Glastonbury Festival is back on the booking board for 2027 after a fallow year in 2026. Billboard’s ranking puts Taylor Swift, Rosalía, Bad Bunny and Jay-Z among the acts in play, and that matters because the festival welcomes more than 200,000 fans to Somerset each June.
That scale is why the headliner conversation starts early. When Glastonbury returns in 2027, the Pyramid Stage choice will shape the bill around it, and the 2025 lineup already showed how wide the range can run, from The 1975 and Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts to Olivia Rodrigo.
Taylor Swift and the 2020 gap
Taylor Swift sits at the center of the unresolved Glastonbury story. She was announced to headline in 2020 before that edition was called off, leaving the appearance as the kind of booking that never reached the stage.
Since that announcement, Swift has released two albums and four re-recordings. That output keeps her in the highest tier of possible return bookings, and it explains why her name still carries more weight than a standard wishlist slot.
Rosalía, Bad Bunny, Jay-Z
Rosalía released Lux in 2025 and followed it with a global arena tour that earned five-star reviews. Bad Bunny headlined the Super Bowl halftime show in February and won the Grammy award for album of the year with Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Jay-Z became the first hip-hop artist to headline Glastonbury in 2008.
Those three names give Glastonbury a clean range of options for 2027: a global pop booking in Rosalía, a crossover stadium-scale draw in Bad Bunny, and a return to a proven festival history with Jay-Z. The list points to a headliner race built on reach, not just familiarity.
2027 after the fallow year
Glastonbury’s last fallow year before 2026 came in 2018, and the festival also had enforced breaks in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID. The farm-recovery rhythm is part of the booking cycle now, which is why the 2027 return has already shifted the market toward speculation over the Pyramid Stage.
For readers, the practical takeaway is simple: the 2027 bill has not been set, but the field is already narrow enough to watch. Swift remains the biggest unfinished story, and the next headliner announcement will decide whether Glastonbury finally closes that 2020 gap or keeps it open a little longer.
