It’s official: SZA will headline Coachella 2027, closing out both Sundays (April 11 and April 18) at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Dua Lipa and Tame Impala round out the top of the poster, as first reported by Variety after SZA teased the news on social media.
Dua Lipa takes Friday, Tame Impala gets Saturday, and SZA shuts it down Sunday. Reggaeton legend Daddy Yankee, who retired from music in December 2023, gets a special “In the Desert” billing at the bottom of the poster, the same kind of slot Travis Scott held in 2025, according to mxdwn and KESQ.
Who Else Is on the Bill
For our side of the culture, there’s plenty under the headliners. Kehlani, Leon Thomas, Steve Lacy and Fetty Wap are on Friday. Don Toliver, Jorja Smith and EsDeeKid are on Sunday ahead of SZA. Victoria Monét and Mariah the Scientist are also on the poster. Madonna, Phoebe Bridgers, Weezer and JISOO help round out a lineup that leans heavily pop and electronic.
This will be SZA’s third time on a Coachella bill. Billboard notes she played sets in 2016 and 2018 and popped up during Justin Bieber’s headlining set in 2026. Passes go on sale Friday at 12 p.m. PT, per TheWrap.
The IAHHM Take
This is a full-circle moment. In 2016 SZA was a TDE newcomer still building her name. A decade later she’s the name closing the whole festival, and she’s earned it. Ctrl and SOS turned her into the voice of a generation, and it’s hard to argue anybody in R&B right now has a deeper catalog of songs a crowd can sing back word for word.
The bigger story: a Black woman from R&B at the top of the Coachella poster still isn’t routine. Beyoncé’s 2018 headlining set changed the conversation for good. SZA has a chance to put her own stamp on that stage, and her recent teases about new music only raise the stakes.
Real question: What’s the one SZA song that has to be in that Sunday night set? Catch up on the latest drops in our New Music Roundup.
Source: Variety | Additional reporting: Billboard, mxdwn, KESQ
