Coachella Announces 2020 Lineup Led By Rage Against The Machine, Travis Scott, Frank Ocean

– Frank Ocean

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival today revealed its 2020 lineup with Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean leading a bill of some 177 artists who will play on two consecutive weekends (April 10–12 and April 17-19) in Indio, Calif. Other acts announced include Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, dance-pop superstar Calvin Harris, crooner Lana Del Rey, rapper 21 Savage, U.K. dance twosome Disclosure, rap breakthrough artist Megan Thee Stallion, genre-bender FKA twigs and composer Danny Elfman, who are among a wide-ranging undercard and who this year were honored with the iconic lineup poster’s second largest font size (see below).

Now in its 21st year and produced by Goldenvoice/AEG, Coachella is consistently the world’s top grossing festival, though it hasn’t reported its gross in two years. In 2017, the last year the festival reported, it grossed $114.6 million with 250,000 fans catching the fest. A combination of switching to two weekends in 2012, expanding its capacity and raising ticket prices has kept it ahead of all comers.

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Coachella’s 2020 Poster

We’ve had a fun run and we’ve taken it farther than we ever dreamt,” Goldenvoice co-founder, President and CEO Paul Tollett told Pollstar in his 2019 Pollstar’s Impact 50 interview when discussing the event’s 20th anniversary. The veteran promoter remains very much engaged in the event. “I still book Coachella and love doing it,” he said. “A big part of it is just making sure the team, the staff, we have a plan. That’s a big focus of what Stacy [Vee, Goldenvoice VP Festival Talent] and I do: make sure everyone around us has the tools to do their job correctly.”

Rage Against The Machine to Play Coachella

There may be no better proof of achieving that aim than the festival’s insatiable demand. This year, like in past, the first weekend sold out with little inkling of who was on the bill, though clearly helping spur sales and promotions was the

early November announcement that Rage Against the Machine would reform for Coachella.

This year’s fest is introducing a presale registration for weekend two which begins Monday, January 6 at noon PT with a 50/50 payment plan. This should come as a relief to many considering the fest’s hefty price tag: Last year’s festival pass cost $429 while the shuttle combo took it up to $509. VIP Festival Passes cost $999 with VIP parking another $150.

 Impact 50: Goldenvoice’s Paul Tollett

True to form, 2020’s Coachella is yet again offering festivalgoers a unique value proposition starting at the top of the bill with two of the three headliners not having toured in years: Rage Against the Machine  haven’t played together since 2011’s L.A. Rising Festival at the L.A. Coliseum, while Frank Ocean last toured in 2017, playing festivals including FYF and Panorama. Meanwhile, 27-year old Travis Scott is one of the hottest road rappers, topping Pollstar’s 2019 Q1 tally and last year grossing $53.5 million.

The lineup also skews young: With the exception of a few veteran artists, including Rage, Elfman and Yorke, the lineup is nearly devoid of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. Interestingly, some of the older acts include pre-millennium electronic-dance artists, among them Fatboy Slim, Ellen Allien, Erick Morillo and Kruder & Dorfmeister.

Full Lineup:
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21 Savage
88rising’s Double Happiness
Adam Port
Alec Benjamin
Ali Gatie
Altın Gün
Amber Mark
Amyl and the Sniffers
Anitta
ANNA
Anna Calvi
Ari Lennox
Aya Nakamura
BADBADNOTGOOD
Banda MS
beabadoobee
Beach Bunny
Beach Goons
Bedouin
Big Sean
Big Wild
BIGBANG
Bishop Briggs
black midi
Black Pumas
Black Coffee
BROCKHAMPTON
Calvin Harris
Caribou
Cariño
Carly Rae Jepsen
Cashmere Cat
Channel Tres
Charli XCX
Chelsea Cutler
Chicano Batman
Chris Liebing
City Girls
Code Orange
Conan Gray
Crumb
Cuco
DaBaby
Damian Lazarus
Daniel Caesar
Danny Elfman
Daphni
Dave
Denzel Curry
Detlef
Disclosure
Dixon
DJ Koze
DJ Lord
Doja Cat
Dom Dolla
Duck Sauce
Duke Dumont
Ed Maverick
ela minus
Ellen Allien
Emo Nite
Emotional Oranges
Epik High
Erick Morillo
Ezra Collective
Fatboy Slim
FKA twigs
Floating Points
Flume
Fontaines D.C.
Frank Ocean
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
Friendly Fires
GG Magree
girl in red
Giselle Woo & The Night Owls
GRiZ
Guy Laliberté
Hatsune Miku
Hayden James
Hot Chip
IDLES
Inner Wave
J.I.D
Jai Wolf
Jayda G
Jessie Reyez
Joji
Kim Petras
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Koffee
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Kyle Watson
Kynda Black
L’Impératrice
Lana Del Rey
Lane 8
Lauren Daigle
Ленинград (Leningrad)
Lewis Capaldi
Lil Nas X
Lil Uzi Vert
Lost Kings
Louis The Child
Luttrell
Madeon
Malaa
Mannequin Pussy
Mariah the Scientist
Marina
Masego
Matoma
Megan Thee Stallion
Melé
MIKA
Monolink
Mura Masa
NIKI
Nilüfer Yanya
Noname
Olivia O’Brien
Omar Apollo
ONYVAA
Orville Peck
Pabllo Vittar
Paco Osuna
Peggy Gou
Pink Sweat$
Princess Nokia
PUP
Rage Against the Machine
Raveena
Rex Orange County
Rich Brian
Roddy Ricch
Run The Jewels
Sahar Z
Sama’
Sampa The Great
Sara Landry
Sasha Sloan
Satori
SebastiAn
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Skegss
SLANDER
Sleaford Mods
slowthai
Snail Mail
Steve Lacy
Summer Walker
Swae Lee
Tchami
Testpilot
The Chats
The Comet Is Coming
The HU
The Martinez Brothers
The Murder Capital
The Regrettes
Thom Yorke | Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
Tiga
TNGHT
TOKiMONSTA
Travis Scott
Viagra Boys
VNSSA
Weyes Blood
Whipped Cream
Yaeji
YBN Cordae
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