Coachella Weekend 2 runs Friday, April 24, through Sunday, April 26, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The headliners are the same as Weekend 1 on paper. Sabrina Carpenter takes the main stage at 9:00 PM Friday, followed by Anyma at midnight. Justin Bieber closes Saturday with an 11:25 PM set. KAROL G wraps the festival Sunday at 10:10 PM. What gets reported less often is how different Weekend 2 actually is from Weekend 1. Artists adjust their setlists based on what landed and what dragged the prior week. Stage production gets refined. Surprise guests rotate. The crowd skews older, more affluent, and more music-industry heavy. For artists, Weekend 2 is the chance to fix what went wrong, and for fans, it is often the better show.
The Anyma situation is the most-watched story of the weekend. His Weekend 1 set was canceled when sustained winds at the polo grounds hit 38 miles per hour and pushed the festival to shut down the main stage for safety reasons. The cancellation cost the production team an estimated $2.4 million in additional staging and rebuild costs, and the AEDEN show that was scheduled to debut Weekend 1 will instead have its world premiere Friday night. AEDEN is a 90-minute multimedia performance built around generative visual elements that respond to the live music, with set design from the team that produced Eric Prydz's Holosphere. The premiere will be streamed in 4K on the official Coachella YouTube channel, which means the actual debut audience will be in the millions rather than the 90,000 people on site Friday night.
Sabrina Carpenter's slot reflects how dramatically the pop landscape has shifted in 18 months. When she was first booked for Coachella 2026 in November, she was a high-rotation pop artist with strong streaming numbers and a Grammys campaign in motion. By April she is the cover of three magazines, the host of last weekend's Saturday Night Live season finale, and one of the four most-streamed artists in the world. Her Weekend 1 set ran two hours with 24 songs and brought out Olivia Rodrigo and Shaboozey as guest features. Weekend 2 is expected to add a third surprise guest, with industry chatter pointing toward either The Weeknd or Tate McRae. The Carpenter set was also the most-watched livestream of Weekend 1, pulling 14.2 million concurrent viewers, which is the highest number Coachella has ever recorded for a single performance.
Justin Bieber's return to Coachella is its own story. Bieber has not headlined a major festival since his 2017 Justice tour was paused for health reasons, and the $10 million guarantee Goldenvoice paid him for the two-weekend slate was the largest non-headliner-equivalent fee in the festival's history. His Weekend 1 set ran 95 minutes with a five-song acoustic interlude that ended with him reading from the book of Romans before performing a stripped-down version of Holy. The pivot caught the crowd off guard. Weekend 2 will likely retain the spiritual middle section but is expected to add three songs from his upcoming Spring 2026 album, which industry sources confirm has been pushed to a June release.
KAROL G closes the festival Sunday with a set built around her Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful era. Her Weekend 1 performance pulled in surprise guests including Bad Bunny on Pero Tu and Shakira on TQG, which set the bar for Weekend 2 announcements. The Latin Grammys body has been clear that her Coachella sets count as part of her active campaign for Album of the Year, which is the kind of context that changes how an artist treats a festival closer. Expect a longer set, more visual production, and at least one new song debut.
Across the rest of the lineup, the most discussed Weekend 2 sets include Addison Rae at the Sahara Tent on Friday, Giveon at the Outdoor Theatre Saturday afternoon, Sombr in the Mojave Tent late Saturday, and Kacey Musgraves taking the 3:00 PM Mojave slot Sunday in the time slot that Jack White owned in Weekend 1. Musgraves is in the middle of her Lonely Spring tour and is expected to debut two new tracks. Tyler the Creator's Sunday Saturday slot is one industry insiders are watching closely for guest appearances tied to his upcoming album cycle.
The financial scale of the festival continues to grow. Goldenvoice projects combined Weekend 1 and Weekend 2 attendance at 250,000, with gross ticket revenue exceeding $185 million before sponsorship and food and beverage. The American Express partnership renewal announced this week extends the festival's banking sponsorship through 2031. Coachella remains the model that every other multi-day American music festival is trying to copy, and Weekend 2 is the version of the show that the music industry actually shows up for.
Streaming coverage runs on the Coachella YouTube channel from 4:00 PM Pacific each day, with the Coachella, Outdoor Theatre, and Sahara stages broadcast in 4K.