Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G Headlining Coachella 2026
America’s leading music festival will return to Empire Polo Club for two weekends in April.
Autumn has only just begun, but it’s already time to get excited about next spring: The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced its 2026 lineup, led by first-time headliners Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G.
Carpenter prophesied her headliner status during her Coachella debut in 2024, when she announced during her “Nonsense” outro, “Coachella, see you back here when I headline.” She’s fresh off the release of her new album Man’s Best Friend, her second straight release to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album launched with 366,000 in first-week sales, the largest one-week figure of Carpenter’s career to date. It was preceded by the No. 1 hit “Manchild,” hailed by critics for its coy lyricism, genre-melding production, and wildly entertaining music video.
Bieber has been a regular presence at Coachella as a guest performer with friends and collaborators from Chance the Rapper to Ariana Grande, but he’s never been an official part of the lineup until now. His debut as a Coachella headliner follows his grand return this year with new albums Swag and Swag II, both of which debuted at No. 1. The albums boldly reinvented Bieber’s sound, presenting a new lo-fi minimalism drawing from pop, rock, and R&B, while maintaining his status as a surefire hit-maker through the smash singles “Daisies” and “Yukon.”
Colombian superstar Karol G also has a new hit album to her name. The Medellín native’s Tropicoqueta dropped in June, becoming one of only a small handful of Spanish-language albums by a woman to ever reach the Billboard top 3. The album includes the hits “Latina Foreva” and “Papasito,” continuing a run of classics like the Shakira collab “TQG” and the Barbie soundtrack smash “Watati.”
Coachella, the gold standard in American music festivals, is set to return to Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA this coming April 10-12 and 17-19. The vast lineup, which will mostly repeat from weekend to weekend, also features names like Disclosure, KATSEYE, Royal Otis, and Fujii Kaze.
