The UK’s Glastonbury Festival has announced two first-time headliners, alongside a swathe of other artists for the 2025 edition.

British pop-rock group The 1975 will top the Friday night billing on the Pyramid stage, while US pop-punk songwriter Olivia Rodrigo will close the stage on Sunday night, becoming the second-youngest Glastonbury headliner ever.

It comes shortly after festival heads at ILMC 37 told delegates that their 2025 editions are topped by young and new headliners.

Saturday night at Glastonbury will be headlined by Neil Young and his band The Chrome Hearts, who previously topped the bill in 2009. On 1 January, Young declared, out of the blue, that he was withdrawing from this year’s festival owing to his perception that it was under broadcast partner the BBC’s “corporate control”. Two days later, he said he had received “an error in information” and that the festival was “back on our itinerary”.

The 27-year-old soul-pop singer Raye will take the stage before Young, reaping the rewards of critical and commercial success with her debut album, My 21st Century Blues.

The festival previously revealed that Rod Stewart would take this year’s Sunday teatime Legends slot – his first performance at Worthy Farm since headlining the Pyramid Stage in 2002.

Other first-time Glastonbury performers include younger acts such as Noah Kahan, Gracie Abrams, Lola Young, Myles Smith

The Other stage headliners have also been revealed today, with Loyle Carner topping the bill on Friday, Charli XCX closing the stage on Saturday and the Prodigy finishing proceedings on Sunday – their first Glasto performance since the death of their frontman, Keith Flint, in 2019.

After winning best rap album for her mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal at this year’s Grammy awards, the Florida rapper Doechii will headline the West Holts stage on Saturday.

Other first-time Glastonbury performers include younger acts such as Noah Kahan, Gracie Abrams, Lola Young, Myles Smith, Amaarae, JADE and Shaboozey, and musical icons such as Alanis Morissette, Busta Rhymes, Brandi Carlile, En Vogue, Anohni and the Johnsons, Cymande, Osees and Gary Numan.

Worthy Farm stalwarts scheduled to return include Ezra Collective, Amyl and the Sniffers, Jorja Smith, Wet Leg, PinkPantheress, CMAT, Self Esteem, Wolf Alice, Scissor Sisters, Pa Salieu, TV On The Radio and more.

More acts are yet to be announced in the coming months, with performances rumoured from Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter. See the lineup so far here.

Glastonbury Festival 2025 takes place from 25 to 29 June at Worthy Farm, Pilton. The 210,000-capacity event will then take a fallow year in 2026 to allow the farmland to rest. The last intentional one was in 2018, while the 2020 and 2021 festivals were cancelled due to the pandemic.

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Neil Young has announced he will headline this year’s Glastonbury Festival – just days after saying he had pulled out of the event.

The Canadian-American singer-songwriter, who previously headlined in 2009, wrote on his website earlier this week that he would not be performing at the 2025 festival, saying it appeared that Glastonbury – which is partnered with British public broadcaster the BBC – was “now under corporate control”.

“We were told that BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in,” he said. “It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being.”

However, the 79-year-old has now done an about-turn and revealed he will top the Pyramid Stage bill at Worthy Farm with his band the Chrome Hearts.

“Due to an error in the information received, I had decided not to play the Glastonbury festival, which I always have loved,” he says in a website post today (3 January). “Happily, the festival is now back on our itinerary and we look forward to playing. Happy to see you there!”

“Neil Young is an artist who’s very close to our hearts at Glastonbury”

The news was confirmed by Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis, who wrote on Instagram: “What a start to the year! Neil Young is an artist who’s very close to our hearts at Glastonbury. He does things his own way and that’s why we love him. We can’t wait to welcome him back here to headline the Pyramid in June.”

Young becomes the second artist to be announced for the 25-29 June festival. He joins Rod Stewart, who will play the Sunday teatime legend slot, on the 2025 lineup, although it has not yet been confirmed which night Young will headline.

Glastonbury has also filed its latest financial accounts with the UK’s Companies House, showing its pre-tax profits more than doubled to £5.9 million (€7.1m) for the year up to March 2024 – up from £2.9m in the previous 12 months. It donated £5.2m to charitable causes in the same period.

A spokesperson for the festival told the BBC that “successful, dry Glastonburys in both 2023 and 2024” had helped to “rebuild the event’s vital financial reserves” following the Covid cancellations of 2020-21.

A report measuring the economic impact of Glastonbury revealed the 2023 event cost £62m to stage. The 210,000-cap gathering is due to take a fallow year in 2026 to allow the ground at Worthy Farm to recover.

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