Coachella Lineup in September? Why the Festival Is Going on Sale So Early in 2026

On Tuesday (Sept. 16), performance promotion institution Goldenvoice released the lineup for the 2026 Coachella festival, with headliners Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G and Justin Bieber topping a packed measure that besides includes Turnstile, Teddy Swims, Devo, David Bryne, Young Thug, Iggy Pop and a acceptable by physics creator Anyma.

The lineup for this year’s festival was announced acold earlier than successful past years and reflects a increasing inclination successful the festival concern to get connected merchantability aboriginal — passes for adjacent year’s variation spell connected merchantability Friday (Sept. 19) — and merchantability arsenic galore tickets arsenic possible. Like Electric Daisy Carnival successful Las Vegas, Coachella is fundamentally connected merchantability year-round. Less than 2 weeks aft the 2025 festival wrapped connected April 20, aboriginal vertebrate tickets went connected merchantability for Coachella 2026.

Many fans bargain Coachella tickets successful advance, knowing they’ll be nary substance who plays the festival. But income for the event, for which GA tickets are priced astatine $549 per person, truly ramp up aft the lineup is announced. For astir of the 2010s, the festival’s lineup wasn’t announced until the archetypal week of January. That forced different festivals with artists connected their lineup who were besides playing Coachella to clasp backmost their lineup announcements until Coachella organizers announced theirs.

That began to alteration aft the pandemic, opening successful 2024, erstwhile the lineup was announced 1 week aboriginal than normal, connected Jan. 16. Unfortunately, the lineup — which featured headliners Tyler, the Creator, Lana Del Rey and Doja Cat — didn’t click with fans and tickets to the archetypal weekend, which had antecedently sold retired successful hours, took weeks to merchantability through. Ultimately, astir 160,000 tickets were sold for Coachella successful 2024, oregon 80,000 per weekend, according to a study from authorities officials successful Indio.

For the 2025 festival, headlined by Lady Gaga, Green Day and Travis Scott, Coachella organizers enactment tickets connected merchantability successful mid-November and came acold person to reaching capacity, with income of 120,000 tickets per weekend, sources archer Billboard.

This year, Coachella organizers are doubling down connected their ticketing strategy for the 2025 festival — erstwhile tickets went connected merchantability six weeks up of New Year’s — by putting them connected merchantability astir 3 and a fractional months earlier than erstwhile years. One booking cause who has booked respective acts to play Coachella says the longer pb tim...