Glastonbury 2025: Olivia Rodrigo, Charli XCX and The 1975 to headline

Published 2 months ago• 3 minute read

"They have great taste and great vision - and they're a band who will think about do a bespoke show."

Olivia Rodrigo drew a huge audience for her Glastonbury debut in 2022

Olivia Rodrigo poses with her microphone stand, while playing at the Glastonbury Festival in 2022 — Olivia Rodrigo drew a huge audience for her Glastonbury debut in 2022

Rodrigo is the first Glastonbury headliner to have broken through in the 2020s - and the second-youngest headliner of all time, after Billie Eilish, who was 20 when she topped the bill in 2022.

Like Eilish, the 22-year-old will play the Pyramid Stage with just two albums to her name, but she has a solid armoury of fist-pumping pop-punk singalongs (Good 4 U, Brutal, Get Him Back), alongside lighters-aloft ballads like Driver's License and Vampire.

An accomplished live performer, her 2024 Guts tour banked $186m (£144m) in ticket sales; and she will also headline the BST festival in London's Hyde Park two days before Glastonbury.

Rodrigo last played the festival in 2022, drawing a huge - and noticeably young - crowd to the Other Stage.

During that performance, she brought out Lily Allen to perform the expletive-laden track F You, dedicating it to the US Supreme Court justices who had, a day earlier, ended the constitutional right to abortion in America.

Charli XCX will bring Brat to Worthy Farm

Reuters Charli XCX in a denim jacket and bra-top, sings into a microphone during the 2025 Grammy Awards — Charli XCX will bring Brat to Worthy Farm

Rumours that Rihanna would play the Pyramid Stage turned out to be wishful thinking for the second year running.

But Charli XCX will cement her position as one of the UK's biggest pop stars with her set on the Other Stage.

She returns to the festival after winning five Brit Awards for her deliberately trashy seventh album, Brat.

Playing the Other Stage will release her from the requirement to tone down her set for audiences on BBC One, and indulge in the frenetic, hedonistic club sounds that made her name.

"The Other Stage is traditionally more of a home for electronic music," said Annie Mac on Sidetracked. "It makes so much sense for her to counteract the Neil Young set on Saturday night."

Charli's set also mark's the latest step in the star's journey through Glastonbury's smaller stages, starting at the Silver Hayes dance arena in 2014.

"I was really ill and I forgot to wear a bra on stage, which was good!" she later told the BBC about her debut..

"[Radio 1 DJ] Huw Stephens came on during the last song and told me I was singing live on the radio. I lost my voice and it was all a bit crazy, but it was fun."

Hopefully she'll avoid the lurgy this summer.

Rap pioneer Busta Rhymes will make his debut at the festival

Getty Images Busta Rhymes on stage — Rap pioneer Busta Rhymes will make his debut at the festival

Other acts announced for Glastonbury 2025 include Ezra Collective, Jorja Smith, The Libertines, The Maccabees, Franz Ferdinand, Kae Tempest, Beabadoobee, Kneecap and The Prodigy.

Pop star Raye will also play just before Neil Young on the Saturday night, following her breakthrough set at lunchtime on the Pyramid Stage just two years ago.