Coachella Sells Out Both Weekends of 2026 Festival

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A lineup that includes Justin Bieber's archetypal performance since 2022 helped the long-running Southern California festival merchantability retired successful astir 4 days.

Above & Beyond performs astatine  the Outdoor Theatre astatine  the 2025 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival connected  April 12, 2025 successful  Indio, California.

Above & Beyond performs astatine the Outdoor Theatre astatine the 2025 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival connected April 12, 2025 successful Indio, California. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

As it turns out, Coachella didn’t request each that other clip to merchantability tickets.

Last week, the euphony festival went connected sale months earlier than successful erstwhile years arsenic portion of a concerted effort to sell arsenic galore tickets arsenic imaginable aft falling abbreviated of selling retired 2 years successful a row. By going connected merchantability Friday (Sept. 19), Coachella’s organizer, Goldenvoice, gave itself 7 months to merchantability retired of the 250,000 tickets it puts connected merchantability for the two-weekend festival.

But acknowledgment to a beardown lineup, which includes Justin Bieber‘s archetypal performance since 2022, Coachella sold retired of tickets successful astir 4 days — an unthinkable feat for a mature festival that few, if any, manufacture watchers saw coming.

After all, the festival concern is simply a reasonably mature manufacture that has dramatically changed since the pre-pandemic play erstwhile festivals similar Coachella sold retired acknowledgment to beardown bookings similar Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Kanye West and Frank Ocean. A decennary ago, Coachella and its state euphony counterpart Stagecoach were monoliths successful festival-friendly Southern California, but today, consumers person much options than ever to walk their amusement dollars.

Not lone are determination much festivals to take from than a decennary ago, but festivals are present competing against headliner acts similar Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen, each of whom tin easy capable a stadium and complaint fractional arsenic overmuch arsenic Goldenvoice needs to complaint to interruption adjacent connected its elaborate yearly festival successful the desert.

The information that Goldenvoice sold retired the festival aft 2 years of missing the people successful 1 of the astir competitory festival environments to day is an awesome feat and a testament to some its beardown lineup this twelvemonth and user spot successful the prime of the Coachella marque and the wide instrumentality experience.


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