Swedish House Mafia Weeknd @ Coachella

• As Variety so accurately predicted, Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd will indeed replace Kanye West as the Sunday Coachella headliner during the two-weekend festival, which rolls April 15-17 and April 22-24. West was announced as a headliner back January but pulled out on Monday.

The combined acts will perform in the festival-closing slot on Sunday, April 17 and 24, joining Harry Styles (Friday) and Billie Eilish (Saturday) as Coachella‘s 2022 headliners. The Weeknd headlined Coachella back in 2018 and made his first high-profile concert appearance there back in 2012.

You may recall that when the 2022 Coachella lineup was announced in early January, Swedish House Mafia was listed in a headliner-sized font, but appeared at the bottom of the line-up, and with no specific date attached. A few days later, Variety speculated about what that might mean, one possibility of which was that the festival was hedging its bets in case headliner Kanye West — who had pulled out of a previous Coachellaline-up days before it was announced — did it again, which is exactly what happened on Monday.

“I’m so looking forward to this moment with Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd finishing out the Sunday night slot this year,” said Paul Tollett, Pres. & CEO of Coachella promoter Goldenvoice. “Coachella has a special relationship with Abel and I’m so thankful to have this upcoming performance with these iconic artists all on the same stage.”