Dua Lipa's First Real Coachella Set Will Be a Headlining One

Tame Impala and SZA take Saturday and Sunday, Daddy Yankee gets a special fourth slot and Madonna returns to the Dance Tent.

Dua Lipa has been on a Coachella stage exactly once, as a guest singing one song in Martin Garrix's set a few months before her first album came out. Next April she closes Friday night.

Coachella put out its 2027 lineup late Tuesday. Lipa headlines Friday, Tame Impala takes Saturday and SZA closes Sunday, and Daddy Yankee gets a fourth top billing for a special production. Pitchfork ran the bill overnight. Past Lipa, the top of the poster mostly brings people back. The festival's Instagram caption read "The return to innocence," The Hollywood Reporter noted.

Tame Impala first played the festival in 2011, came back in 2013 and 2015 and headlined in 2019, Rolling Stone reported. Kevin Parker, the band's frontman, worked as a producer on many of the songs on Lipa's 2024 album Radical Optimism, and she joined his band onstage in London in May. So Friday's and Saturday's headliners share a producer.

SZA played Coachella in 2016 and 2018 and made a cameo during Justin Bieber's headlining set this year, according to Billboard. She also beat the festival to its own news: Variety reported she teased the headliners on social media, and Rolling Stone said an Instagram comment of hers seemed to confirm them.

Then there's Madonna, billed near the top and headed back to the Dance Tent. Variety noted she played that tent in 2006, when Confessions on a Dance Floor was out. This April she turned up during weekend two of Sabrina Carpenter's set to debut their single "Bring Your Love." There, she told the crowd she'd come back "in the same boots, the same corset" she wore two decades earlier, Rolling Stone reported.

Daddy Yankee's slot is the kind Variety says usually goes to a bonus fourth headliner. This year, the year Anyma filled out the top line, Karol G was the first Latina solo act ever to top the festival's main stage, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rolling Stone said it isn't clear yet which dates Daddy Yankee will play.

Below them, the poster runs from Phoebe Bridgers, Weezer and Kygo down to Robyn, Giorgio Moroder and Magdalena Bay, all spread over two weekends, April 9-11 and April 16-18, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.

Passes go on sale Friday at noon Pacific on the festival's website, which is already selling hotel-and-pass bundles for both weekends. Anyone who strikes out can stream both weekends on YouTube, which returns as the festival's exclusive livestream for a 15th year.

Nearly everyone at the top of this poster is coming back to the desert. Lipa's the one who doesn't have any old boots to bring.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter, retrieved November 11, 2026. Other sources: Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, the Coachella festival's website.