green Day and Travis Scott, Coachella organizers put tickets on sale in mid-November and came far closer to reaching capacity, with sales of 120,000 tickets per weekend, sources tell Billboard.
This year, Coachella organizers are doubling down on their ticketing strategy for the 2025 festival — when tickets went on sale six weeks ahead of New Year’s — by putting them on sale nearly three and a half months earlier than previous years. One booking agent who has booked several acts to play Coachella says the longer lead time is just a reflection of today’s consumer landscape.
“Coachella is still the biggest festival in the world and a massive platform for the biggest artists in the world, but there’s just a lot more competition for consumer dollars,” the booking agent source, speaking on background, tells Billboard. “The sooner festivals like Coachella can go on sale to consumers, the sooner they can start ticket sales and work towards selling the tens of thousands of tickets it takes for each weekend to sell out.”
Entertainment
A Timeline of the Consequences Ye Has Faced for His ‘WLM’ Shirts & Antisemitic Hate Speech
Ye (formerly Kanye West) is facing very public reckoning. The “Hurricane” rapper made headlines at his Yeezy Paris Fashion Week show on Oct. 3, 2022, for wearing a shirt emblazoned with the phrase “White Lives Matter” on its back, and featuring Black models in the shirt. The phrase is one that was adopted by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, and the rapper has been facing backlash from both fans and celebrities online.
But the controversy did not stop for there for Ye, who has doubled down on his comments on Instagram and later took to Twitter (now X) to use antisemitic rhetoric in his posts, then continued to amplify his hate speech in interviews. The reaction from the public was swift, with several companies — including The Gap, Balenciaga and more — terminating their relationships and brand deals with the rapper.
Forbes reported that Ye has lost his billionaire status after Adidas announced Oct. 25, 2022, that it was dropping his deal, and that the brand does not tolerate hate speech. The move, according to the publication, put Ye’s net worth at $400 million and resulted in his removal from Forbes‘ billionaires list.
Since then, Adidas has opened an internal investigation after several former employees accused West of inappropriate workplace conduct during meetings with Adidas employees. People in his orbit, from former girlfriend Julia Fox to collaborator Pusha T, have also distanced themselves from him. Furthermore, Ye’s Nov. 22, 2022, dinner with Donald Trump and white nationalist Nick Fuentes was widely denounced, even by Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence.
From brands and scrapped documentaries, to airplay declines of his music catalogue, his later apologies and more, here are the consequences Kanye West has faced due to his “WLM” and antisemitic remarks and hate speech.
*Editor’s Note: After an Oct. 8, 2022, tweet in which he announced he was going “death con [sic] 3 on Jewish people,” Kanye West (Ye) has repeatedly doubled down on antisemitic hate speech, even going so far as to praise Hitler, a man responsible for the systematic murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. This arrives at a troubling time when antisemitism is on the rise, with the Anti-Defamation League noting a 34% year-over-year increase in antisemitic incidents (assault, harassment and vandalism) in America in 2021. Many companies have cut business ties with the rapper/fashion designer, while numerous musicians, friends and politicians have condemned his comments.
They are fearless, they are powerful and they are back with new music. K-pop girl group LE SSERAFIM announced via Weverse on Sunday (April 12) the release date for their second studio album, PUREFLOW pt. 1 and the lead single “CELEBRATION.” PUREFLOW pt. 1 will drop on May 22 with the single coming out April 24.
The girl group began teasing its comeback on April 7 with a cryptic Instagram post with the hashtag “#TimeToCelebrate.” Fans were quick to react in the posts’ comments asking, “What are we celebrating,” while others responded simply with “Finally.”
Alongside the news of the upcoming album and single, the K-pop girl group also shared a video for the PUREFLOW on its social media channels and record label HYBE’s YouTube channel. In the video, the phrase “For we are not fearless, and therefore powerful” materializes before “powerful” transforms into the word PUREFLOW. The same message appears in the caption.
PUREFLOW is the follow-up record to LE SSERAFIM’s 2023 debut studio album, UNFORGIVEN, and the first release since its 2025 single “SPAGHETTI” featuring j-hope of BTS. Since the group’s debut in 2022 with EP FEARLESS, LE SSERAFIM has taken the stage at both the MTV VMAs and EMAs, achieved major chart success on the Billboard 200 and performed at Coachella in 2024. LE SSERAFIM’s second EP, ANTIFRAGILE, debuted and peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard 200, marking the band’s first time on the chart. UNFORGIVEN earned the group its first top 10 placement on the Billboard 200 when it rose to a peak of No. 6 in May 2023.
Young Thug was very communicative with the desert audience during his Coachella set on Sunday night (April 12). Among the VIPs in the crowd to pull up with a front-row view to his performance were North West and Teyana Taylor.
“What’s up, North? How you doing? Where your parents?” Thug said while asking about Kim Kardashian and Ye (formerly Kanye West).
He gave another shout-out to Ye and Kim’s eldest daughter later in the show. “I want y’all to make some noise for North,” Thugger continued. “She in this motherf—ker. You just casually having fun.”
Ahead of performing the top 15 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Hot” sans Gunna, Thugger instructed the crowd to open up some mosh pits, as captured in a fan video. “Give me a mosh pit over here. North, get out of the way. Teyana, get out the way. I don’t see one yet. What is this, not English? Where North at, man, protect North,” he said while looking out for the 12-year-old.
Thug also took a playful jab at Teyana Taylor in the audience, as he was looking to have the Harlem native style him for the performance. Thugger opted for colorful braids and a bedazzled black SP5DER football jersey to go with a pair of diamond-encrusted leather pants.
“Teyana Taylor in here, what’s up. I’ve been tryna get in touch with her for, like, the last month. I wanted her to style me, man. She just too big. [She] wasn’t calling back, talking about, ‘We promise she gonna call back later, we promise she’s rehearsing.’ I’m like, ‘What she rehearsing for?'”
Thugger’s set was a roller-coaster ride throughout all the eras of his unique career. He even brought a few special guests to the stage, as Camila Cabello, Ty Dolla $ign and NAV all joined him.
Watch a clip of Camila Cabello’s “Havana” performance with Thug below.
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