Bieber headlines Coachella
Justin Bieber took a headlining slot at Coachella — he was scheduled to close a day at 11:25 p.m. PDT on Saturday — with Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G also listed among the festival’s headliners. (newsweek.com) Organizers even programmed an unusual crossover: an exclusive early‑hours screening of Euphoria season 3 for campers in the early hours of Sunday, April 12. (glamour.com) Local coverage flagged Bieber and The Strokes as major day‑two draws. (abc7.com)
Justin Bieber closed Coachella’s Saturday program with a headlining set scheduled for 11:25 p.m. Pacific time on April 11 in Indio, California. (usatoday.com) Coachella’s 2026 lineup put Bieber alongside Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G at the top of the bill for the festival’s two weekends, April 10 to 12 and April 17 to 19, at the Empire Polo Club. (coachellavalley.com) Saturday’s draw was not just Bieber. Local television station ABC7 Los Angeles highlighted Bieber and The Strokes as two of day two’s biggest attractions as crowds returned to the desert on April 11. (abc7.com) The set also fit a broader reset for Coachella’s top line. After years dominated by rap, rock, and reunion acts, the 2026 poster leaned heavily on global pop, with Carpenter, Bieber, and Karol G carrying the headline slots. (coachellavalley.com) Karol G’s placement added another milestone to that shift. Outlook India reported she was billed as the festival’s first Latina headliner, putting a Spanish-language superstar at the center of Coachella’s main-stage schedule. (outlookindia.com) Organizers also turned the weekend into a streaming event beyond the polo fields. USA Today and Good Morning America reported that Coachella’s performances were available free on YouTube, with livestream coverage spread across multiple stages. (usatoday.com) (goodmorningamerica.com) Then came the crossover that made this year’s schedule look different from a standard festival bill. Warner Bros. Discovery said campers with festival wristbands could attend a first-come, first-served screening of the “Euphoria” season three premiere at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday, April 12. (press.wbd.com) Deadline said the “Euphoria” event was the first television series premiere screening in Coachella’s history, extending the festival’s programming into a late-night television launch tied to Zendaya’s HBO drama. (deadline.com) For Bieber, the booking put him at the center of a festival that now sells itself as both an in-person event and a live digital feed. By late Saturday, the biggest question was no longer whether he was on the poster, but how his headline slot would define Coachella’s second night. (glamour.com)
