Sources say the booking was within the works well before she came on board Coachella.
Among people who are therefore F—ing grateful to metropolis Grande right now: the nation’s competition bookers, who, facing a shortage of latest rock heavyweights, are progressively wanting to pop superstars as star. Multiple sources tell selection that Grande has been set-aside for Lollapalooza, set to require place in Chicago’s Grant Park August 1-4, on prime of her already declared slot at Coachella in Gregorian calendar month.

The Lollapalooza lineup isn’t historically declared till the third week of March, therefore any official confirmation of Grande’s look as a star for one amongst the four evenings could also be weeks or maybe months away.

Lest anyone suspect that Lollapalooza is just borrowing a cue from Coachella in securing Grande as star, sources tell selection that her booking at the Chicago competition has been within the works for many months. Discussions concerning it conjointly materialized abundant prior to they did for the Calif. fest, wherever printed reports indicated that her camp got the official invite solely days before the lineup was declared, as a replacement for Kanye West, whose staging demands grew too nice. therefore if something, Coachella could are following Lollapalooza’s lead in realizing that Grande makes a wonderfully appropriate alternative for a competition that’s now not strictly tied to its alt-rock roots in 2019.