Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G will headline the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
It will be the first headliner set in the desert for all three artists. Other artists set for North America’s largest music festival include the xx, Disclosure, Teddy Swims, Sexyy Red, Katseye, Central Cee, Ethel Cain, Dijon and Nine Inch Noize on Friday; the Strokes, Giveon, Addison Rae, Labrinth and David Byrne on Saturday; and Young Thug, Bigbang, Major Lazer, Iggy Pop, FKA twigs and Subtronics on Sunday.
Italian DJ Anyma will play the unofficial fourth headliner spot – occupied this year by Travis Scott – on Saturday night after Bieber. He will reportedly debut a show called Æden.
The earlier than usual announcement – last year’s lineup was revealed in late November, and the prior year in January – comes just two weeks after Bieber surprise released Swag II, a 44-song follow-up to July’s surprise release Swag, his first album in four years. His Saturday night slot marks Bieber’s first billed Coachella set and a return to the stage; while the Canadian singer has offered occasional small sets, most recently appearing with SZA to perform a remix of Snooze in May, he has not performed a full concert since 2022, the year he canceled his Justice tour after 49 shows owing to health issues.
In a statement shared on social media at the time, the singer said: “After getting off stage, the exhaustion overtook me and I realized that I need to make my health the priority right now. So I’m going to take a break from touring for the time being. I’m going to be OK, but I need time to rest and get better.”
Carpenter returns to the desert after making her Coachella debut just last year, before the whirlwind success of her album Short n’ Sweet. Her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, which the Guardian’s Shaad D’Souza called “one of the year’s singular, musically provocative pop records”, was released in August.
And the popular Colombian singer Karol G, who made her Coachella debut in 2022, dropped her fifth album, Tropicoqueta, in June. Her headliner set will be her first full show behind the album, and make her the first Latina to headline the festival, after Bad Bunny became the first Latin artist in 2023. She most recently performed in early September in São Paulo, Brazil, as the halftime act for an international game between the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers.
Lady Gaga, Green Day, Scott and Post Malone headlined last year – the hottest Coachella on record, with temperatures reaching upwards of 102F (39C) on the first weekend.
Coachella will be held at its usual site, the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, over two weekends in 2026: 10-12 April and 17-19 April.
