Lipa last played at Glastonbury in 2017, in an afternoon slot at the Woodsies tent. Four weeks later, she released the video for her breakout hit New Rules, and her career took off.
Since then, she’s become a seven-time Brit Award winner, largely thanks to her pandemic-era, kitchen disco sountracking Future Nostalgia album.
She was offered the headline slot last November, as she began the roll-out for her third album, Radical Optimism.
“When something like that comes along, you just don’t say no to it,” she told the .
Headlining the festival had been on her bucket list since she recorded her first album in 2018, she added.
“It’s the greatest place on Earth. Just the sense of community and togetherness and having fun and taking care of one another. It’s just beautiful.”
