Arts & Entertainment Ariana Grande Will Headline Lollapalooza 2019 In Grant Park Grande is also headlining the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in April out in Indio, California. Reply CHICAGO, IL — Female pop superstar Ariana Grande will headline Lollapalooza 2019, taking place in Chicago's Grant Park Aug. 1 through 4, according to Variety. While several news sources told Variety Grande has been booked, there hasn't been word on how many evenings the "thank u, next" singer will headline as the annual music festival's lineup isn't usually announced until the third week of March. However, if you can't wait until August to see the 25-year-old award-winning songstress, her big 2019 also includes headlining the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, slated for the weekends of April 12-14 and April 19-21 at its usual venue, the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California. According to Variety, sources told them Grande's booking Lollapalooza has been in the works for months, with discussions happening earlier than they did for Coachella. Variety added that published reports indicated Grande's team got the official invite only days before the Coachella lineup was announced, as a replacement for Chicago-native Kanye West, whose staging demands "grew too great." Patch will continue updating this story when the Lollapalooza 2019 lineup is announced and tickets go on sale. Grande is also scheduled to perform at the United Center June 4 and 5 during stops on her Sweetener World Tour.<doc-sep>Not content to headline just one major music festival in 2019, Ariana Grande will be the headliner at this year’s Lollapalooza, Variety reports. The news comes just after Coachella released the full lineup for this April’s festival, which features Grande as the Sunday headliner. Though Lollapalozza is set for August 1-4, and the lineup isn’t typically announced until March, Variety reports that Grande has been in talks with the festival for several months, beginning “much earlier” than her talks with Coachella. Grande has already rescheduled some stops on The Sweetener World Tour to accommodate her headlining gig at Coachella. The majority of April dates have been rescheduled for June and July, with shows in Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Milkwaukee, St. Louis, St. Paul, Denver, and Salt Lake City among those affected. She’s also added an entirely new show at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena in addition to the two headlining sets. See the full list of adjusted dates here. Grande recently released post-Sweetener hits “Imagine” and “Thank U, Next” on vinyl; “Thank U, Next,” her first No.1 song, has coasted to the third spot on the Billboard Hot 100 after 10 weeks on the chart. Expect the official announcement for Grande’s Lollapalooza set sometime in the next few months.<doc-sep>Earlier this month, we learned that Ariana Grande — along with Childish Gambino and Tame Impala — would headline this year’s Coachella Festival. And it looks like that won’t be the only major American festival that Grande headlines this year. Variety reports that, according to “multiple sources,” Grande will also be the lead draw at the big Chicago festival this summer. The circumstances of the two festivals are vastly different. Those same sources are telling Variety that Lollapalooza is not merely jumping on Coachella’s decision. Apparently, the Lollapalooza people were in talks with Grande long before the Coachella bookers were. TMZ recently reported that Grande was a last-minute booking for Coachella; those sources are saying that negotiations with Kanye West fell apart when he demanded to have an enormous dome built for himself in the middle of the Coachella grounds. Lollapalooza looks like a more conventional booking decision, not an example of bookers scrambling for a replacement. But this does indicate another shift in American festival culture. It’s not that Lollapalooza has never booked a straight-up pop act before. Last year, main headliners included Bruno Mars and the Weeknd, as well as Jack White and Arctic Monkeys. Right now, we don’t know how the rest of the Lollapalooza lineup will look; the festival usually doesn’t unveil its bill until March. (It should be noted, too, that Grande’s spot at Lollapalooza is not official yet; the list of Coachella headliners that circulated a few months ahead of time turned out to be premature and wrong.) But someone put it out there that Grande would play Lolla. They want to get people excited about it. And if you want to get people excited to spend money on festival tickets, it seems that, as of right now, Ariana Grande is your best bet.