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Glastonbury Festival 2024 line-up REVEALED

Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Sza will headline Glastonbury 2024, it has been introduced.

The hotly-anticipated competition will likely be happening from Wednesday June 26 to Sunday June 30, 2024.

And on Thursday, it was revealed Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline the enduring occasion, held at Worthy Farm in Somerset, with Shania Twain enjoying the legendary slot.

It marks the primary time within the occasion’s historical past that feminine acts have taken two of the three headline slots.

Glastonbury bosses have been accused of selecting too many male acts to headline. Last 12 months the line-up was all male, with Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Sir Elton John taking the highest slots.

Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline this year's Glastonbury Festival, organisers have announced

Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline this 12 months’s Glastonbury Festival, organisers have introduced

It marks the first time in the event's history that female acts have taken two of the three headline slots

It marks the primary time within the occasion’s historical past that feminine acts have taken two of the three headline slots

Other acts on this 12 months’s line-up embody Brit Award-winning rapper Little Simz and Afrobeats star Burna Boy, making his Pyramid Stage debut.

Thirteen-member boyband Seventeen are set to develop into the primary Okay-pop band to carry out on the Pyramid stage.

Addressing the shortage of ladies headliners, Emily beforehand stated: ‘I’ve at all times been actually captivated with gender break up [on festival line-ups] and I believe, truly, our drawback was that I’d been so outspoken about it that having a 12 months when there wasn’t a feminine despatched individuals a bit mad – or some individuals.

‘And we did have a feminine – she pulled out and we changed them with Guns N’ Roses. But everybody is aware of that it is prime of my listing.

‘It is troublesome with feminine artists as a result of there aren’t sufficient headliners. But we’re additionally creating them. We’re placing the bands and feminine artists on smaller phases and bringing them via on a regular basis. And who is aware of? Next 12 months we would get two. And actually, I can say that the Legend is feminine.’

Last 12 months, revellers loved the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John, who performed his final ever UK gig on the Pyramid stag to shut the 2023 version of the competition.

Rick Astley, Lil Nas X, Blondie, Lizzo and Aitch have been joined by tons of extra performers throughout the weekend, proving to be an enviable line-up and giving a lot of those that did not attend FOMO.

On Thursday, it was revealed Dua Lipa , Coldplay and SZA will headline the iconic event, held at Worthy Farm in Somerset, with Shania Twain playing the legendary slot

On Thursday, it was revealed Dua Lipa , Coldplay and SZA will headline the enduring occasion, held at Worthy Farm in Somerset, with Shania Twain enjoying the legendary slot