Highlights
- Dua Lipa, Tame Impala and SZA will headline Coachella 2027, with Daddy Yankee as a special fourth headliner.
- SZA leaked the lineup early on Instagram, telling a critic to go see the other two headliners instead.
- Lipa makes her first proper Coachella appearance after reportedly picking Glastonbury over it in 2023.
SZA spoiled the surprise, and Coachella confirmed it anyway. Dua Lipa, SZA and Tame Impala will headline Coachella 2027, festival officials announced on Wednesday.
The nightly split is tidy. Lipa takes Friday, Tame Impala gets Saturday, and SZA closes Sunday, while Daddy Yankee joins as a fourth top-billed headliner with a special production.
Coachella went cryptic for the reveal. The festival’s Instagram announcement read, “The return to innocence,” with passes going on sale Friday, Nov. 13, at noon PT.
Nobody needed the poster. SZA had already posted on her private Instagram, “See u f-kers in the desert.”
She made it plain. “I said yes to the big show,” she wrote.
Then a hater wandered into her comments. Her reply was blunt: “you can literally go see the other two headliners.”
She named names, too. She identified Lipa and Tame Impala as the other two before adding, “I’m still headlining.”
The post and the clapback have since been deleted. The internet, naturally, kept screenshots.
SZA also owned the chaos. “Saying yes when ur unprepared is crazy,” she admitted, while heading to Tahiti to work on her album.
New music is clearly brewing. After fans reacted to her beachside microphone teaser, she wrote on her Story, “Wait Yall really missed me?”
This will be SZA’s first time headlining the festival. She played sets in 2016 and 2018 and popped up during Justin Bieber‘s 2026 headlining set.
Lipa’s story is the juicier one. She’s never actually been on the lineup, with her only Coachella stage time coming as a guest during Martin Garrix‘s 2017 set.
She’ll also become the festival’s first solo female British headliner.
The desert has courted her before. An insider told The Sun‘s Bizarre column that Lipa “initially was in talks with Coachella in 2023” before picking Glastonbury instead.
That gamble paid off. She headlined Glastonbury in 2024, posting, “I have dreamt of this moment all my life.”
Kevin Parker of Tame Impala guested during that set. Remember that, because the Lipa-Parker pipeline runs deep.
Parker worked extensively as a producer and songwriter on Radical Optimism, and Lipa joined Tame Impala onstage in London this past May. Anyone betting against a Friday or Saturday crossover cameo hasn’t been paying attention.
Parker, meanwhile, is a desert lifer. This marks Tame Impala’s second turn as Coachella headliner, with Deadbeat tour dates stretching through next June.
Parker first topped the bill in 2019 after playing earlier sets.
The undercard is stacked. Daddy Yankee, Madonna, Phoebe Bridgers, Don Toliver, Zara Larsson, Weezer and Dom Dolla are all on board. Kehlani, Peggy Gou, Tove Lo, Jorja Smith, Martin Garrix, Kygo and Robyn round out a deep bill.
Earlier rumors had floated BTS and Drake as possible main acts. Coachella went with a pop diva, a psych-rock savant and the woman who leaked her own booking.
The festival returns to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, on April 9-11 and April 16-18.