<doc-sep>Among those who are so F—ing grateful to Ariana Grande right now: the nation’s festival bookers, who, facing a shortage of contemporary rock heavyweights, are increasingly looking to pop superstars as headliner. Multiple sources tell Variety that Grande has been booked for Lollapalooza, set to take place in Chicago’s Grant Park August 1-4, on top of her already announced slot at Coachella in April. The Lollapalooza lineup isn’t traditionally announced until the third week of March, so any official confirmation of Grande’s appearance as a headliner for one of the four evenings may be weeks or even months away. Lest anyone suspect that Lollapalooza is merely borrowing a cue from Coachella in securing Grande as headliner, sources tell Variety that her booking at the Chicago festival has been in the works for several months. Discussions about it also took place much earlier than they did for the California fest, where published reports indicated that her camp got the official invite only days before the lineup was announced, as a replacement for Kanye West, whose staging demands grew too great. So if anything, Coachella may have been following Lollapalooza’s lead in realizing that Grande makes a perfectly suitable choice for a festival that’s no longer strictly tied to its alt-rock roots in 2019. Grande enjoys a level of critical cred that a lot of her superstar pop contemporaries don’t, thanks to gushing reviews for her recent album “Sweetener,” above and beyond the fact that the post-album single “thank u, next” has been the ubiquitous signature musical event of the last six months. While the Lollapalooza development hasn’t been officially announced, some other festival-related Grande news did go public Monday. Her camp officially announced that she is rescheduling some dates on her arena tour as a result of the sudden Coachella booking. Gigs that were previously scheduled to take place in eight cities in April have now been rescheduled for June and July, while two other cities have been canceled outright. Omaha and Raleigh are the unlikely locales where fans have to take refunds in lieu of a postponement. Meanwhile, the rescheduled dates involve Chicago (now June 4-5 — and not to be confused with Lollapalooza, obviously), Indianapolis (June 29), Columbus (July 1), Milwaukee (July 5), St. Louis (July 6), St. Paul (July 8), Denver (July 11) and Salt Lake City (July 13). One previously unscheduled city has been added to her routing: a May 11 concert in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena. (Grande had been scheduled to play a single gig at a small theater in Las Vegas two nights before New Year’s Eve, but canceled that one-off show, citing illness.) The postponements now leave a nine-day window open before the first of Grande’s two Coachella shows. It’s a significant enough gap in her touring to allow for speculation about whether Grande plans to go beyond her standard tour set and put on a more ambitious Coachella performance — presumably one not involving a giant dome in the middle of the festival grounds. The tour picks up as planned after Coachella, though — including holding onto three L.A. shows in early May, just two weeks after the second weekend of Coachella, which would seem to indicate the festival is fine with making an exception for Grande to the radius-clause rule disallowing any other area concerts closely preceding or following the festival. The tour is still set to begin March 18 in Albany. This will be Grande’s third arena tour. Her previous two tours grossed $67 million and $42 million, in 2017 and 2015, respectively, according to Pollstar. A press release about the rescheduled dates says the July 13 date is now the “wrap” of her North American tour, previously scheduled to conclude June 26. But sources are adamant about the August asterisk. Variety has reached out to a Grande rep for comment.<doc-sep>
It looks like Lollapalooza has a headliner in Ariana Grande. The Boca Raton, Florida native, 25, was tabbed as as the headliner for the music festival, which takes place August 1-4 at Chicago's Grant Park, Variety reported Monday. The announcement comes more than a month before Lollapalooza participants are revealed, according to the outlet. The festival's 2018 headliners included Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Jack White and Travis Scott. Leading lady: Ariana Grande, 25, was tabbed as as the headliner for the Lollapalooza music festival, which takes place August 1-4 at Chicago's Grant Park, Variety reported Monday Grande was recently announced by Coachella's promoter, Goldenvoice, as a performer amid a loaded 2019 lineup that includes Childish Gambino, Solange, Diplo, Janelle Monae, Tame Impala and Weezer, among others. Insiders told the publication that the festival was in talks with Grande's camp for months, well before the songstress was invited to perform at Coachella after the festival's talks with Kanye West ended over staging issues. Grande's camp recently rescheduled a number of dates set for her Sweetener World Tour amid the commitment to Coachella, as eight tour stops in April have since been steered toward the summer months, with two canceled amid the singer's packed schedule. The shows in Omaha and Raleigh have been canceled while dates in Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Milwaukee, St. Louis, St. Paul, Denver and Salt Lake City have been rescheduled for June and July. Diva: The thank u, next singer was seen performing at the Billboard Music Awards last year in Las Vegas Stunning: The beautiful vocalist was seen last month in NYC at Billboard's 13th Annual Women in Music event Grande has also signed on for an additional show at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on May 11. The Dangerous Woman beauty is set to embark on the road beginning March 18 in Albany at the Times Union Center in what will mark her third tour in the past four years, after her first two made more than $109 million combined, Pollstar reported. Grande has kept a steady presence both on the charts and in the headlines, as her respective relationships with late rapper Mac Miller and Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson were among the biggest stories of 2018.