Sabrina Carpenter’s Weekend 2 set

Sabrina Carpenter’s Weekend 2 Coachella performance is flagged as a headline viewing moment with coverage teasing her setlist, possible guest cameos, and viewing options for international audiences (marieclaire.com.au). Marie Claire’s piece focuses on where and how viewers outside the festival can watch her set, rather than just wardrobe minutiae (marieclaire.com.au).

Sabrina Carpenter’s second Coachella 2026 headlining set was scheduled for Friday, April 17, from 9:00 p.m. to 10:40 p.m. Pacific on the main Coachella stage, with the official livestream carried on YouTube. (coachella.com) (marieclaire.com.au) Coachella’s official site says the festival is streaming April 17-19 across seven stage feeds on YouTube, and the festival’s YouTube channel says Weekend 2 streams began Friday at 4:00 p.m. Pacific. (coachella.com) (youtube.com) For viewers outside California, the timing shifts by time zone. Marie Claire Australia converted Carpenter’s Friday 9:00 p.m. Indio slot to Saturday, April 18, at 2:00 p.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time, with Adelaide at 1:30 p.m. and Perth at noon. (marieclaire.com.au) The viewing story matters because Carpenter entered this year’s festival as a first-time Coachella headliner, not a lower-bill act. Coachella’s 2026 lineup listed Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G among the top names for the two April weekends in Indio. (coachella.com) (rollingstone.com) Her first Friday set a week earlier set expectations for Weekend 2. Rolling Stone reported that Carpenter packed 20 songs into Weekend 1 and debuted tracks including “When Did You Get Hot,” “Sugar Talking,” “We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night,” and the bonus track “Such a Funny Way.” (rollingstone.com) Before the festival, Carpenter told Rolling Stone her Coachella show was “the most ambitious” she had built, after about seven months of preparation. That framed Weekend 2 less as a repeat than as a second run of a large-scale production built for the main stage. (rollingstone.com) Weekend 2 also carried the usual Coachella question of whether the guest list would change. People reported that Madonna made a surprise appearance during Carpenter’s April 17 set and that the pair performed “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer.” (people.com) The Los Angeles Times’ live blog also reported celebrity cameos including Geena Davis and Terry Crews during Carpenter’s Weekend 2 performance. That kept the focus on the set as a live event to catch in real time, not just a playlist to recap later. (latimes.com) For anyone trying to watch from home, the cleanest route was the official one: Coachella’s YouTube channel or the festival’s livestream hub, which also promoted replays, multiview on televisions, and a schedule synced to local time in the Coachella app. (coachella.com) (youtube.com) By Saturday morning outside the United States, Carpenter’s Weekend 2 set had already moved from preview to replay. The bigger takeaway was simple: one of Coachella 2026’s headline performances was built to be watched far beyond the desert, and the festival’s own stream was the main way in. (coachella.com) (youtube.com)

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