Primavera Sound 2025: Charli XCX, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, headliners | Culture

Three of the most important pop artists of the moment will headline Primavera Sound 2025 in its 23rd edition: Charli XCX, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter. A commitment to women that has already been a common line in the latest editions of the Barcelona festival, which will be held on its main days from June 5 to 7, 2025 at the Forum.

In addition, among the 147 artists, LCD Soundsystem, FKA Twigs, Haim, Jamie xx, Fontaines DC, Beach House, Idles, Clairo, Turnstile, Sturgill Simpson, Anohni and the Johnsons, Floating Points and Stereolab will also perform. Season tickets will go on sale starting October 28 at 11:00 through the fan sale, whose record is now available on the Primavera Sound website. The general subscription costs 295 euros (plus distribution costs), and the VIP subscription costs 495 euros (plus distribution costs).

The festival is presented in the section of main current figures with three artists who are starring in pop in recent times. Charlie XCX (England, 32 years old) is in his best moment after the publication of Brat, that has even led an aesthetic and ideological movement that goes beyond music; Chappell Roan (Missouri, 26 years old) continues to accumulate followers after the publication of his album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess; y Sabrina Carpenter (Pennsylvania, 25 years old), is starring in a phenomenon similar to that of Olivia Rodrigo a couple of years ago: she is one of Taylor Swift’s most prominent pupils. More risky and groundbreaking Charlie XCX, more extravagant Chappell Roan and more for-all audiences Sabrina Carpenter; All three, in any case, are reference bets to know where pop is going in 2024. It is very possible that it will be the Primavera Sound with the most attendance by children and adolescents in its history.

There are many more at Primavera Sound 2025, a specialist in catering to all palates. Veterans like LCD Soundsystem, Spiritualized, TV On The Radio or The Jesus Lizard have their place. There is a variety of genres, starting with the African legend Salif Keita. Also the country of that wonderful loser that is Sturgill Simpson, the flamenco of Israel Fernández, the rap of Denzel Curry or the trap from the always transgressive Young Beef. New opportunity to see Idles and Fontaines DC, mainstays of the not-so-new visceral punk-rock with a tendency to describe social problems. Delicacies such as MJ Lenderman, author of one of the albums of the year, appear on the poster. Manning Fireworks; Waxahatchee and its wonderful Tigers Blood; o Beabadoobee, and his new work This Is How Tomorrow Moves. Three of the best albums of 2024 in the pop-rock category. Also pay attention to the parallel programming, which will take place throughout the festival week and in different places in the city.

In the last edition, 2024, the festival had 268,000 attendees during all the events of the week. If we stick to the Forum, where the main part is held, attendance was distributed like this: 29,000 people were at the free opening event (with Phoenix and Stella Maris as stars), 60,000 on the first paid day (Pulp, Vampire Weekend… .), 71,000 for the second (Lana del Rey, The National…) and 62,000 for the third (SZA, PJ Harvey…). The percentage of international audiences stood at 59%, with an increase in North American, English and Italian attendance.

Once again, Primavera Sound will have the Forum as the heart of the festival. Last year the organization announced an impact on the city of 200 million euros.