Glastonbury 2024: Fans react to the line-up

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Glastonbury Festival fans have been sharing their thoughts on this year’s line-up following the first wave of acts being announced this morning (March 14).Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline the iconic Pyramid Stage at the 2024 edition of the Worthy Farm event, with Shania Twain scheduled to take on the prestigious legends slot.Other acts on the poster include LCD Soundsystem, Little Simz, Burna Boy, PJ Harvey, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Kiwanuka, Janelle Monae, Olivia Dean, Paloma Faith and Keane – all of whom will grace the Pyramid.Idles, Disclosure and The National are scheduled to top the Other Stage.

Elsewhere on the line-up are the likes of The Streets, Two Door Cinema Club, Avril Lavigne, The Last Dinner Party, Jungle, Justice, Bloc Party, Fontaines D.C., Yard Act, Arlo Parks and Gossip.Much of the online discussion has been centred around SZA, who will be topping the Glasto bill having never performed at Worthy Farm previously.The announcement comes shortly after the R&B singer was named International Artist Of The Year at the BRIT Awards 2024.

SZA’s hit single ‘Kill Bill’, from her acclaimed 2022 album ‘SOS’, was also nominated in the International Song Of The Year category at the ceremony.A post shared by Glastonbury Festival (@glastofest)Currently, SZA has 71,762,106 monthly listeners on Spotify (Coldplay have 74.8million; Lipa has 78.1million).

In addition to Glastonbury, she will headline London’s BST Hyde Park in June.One X/Twitter user, however, said they weren’t “sure if [SZA] should be headlining [Glastonbury] at this stage” in her career – despite being “fantastic”.