Coachella 2022 lineup announced: Festival includes Harry Styles, Kanye West and Billie Eilish
After skipping 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the festival is expected to return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio in April. See the full lineup.
The lineup of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will include headliners Harry Styles, Billie Eilish and Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West), festival organizers announced Wednesday evening.
The festival, which is planned for April 15-17 and April 22-24 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Other notable names on the lineup include a reunion of EDM supergroup Swedish House Mafia, Megan Thee Stallion, Disclosure, Danny Elfman, Louis the Child, Doja Cat, Stromae, Giveon, Anitta and more.
The event also includes 88Rising’s Head in the Clouds Forever. Goldenvoice produced 88Rising’s expanded Head in the Clouds festival featuring Asian artists in Pasadena in November.
The beloved Do Lab will also be back.
Promoter Goldenvoice put pre-sale passes for Coachella 2022 on sale in June. They sold out within hours and fans could join a waitlist for three-day passes, which were priced at $449-$499 plus fees for general admission and $929-$1,049 plus fees for VIP. Weekend 1 is sold out but sales for remaining Weekend 2 tickets begin at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 14. Prices have gone up to $549 for a general admission pass, $633 for a general admission pass with shuttle access and $1,119 for a VIP pass. Those prices do not include fees.
YAY!
Presale for Weekend 2 starts Friday 1/14 at 10am PT. Weekend 1 is sold out. Register now at https://t.co/qujCsdCWkp pic.twitter.com/cEp5iNJY9M
— Coachella (@coachella) January 13, 2022
The original Coachella 2020 lineup included a reunited Rage Against the Machine topping the bill along with Frank Ocean and Travis Scott. In media reports from 2021, Goldenvoice’s Paul Tollett said that Ocean would not appear in 2022 but return in 2023. Rapper Scott is facing multiple lawsuits after 10 people died at his Astroworld festival in Houston in November 2021.
Eilish was the breakout star of the festival in 2019, when she performed to an overflowing crowd at the Outdoor Theatre stage. West, who recently changed his name to Ye and performed a show at the L.A. Coliseum, headlined the festival in 2011. However, he appeared at the second weekend of Coachella 2019 in the festival’s campgrounds with his star-studded “Sunday Service” religious revue on Easter Sunday.
Coachella started in 1999 at the Indio venue and the 2022 festival will be the event’s 21st edition. It attracts 125,000 people each weekend and traditionally kicks off festival season in the U.S. In October, Goldenvoice announced that it had inked a deal for year-round control of the Empire Polo Club. Coachella’s sister event, the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, which was also canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19, will follow Coachella’s twin weekends and return April 29-May 1.
Due to the dust and winds in Indio, masks were not an uncommon sight at Coachella before the pandemic, and the festival’s website suggests face coverings “to protect against desert dust.” Last August, Goldenvoice’s parent company AEG Presents had announced that proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 would be required for admission into its events but that rule has since been amended for its large outdoor festivals. As of early Wednesday, Jan. 12, Coachella’s website still cites the change being due to “seeing first-hand the low transmission data and successful implementation of safety protocols at our festivals recently, alongside the rising vaccination rate of eligible Americans.” That language was removed by Wednesday evening, but it said that the current policy is that attendees must provide proof of full vaccination or a negative test taken within 72 hours of the event.
Coachella and Stagecoach were scheduled to take place over three weekends in April 2020 but were canceled by the order of Riverside County’s Public Health Officer due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus a month before the events. Then, the festivals moved to October 2020, but the county pulled the plug in June 2020 because of concerns of another wave.
Later set for April 2021, Riverside County signed the order to cancel Coachella and Stagecoach for a third time last January amid the deadly winter surge.
With the rise of the omicron variant in recent weeks, other events have altered or canceled their in-person festivities due to the pandemic. The Grammy Awards, which were set for Crypto.com arena Jan. 31, have been postponed and a new date has not yet been announced. In the Coachella Valley, the Palm Springs International Film Festival canceled its gala and in-person screenings for 2022.
Friday, April 15 and April 22
Harry Styles
Lil Baby
Daniel Caesar
Phoebe Bridgers
Big Sean
Groupo Frime
Louis the Child
Baby Keem
Still Woozy
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Snoh Aalegra
City Girls
Madeon
Niki
Lane8
Pink Sweat$
Omar Apollo
Black Coffee
Idles
Peggy Gou
Epik High
The Marias
Carly Rae Jepsen
Spiritualized
Daphni
The Martinez Brothers
Bishop Briggs
Mika
Slowthai
Cordae
Badbadnotgood
The Avalanches
Role Model
Artbat
Damian Lazarus
Tokimonsta
Princess Nokia
Pup
The Regrettes
Raveena
Purple Disco Machine
Arooj Aftab
Amyl and the Sniffers
Dom Dolla
Logic1000
The Chats
The Hu
John Summit
Jean Dawson
Code Orange
Ela Minus
Jayda G
Lost Kings
Lawrence
GG Magree
Giselle Woo and the Night Owls
Sohmi
Meute
DJ Lord
Dear Humans
Saturday April 16 and 23
Billie Eilish
Flume
Megan Thee Stallion
Disclosure
21 Savage
Danny Elfman
Stromae
Giveon
Anitta
Brockhampton
Rich Brian
Girl in Red
Wallows
Isaiah Rashad
Caribou
Cuco
Conan Gray
Koffee
Tchami
Dixon
Caroline Polachek
Turnstile
100 Gecs
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib
Pabllo Vittar
Hot Chip
DJ Koze
Floating Points
Steve Lacy
Arlo Parks
Rina Sawayama
Japanese Breakfast
Masego
Chelsea Cutler
Nicki Nicole
Richie Hawtin
Beach Bunny
Amber Mark
Ed Maverick
Current Joys
Black Midi
Chris Liebing
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Innerwave
Anna
Holly Humberstone
Nilüfer Yanya
L’Impératrice
Emo Nite
Alaina Castillo
Paco Osuna
Beach Goons
VNSSA
Mannequin Pussy
Sama’
Abdul Hady
Whipped Cream
DJ Holographic
Yard Act
Layla Benitez
Miane
Sunday, April 17 and 24
Ye
Doja Cat
Joji
Jamie XX
Run the Jewels
Karol G
Maggie Rogers
Ari Lennox
Banda MS
Fatboy Slim
Måneskin
J.I.D
Slander
Solomun
Jessie Reyez
Denzel Curry
Finneas
Vince Staples
Dave
Fred Again..
Duck Sauce
Chicano Batman
Duke DuMont
Kim Petras
Orville Peck
Natanael Cano
Beabadoobee
Belly
The Blessed Madonna and Honey Dijon
Alec Benjamin
Ali Gatie
Surf Curse
Michael Bibi
Nathy Peluso
Maxo Kream
Bedouin
Emotional Oranges
Channel Tres
Yola
Haydn James
Molchat Doma
Crumb
Olivia O’Brien
Griselda
Eyedress
Sampa the Great
Satori
Viagra Boys
Adam Port
Altin Gün
Skegss
Luttrell
Mariah the Scientist
Amémé
Cariño
Cole Knight