Coachella is finally here!
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival's official 2022 lineup has been confirmed by Billboard, following two years of postponements and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Headliners Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), and Swedish House Mafia are among the acts confirmed.
Billboard confirmed the lineup with a source after a poster featuring the names began making the rounds on social media early Wednesday morning.
The headliners
West headlined the festival in 2011, and Eilish made her Coachella debut in 2019 (she would be the festival's youngest headlining act); SHM previously played at Coachella in 2012, and West previously headlined the festival in 2011.
This would be the former One Direction member turned Grammy Winning Artist Harry Styles to perform on the annually anticipated Arts and Music Festival.
The event, which has already sold out, is slated to take place during the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022, at the Empire Polo Ground in Indio, California, where it has been held in the past.
While there has been no official announcement, the alarming omicron rise and postponing of the Grammy Awards have left many wondering whether the festival will take place in April or whether it will be delayed for the fifth time in a row.
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Initial headliners
The 2020 festival featuring Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott, and Frank Ocean as headliners were repeatedly postponed following the pandemic.
According to a recent report from Billboard, Coachella will no longer be headlined by Scott and Rage Against the Machine.
Earlier this year, it was reported that Ocean will instead be the festival's headliner in 2023.
Scott was removed from the program following the tragic deaths of ten and almost 300 injured festivalgoers at his Astroworld festival in Houston on November 5, 2021. However, news surrounding Scott's team attempting to get a hold on the rapper's headlining spot has surfaced last week.
Planned activities for the April festival have been moving forward at a breakneck pace since the concert industry started a partial return to regular operation last summer.
Several major festivals, including Lollapalooza and Rolling Loud, were held without incident, though both Travis Scott's Astroworld in Houston and the Once Upon a Time in L.A. festival were marred by tragedy: rapper Drakeo, the Ruler, was murdered at the latter in an unsolved backstage incident.
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