Swedish House Mafia with The Weeknd will replace Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) as the Sunday headliner at the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the festival tweeted on Wednesday.
They will join Harry Styles and Billie Eilish atop Coachella’s return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, April 15-17 and April 22-24. Swedish House Mafia had been previously listed on the lineup poster in big, bold font, but at the bottom of the image, not assigned to a day. Now they will bring The Weeknd with them.
The festival is sold out and each weekend is expected to draw around 125,000 people to the venue to see artists such as Danny Elfman, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion and more than 100 others.
West dropped off the festival on Monday. He was expected to return to Coachella as a headliner for the first time since 2011, although he had brought his Sunday Service worship program to the festival in 2019.
However, after he was announced as headliner, West ended up in the news for erratic behavior, which included a social media spat with Eilish over her perceived slight of Travis Scott and a feud with Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” after the host called out the rapper’s harassment of ex-wife Kim Kardashian. And the rapper’s music video for “Eazy” depicted kidnapping and burying Pete Davidson, Kardashian’s boyfriend.
Nearly 50,000 people signed an online petition calling for Ye to be removed from the Coachella lineup on Change.org.
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