Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK, Frank Ocean to headline Coachella 2023

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Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK and Frank Ocean are cruising into California as the 2023 headliners of the Coachella music festival.

Fresh off the massive success of his chart-topping 2022 album “Un Verano Sin Ti,” (“A Summer Without You”) the Puerto Rican-born Bad Bunny will lead the Indio, Calif., festival’s Friday lineup on the back-to-back weekends of April 14-16 and April 21-23, organizers announced Tuesday. He’s the first Latin artist to headline Coachella.

BLACKPINK, whose sophomore 2022 album “Born Pink” also soared to No. 1, will lead the Saturday lineups as the first-ever Korean-pop group to headline Coachella.

Ocean, a two-time Grammy-winning R&B singer known for the hits “Novacane” and “Chanel,” will headline the Sunday lineups.

Tuesday’s announcement also bills Calvin Harris as a performer but doesn’t list which day the popular DJ will take the stage.

Other big-name performers scheduled for both Coachella weekends include Gorillaz, Becky G, Pusha T and Blondie on Friday; Rosalia, Kid LAROI, Sofi Tukker and Charli XCX on Saturday; and Bjork, Latto, Kali Uchis and A Boogie on Sunday.

“SEE YOU AT @coachella,” tweeted Becky G, the reggaeton rapper-singer from Inglewood, Calif.

Bad Bunny, whose hits include “Titi Me Pregunto” and “Me Porto Bonito,” previously performed at Coachella in 2019. The reggaeton superstar, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, has been Spotify’s most-streamed global artist for three years in a row.

This year’s festival also marks a return for BLACKPINK, which made history in 2019 as the first K-pop girl group to perform at Coachella. The group, starring Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé, is known for high-energy hits such as “Pink Venom,” “DDU-DU DDU-DU” and “Boombayah.”

Ocean was originally scheduled to headline Coachella in 2020 before the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival’s co-founder had previously revealed Ocean would headline in 2023.

Coachella returned to the Empire Polo Club last spring following two years of cancellations. Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia were the festival’s 2022 headliners.