![]() The full lineup appears below in alphabetical order, after this year’s official Coachella poster. Since then it has become the most popular and profitable annual music festival in the world. It took several years after that for the festival to break even. The festival returned in 2001, after Goldenvoice was acquired by AEG Entertainment, the world’s second largest concert and live entertainment production company. The festival was launched in 1999, when the then-fledgling event lost so much money that it went dark in 2000 as its promoters, the Los Angeles-based Goldenvoice company, struggled to pay off its losses. This year’s edition of Coachella will mark the 20th anniversary of the festival. No figures have been reported yet for the 2018 festival, but the 2017 edition of Coachella grossed a record $114.6 million, the most earned by any annual festival ever.Īpproximately 20 percent of the attendees each year hail from San Diego County, according to Coachella’s producers, who track ticket sales by ZIP code. Both weekends swiftly sold out, with many tickets bought - as in previous years - before a single act was announced.ĭaily attendance at the festival has been capped at 125,000 since 2017 (it had been capped at 99,000 for the 2016 edition). The 2018 edition of Coachella - headlined by Beyoncé, The Weeknd and Eminem - marked the first time in the event’s two-decade history that not a single rock act was in one of the daily headlining slots. The festival began posting a list of its 2019 performers, one act at a time, Wednesday afternoon on its Twitter page, beginning with Oxnard-based disco revivalist Cola Boyy and Tobago-born calypso singer Calypso Rose, who - at 78 - will likely be one of the most veteran performers at this year’s festival.Īlso on Wednesday, a number of news outlets reported that Kanye West had apparently been confirmed as one of the 2019 Coachella headliners but pulled out after a dispute over the size of the over-sized stage he wanted erected for his performance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Camping passes start at $125 per weekend, with VIP camping options ranging from $2,458 for two people to $9,500. ![]()
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