Coachella 2023

Frank Ocean, Blackpink and Bad Bunny will all take to the main stage of North America's largest music festival.

The Puerto Rican superstar’s 2022 tour was also the year’s top grosser; though this is only his second Coachella performance (the first being in 2019), the set is sure to draw a massive crowd. Now they’ll be hitting the stage with their second album, Born Pink. The three main headliners for the massive festival in Indio, California are Frank Ocean, Blackpink and Bad Bunny — with the latter two representing the first K-pop act and the first artist from Latin America to headline the festival, respectively.

Bad Bunny will be the first Latin artist and Blackpink the first all-female group to headline North America's largest music festival.

He was replaced by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who [dropped out](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/04/kanye-west-coachella-pulls-out-reports-show-cancelled) a week before the festival following weeks of erratic behavior and public turmoil, including harassment of his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. The 35-year-old American singer was originally set to headline the 2020 festival, which Covid delayed several times, before rescheduling to 2023. The band became the first Korean all-female group to play the festival in 2019.

Bad Bunny, Blackpink, and Frank Ocean will headline Coachella 2023. The full lineup includes Björk, Pusha T, Flo Milli, Rosalia, Charli XCX, Ethel Cain, ...

Plus, breakout rappers [Doechii](https://www.vulture.com/article/doechii-crazy-persuasive-profile.html), [Flo Milli](https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/flo-milli-you-still-here-ho.html), Latto, and [GloRilla](https://www.vulture.com/article/glorilla-fnf-profile.html) are spread across the three days, while Saturday looks to be the day for the brooding, with Ethel Cain and [Snail Mail](https://www.vulture.com/2021/12/snail-mail-interview-lindsey-jordan-valentine-influences.html) joining Boygenius’s Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus on the schedule. [Boygenius](https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/boygeniuss-guide-to-listening-to-the-members-of-boygenius.html) reunion to [Björk](https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/bjork-fossora-album-guide.html)’s first Stateside performances of Fossora to a rare [Jai Paul](https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/how-jai-paul-reshaped-popular-music.html) show (not to be confused with Jai Wolf, playing the same day). [Bad Bunny](https://www.vulture.com/article/bad-bunny-profile.html), [Blackpink](https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/blackpink-fans-born-pink-youtube-streams.html), and [Frank Ocean](https://www.vulture.com/2016/08/album-review-frank-oceans-blonde.html) are set to top the 2023 billing for the festival’s second year back since the pandemic. [Still no word on that album, though!](https://www.vulture.com/article/best-new-music-albums-releases.html) Bad Bunny had been a top pick to headline, after [a world-dominating tour](https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/bad-bunny-yankee-stadium-photos-bronx.html) around [his world-dominating 2022 album Un Verano Sin Ti](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-album-review.html). And you thought [those Taylor Swift tickets](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-sale-canceled-eras-tour.html) were hard to get. All three are first-timers, although Ocean was previously set to headline in 2020 before the pandemic; [organizers long ago confirmed he’d headline this year](https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/frank-ocean-to-headline-coachella-2023.html). And the stanning doesn’t stop up top. And Blackpink’s billing represents the meteoric rise of K-pop in the U.S., after just four years ago, they became [the first K-pop girl group to play an American festival](https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/coachella-2019-blackpink-set-was-historic-moment-for-k-pop.html). Idris Elba, because why not!) In keeping with the diversity up top, the lineup also includes Afrobeats ascendant Burna Boy and a slew of Latinx and Spanish performers, including Rosalía, Becky G, and Kali Uchis. It’s not all for millennials and Gen Z, either, with Blondie and the Breeders representing the classics on the lineup. And Calvin Harris is “returning to the desert,” meaning he didn’t nab a headlining spot despite previously topping the bill. Coachella is going global.

Babe, wake up. The Coachella 2023 lineup just dropped. From Bad Bunny to BLACKPINK, these are the headliners set to perform.

The scramble for passes kicks off at 11am (Pacific Time) on January 13. [Rosalía](/tag/rosalia/) sit on the next line down. BLACKPINK are the first [K-Pop](/tag/k-pop/) group to nab a headliner spot, and the same goes for Bad Bunny who is first artist from Latin America and first Spanish-language musician to headline as well.

Girl group's soaring popularity reaches California, with Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean, Calvin Harris and Blondie also on the bill.

