Who Will Headline Festival Next Year?
Glastonbury Pageant took place at Deserving Farm in Somerset in South West England this prior weekend (June 28-30), headlined by Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA. The festival is inarguably the pinnacle of the U.K.’s competitors year as 200,000 followers head to the British countryside for a diversified lineup. SEVENTEEN, Burna Boy, Camila Cabello, Avril Lavigne and Shania Twain all performed on the month-to-month bill, with each other with increasing names like The Final Evening meal Get with each other, Kneecap, English Instructor and extra.
Converse has now turned to following year’s edition. Pageant manager Emily Eavis has verified that she’s previously in discussion with artists for up coming year’s lineup, and that they’ll obtain their common fallow year in 2026. These are the functions that are maybe in contention to headline the 2025 edition.
Oasis
Converse of the Gallagher brothers reuniting is now a fixture in the chatter all more than chance headliners. The group – helmed by brothers Noel and Liam – headlined at the time (in 2004) prior to their acrimonious split in 2009, nonetheless there’s a feeling of unfinished business enterprise enterprise. Both of these have carried out at the pageant in current yrs: Noel warmed up the crowd for Paul McCartney just ahead of his epic 2022 slot, although Liam took a equivalent slot in 2019. This summertime, Liam embarked on a marketed-out U.K. tour for the 30th anniversary of Oasis’ debut album, Unquestionably Maybe. The pair lately denied a report that recommended displays ended up imminent, but it is the rumor that just will not go absent.
Taylor Swift
Similarly, it feels as if Taylor Swift is at some position destined to headline the Pyramid Stage. Swift was thanks to look at main billing in 2020 alongside Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar ahead of COVID location touring on maintain. Publish-pandemic, Swift returned with her blockbuster The Eras Tour. Given that the festival’s expenditures are famously pretty low, and that the Eras run concludes in December 2024, a return could be difficult to negotiate.
Harry Models
It’s maybe a shock to uncover out that Harry Kinds hasn’t topped the month-to-month bill for Glastonbury but. His former band A individual Direction below no situations acquired the invite and, as it stands, the 30-yr-outdated has but to comprehensive at Worthy Farm. That could transform, although: a new album is reportedly in production, his pretty initial thinking about the truth that 2022’s Billboard 200-topping Harry’s Household. There ended up rumors he would make an appear all through Shania Twain’s Legends slot in 2024, but potentially he’s maintaining out for future year….
Sam Fender
For the previous ten years, possibilities for British artists to ascend to headliner status at Glastonbury have been slim. If there is a queue forming, nonetheless, Sam Fender would be at the front of it. The Newcastle-born musician’s subsequent album Seventeen Likely Under went to No. 1 on the U.K.’s Formal Album Charts, and previous summer season he played a enormous show at St. James Park, his property city’s soccer stadium. In 2022, he played prior to headliner Billie Eilish on the Pyramid Phase. With album a couple of thanks later this 12 months, this could be the immediate.
Raye
Likewise, only a handful of females of all ages – Florence + The Device, Adele, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and SZA – have headlined the pageant in most up-to-date history, some point Eavis is keen to rectify. Raye is a excellent possibility. The British artist had a worldwide hit in 2023 with “Escapism,” feat. 070 Shake, which landed at No. 22 on the Billboard Scorching 100 — and she scooped up a history-breaking six Brit Awards in February 2024. She headlined her pretty initial competitors at BBC Radio 1’s Significant Weekend in May nicely and the trajectory suggests Glasto could be upcoming.
Madonna
Madonna was closely rumored to pick out the Sunday headline slot in 2024 till negotiations reportedly broke down above a efficiency cost. The Celebration Tour – which grossed a exceptional $225.4 million, for each Billboard Boxscore – wrapped in Might 2024, but a show out of her touring cycle could be a lot a lot more manageable and achievable.
Rihanna
The Barbadian star has also flirted with a effectiveness at the festival and has been drastically rumored in the prior. In 2023, it was described that she had to withdraw from the lineup thanks to the impending birth of her subsequent kid with husband A$AP Rocky. There had been becoming extra whispers earlier this 12 months, but with new audio seemingly additional a lot more absent from what Navy stans would like to visualize, most most likely 2025 is extra most likely.
Olivia Rodrigo
The “Drivers License” singer is presently in the midst of her GUTS Planet Tour, which wraps in Australia this October. It would be a short turnaround to get back on the road for June 2025 with a new report, but supplied how productive her final Glastonbury appear was in 2022, she could nicely efficiently extravagant heading back to Worthy Farm quicker somewhat than later on.
Dave
U.K. rap has liked substantial fantastic outcomes at the competitors in new quite a few years. In 2019, Stormzy grew to come to be the initial from the scene to headline the competitors. That precise similar year, Dave went viral when he brought up audience member ‘Alex from Glasto’ for a scene-stealing visual look on the mic. The U.K. artist has savored substantial business enterprise and considerable fantastic outcomes with his two documents (2019’s Psychodrama and 2021’s We’re All By itself In This Jointly), and his joint solitary “Sprinter” with Central Cee is the longest-operating rap No. 1 on the U.K. Singles Chart. If a third album materializes in advance of subsequent summer season season, appear at him a shoo-in.
Fred when a lot more..
By the time 2025’s version rolls about, an digital act will not have headlined the Pyramid Phase for two quite a few years, stretching back to Basement Jaxx’s slot in 2005. Regardless of whether or not that is by a deficiency of feasible acts or reluctance from the competitors, Fred all more than once more..’s acceptance implies a apparent path to bring dance songs back once more to the major phase. His 2023 established on The Other Phase drew 1 of the festival’s main at any time crowds and his secret sets at the 2024 edition triggered areas to be shut down hours in advance. He headlined Coachella’s subsequent weekend with Skrillex and 4 Tet in 2023 and carried out a solo set at Los Angeles’ 77,500-capacity Coliseum final thirty day period, suggesting he’s far a lot more than up for the challenge.