Billie Eilish, Kanye to headline much-postponed Coachella in April

Billie Eilish and Kanye West are slated to headline the 2022 version of North America’s largest (and four-time postponed) music competition – Coachella.

Reporting this, ‘Variety’ famous that Swedish House Mafia (SHM) can be on the invoice, though it’s unclear whether or not the group is the already-sold-out competition’s third headliner – the normal “throwback” slot for the reunion of a extra veteran artiste.

West headlined the competition in 2011 and Eilish had a breakthrough efficiency in 2019 (she can be the youngest artiste to high the Coachella invoice); SHM beforehand carried out at Coachella in 2012.

The competition is scheduled to happen over the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022, at its standard location: Empire Polo Ground in Indio, California.

The alarming Omicron surge and the postponement of the Grammy Awards, nonetheless, has left many questioning whether or not the competition will happen in April, or be moved – for a fifth time – to a later date.

Coachella has already bought out its 125,000 per-day tickets, and the sheer logistics of greater than 100,000 folks travelling to and gathering at a single location create immeasurable prospects for illness transmission, in response to ‘Variety’.

The unique headliners of this twenty first installment of the competition — first introduced in January 2020 — have been Travis Scott, Frank Ocean and Rage Against the Machine, the competition has been postponed because of the pandemic 4 occasions. Last 12 months, Ocean moved his look to 2023, and Scott was dropped from the invoice within the wake of the Astroworld tragedy in November.

Rage, too, is reported to be off the invoice.