Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chapell Roan, headliners at Primavera Sound 2025

The poster for the 2025 edition of Primavera Sound in Barcelona will have female prominence. The festival, which will be held this year in Barcelona between June 5 and 7, It will feature three of the main stars of current music as the headliner: Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter y Chapell Roan. That is the trio that has been chosen by the organization to feminize an event that will also feature LCD Soundsystem, Fountains D. C.the sisters Haim,FKA twigs, Jamie xx o Beach House.

But the highlight will be the trio that will make up the headliners, three of the artists of the moment who accumulate a total of more than 180 million monthly listens on Spotify with their new works. Sabrina Carpenter, nominated for the Grammy Awards as a breakthrough artist with her fifth album Short n’ Sweet, has become the pop sensation of the moment despite having been in the industry for ten years to the point that she will be in charge of directing the Christmas special from Netflix. Chapell Roan has experienced the same rise, which last September took the prize for Revelation Artist in the MTV Video Music Awards.

In fact, artists like Elton John and Lady Gaga have publicly confessed their devotion to the 26-year-old artist, who has become a reference for the LGTBI community despite the fact that her origins come from an ultra-conservative family in Missouri. Chapell Roan’s success, sustained by his presence on Tik Tok, skyrocketed in September 2023 with the release of his debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess and with his concert at the latest edition of Coachella.

The trio of female stars is completed by Charli XCX who coined the adjective that has accompanied the summer of generation Z: the brat summer. What could be translated as brat was the name the British woman chose for an album that has transcended beyond the industry to become a reference for an entire generation. Everything right now can be brat Stars such as Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande and Bon Iver have joined this trend, collaborating in the special edition that the artist made public just 10 days ago.

This female trio is the formula that Primavera Sound has sought for a year that will make us forget the problems of 2024 where the Latin American expansion has not been completed, just as happened in 2023 in Madrid. The organization has canceled the festivals it had planned in November and December in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Asunción and Montevideo citing “external difficulties” although the organization assures that it is working normally for the 2025 editions. In addition, the City Council of Barcelona has now focused its attention on the Forum venue, where the musical event is held, in the face of persistent complaints about the high noise level from residents of the Sant Martí neighborhood. Some complaints that would not jeopardize the continuity of the festival that has complied with the sound impact study.

The list of artists who will parade on the stages of Primavera Sound, whose tickets will go on sale on October 18 at 11 in the morning, amounts to 147 with, for example, LCD Soundsystem presented new album and with the official anthem of the festival or Haim with his Californian pop. The seventies sound of Clairo, the new star of the chanson french Zaho de Sagazanthe electronics of Jamie xxwhere the hardcore of Turnstile. The national presence will be that of Amaia, which will be the tour of her new album, which is scheduled for this year’s end or the beginning of the next.