Glastonbury organisers have confirmed the first act to play at the 2025 festival, announcing Sir Rod Stewart for the legends slot.
The 79-year-old rocker will perform at Worthy Farm on the Sunday afternoon (June 29) of the music and arts extravaganza.
A post on his Instagram account read: “I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ll be playing @glastofest 2025!
“After all these years, I’m proud and ready and more than able to take the stage again to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June. I’ll see you there!”
Attention will now turn to who could join Sir Rod at next year’s festival. Organisers have not yet announced any of the headliners, but plenty of big names are believed to be in the running.
Here’s who could be topping the bill on the Pyramid Stage in 2025:
Sam Fender
The Geordie singer is returning in February with a huge third album, People Watching, and would be well-positioned to bring his working-class rock to the biggest stage.
Fender has already sold out his local St James’ Park and has been tipped to make a breakthrough to superstardom at Glastonbury next year.
Madonna
The queen of pop has never graced Worthy Farm but has a fan in festival organiser Emily Eavis.
Madonna has now finished her Celebration world tour and has not finalised her plans for 2025 — 20 years after her Confessions on a Dance Foor album if she wants to celebrate.
Olivia Rodrigo
With Billie Eilish having headlined in 2022, Glastonbury is not averse to promoting the next generation of US singers.
That same year, Rodrigo drew a huge crowd to The Other Stage and she looks primed to step up on the back of her second album Guts.
Charli XCX
The indie pop star brought her Partygirl club night to Glastonbury in 2024 and her influence was felt across the whole weekend as fans proudly flew flags in the style of her album Brat.
Charli’s 2025 calendar is already filling up; at the start of June, she’ll headline Primavera in Barcelona, before jetting back to the UK to headline a new music festival in Victoria Park, LIDO, on Saturday, June 14.
Could she also headline Glastonbury? We’ll have to wait and see.
Green Day
Amazingly, the pop-punk trio have never played Glastonbury. While their landmark Dookie and American Idiot albums were released 30 and 20 years ago respectively, they have a loyal fanbase — as a recent sell-out Wembley date showed.
AC/DC
Another huge name never to set foot in Worthy Farm are AC/DC — despite saying in 2014 they would play the Pyramid Stage if the call ever came.
Glastonbury has seen ageing rockers The Rolling Stones, Guns N’ Roses, Paul McCartney and The Cure all headline in recent years, so there is precedent there.
Harry Styles
The former One Direction singer has had a quieter couple of years after his 2022 ubiquity that saw him headline solo shows at Wembley Stadium.
Styles is reportedly working on an album to follow up Harry’s House and has festival pedigree having previously headlined Coachella.
Rihanna
Fans have been hoping for nearly a decade that the reclusive star will release another album. And if 2025 is that year, then a Glastonbury performance could follow.
Rihanna has recently focused on her Fenty beauty range and starting a family with US rapper A$AP Rocky, but she did perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2023.
The 1975
Frontman Matt Healy has made no secret that headlining Glastonbury is a lifelong dream — and it looks as though it could finally happen next year.
According to reports, they look set to headline the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night (June 27), having already played at Glastonbury three times (in 2013, 2014 and 2016).
Eminem
And finally, the US rapper could be well placed to (coup de) grace Glastonbury on the back of his recent LP The Death of Slim Shady.
His huge back catalogue remains hugely popular, with his two greatest hits albums reaching streaming milestones.