Frank Ocean will perform on the first and last Sunday, closing the festival. More information is available at [returned last year](https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/music/2022/04/15/coachella-music-festival-returns-after-covid-hiatus/) and was headlined by Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, the Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia. [Coachella](https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2022/04/18/coachella-fashion-the-best-celebrity-looks-from-the-festivals-first-weekend/) 2023 line-up has been announced, with K-pop group [Blackpink](https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/music-stage/2022/12/29/best-k-pop-songs-2022/), Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny and singer Frank Ocean set to headline the music festival. Blackpink, one of the world’s most popular K-pop groups, will be on stage on the first and second Saturday of the festival. [Idris Elba](https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/pop-culture/2023/01/09/maya-lin-and-idris-elba-are-among-winners-of-2023-crystal-award/), who also performs as a DJ, are set to take the stage as well.

Blackpink and Bad Bunny both played at Coachella in 2019, whereas Frank Ocean's previous appearance there was in 2012.

[Swedish House Mafia](/topic/swedish-house-mafia), Harry Styles, and Billie Eilish were among the headliners of Coachella 2022. The event will return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, this April. [Bad Bunny](/topic/bad-bunny), and Blackpink have been announced as the headliners of the 2023 [Coachella Valley Music](/topic/coachella-valley-music)and [Arts Festival](/topic/arts-festival).

The Coachella 2023 lineup has officially released and is filled with huge names of every genre including headliners: Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK and Frank Ocean.

Coachella put together one of the best electronic lineups in quite some time. And lastly, Frank Ocean will finally make his return to close out Coachella 2023 after the Covid-19 pandemic caused his appearance to be rescheduled to 2023. Following him to close day two will be one of the most popular K-Pop groups currently in the industry, with BLACKPINK earning the assignment. That notion continues to be the case as arguably the biggest brand in the festival world has provided us with one of the most impressive lineups in recent memory for Coachella 2023. The three headliners for Coachella 2023 will be the world-famous Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, who will close out day one of the festival. With the biggest names being the three headliners to close out each day, Coachella will be making history while at the same time providing festivalgoers with an incredibly diverse range of options to see.

The music festival season kicks off with a poster featuring Frank Ocean, a welcomed international bent, and most surprisingly, the elusive Jai Paul.

album charts](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-top-billboard-200-album-year-charts-2022-1235176756/), and [BLACKPINK](https://pitchfork.com/artists/blackpink/), the leading [currently active](https://pitchfork.com/news/bts-members-to-join-south-korean-military-for-mandatory-service/) lights of the ongoing international phenomenon that is K-pop, at the top of the bill feels significant. Then again, [Ocean’s 2012 Coachella performance](https://pitchfork.com/news/46139-watch-frank-oceans-entire-coachella-set/) loomed large in his early rise—for years, that red-and-white headband seemed to be in every news photo—so here’s hoping he’s got something very special planned for 2023. As far as evidence that Ocean might have a new project in the works, three years after his [last loosies](https://pitchfork.com/news/frank-ocean-releases-new-songs-dear-april-and-cayendo/), it isn’t much—but it’s something. Next, in a highly unusual move, Coachella co-founder Paul Tollett announced [way back in August 2021](https://pitchfork.com/news/frank-ocean-to-headline-coachella-2023-festival-co-founder-says/) that Ocean would be headlining in 2023. [Frank Ocean](https://pitchfork.com/artists/29508-frank-ocean/) on it in big letters. [Bonnaroo](https://pitchfork.com/news/kendrick-lamar-to-headline-bonnaroo-2023/) and a few others this year, but the [unveiling](https://pitchfork.com/news/coachella-2023-full-lineup-announced/) of its bill— [headlined](https://pitchfork.com/news/coachella-2023-headliners-bad-bunny-blackpink-frank-ocean/) by Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK, and Frank Ocean—feels like the unofficial start of music festival season.

OK, it's been over 24 hours since Coachella announced their lineup and we're up thinking about it. We want to open up the floor for you to share your ...

Although there seems to be a decrease in rap acts, the number of female rap acts seems to be up. That means seeing the likes of Latto, Flo Millo and GloRilla take the stage. But, when it comes to what fans want, it seems like one of the most famous music festivals in the world is in accord – [promised](https://mobile.twitter.com/noname/status/1612929848615309314) to unleash a new project soon), are a few of the other names we’re excited about. [one of the best](https://www.complex.com/music/best-albums-2022/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti) albums of 2022, so it makes sense that he continues to tour and perform it. The first and second tier of performers is spot on and undeniably timely.